08/14/12 by Marina Romero | Blog, Facebook Marketing | Comments Off on Upcoming Facebook Marketing Webinars
Thursday, August 16th at 1:00pm PST / 4:00pm EST

Free Webinar with Mari — Join the LIVE webinar for a Chance to Have Your Social Media Profiles Critiqued, Learn More About the Social Media Intensive Event and Win Prizes!
BONUS #1: How To Build Your Facebook Subscribers – video
BONUS #2: 5 Fantastic Ways To Build A NEW Facebook Marketing Channel… with 250,000 Subscribers! – ebook
BONUS #3: Mari's 7-part Social Media Strategy for Success!
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

In this webinar you'll be able to "Learn how to MAKE Facebook a POWERFUL Marketing and Referral Source for your Business"
Topics:
- Discover how to make content go "VIRAL" and drive traffic to your page
- Find out how to communicate with other businesses to share your content
- Learn what "floats the Facebook algorithm’s boat" to ensure your content is being seen
- Find out whether it’s quality or quantity of fan base that counts!
- Learn how Facebook Competitions can be used to effectively reach your target market
- Learn how to use shopping carts and other means to make money directly through Facebook (via)
You will also receive: A Facebook "quick tips" Guide, A Fast Action sheet and Recording of the full webinar for later reference.
Investment $97.00
Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 1pm EST

In this webinar, you'll "Learn how to use Facebook to get people to talk about your business online."
HubSpot's social media scientist,
Dan Zarrella, will discuss the sociology of the Facebook community and the scientific way of leveraging marketing opportunities on Facebook.
Topics:
- The behavior of demographic groups on Facebook
- The sociology of the Facebook community
- The difference between men and women's interactions on Facebook
- Scientifically proven ways to get your content shared on Facebook
Duration:
60 minutes, including Q&A
Speaker:
Dan Zarrella, Social Media Marketing Scientist
08/07/12 by Marina Romero | Blog, Google for Business | Comments Off on Merging Google+ Business Page With Google+ Local Page
Google now lets you merge your Google+ business page with your Google+ local page. The availability to verify ownership of Google+ business page was announced August 3. With this, business owners can now become "verified" owners of the page and at the same time combine the page they have created in Google+ with the Google+ Local page (formerly Google Places listing).
"Your business’ presence across Google Search, Google Maps, and Google+ will be unified. You’ll be able to manage this page from Google+ Pages admin. Check out the Meatball Shop for an example of a combined page, with both social features and reviews."
How To Merge Google+ Business Page With Google+ Local Page
Login to your Google+, go to the page where you manage pages, and switch to your Google+ business page. From there, you'll see a link that says "Unverified" next to the title of your page. Hover over that and click the Verify now button when it appears.

Click "yes, continue to verify" to confirm your business address.

Fill out the form, as shown below; agree to terms and conditions and click to "request postcard." Your postcard should arrive within about a week.

Once the postcard arrived, go to www.google.com/local/verify, enter PIN, then clik "submit." For those who have requested a postcard for multiple Google+ business pages, you'll be able to choose the business you wish to verify when you go to the verification page.

Or you may also verify by going to your Goog+ business page, switch to use it, hover over "In Progress" link and click "enter pin."

What happens after the merge?
After the merge, you may now see the posts created with your Google+ page and the local data all on the same Google+ profile, like so.