Good Day Google+ - Pre- New Years Eve Edition

Hey there, I'm Chef Dennis Littley and we're here today on Good Day Google Plus. And like I always say, it's a great day on Google Plus and it's even better today because I have some wonderful guests for you and we're gonna have a wonderful show for a pre-New Year's Eve celebration, if you call it. It's a little too early for most of them to be drinking, especially for me in Florida. But if you want to tip one with us today and enter in the new year with us a little bit early, we'll be happy to have it. If not, you know, just put your comments or your questions in the comment bar underneath the event and we'll get to them as soon as we can and hopefully we'll answer all your questions for you. But let me introduce my panel of guests today. We have David O'Brien—

Somebody muted Jeff. Somebody muted Jeff, you need to unmute him.

Hello.

There we go. Can you hear me now?

Yeah. Gotcha.

Okay, great. So David, we have David Oldenburg.

And hey, Jeff, how you doing, buddy?

Good. Thanks so much for coming here today. It's great to be here. Eli Finnell. Thanks for coming.

Thank you for having me.

Oh, my pleasure. Kelly Dixon. Hi, Kelly. It's good to see you. And Leah. Leah, how do you pronounce your last name? I don't want to butcher it.

Oh, if you butcher it, it's okay, Dennis. My last name is Segedy.

Segedy.

But it's my married name, and I just would like to tell you that it took me about 6 months to learn to pronounce it, so if you guys butcher it, it's not so bad.

Segedy. Alright, I was going to go with Segedy, so I'm glad you did that. Segedy. Okay, alright, so if you've never seen Good Day Google+ before, you're in for a treat. We don't do a lot of things that you might see on other shows. We just have a good time, we talk to each other, we engage, and just sort see where it goes. So if you have any questions for any of our guests, again, please ask them. And any of my guests, if you have questions for each other, please go ahead and ask each other, engage, have a good time. So I'm just going to start on the one end and then turn it over to David, and we'll just work our way around. Tell us a little bit about what you do on and off of Google.

Hey, Shep, it's great to be here. I host the Online Money Show here on Google+, and I've been doing it for about 4 months and absolutely love it. Kind of a social media online business, business marketing type of show, and it's kind of evolving, and we have a lot of big plans for 2014. Now the way I make my money, because there's a lot of people here, a lot of people on Google+ that I talk to, and they're doing all kinds of cool stuff, but not a lot of people are monetizing. And so the way I make my money Monday through Friday is for the last 23 years I've been in the mortgage industry. I own a real estate company and I own a mortgage company and I've been doing that for 23 years.

Very good. And are you giving us some ways how to make money using Google+ now, or is that what you're talking about? Unfortunately, I don't get to see your show except on replays because it airs the same time as mine does.

Well, you know, obviously we do a lot of social media talk, and a lot of my guests, I think, are kind of, you know, in that social media expert type of world, but I'm actually launching, Jeff, a second show probably in about 2 weeks, and this show is going to be strictly real estate, mortgage, and business, but I'm still going to continue hosting the Online Money Show. So I'm going to be actually running 2 live shows every week starting in about 8 days.

Great, we'll look forward to that.

Yeah, me too. I'm excited.

Alright, let's turn it over to Eli now. Eli, tell us a little about yourself.

Hi, I'm Eli, Eli Fanel. I'm an IT guy by profession. I'm a psych major by education because machines have a mind of their own too. I'm the guy, one of those guys who came to Google+ and left all of his Facebook friends behind and said, "See ya, I'm hanging out with the cool kids on Google+." And I just did that for a couple of years and then started helping small businesses with their social media and SEO strategy because of all I had learned here. I'm actually working with a local chiropractor to start a series of shows about your health using Hangouts on Air soon. It's really great to be here and that pretty much sums me up.

Have you found that working with your local— do you go to the Chamber of Commerce at all? Is that how you do it or have you reached out or people reached out to you in the local area? Because more and more I keep hearing that and I think that's an opportunity that all of us need to really jump on, uh, is working with some local people.

Yeah, they have been reaching out to me, and I absolutely think that local— there is a gold mine and a job boom waiting to happen in local social media and SEO. There, I see so many businesses, they have no social media presence, their SEO is laughable, and they just don't know what to do. It's not their fault. They either don't have the money to pay somebody or because they think, oh, it's too expensive, or they did pay somebody and that somebody took advantage of them. So I think that people who can really help those businesses out and work within their price range and explain to them why the initial investment is worth it are going to have a lot of opportunities in the future.

Absolutely. I know I've seen some people that have gotten taken in by others trying to lead them and show them how they're supposed to use Google+ and it just really just hurt them a lot, set them back, gave them a bad taste in their mouth for Google+ just because they're hiring people that don't know the business, that's all. So it's good to know. Alright, let's move on to Kelly. Kelly, thank you so much for being with us today.

Hi, thanks for having me.

I love that we're in your kitchen here too, it looks great.

I know, this is my little computer setup right here. I'm a mom so having it right in the hub of everything kind of allows me to do my blogging and my work. While being with the kids. So welcome to my kitchen, Chef.

Thank you. I love being here.

I am the writer, the author, the blogger of Smart Schoolhouse, which is a blog mostly about crafts, DIY activities, and kids' activities, but every once in a while it's sprinkled with cute recipes and sweet treats. Aside from that, I'm, like I said, a mom. I've got 2 toddlers, ages 2 and 3. I was a teacher, a 1st grade teacher, but now I stay home with them. And my blog kind of started as a hobby. I did not plan on making money with it at all, but it has transformed my life. Once I started it, it kind of took off. There's something lucky about Smart Schoolhouse, and I'm very grateful for that. I think my presence on Google+ kind of just shows that. I use Google+ to share my own posts, but not simply my own posts, to communicate with other bloggers and to network with other bloggers. Like you, Chef, I would have never probably, had it not been for Google+, we would have never met.

That's the wonderful thing about Google+. I can say that about so many people. I mean, I think everyone on the panel here I would have never met. It's such an amazing tool.

Yeah, so the networking here has been really powerful. And now I do monetize a lot that I do. So I use Google+ to kind of catapult the way I do everything else. And even Instagram and YouTube, having them all together and being able to Send everything out on Google+. It's been a game changer for my blog, it really has.

Good, I'm glad to hear that. So you'll be another evangelist for Google then. I always say I'm out there preaching the gospel of Google every chance I get.

Hey Chef, I want to ask Kelly, you say you're monetizing, how exactly are you monetizing your blog?

