{"id":3257,"date":"2012-01-02T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disruptionblog.com\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2012-01-02T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T13:54:00","slug":"the-pros-cons-of-google-for-small-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/01\/02\/the-pros-cons-of-google-for-small-business\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pros &amp; Cons of Google+ for Small Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google unveiled Google+ brand pages in November, enabling businesses and brands to join its social network. Since then, big brands \u2014 including Pepsi, Macy\u2019s and Toyota \u2014 have jumped on the Google+ bandwagon, creating yet another hub page for their content-hungry fans.<\/p>\n<p>We reached out to our community to better understand how (and if) small businesses are using Google+. We received more than 50 responses detailing the merits and downfalls of using Google\u2019s social network as a small business.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some of the top thoughts on the pros and cons of using Google+ as a small business. Read on and add your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/12\/25\/google-plus-for-small-business\/?WT.mc_id=en_my_stories&amp;utm_campaign=My%2BStories&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter\">The Pros &amp; Cons of Google+ for Small Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google unveiled Google+ brand pages in November, enabling businesses and brands to join its social network. Since then, big brands \u2014 including Pepsi, Macy\u2019s and Toyota \u2014 have jumped on the Google+ bandwagon, creating yet another hub page for their content-hungry fans. We reached out to our community to better understand how (and if) small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/01\/02\/the-pros-cons-of-google-for-small-business\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pros &amp; Cons of Google+ for Small Business<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}