{"id":3218,"date":"2009-05-11T10:16:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T14:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2009-05-11T10:29:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T14:29:05","slug":"google-promotes-profiles-with-free-business-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/google-promotes-profiles-with-free-business-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Promotes Profiles with Free Business Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google doesn’t frequently advertise their services or products in traditional venues very often. Apparently there are plans to advertise Chrome on TV<\/a>\u00a0and they ran their billboards for Goog-411<\/a> in out of the way places in September of 2007. In late April, Google\u00a0introduced profile results<\/a>\u00a0that included personal profiles as a OneBox in the main Google search results. To promote this service Google offered up 25\u00a0free\u00a0business cards to the first 10,000 respondents\u00a0with profiles (thanks to Steve Hatcher of AxeMedia.com<\/a>). Mine came in the mail today:<\/p>\n

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Along with the free cards came a promotion<\/a> from iprint to buy an additional 250 cards for $19.97. Ironically, this is an 18% premium over their current rate for full color cards that include address, phone, business name, etc. One would have to love Google an awful lot to buy a set of business cards that forces the user to the web to get critical contact information.\u00a0That being said, I am glad to get the cards for free as I stopped carrying business cards about the same time as I threw away my fax machine. These 25 should last me a very long time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another irony, from where I sit, is that it appears that my personal profile is more secure and less vulnerable than a business listing in Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google doesn’t frequently advertise their services or products in traditional venues very often. Apparently there are plans to advertise Chrome on TV\u00a0and they ran their billboards for Goog-411 in out of the way places in September of 2007. In late April, Google\u00a0introduced profile results\u00a0that included personal profiles as a OneBox in the main Google search …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t