Well, my favorite way of getting money is passive income. For me, the passive income, because you could define that in different ways, but passive income for me are the ads on my blog. That's just the easiest money for me, and I find it to be motivating, and I check all the time, how much am I making right now? But then there's also YouTube, and I do monetize different things on YouTube, and I also work very closely with brands. I didn't bring that up before. I share a message or I share my story with a brand brand under a contract and monetize my posts that way. I get paid to do that.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

That is a good tool for bloggers and there are some good opportunities for them out there with brands. That's one thing we need to do is bring more brands onto Google+. So many of them are not ready. They don't have the resources. IT places— not IT places, PR places that are running them are stretched so thin they can't jump on the Google+ bandwagon but we need to start reaching these brands and show them how how important Google+ is going to be for their future. It's good to know. Alright, Leah, I'm so happy that you joined us today, that you're able to be with us.

Thank you, Dennis. Dennis, you were talking about how brands are getting into Google+ and this is about a third of what I do. A bunch of my clients right now are actually looking at Google+ and considering it very seriously and I'm kind of like a guinea pig. I have to put myself out there and say I'm a guinea pig right now trying to figure figure it out as much as I can so that I can give them some more direction. Because about a third of what I do is I consult with national brands that are into health and wellness and lifestyle type of things. A third of what I do is I have a community full of moms that are into disease prevention and weight loss. And the other third of what I do is activism that has to do with health and food. And so if you hear about labeling GMOs and those kind of things, those are the kind of things that I am involved in, in the background organizing bloggers. Right now, just for me, something a little exciting, and I know because you guys are talking about monetizing, I own a network of just over 9,500 bloggers. We've been growing it for years. These are lifestyle bloggers, there's food bloggers, there's healthy bloggers, there's parenting bloggers, and I match large brands with these bloggers. We put together sponsored blogger activations. One that we just finished that's food food-related, so I thought you'd be interested in hearing about it. We worked with a company called Swerve Sweetener. They're a sweetener that is completely natural and GMO-free. We put together 10 bloggers, and these 10 bloggers did posts and used the product for about a month, post, tweeted, Facebooked, even used Google+. I put those kind of activations together in the background. That's about a third of what I do, is I do that kind of consulting with my network. The other third of what I do is community, and then just being a pain in the butt up for the food supply and talking about healthy issues. I'm just so happy to be here at Google+ because I'm new, but I'm studying you guys all like a bug. I'm so excited because again, Kelly was saying and Dennis was saying, I never would have met you guys. I'm surrounded by moms all day long, which is fine and I love it. I think Google+ is great because it's a new feel. To me it feels a lot like what Twitter was 5 years ago. It's got that really helpful, let's get together and do something awesome. Let's give of ourselves instead of taking. I love that feel that you guys have here. That's one of the things that I'm just excited about.

I can see it. You're really excited. I'm glad to see it. You have the perfect attitude for Google+ because that's what it's about. It's giving. There's too many that unfortunately haven't understood that yet. They come on and they just think it's there for them as their platform. There's so much more.

Absolutely. You know, Leah, it's so awesome to hear that because I find that the people that are making money on Google and the people that are successful are people just like yourself and also Kelly, people that are doing things for other people, promoting other people. And when you do that, I've said this many times, it comes back tenfold. And so it's awesome to see what everybody's doing.

Oh, absolutely. And you know, it's true with money too. I've noticed that if you give money away and you don't have any attached to it, it actually comes back. Sometimes it doesn't come back quite the way you think it's going to come back, but it comes back. I think that's just true of the world. I love how Google capitalizes on it. It's just such an awesome, happy, let's get together and just do cool things type of feeling here.

Excellent. I love that. We're going to definitely have to talk some more because you're going to love Google+ even more once you really get into the hangouts and stuff. Alright, well, you know, we have a couple comments here today I'm going to throw up real quick. Jenny Field stopped by and she wants to say hi to everyone. She's going to be catching it in reruns, but she wanted to make sure she stopped and said hi. Hi Jenny, thank you so much for stopping by today. And Annabelle is in the house. David Oldenburg, it's great to see you on the panel. Awesome.

Thank you.

Annabelle was on with us last week. And here's a comment from Marilyn Moran. Every client that I work with gets a presence on Google Plus depending on their budget They get a few hours of Google+ management and community outreach every month. That's the way to do it, you just got to start them. Jason Weiser is in the house. Jason, lots of discussion still happening that G+ does not have a significant ROI for local brick and mortars. He's asking for thoughts from the panel. Any thoughts on this?

I'll comment on this. One of the things that I do and I think I kind of use Google+ as a tool to grow my referral partners. So what I do, I've talked about this in other shows, I go out to other social medias and it's pretty easy to find people that are influential on other social medias that have absolutely no presence on Google+. And what I do is I go to them and I reach out to them and I say, hey, how would you like to be influential on Google+ and let me show you how to do it. Well, what that translates to is a lot of these people have brick and mortar businesses. And what people with brick-and-mortar businesses are always looking for is a way to drive more people to their local site. So they think social media is not good for them because they think it's global, but the reality is social media is becoming more and more local. And if you look at things like Google Local Pages, and for one thing, and I'm trying to think of a way to tie this all in, but one of the things I always tell people is that if you get on Google+ and you develop followers and you develop influence, as we all know, you are influencing their search. And if you are local and local people are following you and then they're looking for your products, and like for example, you know, Chef, if you owned a restaurant or something and you want to get people to go there local, and maybe one day they're typing, you know, I'd like to go to a great steak place, and you're gonna pop up because the simple fact is they're following you and that happens to be your expertise. And so Jason, the thing I would say, and I obviously— it would be great to hear everybody else's opinion— I think there's a lot of ways that you can use Google+ to market the brick-and-mortar business.

And then talking about the local influence like you just did too, people that are not using Google Local and not leaving comments or reviews for businesses that are on there are, like you said, missing an opportunity because not only is that business going to come up in search, but you're going to come up in search with it too with your comments. So, you know, people start— and if it's in, like, if I just did restaurants, it also just helps solidify my presence as an expert in the food field. So, I mean, but you can go all over the place and your name is just going to pop up more and more. And again, it's that whole thing where the more it pops up, the more it's going to pop up. So brick-and-mortar businesses, I think, are just as important and need to get that local aspect of it running. And that's one of the few instances where I say yes, have a brand page. Because if you're actually using it at a brick-and-mortar business or even an e-commerce business where you're going to have money coming in and people going to a website for that, you definitely need a brand page. I always say if you're a blogger, I'm not saying being a blogger isn't a business but it's a different kind of business. It's a people-to-people business. So that's where your personal page comes in better. So great question, Jason. Thank you. Anybody else want to chime in on that?

Yeah, I have to think that, you know, that it's— you have to have a pretty myopic view to not see the ROI of something that's tied into search, particularly something that's tied into Google search, which has, what, 91-92% of the mobile search market, something like that. It's used on—

Mobile's huge.

