Land grab

摘要

While Google+'s 40 million members is still relatively small for a social network, many greenhouse businesseshave wasted no time scrambling to set up their "When our IT manager told us that Google+ was available, I made sure to get set up and also secured our page," says Rebecca Gebeshuber, sales and marketing coordinator for Van Bell Nursery (plus.google.com/111527182701340867863/ posts). "I keep up to date on tech news via Twitter, so I was aware of the rollout within an hour or so of it happening." Warren Downes, director of Downes Wholesale Nursery (plus.google.com/10577993906 3123295872/posts), also has apage on Google+. "I have watched Google's other social media own pages there. attempts, which did not really grab my attention," he says. "Google+ changed that. I really like the layout. Downes Nursery can display its products in a crisp, clean lookingdisplay. I also like the circles - I can split my subscribers (customers) as different groups, as they are all not looking for the same thing."