Google Drops Plus sign from Search Operators

Back when Google announced Google Plus, I laughed that the search engine giant named their new social networking platform something that their users can’t even search for, since the plus sign [+] is used as a way to define a search string. This meant when you tried to search for [Google +] in Google, you might not actually find “Google Plus”.

Well, they announced that they will fix that problem, by actually dropping the use of the plus sign as a search operator.

Before, you could search for something like
relocation +missoula
and you’d get results that were about relocation, but only those with Missoula in the results.

Now, when I do that search it tells me:

The + operator has been replaced.
To search for an exact word or phrase, use double quotation marks: relocation “missoula”

I guess this works the same, but to me it seems slightly different. I always felt the plus sign meant “show me ONLY those results with that word in the results”, while Quotes meant “Show me these two words together, as in “firstname lastname”. While I suspect the latter still works the same way, which is good, since Google our own names is something I’m sure we all love to do. One guy even made it into a Documentary called “Google Me“.

I have a lot of Google Alerts set up that use the plus sign. But I guess I have to spend some time changing those now since Google had to change this core part of search… Do you think it’s because they want people to find Google Plus?

What if every time we use the plus sign in a search from here on out, they just show us Google Plus as the top result.

Well, they make the rules…
So if you’d like to get better results from your searches, I recommend you spend a few minutes studying up on the various tricks you can use in your search queries.

Enjoy…

-Andy

Online Multilevel Marketing And The Current Day Entrepreneur

What are some of the aspects todays internet entrepreneur’s run across in their efforts for success? This editorial will explore the issues involved.

Sorting through the web based cyber world for wealth building options in the year 2011 is like panning for gold in the 1800s. There is a constant spotting of something glimmering at you in your sorting pan that captures your awareness and makes you believe that becoming rich is surely going to happen.

Most of those sparklely little flashes you set eyes on are akin to the business programs that you are lambasted with every day. That means it gets your blood racing initially but pans out to be worthless in the long run.

Every marketer who is working online today has their own personal list. I’m not speaking about who they get to mail to, I’m talking about the list of marketers that you and I both hear from everyday that fill our inboxes full of time consuming worthless crap.

Marketing by electronic mail is rapidly losing the effectiveness it use to command when the inbox reeks of spam, maybe even more than the actual spam box. So called marketers who once shined so bright are appearing more and more like money grubbing pimps.

So you are eyeballing infinity downline or another online business opportunity as a means to increase your monthly income, so how do you make it work with out stupeing to the level of the aforementioned? Well I am not going to BS you, the cold hard truth is not pretty.

Now this is just my view point, if a person is curious about your business, they will look at your venture 1rst and you 2nd. This is true with a lot of well known Multilevel Marketing companies like infinity downline.

My unsolicited advise to you is to be truthful with your leads in your promotional efforts and your communications with them as to your experience with the business. You’re not just looking for them to join, you want them to work at the program and to stay in.

I think a lot of the hype about working an Multi level marketing is that it is suppose to be this simple thing to sponsor new members and to generate income. If you over hype by doing this then when a new recruit finds out that you have just been BSing them, most likely they will just self terminate their membership.

If you have a good network marketing company with a good compensation plan then just be straightforward with your prospects about what they really need to do to become successful. You may be asking yourself what I mean by that.

This is just my own view point and you may choose to feel how you want on the matter but many of the established mult-level companies are designed to earn one a pretty good income if members only bring in a few members a piece. In my own situation with infinity downline this is most certainly a valid and true statement.

I believe that the prevailing principal that will bring success to all people is the combined level of personal commitment of all. With a non-specific amount of time and personal action I believe that any person can refer the amount of new referrals that will bring about success for all members who commit to it.

That is what I tell prospects about from the beginning. I don’t try to shellac the truth to make it sound better. I fully believe people can accept this and appreciate what the truth really is no matter how much they want to believe the grand sounding hype.

Business Building Approaches You Can Employ To Ignite Your Business

When considering Infinity Downline, plenty of people think they don’t have time to operate and run a business ran from home. They assume with their job and family activities and the multitude of other activities they are involved in that they just don’t have the spare time to do it.

Infinity Downline, like a lot of enterprises can be marketed online in a matter of a few hours a week, if not less, depending on the manner one uses to advertise said business. The first thing you need to do to find the time to work your home business is to thoroughly analyse your time and precisely how you utilize it.