Yeah, it's used on iPhones and it's used on Androids. It's huge and people are starting to take their devices and just go, you know, what's nearby? So you need to have that optimized. Interesting, this is anecdotal, but I was looking for TigerDirect, my local store the other day. Now TigerDirect, the brand, they've got a Google business page set up that pops up in the knowledge panel there. They didn't have Google+ pages for each of the locations. And I just thought, wow, missed opportunity there. I mean, you provide so much specific information that the person is looking for. And, and here's a little, little secret: they give you this little thing called recent posts when you set up your business that way. You can use that space like a free advertising space when somebody searches for you.

Excellent point.

I also think there's something about being one of the first ones in the space. Google+ is not a newbie platform, but it's kind of like the newbie platform that has a lot of oomph to it because it is the Google platform. I think another thing is brands are not looking at tomorrow, but they're looking at the 5-year plan and they're looking at capitalizing in 5 years. They really would need to take this seriously because you want to get in early, you want to create influence, you want to engage a network, you want to make friends, and you want people to know who you are. I remember the people on Twitter 5 years ago that started off. I mean, jeez, today it's just, you know, everyone says, "Why didn't I do that 5 years ago?" You know what I'm saying? Why didn't I do that 5 years ago? I feel like, you know, jumping on, and not jumping on the bandwagon, but getting onto Google and taking it very seriously right now is probably, people are going to be saying about you in a couple years, why didn't I think about that years ago? You know what I'm saying? I just think that this is an opportunity you can't pass by.

That was the one reason that I really got on Google+ when it opened up. It's because when I started as a blogger and I'm looking around and everybody else has tons of followers on Facebook and on Twitter and I'm looking at my 12 followers or 15 followers and thinking, oh my God, what can I do? And I said, Google+, I'm finally starting on a level playing field and it's all up to me and either if it doesn't work, I haven't wasted anything. So that was my philosophy when it started and once I started on it, it was like, oh, this is so much fun. I can interact, I can engage because I never quite got Twitter. I just didn't understand it. Facebook, as hard as I tried, never felt social to me.

I feel the same way. I'm on Facebook, but primarily just for friends and family. Not a big fan of Facebook, but with Google+, it's really no different what you do on here than what you do in— I think back 23 years ago when I got into the real estate mortgage industry, there was no real internet, nobody was using a cell phone. The way we communicated was we built local referral partners by just picking up the phone and going to people's local businesses. You can do that same thing here on Google+, but you can use this tool to get an in to meet people, and that's what's so powerful. I can look up and let's say there's somebody influential and they live right down the street from me and I want to meet that person. Through Google+ I can contact them or through social media I can make an appointment And now it's kind of like we talk a little bit, we kind of break the ice so that when we do sit down and meet, it's like we already know each other, we already have that connection. And I can say to them, and I do this all the time, I can say, are you on Google+? Well, I already know the answer to that question. I already know they're not here or they're not very popular. So when I ask them that question, they'll say, well, no, I'm not over there. And I'll say, let me show you how to advance your business and build your influence At that point, I've got them. They're a referral partner, they're a raving fan, and they're going to help me with my business.

Absolutely.

One way to approach it. Let me recognize a few other people out here too while we're on that. Alexandra, Alex, you're in the house. Eli Fanel forgot to mention that he is a cat person. What?

I love cats. We got something in common, Eli, and that is nothing.

Yes, I'm a cat person, which is why I don't have to come home at night if I don't want to. Unlike dog people.

Yep, we have to restrict our trips to like 7 hours at the most for our fur baby. Okay, Melanie Hall is here. You totally agree with Eli Finnell, local businesses are waiting for social media help. And you know, some of them may not know it, but they definitely are waiting for it. Peg Fitzpatrick is in the house. Thank you so much. Waving hi, Chef Dennis, listening to my Pinterest Plus buddy Kelly Dixon.

Hi, Peg.

I love Peg. She is so good. Okay. Orletha Smith. Hey guys, can't wait to see what Leah as a fellow mom blogger, real foodie, does as a newbie. Well, I'm telling you right now, Orletha, she is going to skyrocket. Because she's got the right attitude.

Dennis, you're awesome sauce, and so are all you guys, all the people here on the panel.

Thank you.

So are you.

Can I say the word badass? Is that okay?

Yeah, you can say that.

I already said it. Am I allowed to? I'm being so good right now. On my show, sometimes the 4-letter words fly, and I've been so good, and I've tucked it inside. I've been so good. Sometimes I just can't help myself.

Well, if we let you say Facebook, we'll almost let you say anything. Facebook is the new F word. That was one of Mia's. Nazim is in. Love to get some feedback from the panel on Google Helpouts. Anyone is using Helpouts or has any thoughts on Helpouts? Anybody using them?

I'm not using them.

What are they, Dennis? Tell me.

Helpouts, and I'll explain it a little, and I know something about them. I haven't started using them yet, but when I got started on Google+, one of the things that really drove me as a presence here, was that I was on a company called ChefHangout.com. And Joe Saad developed this technology or this business opportunity and he was really ahead of the game on this and we did paid cooking lessons in your own home with Google Hangouts and Google loved us because we were the only ones using Hangouts at the time. And you'd have up to 10, 9 people in your class with you and there were times I had people from Japan Japan to the Canary Islands in the same class. It was just mind-boggling that we could do this. But it never really quite caught on. Joe had planned to expand it into different areas of other expertise and just make it one big Hangout Planet, was the name of his company. Google has taken that idea, they may have had it at the same time too, and they've expanded it and they've turned it into Google Helpouts. Which as an expert, once they approach you, or once it opens up— I don't know if it's out of beta yet and they're still done testing it— but they approach you as considered an expert in your field, if you would like to teach something or share something, and it can be for free or you can charge, however you want to do it. So that's what the Helpouts are, and I don't know a whole lot about them yet. I haven't really talked to anyone who's done anything more than a free one here or there., you know, just to try to feel their way around and get the groundwork, but it's coming, you know. And I always thought that we were really gonna explode at Chef Hangout because the idea was just phenomenal, and everybody that took the classes loved that experience of one-on-one with you in their kitchen. And it was wild, they'd hold up a pan, "How's this look? Is that enough, you know, liquid? Do I need some more in it? You know, what are you using?" And they'd watch you do it, and it was really a great way to get stuff across. So if helpouts can transcend to that, I think once people people start using them and trying them, I think they're really going to be big. Again, it's another part of Google.

You know what I found? That when you're the first at something, you spend 50% of your time educating people about what you are, what you do, why the heck it's important, right? So those types of things do have a slow start-up, but once they grow, they grow.

