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Chrome Enterprise: How Google Will Get More CIOs To Embrace Chromebook

May 14, 2019August 28, 2017

Since Google introduced Chromebook in 2011, the adoption of Chromebooks by businesses has been more of an interesting idea than a widespread reality.

We first wrote about the business potential for Chromebooks soon after they hit the market.

Our contention was that with so many applications moving to the cloud, that many employees would no longer need a heavyweight local operating system such as Windows or macOS. Technologies such as Citrix could be used to access Windows applications from the Chrome browser.

10 Google My Business Best Practices

April 11, 2019August 20, 2017

Whether your company is a small local B2C business or a large B2C company, it’s worth paying attention to your Google My Business (GMB) listing.

According to Google, “listings on Google My Business can only be created for businesses that either have a physical location that customers can visit, or that travel to visit customers where they are.”

This means that most businesses can (and probably should) have a GMB listing. A Google My Business listing is a free source that can direct more visitors to a business’s website, almost no matter what type or size of business.

Embed a “Live” Google Sheets Pricing Table in a Proposal Doc

August 27, 2019June 11, 2017

For salespeople who regularly send out long form proposals that contain pricing tables, there has always been a conundrum.

That is, a pricing table within in a document can’t be dynamically updated as easily as a spreadsheet table. The word processing capabilities within a spreadsheet are limited.

Often, a proposal’s pricing table is revised several times before the final version of a proposal is sent to the prospect or customer. This can require manual effort. Either the new bottom line in the document table needs to be hand calculated when line items are changed — or the spreadsheet table must be re-copied/pasted a into the document.

Google Workspace Pricing: What Your Business Can Expect to Pay

November 14, 2020June 3, 2017

Updated: October 7, 2020

The current Google Workspace pricing is different than it was when Google Workspace was known as G Suite.

Prior to December 6, 2012, Google offered a free business version of Google Apps. Businesses that signed up for that version are grandfathered at no cost for up to 10 users.

Google still offers free versions of Google Workspace to qualified educational and government institutions as well as to qualified nonprofit organizations.

For for-profit businesses, Google Workspace does come at a cost.

Google Jamboard: A Cloud-Connected Whiteboard

April 7, 2019May 28, 2017

Google has released Jamboard, the first hardware component of Google Workspace.

Jamboard can be viewed as a digital whiteboard that’s sharable, in real time, across multiple locations. It has a 55-inch 4K touchscreen.

Google Workspace for Enterprises: The Shift is Underway

October 11, 2020March 17, 2017

The adoption of Google Workspace began with small to mid-sized businesses. However, the shift to Google Workspace for enterprises is ostensibly underway.

At the March 2017 Google Cloud Next Conference, both Colgate and Verizon talked about their move to Google Workspace.

Colgate-Palmolive has moved 28,000 users to Google Workspace from IBM’s legacy Notes and Domino systems. Verizon is planning to move 150,000 users to Google Workspace.

CRM for Gmail and Google Workspace: Chrome Extensions

October 11, 2020January 21, 2017

Many CRM users, especially salespeople, live in Gmail. Because of this, a number of CRM vendors have developed Chrome extensions that provide access to CRM functionality within consumer Gmail and business Gmail (Google Workspace). A Chrome extension is a software program that adds functionality to the Chrome browser.

Historically, Chrome extensions have had little to no user interface. In fact, the original intent of Google’s developers was for extensions to be minimalist. From a user interface perspective, many extensions are no more than a button on the address bar.

As an example of basic functionality of a CRM for Gmail Chrome extension, a CRM user can search for records, edit records and add records — all without leaving Gmail. Some CRM vendors have taken their Chrome extensions to entirely new levels.

What is Google Sheets and How Does it Work?

November 3, 2020January 1, 2017

Google Sheets is one of the productivity applications that’s included with free consumer Gmail and with Google Workspace [for business].

It is a cloud based spreadsheet application. No desktop software is needed to create and edit spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are stored in the cloud, on a virtual drive called Google Drive.

Google Sheets can be used for everything from basic calculations to sophisticated data analysis.

How Does Google Docs Work?

October 20, 2020December 30, 2016

Google Docs is one of the productivity applications that’s included with free consumer Gmail and with Google Workspace (for business).

Google Docs is a cloud-based word processor, which means that no desktop software is required to create and edit documents. Documents are stored on Google Drive, which is the cloud drive included with Gmail and Google Workspace.

Google Docs has all the core capabilities that can be found in traditional word processors. It also has a number of capabilities that relate to the fact that the documents are stored on a cloud drive (vs. on one person’s desktop). So, how does Google Docs work? Here are just a few of the capabilities.

Rackspace Webmail vs. Google Workspace For Small Business

October 11, 2020December 28, 2016

When a small business owner or manager decides to make the move from free consumer email addresses (e.g., jake2874@comcast.net) to custom email addresses (e.g., jake@abbottsolar.com), there are a number of business email options.

Aside from Microsoft, two of the most popular business email providers are Rackspace and Google.

As service providers, Google and Rackspace differ in many ways. However, they do overlap in a couple of areas.

How Google Workspace Gives Each User Unlimited Email Addresses

October 16, 2020December 8, 2016

There are two ways in which a Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) user can have an unlimited number of inbound email addresses associated with their Google Workspace account. We’ll refer to these ways as “dimensions”, as they can be used in combination.

Google Workspace Email Aliases

The first dimension of unlimited email addresses are email aliases. Aliases are assigned to a user account by a Google Workspace admin. An admin can assign multiple values to what is technically called the Local-part of the email address, or the part before the @ sign.

In the following example, you will see that Lou’s default email address is lou@yourcrmdemo.com. Lou must use this address to login to her email account.

