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Advanced Google+ Tips & Tricks

There are many different options and features available within your Google+ community that will help you enhance productivity and to quickly expand your outreach so that you are able to consistently build contacts and networking opportunities.

One of the ways that you can reach out to existing contacts is by choosing to notify specific circles or individuals when you post important information or updates. Keep in mind that you should use this option carefully, so that you are not flagged by the system as sending spam.

To notify circles of important updates, click “Notify About Post” when you create a new update within your Google+ account, as shown below:

Personalizing Your Updates You can choose to mention people within your content and updates in the same way that you would twitter, using the @ symbol like this: "@username is a true inspiration".

You can also mention someone with the plus (+) symbol like this: "+username is a true inspiration".

In addition, if you find that someone is posting too regularly, or you aren’t interested in all of his or her updates, you can choose to “Mute” the conversation so that it no longer appears in your stream.

With Google+, a “stream” is like the timeline on Twitter, or a wall on Facebook with all of your circles’ updates appearing within a single stream.

You can choose to browse through streams from all of your circles, or by each circle at a time, filtering your streams to display only content from specific circles. This makes it easy to discover new content and updates from segmented groups!

You can also customize your content, updates and posts within the Google+ network, so that it appears in bold, italic or even underlined!

Here are the custom codes to use when writing new content for your circles:

Bold your text: *word* - wrapping your text in star asterisks will bold that part of your text. For example, if I enter in *hello*, the word hello will appear in bold.

_word_ will make your word italic. Just add underscores around the words that you would like to italicize.

-word- will create a strikethrough, changing this into this.

These are just a few quick ways that you can enhance your content while making certain words or titles stand out to your readers.

Create Hangouts

You can also create a “Hangout” within Google+, which is a place for you and your circles to connect.

You can call your Hangout anything you choose, and allow only certain circles to access this communication channel.

You will need to install the Google Voice and Video plugin in order to create or access hangout.

Click “Start Hangout” from your profile page to open up a channel in which those within your circle can communicate with you.

Create a Memorable Google+ Link:

Another quick tip is to shorten your Google+ profile link so that you can easily share with others on your blog, website or within your emails. Plus, it simply makes the link far more memorable.

There are many different "Google+" URL shortening-tools popping up on the scene, with the most popular one being Gplus.to

With Gplus, you can turn a long link into a gplus.to/your-username in minutes. This service is absolutely free.

+1 For Maximum Traffic

Google introduced the +1 option, which gives people the opportunity to essentially “like” certain pages or websites that they’ve visited.

Each time someone clicks the “+1” button, it adds weight to the content or page, essentially helping it gain more exposure, boosting its search engine ranking. In other words, when you +1 content, you are indicating to those found within your circles that you have something you’d like them to check out, or that you believe to be valuable or worthwhile.

You can “+1” your own websites, blogs and content each time you post a new feed or update in your Google+ stream!

By doing this, those that are part of your circles will see your recommendation and in turn, they too may +1 your update. The more +1’s that your content receives, the more exposure it will be given!

Prevent Email Flooding

By default, everyone who is part of your circles can send you email directly through gmail. You can disable this by clicking on “Profile & Privacy” – and “Edit Visibility” on your profile page as shown below:

Direct Permalinks

If you’d like to share a Google+ update with visitors to your website or blog, you can find the direct permalink by loading the content or update, and locating the “Link to this post” from the drop down menu of your update.

Synchronizing Your Social

Accounts Automatically Update Your Twitter Status You can easily update your Twitter status automatically each time you share new information within your Google+ account.

Once you’ve installed Google’s browser, you will be able to download the Google+ extension (called SGPlus) that will enable you to share Google+ updates with your Twitter followers.

Note: You will need to download and activate the Google+ extension within your Chrome browser before synchronizing your updates.

Once you’ve activated the extension, log into your Google+ account and click “Share” (grey button located at the top right hand corner of your Google+ profile page).

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Weddings in the family or among close friends are very important occasions, where best efforts are usually taken to make the event as hassle-free and memorable as possible. There’s no doubt that the parents or close friends of a person go that extra length to make the ceremony outstanding – a happening that not just the neighborhood but the whole town would talk about for years to come.