Think about Kleenex. I think the cool thing about these help outlets eventually is going to be the SEO. If you look at what Google has done with the Hangouts, it fascinates me with the Hangouts. Sometimes I'll do a show and I'll keyword that show based on the title and the hashtags afterward on YouTube. It's amazing how many of my shows show up literally on first page search on YouTube for keyword for the first 2 or 3 weeks after the show. I think Google is pushing these helpouts as experts, kind of like the how-to videos on YouTube. I think if you are picked as an expert, I think if you are doing these, they're going to be huge SEO, which means Google is going to put them to the top. If somebody goes into YouTube and they type, you know, how-to this, I think if you're in that group, your videos are going to be coming up in the top. So definitely it's worth looking at if you have an expertise in something.

I think so. And again, now is the time to do it. So if you're thinking about it and you're out there and you have something, you have been invited— again, I don't know that much about them and how the invitations are going out, but I would definitely jump on it. I keep kicking myself for not having done it yet. But actually, I want to take it in another direction. I don't want to really want to do cooking ones anymore. I want to do social media ones. So, you know, maybe that's why I haven't done it yet. I'm a little afraid. We have another comment here from Peg. She says, "I need to work on Twitter next." I know I do. "It's great with G+, Pinterest, and blogging." I have not been very faithful to Pinterest either since Google+ has just monopolized my time. I try to do that more on my phone. Mia Voss is in the house. Mia, woohoo! "All my favorites in one spot. Hello, Chef Dennis, David Oldenburg." Thank you, Mia. And I want to remind you too that Mia was the creator of Facebook is the new F-word, so let's give credit to the genius behind that. Alright, and Mia is the queen of bat crap crazy.

Oh, I'm gonna like her.

You will absolutely love her. You have to be on her show.

I love people the more the more eccentric you are, the happier I am to be around you. I mean, that's just— give me people that are just off the wall, odd. I don't know, I don't know what it is about— I think it's because they're not boring.

You're constantly learning something.

You're constantly learning something from them.

Definitely not boring. Mia, we have to be friends. We have to be friends.

Absolutely. You two will click so, so strongly, I'm telling you. And Holly Homer is in the house too. Not a Cat-er Day, people. Ah. Now Holly, I have to say, I'm not a cat person and not because I don't like cats but I'm really allergic to them and my eyes close and it gets hard to breathe and things like that. But I always tell my blogging friends and stuff, expand your network, get out there, meet new people. One of the best ways is join Cat-er Day. I did that and one of the most viral posts I ever had was of a cat licking a multicolored snow cone.

Phone.

It got like 10,000 likes, it was just ridiculous. You know, so made a lot of—

was it really hyper afterwards?

Well, I didn't actually see the cat, I just found the picture and I was trying to find it.

I thought it was a GIF, I'd say, I was like licking that and then it would be super hyper afterwards because of the artificial dyes, that's hysterical and then they'd be bouncing up and down. I love cats but I lost my cat because my husband is just like you, Dennis He's severely allergic and he can't breathe, but he's been getting those shots and he's gone from being able to stay on a cat for an hour to maybe 4 hours. But we don't have one. But I used to have a black cat that would roll over and play dead. It was so awesome, and she would fetch too. I mean, I was able to train my cats when I had them to do really cool things. I still love cats. Sorry.

Yeah, they're good.

Hey, for anybody— I'm sorry.

Go ahead.

For anybody who needs a little anecdote from cat-er-day from time to time, check out the site Average Avera Cats. Yes.

I'm down. I'm joining Cat-a-day. That's Saturday, right? Every Saturday, Cat-a-day? I'll get my little cat fix.

It doesn't seem to be quite as big as it used to. For a while there, it was just like taking over the stream. And I saw something that kind of scares me, and I don't want to get involved in it, and that's Goater Day or something.

Oh my gosh, Chef, it's so funny you say that. About 2 months ago, a month ago, A month ago somebody came to me and said, Dave, will you do us a huge favor? Will you promote Goater Day in one of your posts or something? So I said, alright. So I wrote this post. I have to tell you, I could not believe how much traction that post got. All I did was post a picture of a goat on my page and then it got forwarded to the Goater Day community. So they all came in and they're like, oh, thank you so much for promoting Goater Day.. And I thought, oh my gosh, I think I had more activity in that one post than I've ever had and I'm not even a goat guy. I mean, it's just crazy.

That's good to know, David. In their defense, if you feel sheepish about posting a goat, don't feel bad about it, alright?

Oh, that's awesome.

It isn't fun day either.

So there's a little something for everyone here and in the beginning, I don't know if There were a lot of bronies following me, and I don't know if you've ever had that experience.

Bronies?

Bronies, yes. Guys that like My Little Pony.

Oh.

There's men that like My Little Pony?

Yeah.

Yeah. And I have a friend who has a comic book store, Kida from Pass the Sushi, and she says they come in there and they buy the new issues of them, and they are embarrassed. And she always says, oh, here's your My Little Pony.

Hey, hopefully this pops up here. I wanted to call up Shannon Hernandez. The reason I'm bringing him up, Chef, is we were talking before the show about what a Metallica rocker you are. I'm a rocker, you're a rocker, hey, we're all rockers, and Shannon is definitely a rocker.

Shannon is a rocker, he is, that's for sure. Yeah, here's Peg saying she's connecting with people on Catery2. They're nice people. Yes, they are. Cat people can be nice people.

Yes, can be. There's another side to them too.

Yeah, they can be weird too. Mia Voss has just said, "Hahaha, Leah, you are my new BFF girl crush." Girl crush!

Hashtag girl crush. Love it.

Speaking of hashtags, who did ask me for my hashtag?

Jason Weiser, I think.

Jason, it's #GoodDayGoogle or #GoodDayGPlus or #GoodDayGooglePlus, I can't remember because unfortunately I don't use it often enough so I need to do that. I think it's in the bottom of the event but thank you for asking. We're having a good time, here we go. Jason says he's not a goat guy. That should be on your online money show. I'm not even a goat guy.

I mean, I think, I think I, I think I said something I shouldn't have said.

Yeah, I guess the goat's out of the bag, huh?

Take it Oldenburg's not a Scottish name.

Yeah, it's a German name.

Yeah, there's no haggis for you today.

Haggis is good, man.

Haggis is good?

Haggis is good. I spent some time living in England. I liked haggis. But I have a little bit of Irish and Scottish in me too.

Me too. You rock.

Ah!

I have to say—

Wait, we got to count all the things that we have in common, all of us. We would never have known each other had there not been Google+.

Nope.

Goats, haggis. Who knows? Cats. Cats, yep. All right, so anyway, there's a lot of—

I think my community would like Goater Day. Am I saying this right? Goater Day? Because some of them own their own goats and they do homesteading as well, so they have chickens and goats, and that's a big part of my audience. You guys laugh, but I bet you if I post something about Goater Day, that would be interesting.

You'll get traction.

Get Goater Day trending.

