{"id":6348,"date":"2010-03-24T08:54:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T12:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=6348"},"modified":"2010-03-24T12:22:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T16:22:22","slug":"google-now-cross-promoting-other-web-services-directly-to-lbc-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/google-now-cross-promoting-other-web-services-directly-to-lbc-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Now Cross Promoting Other Web Services Directly to LBC Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received this email from the Google Local Business Center:<br \/>\n****<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><span style=\"font-family: Times; line-height: normal; font-size: small; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;\"><\/p>\n<table style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; z-index: auto; width: 520px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"10\" valign=\"middle\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #0066cc; padding: 0px;\">Google Apps helps you focus more on your business, less on IT hassles<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding-top: 25px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px;\">As a small business owner, you don&#8217;t want to spend additional time, money and energy on IT hassles. That&#8217;s why the\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/local\/add\/businessCenter?utm_source=xsell_apps&amp;utm_medium=en&amp;utm_campaign=en\" target=\"_blank\">Local Business Center<\/a> team would like to introduce you to\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/apps\/intl\/en\/business\/standardedition\/index.html#utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=en-email-na-us-se_lbc_xsell_0310&amp;utm_campaign=xsell\" target=\"_blank\">Google Apps Standard Edition<\/a>, our suite of free, easy-to-use online messaging and collaboration tools for businesses like yours. Apps is hosted by Google so you don&#8217;t need to install or maintain any hardware or software, and you can access your account from just about any computer.<\/p>\n<p>When you sign-up for a Google Apps Standard Edition account, you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get customized email for your domain with\u00a0<strong>Gmail for Business<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Seamlessly share and manage schedules with\u00a0<strong>Google Calendar<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Quickly create websites as easily as drafting documents with\u00a0<strong>Google Sites<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Easily create, share, and collaborate on documents, presentations, and spreadsheets with<strong>Google Docs<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #0066cc;\">In just 3 easy steps, you can sign-up for your\u00a0<strong>FREE<\/strong> Google Apps Standard Edition account<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/apps\/intl\/en\/business\/standardedition\/index.html#utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=en-email-na-us-se_lbc_xsell_0310&amp;utm_campaign=xsell\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nThe Google Local Business Center Team<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n***<\/p>\n<p>Last week it was reported as well that Google UK is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memonic.com\/user\/marcisler\/set\/research-webtrends\/id\/1CQM\">offering free websites AND free domain registrations<\/a> to small businesses. If you had any doubt about Google going after the very small business with a complete list of internet services, this should make it perfectly clear.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received this email from the Google Local Business Center: **** Google Apps helps you focus more on your business, less on IT hassles As a small business owner, you don&#8217;t want to spend additional time, money and energy on IT hassles. That&#8217;s why the\u00a0Local Business Center team would like to introduce you to\u00a0Google &#8230;<\/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-6348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6353,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions\/6353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}