Can Google Plus disrupt Facebook and Twitter?

Google Plus has already become the fastest growing social network, with over 50 million registered users in 88 days! It took Myspace 1,046 days to reach these many users, Twitter 1,096 days, Facebook 1,325 days and LinkedIn 2,354 days... Google Plus benefits from the fact that everyone knows what a social network is at this point, and the reach of Google.com

What will it take for Google Plus to disrupt Facebook and Twitter? Here are five things that could make Google Plus the social network of the future:

1. Repeat Users - How many users are going back to Google Plus and using the social network, over and over again! This is the most crucial metric! Over here, Facebook excels, and also Twitter.

2. Engagement - Amount of good time spent on Google Plus! Are users spending time?  How much time?  The more time users spend on Google Plus, the more engaged the social network will become...

3. Invitations - Are users inviting their friends to join?  Are their friends joining?  More sent invitations, more new joins, more new sent invitations from new users... this is how social networks go viral!

4. Everywhere - Can Google Plus plant their flag everywhere as Facebook has done? Google Plus on websites, email signatures, search, major media sites, company sites and more...

5. X factor - The unknown variable that will make users everywhere want to join Google Plus and try it out... and check it out... and come back for more... what is that "I Love IT" X Factor?

Update:

Larry Page, Google CEO, talked about Google+ growth on the Earnings Call on Jan 19, 2012:

"Looking back on 2011, I am most excited by the fact that we significantly improved our velocity and execution, my priority when I became CEO in April. With Google+, we shipped on average a new feature every day since we launched in June. That's more than 200 updates in total. And those things include a bunch of new Hangout features. In fact, David Beckham just did a great Hangout with his fans here this morning. We launched circles in Gmail and + Pages for businesses and many, many other things.

I'm also pleased to announce that there are over 90 million Google+ users, well over double what I announced just a quarter ago on our earnings call. Engagement on + is also growing tremendously. I have some amazing data to share there for the first time. + users are very engaged with our products. Over 60% of them engage daily and over 80% weekly.

As I said last quarter, Google+ is much more than the individual features themselves. It's also about building a meaningful relationship with users so that we can dramatically improve the services we offer. Understanding who people are, what they care about and the other people that matter to them is crucial if we are to give users what they need, when they need it.

Take last week's Search announcement, which I'm really excited about. We've now included personal results in Search. So you can easily find information like photos and + posts that are super relevant to you, as well as the people you care about or are interested in. You can even restrict all personal results or easily view Google in the world mode just as you would have before. I really like it, and I encourage all of you to try it out, too."  (from www.seekingalpha.com)

Google Plus : Can it disrupt the mother of all social networks and social media? Is it safe to say that it is a two horse race now between Facebook and Google+? The growth trajectory of Google+ above must have everyone on the right worried...for now!

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•Manage, defend and grow your social media reputation to your advantage

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Four Innovation Styles

Innovation Styles provides a great summary of four innovation thought processes for your business:

Visioning: To envision the ideal future
Modifying: To refine and optimize what has come before
Exploring: To discover new and novel possibilities
Experimenting: To combine and test many unique combinations

There are two dimensions that form the four Innovation Styles:
What stimulates and inspires this style’s innovativeness?
Facts, details and analysis
OR
Intuition, insights and images

How does this style approach the innovation process?
Focused, well-planned and outcome oriented
OR
Broad, perceptive and learning oriented

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What? Ogoing launches Social Media Marketing Boot camp for small businesses, entrepreneurs, startups, owners and SMBs. Ogoing will help you become a social media expert, and share tools and best practices that will help accelerate your sales. Ogoing is an exclusive small business social network that helps small businesses efficiently expand their local customer contacts through an easy to use social networking platform. There is no cost to attend the boot camp.

Who? CEO and Founder of Ogoing, Sanjay Dalal will speak about the importance of social media today in local marketing, business networking, and customer feedback, and share insights on how social media can drive more business. Ogoing is Sanjay's 7th small business startup since he moved to California in 1997. Sanjay is an accomplished social media entrepreneur, innovation author, speaker, innovator, and community leader.

Why? While the social media market is exploding with such sites as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare, YouTube, Yelp, Reddit, Blogger, Wordpress and dozens more, Ogoing vies to remain focused on utilizing key tools that small businesses need in order to grow their social media presence. Emerging businesses and startups do not always have the time and money to get their brand out there; however, Ogoing creates relationships between businesses in an affordable manner. Think of Ogoing as the business matchmaker.

* Ogoing has presented at many business associations including Asian Business Association, SABAN, Irvine Chamber of Commerce, Indian-American Business Federation, UC Irvine, Rotary Club, and many businesses.

Key Benefits why YOU should attend this boot camp:

•Learn the importance of social media today in building your social presence
•Create leverage to promote your brand, products and services, news and events
•Connect with many relevant businesses on Ogoing, and expand your social network
•Jumpstart your sales using the latest social media tools and best practices
•Manage, defend and grow your social media reputation to your advantage

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About Ogoing:
Ogoing is an exclusive business social network. Using Ogoing, small businesses instantly promote their products, share their latest deals and services, post their news and events, and make new connections. Ogoing helps businesses find new customers and jump start sales using the latest social media platform. Ogoing is the business social network to explode your social media brand and engage with your customers. If you are a small business that wants immediate results using social networking and social media marketing, Ogoing is the solution. It takes less than five minutes to get started, and once you are connected, you will come back for more! Join Ogoing and Grow your Business! Join Now: http://ogoing.com

Social Media Bootcamp - Boost Your Business

What? Social Media Marketing Boot camp for small businesses, entrepreneurs, startups, owners and SMBs. Ogoing will help you become a social media expert, and share tools and best practices that will accelerate your sales. Ogoing, an exclusive small business social network, helps small businesses efficiently expand their local customer contacts through an easy to use social networking platform.

"I got solid answers to many of my social media questions and concerns. He truly is a master in his field. It was the best education I have ever received." - Christina Vendley, Affiliate Manager, Free Blog Factory

Why? While the social media market is exploding with such sites as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare, YouTube, Yelp, Reddit, Blogger, Wordpress, Flickr and dozens more, Ogoing vies to remain focused on utilizing key tools that small businesses need in order to grow their social media presence. Emerging businesses and startups do not always have the time and money to get their brand out there; however, Ogoing creates relationships between businesses in an affordable manner. Think of Ogoing as the business matchmaker.

* Ogoing has presented at many business associations including Asian Business Association, SABAN, Irvine Chamber of Commerce, Indian-American Business Federation, UC Irvine, Rotary Club, and many businesses.

Key Benefits why YOU should attend this bootcamp

• Learn the importance of social media today in building your social presence
• Create leverage to promote your brand, products and services, news and events
• Connect with many relevant businesses on Ogoing, and expand your social network
• Jumpstart your sales using the latest social media tools and best practices
• Manage, defend and grow your social media reputation to your advantage

Learn more and register!