{"id":333510,"date":"2011-07-22T17:51:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T17:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Ever-since-Googles-Q2-report-last-week-there-has-been-a-big-buzz-over-the-amount-of-people-using-G"},"modified":"2011-07-22T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T17:51:16","slug":"ever-since-googles-q2-report-last-week-there-has-been-a-big-buzz-over-the-amount-of-people-using-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/?p=333510","title":{"rendered":"Ever since Google&#8217;s Q2 report last week, there has been a big buzz over the amount of people using G+."},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally shared by Dan Soto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever since Google&#8217;s Q2 report last week, there has been a big buzz over the amount of people using G+. Last week they reported 10 million users and some sources are claiming 20 million now.  Awesome.  There have even been two popular graphs showing how long it has taken G+ to reach those those numbers compared to Twitter or Facebook.  Cool-but-not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>YOU&#8217;RE DOING IT WRONG!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone has their jaws dropped over how quickly this has happened but, let me try to give an analogy to show why you&#8217;re looking at this the wrong way. (I wish I was a graphic artist to show this visually but hang with me \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visualize the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2004- A swimming pool with 5 people around it.  A man decides to jump in and do a &#8220;cannonball&#8221; (make a big splash).  Since there are only 5 people around it, not many are affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2006 &#8211; Same swimming pool but with 100 people around it.  Another man attempts a cannonball and now splashes 100 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2011 &#8211; Same pool.  1 million people.  Man jumps in for a cannonball and splashes 1 million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;  The people around the pool represent the number of people that know about social media.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;  Each man that jumps in the pool represents a new major SM player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As time goes on, we are building a bigger base of people who know about SM.  In 2011, hundreds of millions more people are aware of SM than than in 2004.  If G+ would have come out in 2004 with this exact same product, the effect would not be nearly as dramatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is also one other perspective.  Existing fan base.  Google has a massive fan base of users of their products already.  Facebook and Twitter didn&#8217;t.  Think about it.  If you were a loyal Heineken drinker and they gave you a free sample of a new adult beverage, would you try it? Most likely yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m not knocking Google at all.  They have an impressive product that will revolutionize the world of SM as we know it.  I&#8217;m glad.  My only point is to put things in proper perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for listening.  Your comments are always appreciated, welcomed and urged.<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Ever since Google&#8217;s Q2 report last week, there has been a big buzz over the amount of people using G+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bobbi-jo-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}