What was the last time you looked at Google Plus?
I mean honestly, do you even know what Google Plus is?
Well.
Apparently you're not the only one because a lot of other people didn't know what Google
Plus was either and Google made a big big mistake that we're going to talk about in
this video that you should probably be aware of.
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So in today's episode before we get into the training if you're interested or if you're
one of my subscribers already, you might be interested in seeing the next little bit of
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So a couple of big announcements, I like to do announcements every now and again and let
you guys know number We finally took on our first full-time employee and partner Ted Voyles.
So I just wanted to give shout out to him.
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So on top of that, I also got this awesome new set up in my office.
We went out and bought some new desks, some new white boards and easel all kinds different
stuff.
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our new setup and some the stuff that we use to run our agency and to plan and to you know,
run the personal brand then stay tuned.
You'll like this part.
So everybody, that's pretty much it but I am super excited to have all of this really
nice stuff.
You know, I've worked for all of this, you know, none of this came free.
None of this was given to me.
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you, more information and at a quicker rate, you know, it's just good stuff for you.
So make sure to stay tuned to this and we'll go ahead and get into the Google stuff now,
so let's talk about that.
and make sure you stay tuned the end of this video where I'll give you five things that
you need to do to prepare for Google Plus shutting down.
Super important that you do this.
So if you were to ask me it really doesn't come to any surprise that Google+ is shutting
down and the reason why is because nobody nobody is ever used Google Plus.
As a matter fact, it was discovered that less than 90% of all Google Plus interactions lasted
less than 5 seconds.
So that really says that nobody was really using the platform and if they were the was
that 10% which were probably the millennial age were creating email accounts they were
able to create a Google+ account when they were super young when their parents would
let them create a Facebook account.
Right?
So it was kind of a work around for the younger age and that's why Google always claim that
the younger demographic was going to push Google+ forward and really just never happened
then finally Google drew the short end of the stick when the Wall Street Journal published
an account basically showing that Google had fixed a security breach for 500,000 plus Google+
users were actually their personal data was taken and played around with.
And so that's not something that's very good and why?
Number one, because people don't like their personal data taken obviously.
I don't want you sending my phone number to a bunch of random advertisers who are going
to call me now because my personal data was breached.
And another thing is that earlier this year GDPR was released in the EU which makes it
even more difficult when personal data is breached by some other person.
If somebody else finds that personal data, you have to report it to the EU.
So if you're unfamiliar with GDPR and how that kind of works with running a business
online, make sure to check out this video up here in top right hand corner that will
kind of go into that for you.
Another thing that's really weird is there was never really any unauthorized access or
at least there wasn't record of it which means that Google didn't technically get or have
a security breach.
That means that they didn't actually have to publicly disclose that information and
that's why we're just now finding out about it when the thing happened back in March.
The glitch was actually due to an error in the API done by their development team, which
allow for third party Data users to actually get that information and if they wanted to
could have used harmfully.
Luckily from what Google is found.
None of the developers actually even knew that the information was available.
So from what Google is telling us nothing actually happened.
But it's the fact that it was available and that it could have happened and what's weird
is you guys have seen this previously and even earlier this year when Facebook had the
same issues and their security breaches.
So this is something that's really becoming a worry and people are really becoming concerned
about their personal and private data because it's so easily accessible now just because
of some human error done in coding or basically in development of that platform, but this
could all just be he say she say because the fact it came out so late, right?
Google+ didn't have a user base and they have the security breach very recently.
So what is the real reason?
I mean, you know, it's kind hard to say it's kind of hard to say, is it combination of
all of them or is it just you they didn't have a user base.
This is their, you know kind of scapegoat or the security breach, you know, the security
breach looks better than not having user base like they failed or something like that.
What do you guys think?
It is leave it in the comments below.
I'd love to know your thoughts.
Number one.
Google Plus will remain open until August 31st of 2019.
So you have plenty of time to make some adjustments and you know, make changes to your marketing
campaign where you need to and you know say things if you need to which is my next recommendation,
which is if you have posts on Google+ that you did maybe forever ago when the platform
first came out that you only did on that platform and you would like to save then make sure
you save those posts and then finally would be any files you uploaded to Google make sure
you get those, any pictures photos videos files all of those things.
You'll want to pick off of there.
If you have something that you know a business or a campaign that you've been running for
a really long time, but that's it for today's video.
And since you stayed until the very end, I'm going to give you the five things that you
need to do right now.
So get out a pen and paper or get out your notepad on your computer and Take down these
five things.
Number one, make sure to remove Google+ share and follow buttons, you share things follow
like, you know, all that stuff.
Make sure to remove that from your website and your blog.
You're not going to need it there anymore.
Two is to plan on phasing out Google Plus as a social media platform because previously
you've been creating a lot of content for it.
So plan on making a plan to tell the people who are working for you or people who Implement
those posts or say, hey, you're not going to be doing this anymore.
Now, you can use this time to do this, right?
So make sure you take care of that.
Number three would be if you are one of the very very few who actually run a community
or a group or something like that on Google+ then you're going to want to make sure you
migrate it to something that you know is going to be more sustainable like Facebook, LinkedIn
something like that, which really leads me into number four which is about those groups
and the groups you're just going to want to it on another platform as well.
So groups, communities any Pages anything like that migrated all over to different platform
start marketing on those platforms and start letting your audiences know that you're switching.
Only focus on one that don't like try do it like on 15 platforms go to like Facebook groups
or just do LinkedIn, you know, look what helps your Niche the most and go to that platform
and stay there and finally number five would be is if you developed and it's not going
to apply to many of you but if you've developed a software that you know Works directly with
Google data and Google Plus, then you're going to want to check out the new API rules and
the data sharing policies.
So that way, you know what to do with your software that you've created or with whatever
app that you've created that integrates with Google, but that's it for me everybody.
Thank you so much for stopping by.
I really hope that you enjoyed those five tips and that they're going to help you with
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It is closing down on August 31st of 2019.
What?
Really?
August 31st of 2019?
I'm sorry.
I didn't think that it was that long until I just saw this, boy.
What am I saying?
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