I can't have a goat. We have chickens, but I can't have a goat because, you know, we like live in Simi, which is technically like still Los Angeles, right, Kelly? Can you imagine having a goat? Uh, our neighbors have a goat.

We have a goat.

Oh, do they do?

Yeah.

How big is the property?

Um, I think they're a couple acres.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

But if you still lived in South Orange County, right, where your backyard is like this big and it's right up against everybody else's.

No.

No rooster, no goat.

When we lived there, we had our little artificial turf yard, and it stayed perfect. It was not really great for goats, but now I've got the chicken coop and life has really changed.

Oh, you're awesome! You got a chicken coop too? See, me and Kelly have chickens. That's what we have together.

Well, I don't have the chickens yet because I'm really nervous about it, and I've got 2 little kids and 2 dogs, and everybody says they're really easy to take care of, but I'm still really nervous about it. We're open, so we don't have fences around anything, and there's coyotes. There was one out here just this morning, and a bobcat. I'm a little bit nervous, but everybody says, "Oh my God, you've got to get chickens." Chickens are awesome.

Eggs, fresh, like hours old, are amazing. I've got to tell you, right, Chef Dennis?

Absolutely.

Freshly brewed eggs right from the chicken. Chicken?

Absolutely. Nothing better. Growing up, we had chicken farms all around us. After we moved to Texas, we were in the woodies of New Jersey, and there were— I can't remember anything better than fresh eggs. Even the ones you get now from farmers markets, they're good, but they're just not quite as fresh. Anytime you can get the white to hold together, it's a wonderful thing. It doesn't run all over the place. As for goats, that's an interesting concept.

You know, Chef Dennis This may sound a little odd, but I'm hoping that my girlfriend Sherry is not watching this because when I get excited she says I sound like a goat. I go, "Baa." That could be— She's going to watch this and she's going to be teasing me.

And I promise you, nobody watches the show really, and YouTube channel hardly gets any action at all. But let me tell you, if I can sing on Mia's show, you can sound a little like a goat. That's okay.

Well, if I get excited, let me know if the goat goat comes out, okay?

I'm looking at this comment here from Shannon, and you know, Chef, I didn't get a chance to actually hear you sing last week. I'm thinking, how many people want to hear Chef sing again?

Wow, that would be awesome. He's shaking his head like, oh dear God.

Sing, sing, sing. I actually wrote words for that, and I don't have them with me, so I'll have to— and the cowboy hat's put away. I need the cowboy hat.

What about A Christmas Carol?

A Christmas Carol? That would be worse. I'm better off with something bat crap crazy. I'll give you a quick one verse. I don't know where she come from, but I know where she goes, 'cause she's bat crap crazy.

I love it.

Oh, who knew?

That would be my new career on Google+. I think I might have to do what James Jersley is saying here and start beekeeping.

There you go.

Whoa!

And you know, I feel so bad about beekeeping too because I went to a seminar last summer and I didn't realize how bad the shape of bees was in this world. And if we lose the bees, we're screwed.

Yeah, I think it's at 40% or 42% you guys have to— it's really, really, really low. I mean, they are dying, and it's atrocity. Europe is doing a lot of things right now to try to curtail that, and so they're making certain pesticides illegal. We're working on that in the United States, but it's, you know, it's complicated. I mean, the government has to get involved to help that problem out.

Yeah, just to get a little serious there, you know, I got that— bringing that up made me think, and I'm going, oh Lord, if we lose the bees, there isn't gonna be much on this earth left.

But, uh, right, right.

Well, let's get on serious. We're having too much fun. Mick Sharp, it's a madhouse today. It's almost like being on the Mia Show, isn't it?

I love it.

My girl's rubbing off on me. Thank you. All right, so what else are we going to talk about, guys? You got any subjects near and dear to your heart that, uh, you'd like to bring up?

I think it would be awesome, Sheff, to talk about what everybody sees happening on Google+ and what they're going to do for 2014.

Excellent idea, thank you. So would you like to start it since you brought it up?

No, not at all. Gosh, we did this on— I did a show on Friday and it was crazy. I did 9 guests. And myself, so there was 10 of us in this show trying to keep it organized. And we did this thing where we said, what would we like to see changed for Google+? And it would kind of be cool to get the opinion, we have a lot of different people here today. And I brought up a couple of things, I kind of started off, one of the things that I thought would be awesome would be, Chef, I know because you have a big audience, this is probably a big problem for you. It's like you see that somebody mentions you in a comment. Comment, it comes up in your notification, but then when you click on it, it doesn't take you to where that comment is. So sometimes I'll get people in a shared circle or a big post, and they'll say, David Oldenburg was mentioned. I'll click on it and I'll see there's 350 comments. I've got to try to sift through that 350 comments to find where somebody mentioned me. For people that have a big audience I can imagine it's all but impossible to keep up. That's what I would love to see changed. It would be great to hear what other people would love to see changed.

That is a great idea. The other thing now is the notifications. They just need to be— they work— need to work on notifications a little bit, especially where you're mentioned. I still don't get— if I'm mentioned, I still don't get it. If I'm not mentioned, forget it. I don't ever see it. I have so many notifications unless I just happen to come across it accidentally. Even if someone sends me a message sometimes I don't see it because they don't put my name in the message and it just gets lost.

You know, Chef, it's like when I went to contact you this morning before the show. I've started using the Hangouts because it pops up on their screen and they get that instant notification if they're on. It's so much easier, especially people that have a lot of influence or a lot of followers. I mean, if you're trying to reach somebody like Chef or Christine DeGraaff or somebody like that, it's extremely difficult because, it may be a long time before they see your notification. But if you just click on Hangouts and just basically, you know, hang out them, even if you don't do the video end of it, just text only, it pops up on their screen right in front of them. And so no matter what they're doing, they know you're trying to communicate with them.

Yep, and that is a great idea too, is just to make sure, just to hit them in the chat, because it is really good for so many other things other than just the Hangout. Then it's there and if you mention something later, it's easy to find, easy to go back to. That's a good idea. So Eli, what do you think, what are you looking for for 2014?

Well, I'm looking for a much bigger push at small businesses because I feel like they've been a little inconsistent in that. They tell them to get the page but then they mess around with the local search results with Hummingbird and things like that and it all goes wiggy. What I really think they need to do is just take this Hangouts thing to the next level because it's on the verge of being so awesomely powerful even for the mainstream, but it can be a little overly tricky at times.

Eli, that's the problem too, I think. I agree with you. Like, if something is going to succeed, it has to be successful to the lowest common denominator, which is the newbie coming in, like me, coming in and being like, "Oh, I can do this." I think, at least my community that I have, they're in Facebook and Twitter— sorry guys, that was the F-word— but I kept asking them over the week, "What do you guys think about Google+? What do you guys think about Google+?" One of the things that they said, it was just really intimidating and confusing, and that was the reason why they didn't come over here. I think if they worked on that we would see a lot more people.

