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When your Google My Business listing becomes your lifeline

The recent days and weeks have been a blur as I’ve helped clients manage their online reputations amid a global pandemic that continues to inflict a heavy toll. Oftentimes Google My Business has been in the eye of the storm, with business turning to their GMB listings to notify people of sudden changes ranging from scaled back hours to temporary closures. Here are three truths that have emerged from this experience: 1.Your GMB listing is your lifeline Under normal circumstances, people rely on a GMB listing to get essential information such as store hours and customer reviews to learn more about a business’s location. During the coronavirus pandemic, the nature of those searches changed rapidly as consumer’s behaviour changed. “What are your hours?” became “Are you open while we shelter in place?” “What does your menu look like?” became “Do you offer curbside delivery?” Businesses needed to respond quickly especially in the early going when Google had not yet rolled out special f

How to Advertise your Products on Google for Free During COVID-19

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How to Advertise your Products on Google for Free During COVID-19 People are shopping online more than ever, and shipping providers around the world are still operating. If you can safely package and ship products – or deliver services virtually – your business can survive, and even thrive! To help businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, Google is giving away $340 million in free Google Ads credits to small businesses that have used their platform since the beginning of 2019. You can redeem the credits any time through the end of 2020 and use them for all types of ads – search, display, YouTube, and Google shopping. What you business should do To take full advantage of your ads, connect creatively with customers dealing with COVID-19 fallout. What problems are they facing that you can solve? ·          People are stuck in the hours. Does your product combat boredom, or keep them mentally or physically engaged? ·          Many are looking after their kids all day, every day

16 Proven Ways to Grow Instagram Followers Organically

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16 Proven Ways to Grow Instagram Followers Organically Everyone wants to know how to grow Instagram followers fast. But it’s important to invest in the right type of growth. More and more, Instagram is becoming a part of daily life for people around the globe. With its high volume and visual format, it offers an engaging and fun way for people to connect. Business have taken note, and have taken to the social media platform as a medium for marketing to new and potential customers. If you operate a business or even a personal brand, how can you most effectively target new customers and grow your list of followers? This post will teach you 16 proven tactics for how to get followers on Instagram. Instagram Currently Has 1 Billion Active Users. No, that’s not a typo. According to Business Insider, as of this summer, Instagram reached a staggering 1 billion active users. To put that in perspective, Facebook has about 2.19 billion active users, and Snapchat has ab

10 Natural Skin and Hair Care Tips for Holi

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10 Natural Skin and Hair Care Tips for Holi Don’t let colors damage your hair or skin this Holi. Here are ten natural skin and hair care tips: 1. Oiling: Oil your hair with warm coconut oil, castor oil or olive oil. If you have dandruff add 8-10 drops of lemon in your oil and liberally apply the mixture in your hair. Apply oil all over your body, including hands, feet, and elbows. Do the oiling part at least 20-25 minutes before you start. 2. Moisturize: Use a generous amount of moisturizer with sunscreen all over your body, especially behind your ears and ear lobes as these are areas, one tends to neglect. Make sure that the moisturizer has an SPF as you do not want to catch a tan from the sun! 3. Clothing: Wear dark color-full sleeves cotton clothes. Synthetics would be sticky and denim would be heavy once you have a bucket full of water splashed on you. 4. Ensure that the clothes: You choose to wear should cover the maximum parts of your body. The best choices would be high-ne

Why developers like to code at night

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Why developers like to code at night If you ask most developers when they prefer to work, many will say their most productive hours are at night.  Some like to start in the evening and work till the early hours while others get up super early – say, 4 a.m. – to get most of the programming work done before the daily grind kicks in. This work habit may make many developers seem like oddballs and misfits. However, there are quite a few reasons why so many programmers prefer to work during the odd hours: The maker’s schedule According to Paul Graham, people who “produce stuff” tend to adhere to the maker’s schedule – they prefer to use time in units of a half-day or longer. In fact, most developers have the same preference. For one thing, developers work on large abstract systems and need the mental space to process a model in its entirety. Having their schedules sliced into 15- or 30-minute chunks for emails, meetings, phone calls, and interruptions from co-workers is simply counterpr

14 Time-Saving Computer Life Hacks

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14 Time-Saving Computer Life Hacks There are 3 types of computer users: the ones who use their mouse, those who use their keyboard, and those who prefer talking to Cortana or Siri. No matter which category you fall into, you can’t deny the immense usefulness of certain shortcuts and hacks that reveal the unknown possibilities your computer always had. These smart tricks improve your everyday computer experience and give an absolute boost in your productivity and in your security. Here we collected 14 computer hacks that will be massively helpful to anyone using their computer for fun or business. 1. Ctrl + T opens a new tab When you work a lot on your PC and your web browser is your number one tool, opening new tabs is an action that you do countless times during the day. Instead of doing it manually with your mouse, you can simple press “ctrl” and the letter “T” and a new tab will open. If you are using a MacBook, you will press “command” instead of “ctrl”. 2. Ask Google about