How to Add Users to Google Workspace

October 11, 2020December 3, 2016

Updated: April 25, 2019

There are more similarities between free, consumer Gmail and Google Workspace than there are differences. In fact, Google Workspace can be viewed as a multi-user version of consumer Gmail.

When a single user platform becomes multi-user, an administrative level is needed for tasks such as adding and deleting users, creating groups, assigning apps and managing security.

Fortunately, adding users to Google Workspace is a straightforward process for an admin. The creator of a Google Workspace account is a super administrator by default. One or more admin roles can optionally be assigned to any user. One of the admin roles is called User Management Admin. This role allows a user to create, delete and update individual users (other than admin users).

Only a super administrator, however, can bulk upload new users.

G Suite: Gmail & Calendar iOS Updates

September 2, 2017November 12, 2016

While Google has its own mobile phone and tablet operating system, the company needs to remain mindful of the fact that millions of consumer and business Gmail customers are iPhone and iPad users.

In fact, over the last 30 days, 63% of the mobile & tablet visitors to this website, as reported by Google Analytics, are iPhone or iPad users.

For years, Google has offered iOS apps for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and more. However, until recently, the Gmail app had not been updated since December 4, 2012.

New Google Sites: How To Use Sites In Business

January 29, 2019November 5, 2016

Updated: January 28, 2019

New Google Sites rolled out to all Google Workspace customers in November of 2016.

The original Google Sites, now called “Classic Google Sites” was released in 2008 after the acquisition of JotSpot in 2006. The product did not see much in the way of enhancements for many years.

The new Google Sites was built from the ground up, which means not only a modern set of design components and full device responsiveness, but an app that fits in much better with the rest of the Google Workspace offerings.

Email Security and Google Workspace

October 11, 2020September 25, 2016

The topic of email security is all too frequently in the news. On September 22, 2016, the story broke that data associated with 500 million Yahoo! email accounts had been stolen in 2014.

There are many reasons why hackers spend their time trying to infiltrate email servers and email clients. Sometimes it’s to steal intellectual property.

Google Workspace: Editing Microsoft Office Files

October 11, 2020September 22, 2016

One of the things that has prevented some organizations from making the switch to Google Workspace is the fact that they still would need to maintain and/or purchase Microsoft Office licenses for most of their users.

However, Office licenses may only be needed for a few power users within an organization, as there are two ways that any user can open and edit Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint files using Google Drive. “Power users” can include those who work with very large Excel spreadsheets or who rely on macros within certain Excel spreadsheets. It can also include those who need to exchange redlined Word documents with third parties.

There are two ways that Google Workspace users can edit Office files without the need for Office software.

Google Analytics Event Tracking Examples

November 14, 2020August 11, 2016

Google Analytics Event tracking allows you to incorporate visitor activity from many different sources within Google Analytics.

Once the information is in Google Analytics, as we covered in the previous post, comparative visualizations can be created in Google Sheets.

Here are five Google Analytics event tracking examples. You can use these to measure the effectiveness of your marketing efforts. This is all predicated on the fact that you are using the Universal Analytics tracking code.

Google Analytics Reports in Google Sheets – Using Filters

November 14, 2020August 6, 2016

One of many benefits to using Google Workspace is that Google Workspace users with access to their organization’s Google Analytics account can easily share specific slices of Google Analytics data with their co-workers.

The Google Analytics Add-on for Google Sheets lets a Sheets user who has a Google Analytics login create a variety of comparative visualizations within Google Sheets.

Online Presentation Collaboration with Google Slides

October 16, 2020May 30, 2016

Google Slides allows two or more people to collaborate in real-time on edits to an online presentation.

For this to happen, a Google Slides presentation creator needs to first share out his or her presentation with one or more people.

Present Data in Google Slides – In Real Time

October 21, 2020May 19, 2016

Google Workspace users can present real time data in Google Slides.

Until Google introduced this functionality, charts had to either be pasted as images into Google Slides or they had to be created using shapes. When the underlying data changed, a more up-to-date chart image had to be pasted into the slide or the shapes had to be modified. This could be very time consuming.

Google has provided two ways to embed data-driven charts right within individual slides.

15 Reasons to Move Your Business From Free Gmail to Google Workspace

December 21, 2020May 7, 2016

Updated: December 21, 2020

Let’s say you’ve been using free Gmail accounts for your business communications. Your email addresses may resemble one or more of these:

abbottsolar@gmail.com
solar-lisa94@gmail.com
abbottsupport@gmail.com

Your employees may even be using assorted Yahoo Mail and cable company email addresses for business purposes.

However, your business is growing and you want to start to use more professional looking email addresses such as:

jabbott@abbottsolar.com
lisa@abbottsolar.com
support@abbottsolar.com

Consider this:

Potential customers are more likely to do business with a company that uses professional email addresses than one that uses consumer freemail addresses.

4 Ways to Add Animation to Your Website With Google Slides

November 5, 2020March 20, 2016

Google Slides can easily be embedded in any website by using the code provided in the File > Publish to the web… menu.

By default, there’s a set of controls at the bottom of an embedded Slides presentation that diminishes the website animation effect. The controls provide multiple options including downloading the Slides as a PDF or PPTX file.

How Salesforce Leveraged Google Apps for its Lightning Launch

February 27, 2018October 20, 2015

During today’s Google Atmosphere, a number of Google’s customers were profiled. Representatives from each described how they were able to benefit from using Google Apps. Among those was Salesforce, which as been a long time user of Google Apps for Work.

How To Create And Embed A Poll Using Google Forms

October 16, 2020October 8, 2015

Updated: November 5, 2018

With Google Forms, it’s easy to embed surveys, polls and other types of questionnaires into your website.

We created a Google poll using Google Forms and embedded it below. If you answer the question, you’ll be able to see how others answered the same question simply by clicking the See previous responses link after you submit your response.