Oh yeah.

Especially moms, mom bloggers, you know. Mom bloggers in the house.

For some reason, a lot of people have this fear of using their real name and I think, sorry not to cut you off Eli, but piggybacking off that.

Poor Eli, the women just took over.

Poor Eli, enough, okay, now I'm pissed. Well, I think some moms are afraid to use their real names, maybe not just moms altogether, but you kind of get spam, we'll call it. We all know what that is. As a woman, you kind of go, uh, what is that? I think maybe a better way to filter that, because that scares people away. There's no harm in using your name. If someone wants to find you, they can find you. Google+ isn't going to be the reason why. I think the spam, too, is They're working on that.

They are.

And I feel like they've done a great job, but still it scares people away. It doesn't scare me because I don't have a blog.

Kelly, I'm not getting as much spam as you are.

It comes and goes, and I think they're getting rid of them, but there was a lot of men that you'll never see. Like I always say, they're not going to ride their camel up and knock on your door. Hate to pigeonhole anybody, but you know, block them. That's all, you block them and report them. I mean, I actually had to just do that. Even I get those stalkers, believe it or not.

You mean the hey baby messages, Kelly? Is that what you're talking about?

Oh yeah, all this stuff is so weird.

And feel free to call them out publicly so we can all Is that okay? Yes, it's okay. When someone comments to you like, hey baby, want to do nasty stuff to your lady parts, then yes, that is okay to make public as far as I'm concerned.

Wait a minute, is that you?

And I'm okay with it. Any women out there, if you want to stalk me, go ahead. You know, there's a great— Chef, there's a great comment here by Kim. I'm looking at it here and let me highlight so I can actually see it too. But this comment here, and it was on— Chef, I know you and I know this, when these notifications disappear once you click on them, where do they go? Is there any way to get them back to continue acknowledging comments, etc.? And you know, actually, it's That's pretty easy to do. Actually, after you click on something and check on it, it actually goes down to the section in notifications called Previously Read. And if you're trying to write a note, respond to something and it disappears, just go back on notifications to Previously Read and look for it and find it. You can call it back up and then you can re-comment to that person or kind of continue where you left off. Great question.

The one thing I don't like is when you click on the notifications and you're reading them and you go to answer one and then you lose the whole stream of notifications. When they come back, they're all unhighlighted.

Yes.

So sometimes you lose and I'll go, you know, I'll have to call up previously read just to see if I missed something. And then now there's another one that says others, and sometimes there's actual comments in all others or whatever they call it that's underneath mine. Like, I only get to see— they only decide who I should see that's following me, like if they think I guess they're real people or they might be somebody I'd want to follow. Other than that, they just go into this other pool.

You know, too, Shep, another awesome change I'd love to see, and that is a lot of us do these Hangouts, whether it's a show or just you're trying to help people or you just want to collaborate. It would be so cool in a live Hangout if you could do a prerecorded show.

I'm with David on that one.

I talked to Ronnie Bincer about that. Ronnie and I had this conversation about a month ago, and obviously I understand why they don't do it. It's because, you know, one thing about the live air is that everybody has to click that they acknowledge it's public and everything else, and also you're acknowledging all the copyright rules. But it seems to me that if you were doing a live Hangout, you're already agreeing that you accept those rules. So why can't you do a live Hangout, record it, and then just play it? At a later date because I've had so many people that want to be guests on my show that I can't interview because they can't do my time slot on Friday. And Chef, I'm sure you've had the same problem yourself.

Mm-hmm.

Well, David, I'm totally there with you because I have the same exact problem. So, you know, ours are Monday nights at 7 PM Pacific Standard Time, which is 10 PM Eastern Standard Time. If I could record a show at like 2 in the afternoon my time with a doctor, with, you know, I have a lot of professionals, you know, and then people during the day, that's the same thing that they're saying. That would be so useful for me. And then, you know, it wouldn't be every time, but it would be a special instance.

Absolutely. Here's a thought. What if they made it more like the way a live news show is, where it's a live news show, right, but you still got prerecorded segments? So you could prerecord a segment and then insert that in at the appropriate time.

Eli, you should work for Google.

That would be nice. Now, I tried to do that.

And then you could influence them with your hair. You could have them all grow out their hair.

Who wouldn't love to work at Google? I mean, free gourmet food and death benefits for 10 years.

Did you hear about— they got solar too. They got the good solar panels up on there.

Well, you know, Eli could do the help— he could do a Help Hangout and it could be the What Would Jesus Do.

Ah, there you go.

I'm still waiting for you to show me your Birks.

I'm just saying, man.

I just have long hair, you know. This is my hippie, but—

Those were the days, my friend, when I had hair.

And my natural deodorant.

I'm not even going to touch that one. We're not going there. Let me put up a thing from Shannon, and I just want to acknowledge that. Bah! I think the next time Chef Dennis needs to wear a loincloth and a feather with a bonnet and sing any Ted Nugent song. Maybe we give him a bow and arrow and make it complete. My wife doesn't even want to see me in a loincloth, Shannon, so that ain't going to happen. But thank you for the thought. And your boss is in the house here again still. Yep, block and report, no questions. Just make it easier than trying to figure out their intention. Eli, yes, I love to dog shame people when needed.

Ouch!

I'm happy, Mia.

Awesome.

Yep, that's what you want to do. Not a problem. Oh, so we're having fun here. Interesting. Okay, here's one from Michael Mason. Interesting point regarding pre-recording shows. Have discussed this with my presenter for our show that rolls in the new year. So I think that might be a good way to— good idea. You know, I have often pointed out, like, people have asked me about it, and what I've told them when they're doing something, or if they're doing— to think about doing segments. Alright, so maybe you can't get the guest on your show, but there's nothing wrong with doing a quick— like Mia's doing her 15-minute with Christine kind of thing— doing something like that in a 5 to 15 minute format, pre-recorded. I mean, you could even do a bunch of them on one day if you could do it with people, and then just push them out whenever you make them private after they're recorded, and then push them out when you want. So it could be like a little newsflash kind of event even or something. I think that might work and might be a good way to use a teaser for your show. You can still put them in events too.

That's true.

I love the thought of being able to plan what you're going to say and it can have a big impact if you can edit kind of what you want to do, do a segment. I love the thought of recording on Google.

That would be Yeah, I'd love to start seeing more segments done like that. I think it would really kick the game up a notch and get more people noticing what we're doing. A good idea. Okay, all right, we're— we still got some time left though. Let's see, has anybody else got anything interesting they want to discuss for the new year plans? We talked to Kelly.

