Google My Business

Over 100 Billion searches are performed on Google every month. So, if your business is not discoverable on Google, you are losing out on a huge business opportunity. Fortunately, Google makes it easy for small business to list their business on Google products such as Maps, Google+ and on search engine.

Google My Business is a free tool that lets you list your local business easily. Its a great way to build your web presence and generate more leads.

 

Goolge For Retail Businesses

I’m sure you haven’t heard about Google Retail yet. This free tool offers solutions for merchants to list their inventory on Google and start shopping AD campaigns. You can create a Trusted Store and display customer rating or manage inventory across Google using Merchant Center. Google Trusted Stores have to pass a test for reliable shipping and customer service, and in so doing, they earn the right to display a Trusted Store badge.

Depending on the location of your business, Google also offers Android Pay and delivery service called Google Express.

 

Think With Google

Think With Google is a nice place where you can get industry insights, useful articles, research documents, case studies, various infographics and interviews of industry leaders. This site is updated constantly with loads of useful content that you can use to grow your business.

It also has collection of creative AD campaigns you can draw inspiration from.

 

Google Analytics

The ultimate goal of any business is to attract more eyeballs and generate more leads. In the case of companies that sell products or services online (like a cloud accounting software), their website is the only source from where the customer gets to know about the business.

Everyone is happy when leads flow consistently but we must find out the source of traffic, which pages they spending their time on, their location, etc. Google Analytics is a great free tool that tells us everything about our website visitors. You can spend some time learning how to use it and get some really useful insights.

If getting data from Google Analytics sounds little technical, you can take help of your developers or the web design company who manages your website.

 

Google Alerts

At 1Touch Solution, we have to constantly keep ourselves updated with latest developments in the IT industry. For this, we rely on Google Alerts. This very useful free service from Google sends you an email alert whenever there is any news about topic of your interest appears on internet.

With this, you can stay updated about your industry news and can even track your competitor! For example, you can sign up to get notified whenever someone mentions your company, products, executives, or your competition. Its super simple to use – you just need to add a topic or a search phrase and create an alert.

 

Google Trends

Every business needs to evolve with the changing times. You need to determine what kind of marketing language and descriptive terminology to use for your sales materials, website copy, and search engine optimization.

In addition to the Google Alerts, Google Trends can be a great tool for helping you monitor industry trends. It enables you to evaluate the popularity of certain terms, compare them against other keyword variations, analyze how their popularity varies over time and in different regions/languages, and shows related keywords, which can be helpful in getting new keyword suggestions.

 

Google Correlate

Google Correlate is a close cousin to Google Trends – it’s actually Google Trends in reverse (and just as powerful). With Google Trends, you type in a query and get back a data series of activity (over time). With Google Correlate, you enter a data series (the target) and get back a list of queries whose data series follows a similar pattern.

In Google Correlate, you can find correlations across time AND space. If you trying to define your target personas for a new product or service, you can use each correlation to get deep insights about your audience.

The more fascinating part of Google Correlate is the Search by Drawing function. Draw a fun graph and Correlate will give you search keywords that best match your graph creation.

If you find it a it complicated to understand, here is a nice guide that explains how to use Google Correlate.

 

Public Data Explorer

Google’s Public Data Explorer provides public data and forecasts from a range of international organizations and academic institutions including the World Bank, OECD, Eurostat and the University of Denver. These can be displayed as line graphs, bar graphs, cross sectional plots or on maps.

 

Google Forms

You might be frequently using Google Docs, Sheets and Slides but very few people use this wonderful free tool – Google Forms. Its simple yet powerful way to collect data using online forms. There are so many use cases – Maintaing sales leads, taking short surveys, conducting interview tests, etc. At 1Touch Solution, we use it to collect feedback from the customers.

 

Google Blogger

This Blogging service from Google is popular among individuals but very few businesses are using it to it’s full potential. Start using Google Blogger for business and write about product updates or latest company news. Best part is, Google will give you some SEO love and your content will get indexed more quickly on Google search.