Ever since the day she was born, the daughter is a proud part of the family, on equal footing as the son. In the case of a father, the attachment towards a daughter is usually much more than that towards a son. The daughter too is generally more attached to the father than the mother in an average household. The love and care given is reflected right from the dolls and toys given to her in her childhood to the quality of education and opportunities offered as she grows.

Speeches delivered on such occasions can vary. They can be serious, packed with tear-jerking feelings, they could be matter-of-fact and pragmatic or they could be jovial and lighthearted, but with good intent. Or, they could be a mix of all three moods.

A meaningful and memorable speech could strike a balance – give rise to emotion, make the gathering laugh and yet, at the same time, carry enough weight so that lines (at least one or two) can be quoted by others in the future. Ideally, they should not be long for, unlike politicians, the use of rhetoric is limited. Besides, the possibility of deterioration in the standard of delivery is more if the speech is more. The length of a good speech should be within five minutes.

There are a lot of problems that you can be experimenting currently like trying to be in compliance of the wishes of the organizers, be he or she a best friend, the mother or the father of the bride or groom, especially the bride. But there may be several constraints the organizers have to overcome in order to carry out this wish. These are usually in the form of finances, organizational capabilities, and time, most of all time.

For a working person already bogged down by business or office commitments, arranging a daughter’s wedding are no simple task. From deciding on what scale to have the ceremony and the guest list to the venue for the reception, the decorations, the wedding gown, the design of the cake, the menu, the wines…the decisions and actions to be taken are endless.

This is also why in today’s busy world; adopting division of responsibility is a wise move. Taking up the execution of every little thing is an imprudent policy, which could result in all the attempts to make the occasion a grand success ending up in grand failure. There are ways out. A worried father could hire the services of a wedding planner so that he is not bogged down with work. The underlying factor either way is the trust and faith one has in the path one takes. People usually rely on time-tested practices and on what they had gone through and seen at the time of their wedding.

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Always get a car insurance rate quote before you sign up

Insurance has become a part and parcel of everyone’s life these days. With almost everything being in the insurance radar, one can, in no way, ignore the importance of insurance. Insurance covers almost every other commodity from homes and cars to laptops, mobiles and numerous other items. Life insurance is a big business all over the world. There are various other things that can be insured like health, business, overseas travel and what not. Insurance is a big business in the present days with many companies lining up for this lucrative business.

An automobile insurance is an agreement between the owner of the car and the insurance company in which the insurance company becomes liable for any damage caused to the owner or the car due to accident or theft. This contract is done against a certain amount, paid by the car owner to the insurance company, known as premium. Auto insurance can be of different types depending on the risk covered by the insurance. The premium amount will also vary accordingly and thus it’s vital that you get a car insurance rate quote.

Depending on coverage, auto insurance can be categorized as legal limit coverage, having the minimum coverage, liability-only coverage, and full coverage, which covers the maximum damage. The coverage and rates of premium also varies with the insurance companies. That is why it is very important for a car owner to get a car insurance rate quote from the companies before signing a deal.

As part of marketing and customer attraction strategies, most insurance companies have policies to provide free car insurance rate quotes to their customers. These car insurance rate quotes help a great deal in selecting the most economic and the most coverage providing insurance. The rate quote normally includes the coverage of damage and the rate to be paid for that coverage. While buying a car, it’s quite natural for you to get excited about the car itself and forget about other trivial things like insurance. But the car insurance is equally important as it ensures the future of the car in case of any mishaps.

You may feel the insurance you have covers enough damages. But if you just stop around and check there may be better deals waiting for you which have more damage coverage at a lesser premium. Also there are innumerable cases of auto insurance fraud. To prevent yourself from such problems in future it is all the more important to get a car insurance rate quote and verify it against all possible checkers.

A car insurance rate quote helps you in saving money and also helps in avoiding any harassment later on in case of any accident or mishap. So please go through the same information over and over again with the insurance company before you sign the papers. Most of the insurance companies provide good customer support these days. You can talk to them over the phone, check their websites or even visit their office personally. So please don’t ignore or overlook the insurance of your dream car and get the insurance rate quote before you actually sign a deal.