We didn't give Eli a chance to— Eli, did you cut him off completely? I want to give him the floor again just so that we let him complete his Sorry, Eli.

Oh, careful about giving me the floor, I might not give it back.

We're giving you the fall wood floor, so go ahead.

Well, I really, I want to see for the coming year a lot better discovery on Google+. I'm hoping Google can do more of that at their end because if people were trying to find a show like this, you know, we're just fresh to Google. Google+, they probably would never find it. But I like to try to do that myself as well, you know, it's become more of a goal to me to expose people to more of the great things they can do on this platform. Because sometimes I feel like I'm talking about how great it is but then I forget to tell them what the great things are they can do and I don't think I'm the only one who does that actually.

Nope, you're right.

I think that's a good point.

Yep, we need to show more of what we do. Excellent. Kelly.

Yeah, oh.

Hi, what would you like to see? I'm done. That's okay, you're vegging there, no problem. What would you like to see?

I have been, I think the shelf life, if you can put something on Google+, the shelf life of it is much longer. Where I think with Facebook, I've kind of missed the boat there, my interest isn't there. And even if I do post something, it kind of gets lost in the mix of things and same with Instagram. Instagram, but if I can take any of those and get it onto Google+, the shelf life is just a lot longer and my influence here is a little bit stronger. So I'm going to continue to do that. And through video too, I was saying I like to record videos, but even Instagram videos, I started recording those, well, I do it on my computer and I put it out through Instagram. I think they say that the life of anything on Instagram is about 3 hours long, that's the stream.. But then I can take it and upload it to YouTube, and then I can take it from YouTube and put it on Google+. And it just expands the shelf life of so many different things in other areas of social media. And then I could even take that video from Instagram, make a little collage of it, and you could put that on Google+ again, or you can send that over to Pinterest. But for me, Google+ is kind of the hub of everything, and I'm going to continue doing that in the new year. It's kind of like the— it's just the end of a post. I write a post, you check all your SEO, you check your keywords, you make sure you've got everything in order, and then Google+ is just that very last key. So it just expands everything that I do.

Well, especially for bloggers too, because it's your copyright pretty much now, because it's getting timestamped. So if people do take your stuff and repost it, you know, it's easy for you to them to see that you did it first.

Wow, that is a whole different thing.

Yeah.

If we're going to talk blogger goals, if anybody can relate to me as a blogger out there watching, any mom or anybody that does anything like I do, trademarking and anything copywriting, I'll be working on that this year too because yes, it's one thing when someone steals your post but when they start ripping off other things, it's creepy. It's really, it's a creepy feeling.

I know, I've seen people take pictures of other people's children and put them on as theirs. That's creepy. That's just—

That happened to my girlfriend 4 years ago. She was on CNN because of that. They had her picture and it was found in Romania, of all places, on the side of a market. And a friend of hers just so happened to be walking down the street and saw his friend from college with her whole family, took a picture and sent it to her and said, "This is you, right?" I mean, Twitter exploded and that was like 4 or 5 years ago and she was on CNN. Luckily she's a reporter so she was an ex-reporter so she was fine on TV explaining everything but it's no joke. It's for real. That's kind of scary.

Yep, yep. We need to have more things put in place to keep that from happening. I think as Google moves forward they will be looking at more ways to keep us safe and to get the spammers out. Some of the changes they made with Mockingbird— I said Mockingbird, oh God— with Hummingbird. No, we don't want to do that. Sorry, Google. With Hummingbird, have eliminated a good portion of it too. Here's another comment from Shannon. You could also turn HOAs into an audio format for those who communicate or listen to podcasts. And that's an excellent idea. Thank you, Shannon. And from Mia Voss, "Ooh, I love the segment ideas and yes, Biting Edge, one of my favorites, Scott Salkroff has used pre-recorded which also helps out when you want to add in sponsor info, links, etc. That way you don't have to upload new video and lose your viewers." Excellent. Lost one word there. So thank you, Mia. Yep, so there's some changes and Leah, now in 2014 I know you're new Google+ really, but what would you like to see?

I always got lots of ideas, Dennis. One of the things that I was looking at right away was I was doing all these plans for bloggers for next year, or for brands for next year for my clients. I was trying to figure out a way to implement Google Hangouts. I had to stop myself and say, wait, there's probably a lot of rules that I need to understand about how that's going to work. One of the things that I wanted to do with my network was to pay bloggers and pay influencers to host shows on topics. But not have the topic be about the brand, have it be about a theme, something that people could come together, something issue-driven. But I don't know what the rules are about that with Google. I want to be able to do it. I'd like to be able to do it a lot next year. The other thing, the other goal I want is for myself to get over here and get fully integrated and understand everything and really understand the culture because I think understanding the culture is the most important part. And then second, bringing my community over here little by little. Normal. I know that if I make the jump and I make it, you know, and explain it to them, then it's going to be easier for them to come over here.

Leo, I just want to make sure I understand. What is your show on? What is the main topic that you guys talk about?

So we do— it's called Momovation. Momovation is a disease prevention campaign for moms. So the idea kind of behind it is 5 or 8 years ago, I was 100 pounds heavier than I am today. And then after I had children, I just said to myself, "I don't want my kids to be overweight, so the only way to do that is to make sure I'm not overweight and that I'm role modeling behavior for them." So that's where it started. That's how I started 8 years ago. I lost all that weight and I wanted to give back. I was tired of staying at home and I got bored because I'm a professional PR person by nature and I stayed at home to have kids. So I started up a community. It was just the right time, right place, right time, right issue, right everything, you know, and it just blew up. And then 2 years later, I created Momovation. Momovation is very similar to The Biggest Loser. We kind of structured it on The Biggest Loser, but it's just for moms and it's all home-driven. So it's like they get their own trainer, they have their own dietitian, and now we don't just do weight loss, we do detox. So we detox from chemicals. So it's like anything— the bacteria, food and personal care products and all those toxins that are in your everyday life. We help moms take that out of their home and we teach them how to do that in a 7-week boot camp. And so it's not for everybody. We only take 2 to 3 moms at a time, but everybody watches. And that's how this show started, is people were watching these moms and watching their challenges and how they overcame these challenges, and I would interview them weekly. Well, from there it went to we would have a guest on that has to do with health issue topics. I've been doing that show for 4 and a half, almost 5 years now. We used to be on Stickam and the last year when Stickam died a sad death, we came over here to Google+. I've been over here for about a year but I haven't dived into the community and done nothing else but the Google Hangouts. Right now my traffic was coming from my community but I've never even, I didn't even bother until maybe the past 3, 4 months trying to get to know people on Google because to me it was just Google Hangouts. But now it's like wow, there's this really awesome thriving community. Community. So when it comes to monetization, because I know that's what you're interested in, we also work with brands a lot. So the Momovation campaign does a lot of marketing campaigns directed at moms. So that's our target audience, is moms. And it's mostly utilizing bloggers. So we put like health, weight loss campaigns together for brands. We do all kinds of food types of blogger activations. We put all kinds of stuff together. And we do a lot of Twitter parties. Facebook parties, and I'm trying to think about how to bring in Google. To me, social media has to have multi-platforms to exist. You can't put all your eggs in one basket. I think that Google+ is going to be a very, very, very— I think it's going to be a great place to be. I'm trying to figure out how to fit it in so that moms are coming over here. What just recently happened was about about a year ago, a lot of mom bloggers came over here and they kind of left and they went back to Facebook. They just, I don't know what happened. They just kind of either didn't connect or didn't figure it out or got frustrated or didn't work quite the way Twitter or Facebook did. I don't know if they were creative enough to figure out how to make it their own and when it comes to me, I like to make things my own and kind of like figure out a new way to make things work and that's one of the things where I'm trying to bring in my clients and stuff and implement Google+. I thought the Hangouts are great because this is a product that you can take with you. You can record a Google Hangout, make it really cool, and then it's a recorded show that they get to keep and they get to promote. I don't know what the rules are behind that. Are there any specific rules about that, Dennis Littley, that I should know about?