Subsequently when you have some time to yourself, grab your pencil and paper and begin a documentation of how your time is spent. Mark down all the things you do and note a start and stop time or an estimation of the quantity of time each activity makes use of.

On your work day activities, write down such things as showering, breakfast, getting the kids off to school, commute to work, then continue onto your week end activities. Be thorough as you possibly can be.

Once you do this time consuming activity it will give you a great visual depiction of all of your activities. If you need to put it in chart form to see this, by all means please do so. You should start to find some openings here and there where you could slot a couple of hours to put towards your new business.

Now when I say slot, what I really mean to say is “to commit”. coming up with and committing at least 2 hours to your business should be your objective. Now go back and look at your activities again and see if there is not some further ways that let you free up maybe 2 or 3 more hours to your business a week.

You want to write this time into your schedule and then make a strong commitment to working this time no matter what. Don’t waste time during these time frames by being inefficient.

People throw away a lot of time when when working online at times like spending all their time checking emails, or checking out all the new biz opps. Being efficient means that you take a task, or several tasks that kick your business into high gear and you don’t waste time on other activities. You work those tasks and nothing else until they are done.

You want to idea map, engage your plans with hard and fast action steps until you have achieved successful completion of your of all your plans. Endeavor to figure out in advance the time you will need to allocate to complete the necessary action steps you have set towards the success of your business. This determination of action will help you in your creating reasonable goals and diligently working on them until you have successfully achieved them.

Documenting your ideas and turning them into action plans with set times to get them done will get you a head faster than you can believe. For example, creating several follow up messages with a reputable autoresponder company would be one of the first action plans I would have to get accomplished as soon as you could.

If you have joined Infinity Downline like myself, be as efficient as you can, or keep this practice for whatever your business venture may be. Efficiency by and large means you cut out the wasted time expending activities. A lot of internet marketers these days waste many hours a week sorting through their email inbox studying the countless offers that flood their inbox daily.

True efficiency comes from having a superb business strategy with beginning goals, intermediate goals, that as your business success grows, you set higher goals. You build up and complete action steps that propel you towards those goals and this is how efficiency is maximized, you only work on your written action steps in your designated work time.

In closing, I would say to you in all of your started activities, do not feel the obstacles in your way as blockages keeping your from achieving victory but as dealings that are just part of the complete achievement of your goals that you planned, mapped out and achieved.

In actuality the universe operates under a strick law of attraction, what you do say think or feel is exactly what you are creating. And the marvelous thing about this law, is you are the one that governs it with all of your attitudes, your thoughts, how you feel and how you imagine things to be.

Small business workshop in Missoula Wednesday

Did you read hear about this? I’ll be there, and I would suggest you try to attend if you’re at all interested in the things I talk about here on my site.

Montana Senator John Tester will host a Small Business Opportunity Workshop in Missoula on Wednesday, February 23, 2011. The event focused on expanding small business opportunities, especially for young entrepreneurs.

The upcoming workshop will be held at the University Theater at the University Center on the campus of The University of Montana.

He’s bringing with him a top Microsoft executive who will deliver a keynote address on his experience working with the software giant, and several social media gurus who will give a presentation on how websites like Facebook and Google can help grow businesses.

The social media portion of the workshop will show attendees just how important a tool the medium can be for small businesses.

Sign up here http://tester.senate.gov/Resources/workshop.cfm

Ford Drops Superbowl Ad

Ford Motor Company sees spending their ad dollars on Online Ads as a better choice. The article below ends with a statement of “If sales continue to grow after the Super Bowl and the company continues its successful marketing online it will be interesting to see who else drops their Super Bowl ads.”

While Ford may be able to look back at the history of Superbowl ad performance and compare that to this year’s ad spend, there are a few problems with the idea that if Ford is successful online, others should follow. I’m not suggesting buying a Superbowl ad is or isn’t the right choice… but, like so many things, it depends on the situation. I’m a huge believer in online marketing, with the improve tracking, and demographics, and Geo-targeting… it’s a great place to look for effective advertising. But other avenues may work well to… often in combination. A great Superbowl ad, with a call to action to “like” the company on Facebook, and be entered to win….  You get the idea. Beware of thinking what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

Here’s a link to the article about Ford, from Search Engine Watch:

Ford Drops Super Bowl Ads For Online Spends