 

Keyword Planner

If you are planning to start advertising on Google, Keyword Planner will give you an estimate of search traffic and budget. Its a great tool to find out which keywords people are searching for more often. You can slice and dice the data based on geography, gender, interest, browser, mobile device and much more.

 

Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools is another useful product that give you valuable information about Site Traffic, Site Health, Optimisation suggestions and various other resources.

You can submit your webpages as well as your sitemap to Google’s index.

 

Google Feedburner

With Google Feedburner, you can allowing your visitors to subscribe to your website content, particularly your blog, using RSS feeds. After subscribing, visitors can receive regular updates via their web browsers, RSS readers, or email. This can prove very helpful to the growth and reach of your business blog.

 

Google Scholar

Fed up of routine articles on a specific topic – like business growth? Get more meaningful information using Google Scholar. It is an online, freely accessible search engine that provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. It searches a wide variety of sources, including academic publishers, universities, articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions.

Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature.

 

Hangouts For Business

Google Hangout started as a simple communication platform for individuals but with its powerful video conferencing feature, more and more businesses started using it. You can have a conference call with your overseas customers, present a webinar to your users, host a QnA session online, interview candidates and even hold group meetings.

 

 

Google Calendar For Business

Google calendar is not just about keeping track of your meetings. It has many hidden functions that can improve your productivity. At 1 Touch Solution, we have to conduct product demos almost every day. With Google Calendar, we can setup appointment slots so that our customers can schedule the demo easily.

Apart from this, you can create different calendars for different purpose (specific to a team, etc),  schedule meetings with groups using “Find a Time” or “Suggested Times”, add a Google Hangout to your event, browse interesting calendars, sync it with your CRM and do much more.

Google Keep

There is numerous tools to manage notes like Evernote and OneNote. However, Google Keep is light weight and super easy tool that comes handy while managing daily chores.

Best part of Google Keep is its native integration with other Google services. It has a spectacular system for setting reminders that ties directly into other Google services.

For example, you can create a note in Keep and then tell the app to remind you about it at a specific date and time or even when you are at a certain location (say, at a client’s office or the grocery store). When the appropriate time or place arrives, you’ll get a notification on phone as well as in your Inbox.

 

Google Drawings

We all know about Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides but very few people know about its “neglected” siblings. Google Drawings is the freshest among all Google Drive tools. It is not a full-blown image editor like MS Paint but the graphic editor is more powerful for one simple fact – it is a real-time collaborative application. At its most basic, it is an online whiteboard.

Lay out diagrams, create flow charts, and then easily add them to other documents or embed them on a website with Google Drawings.

Here are a few specific things you can do:

• Edit drawings online in real time with anyone you choose, and invite others to view your edits in real time.
• Chat with others who are editing your drawing, from within the drawings editor.
• Publish drawings online to the world as images, or download them in standard formats.
• Insert text, shapes, arrows, scribbles, and images from your hard drive or from the Web to enhance a diagram or painting.
• Insert drawings into other Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides using the web clipboard, then tweak them inline.
• Design an Infographic.
• Screen design with Wireframes.

Google Groups

Google Groups is one of Google’s oldest services but still unknown to most people. It is a collaborative space for online discussions around any topic. Each group has its own email address, and members can share information using this single email address instead of emailing each member separately. Discussions are threaded and you can join a conversation on Google Groups or via email if you are part of a group’s mailing list.

A Google Group can be a forum, a Q&A website, a customer support center, a knowledge base, a shared platform for all of Google’s tools, and much more. Any small and big organization can use Google Groups to facilitate communication. You can even embed a group on your website to build up user engagement with your site visitors.

 

Google PageSpeed

Google give a lot of importance to how quickly your webpage loads as this directly affects the visitor experience. To help developers to optimize the webpage, Google introduced couple of handy tools under the name PageSpeed.

With this tool, you can find out the possible issues that might be slowing down your website. Google also suggests ways to fix the errors. Faster loading pages get better ranking on Google search engine.

URL Shortener (goo.gl)

Sometimes sharing a long URL on social networks like Twitter can be painful. This is where Google’s URL Shortener comes handy.  You can feed any long URL to it and this tool generates a short link that can be shared anywhere.