Not that I know of. Nothing specific about how you would use them and how you would use them to promote because I promoted businesses on on here before in Hangouts. So I don't think so. There's just the copyright rules that you have to be aware of, and those are the only real strict ones that they follow. So other than that— and there's some other things I can help you with too. There's some— I mean, YouTube has changed too, and Google is changing YouTube even more. So there are some amazing things you can do with private Hangouts via YouTube where you could use them as teaching tools and you can monetize them that way as. So yeah, the person you need to connect with, if you are not following Ronnie Binzer—

Oh yeah, I got to follow him.

You got to follow Ronnie.

Ronnie Binzer is the man. He is the Hangout Helper. He also has a Hangout Mastery Community where he does— it is a fee to join the community, but you are on top of everything. You know everything that's happening and you know how to run everything. And he is just incredible. He's such a good person too.

Oh, excellent.

Thank you.

No problem. Well, we're running close to the end of the show. Time has flown by. It's been such a fun show today. I'm having a great time. So I'm going to go around once more with my guests and see if you have any closing remarks. David, anything to say?

Chef, I just want to say it's been awesome to be on your show.

I'm so happy.

And if we ever do the prerecorded recorded thing, I'm definitely going to have you on my show. That would be great. In closing, I host the Online Money Show at onlinemoneyshow.com. Unfortunately, it's at the same time as Chef's show, but it's okay if you watch Chef's show first and then watch my show recorded. I'm fine with that. Anyway, I just hope everybody has an awesome New Year's Eve and an awesome 2014.

Great, thank you. And I'm very happy that you took a week off from your show so you could be on this one live too. It's very nice we finally got to connect here.

You're welcome.

Eli, it's been a pleasure having you on. Thank you so much for coming. Any parting words for the cat lovers?

Oh, the cat lovers know how I feel about them. But I just want to say that 2014 is the year that all businesses need to, if they haven't already, adopt a comprehensive social media strategy with Google+ as a huge part of of it. Because, you know, we can't— you can't— like, was it Leah who said you can't put all your eggs in one basket?

That's me.

That's Leah.

Exactly. And for years we saw the obsession of like us on Facebook, like us on Facebook, like us on Facebook, and we see what it resulted in. It wasn't driving business, and now you gotta pay for it. Have a comprehensive strategy and make Google+ a big part of it.

Yep, doesn't have to mean it's the only part, but it should definitely be a big part. Kelly, any parting words for 2014?

Well, it's been such a privilege being here. Thanks, Shep. I would say if anybody wants to build their influence, we have a link party. It's called Whimsy Wednesdays, but it happens on Tuesdays. So if you're a blogger, you don't have to be a craft blogger, that if you create posts that you want to have shared on Google+ or promoted on Google+, we are a very G+ friendly link party. I love to feature other bloggers. I can pick out— I think it's getting close to 500 different posts that are linked up every week. But pick out different things and promote it on Google+. The more plus ones you get or the more your name has mentioned, it all helps. So if you're looking to build your presence on Google+, link up with us every Tuesday. You can do it on my blog, smartschoolhouse.com.

Great, thank you. Before we go to Leah, I just want to push this up. I'm Kim. I believe there's an audience for grandmas too, Leah. Women with what I've learned looking back perspective. G+ is wide open for forums.

Yeah, Kim, you're not the first one who sent that to me though. We actually have grandmas in our community. And you're absolutely right, grandma's in social media right now. And so the savvier grandma is, the more likely she is going to be over here. You're awesome.

Very good. And what are your— any parting thoughts for 2014 or anything you'd like to say?

Oh wow, okay. So 2014, in my opinion, this has nothing to do with social media, but I'm hoping to implement a lot of social media with it. But this is the year of food. And so since the food movement is so important to me, I'm hoping that this is the year that We get a state to label GMOs, that we push a lot of our, you know, making food better and healthier for everybody. And that's kind of my thing. There are, of course, things that I do professionally. If you guys want to check out mommovation.com for any content creator that's interested in working with my network, if you go to mommovation.com on the right side, there's a little banner that says sign up for opportunities, and you guys are all welcome. Them to do that. I would love more people from Google+ to go. I would just be giddy to see that. I'm just so looking forward to making new friends here.

Good, good. If all of you want to leave links in the comments section for our readers to find, that will be great too for all your interests. I want to point out one more thing because I think I finally arrived— where is it? I lost it. I pinned it and I lost Here we go. Bob Voss has made a comment. Seriously, I approve this show, Chef Dennis Littley. Tripod Bob. Hi, David Oldenburg, Leah, Kelly, and Eli. Leah, do you know who Bob is?

No.

Tripod Bob. Tripod Bob. Bob Voss is Mia Voss's cat. Just a fact. That he must have tricked her to get off the computer. I don't know how he did it, but he must have distracted her and logged on real quick. So I appreciate that, Bob, and you know we love you. Thank you, Bob.

You're a good kitty, Bob.

I'll take some extra allergy medication if we ever do meet, all right? I promise.

Mia says, #YearOfTheKickAss. I think that's fantastic.

There we go. Definitely. Year of the kick-ass. Gotta love it.

I love it.

Alright, well guys, thank you so much for being on today. This has been more fun than I should be allowed to have. I hope it's not a regulation in Florida. You guys have been great. Everyone, have a very happy, healthy New Year. I wish you the best and I wish us all a very prosperous New Year on Google+ too as well. Thanks for coming and I'll see you all real soon.

Have a good day.

Happy New Year!

Bye everybody! Later.