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Instagram, and more importantly, how to use it effectively can be confusing and frustrating. Clear Partnering Group is here to help!
Instagram, and more importantly, how to use it effectively can be confusing and frustrating. Clear Partnering Group is here to help!
Instagram, and more importantly, how to use it effectively can be confusing and frustrating. Clear Partnering Group is here to help!
We’ve heard the feedback from our users and wanted to make using Spyglass even easier and more informative for offices that are planning their social media campaigns. Additionally, we’ve added a curated section of content — “ClearPG Picks” — that will help you see the content that we find most interesting for your practice.
Google Maps is the place where the overwhelming majority of people go when they’re looking for a business, but Facebook was the place to go to find out more information and leave reviews and comments. Google is now…
Google Maps is the place where the overwhelming majority of people go when they’re looking for a business, but Facebook was the place to go to find out more information and leave reviews and comments. Google is now…
Facebook recently released an option for users with certain iPhones to post 3D images. You’ve probably scrolled past one recently. It’s definitely striking and bound to make someone pause for a second and check out your image. We think you’re definitely going to want to give it a try!
Remember Google Wave? Google Reader? Google Buzz? Picasa? No? Soon you won’t remember Google+ because Google is shutting it down, too. Why is Google shutting Google+ down?
Facebook is now giving everyone the power to create videos and then schedule them as Facebook Live videos. What does that mean? You can now schedule when you want the video to appear live. When the video goes live, your followers will be able to engage and interact with your video.
HIPAA covers what is legally expected to protect a patient’s information – diagnoses, how they are being treated, medical records, and payment information – from being shared beyond the patient and providers without the consent of the patient. A patient’s health information is prohibited from being shared beyond the health care provider.
Starting in January of this year, Google has been rolling out the ability for businesses to upload full-length videos to their Google My Business profiles. So what does that mean for you? This means that businesses who have video content can add it to their profiles so that video will show up, just like your photos, in certain Google Search and Google Map results.
Several people in our office have seen changes to Facebook Reviews and Recommendations. What we’ve noticed is that the new system favor’s experience-based recommendations versus star ratings. What does this mean? It means…
As of June 28th, Facebook pushed updates to allow all users to see any ad a business may be running. This is all part of Facebook’s push for increased transparency and user protection.
Starting in July, Google’s previously announced “Speed Update” went into effect for mobile SEO ranking.
Google has been talking about making website load speed a factor in search ranking for quite a while now for mobile users. As of July 2018, this change has gone into effect and anyone who runs a website (or develops them) should be aware of what this means for mobile SEO ranking results! While this change isn’t nearly as big as some of the other Google updates we’ve seen in the past, the “Speed Update” is important to understand, especially since we’ve seen tons of misinformation being spread by web developers for personal gain!
Google has stopped counting reviews that contain “A Google User”. If you’ve been collecting Google Reviews for a long time, you’ll remember that way back in 2012/13 you used to be able to leave anonymous reviews. Those anonymous reviews showed up as “A Google User.”
Almost weekly now, Google My Business is dropping new tools to help manage online business information, interact with our customers, and expand our brand’s presence in Google’s ecosystem. Lately, it seems like we can’t go more than 10 days without seeing something new. So what are this week’s new tools?
This time Google is bringing back the Business Description option in Google My Business. If you’re thinking, “Hey! Wasn’t that a thing they offered a long time ago in Google Plus?” then you would be right! Google has toyed with this option off and on for years. They added it. They removed it.
But what is Vero and why should my business care? Vero is a new social network that exists on mobile devices that is marketed as an Instagram Killer (it’s not…yet). Vero is described as a “True Social” network where they value and try to mimic and favor your real-world connections over random ads and newsfeeds. Vero boasts a Newsfeed that consistent of people you are connected with and probably actually want to follow. Beyond that, it looks and feels a lot like Instagram.
So what is GDPR ? GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation. It’s a set of laws passed in the EU that deal with how businesses collect and store information about European Union residents.
So what’s the benefit of Google Posts?
The main benefit of Google Posts is that it’s another touchpoint leading back to your website, which is of course, positive.
STARTING IN JULY 2018, GOOGLE WILL START MARKING SITES THAT ARE NOT UNENCRYPTED. So what does that mean for you and your business website? We’ll cover all the reasons you should be calling your web guy asap!
Before you ask. No, sorry. It’s not for Netflix…mostly! One of the things the ClearPG team is always getting better at is serving our clients. As our team grows, making sure everyone at ClearPG has a full understanding of each of your unique situations and needs is crucial.
The service industry is by no means immune to scamming techniques. We regularly see fear used to sell marketing techniques that are better suited for selling Swiffer Sweepers to broad audiences than we do marketing techniques used to sell someone on a legitimate experience. Having an online presence for your business today is that it comes with a healthy dose of attention we don’t really want from scammers. It’s our goal in this article to cover some of the most common scam attempts we’ve seen.