Not only this, you can get detailed analytics on number of clicks, referrers, browsers, country and much more.

Google Classroom

Designed for teachers and students, Google Classroom helps easily connect the class, track their progress and achieve more together.

Teachers can create classes, distribute assignments, send feedback, and see everything in one place. Google Classroom ties Google’s many products together to help educational institutions go to a paperless system.

 

Developer Tools

Google offers hundereds of tools for developers to help them with creating better web application, mobile apps, build apps on top of Google products such as Maps and lots more.

Most of these Google products are unknown to a normal internet user. Check out these developer tools site more for information.

 

Google Digital Garage

Digital Garage is a fantastic resource from Google where you get free tutorials on everything from your website to online marketing and beyond. Choose the topics you want to learn, or complete the whole online course for a certification from Google.

Topics range from building online presence, improve search engine rankings, using social media, selling online and lot more.

I’m sure, you didn’t know about this hidden gem from Google.

 

 

 

 

Find My Device

Find, lock, or erase a lost Android device

Play sound: Rings your phone at full volume for 5 minutes, even if it's set to silent or vibrate.
Secure device: Locks your phone with your PIN, pattern, or password. If you don't have a lock, you can set one.
To help someone return your phone to you, you can add a message or phone number to the lock screen.
Erase device: Permanently deletes all data on your phone.
RememberAfter you erase, Find My Device won't work on the phone.

Click here to use ths tool

 

 

 

 

Google Lens

Search what you see

Explore what's around you in an entirely new way.

Scan and translate text : Translate text in real time, look up words, add events to your calendar, call a number, and more. Or just copy and paste to save some time.

Find a look you like : See an outfit that caught your eye? Or a chair that's perfect for your living room? Get inspired by similar clothes, furniture, and home decor—without having to describe what you're looking for in a search box

Explore nearby places : Learn more about popular landmarks. See ratings, hours of operation, historical facts and more.

Identify plants and animals : Find out what plant is in your friend's apartment, or what kind of dog you saw in the park

Step-by-step homework help : Stuck on a problem? Quickly find explainers, videos, and results from the web for math, history, chemistry, biology, physics, and more.

 

 

 

Google Pay

Money made simple, by Google.

Google Pay is the simplest way to send money home to your family, recharge your mobile, or pay the neighbourhood chaiwala.

Pay and receive money instantly using your existing bank accounts. No more reloading mobile wallet balances or withdrawal fees. It’s your money, made simple.

Send money quickly to another Google Pay user nearby without needing to share private details like your bank account or phone number. It’s as easy as handing over cash, but with added security.

For Business Owners

Whether you’re a small business owner or a manager at a corporation, Google Pay makes it easy to accept payments and connect with customers. That way, you can focus on what you do best – running your business.

App : The Google Pay for Business app is a simple, more secure way to accept payments, share offers, track sales, and more – without any extra fees.*

APIs for any platform : Simplify checkout and connect with customers wherever they are with the Google Pay APIs for India.

With just a few taps, customers can make payments on your website or in your app using money from their bank account

Get start your business on Google pay

 

 

 

Google Photos

The Home for your memories

Bring moments to life with editing

Give the perfect moment a perfect finish with editing tools2

Easily save and share what matters

Editing tools and smart filters

Photos will be available on mobile / Laptops / etc

Serach on the basis of face / Place / date

Get Start

 

 

 

 

Google Sheets

 

Make it count Google Sheets makes your data pop with colorful charts and graphs. Built-in formulas, pivot tables and conditional formatting options save time and simplify common spreadsheet tasks. All for free.

Get a head start with templates

Choose from a wide variety of budgets, schedules, and other pre-made spreadsheets — all designed to make your work that much better, and your life that much easier.

Get to your spreadsheets anywhere, anytime

Access, create, and edit your spreadsheets wherever you go — from your phone, tablet, or computer — even when there’s no connection

Do more thgether : Share with anyone : Edit in real time : Chat and comment

Get Start

 

Final Thoughts

Google is awesome and it offers many useful of tools to grow your business. No matter if you are a developer or a business owners, there is something for you.

Google is innovative new tools day by day , May be few more have been launched after publishing this page.