google plus styling 1950s style

 

 

After sharing this infographic on Facebook, we had a couple of emails asking how to they make the formatting changes  of bold, italics, and strike through. They saw the inforgraphic but couldn’t understand it.

Where infographics are relatively new, it makes sense that not everyone is accustomed to reading them. So after sending a few messages with the translation, we decided to post it here.

Below is the infographic created by Simon Heyes

google plus styling guide

To make words BOLD:

When you know which words you’d like to have in bold font type in and asterisk *just before the words you want bold and another asterisk after the last letter of the word you want to have in bold.
example: When you want   *BOLD WORDS*  use the asterisk.

 

To make words italic 

When you know which words you’d like to have in italic, type in an underscore _ just before the words you want italicized,  and another underscore  after the last letter of the word you want to have italicized.
example:    When you want   _italic words_  use the underscores.

 

To use a strike through   strikethrough

Some people like to use a strike through, if you’re one who wants to then use a dash – before the word and a dash after the last letter of the word.
example  Watch your spaces if you want   -strikethourgh-   to draw a line through the word

Be careful not to include a space between the  symbol and the letter that you’re styling.
You will need a space between the symbol and the next plain word in your sentence.
Not to worry, you’ll be able to tell immediately if it worked or not.

 

Happy styling!

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Too many businesses feel they don’t need Reputation Management until they’ve got a problem with negative reviews, or other negative information appearing at the top of the search results.

The big mistake is that businesses often overlook the essential ingredient, which is Reputation Monitoring!  

The reason it’s often overlooked is that people don’t know enough about it. Businesses know they need to leverage Social Media as part of their internet marketingsince all of its insightful statistics are widely spoken about. And then there’s SEO, which is popular for helping business get found online. But Reputation Monitoring, as useful as it is, often gets neglected until there’s a glaring problem and a clear need for a full-fledged reputation management solution to help the crisis.

Reputation Monitoring is like your business’s GPS (navigation system). It can show you the best path to take with your marketing message, lead you to your ideal customers, and help alert you of any potential traffic jam of negative online comments, that could otherwise prevent you from reaching your prospective customers.

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2. Improve – Monitoring what’s being said about your business allows you to see through the customer’s eyes. It’s a tool that allows you to understand the customer experience and gain the necessary insights to help you improve customer satisfaction.

3.  Influence – You can measure the influence of those who are talking about your business on social media. You can identify the influencers in your industry, and through conversation you can work towards getting on their radar if you’re not already known by them

4.  Save – You can reduce much of the guessing element when it comes to your marketing efforts because you’ll better understand your customer and what marketing message resonates with them. This can save on dollars spent on marketing materials and marketing efforts that aren’t really working. Use the information you’ve gained from monitoring to shape effective marketing messages and utilize the platforms that are most effective for your business.

5.  Listen – You can listen to what people are saying about your competitors on the web. It’s like you’ve got the secret insider information from monitoring what’s being said about them in social media, on review websites, consumer complaint websites, articles etc…

6.  Alert – Reputation monitoring gives you the ability to hear what’s being said early on. It can show you if there’s a day with a negative spike in the conversation, and it can help you see what caused it. This means you can recognize the calm before the storm, and often diffuse it prior to it coming to fruition

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Reputation management is an essential tool. If you’re serious about monitoring it’s wise to know what specifically you want to monitor and what functions are most important to you and your business. If you’re not sure, we can help.

Reputation monitoring  helps our clients better understand their customers, and gives them a better understanding of what’s being said online. It’s also a great way to see potential issues before they become a problem, and see how their online presence compares to the competition. Like my grade-school teacher used to say… “Listening is the beginning of understanding.”

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