Summary: This is the Google Plus Bootcamp Episode 6! Hello and welcome to the sixth episode of the Google Plus Boot Camp! Why should you listen to this? Because we will explain things fast and save you time to spend with friends and family instead. Hi, my name is Raymond Bauer and my topic is customer acquisition and retention with online services. I am from good old Germany, so please forgive me my mistakes. Our topic today: Hangout with your new customers! Skype has been around for some time, so you might already have used the chance to try out video conferencing. There are also professional services that cost good money. But Google Plus offers a free service called Hangout. You can start a hangout with a button on the right sidebar inside of Google Plus. It will offer you to invite some people you want to talk to. My first invitation sent out to my wife and a friend did not produce any reaction because they didn't get any notification. G+ should send out a mail for that. But if your invited guests check their G+ site they will notice a little red icon on the top of the site, that something happened. But when you join a hangout it is really cool. You can add and invite people and other people can join your session also. Google Hangout could be your killer tool for customer acquisition. You can set up a certain time where you offer free consulting with video lessons. The coolest feature is that hangout makes it possible to share your presentation from YouTube directly with your audience. Did you know, that you also got a YouTube account for free uploads when you joined Google? If you offer value other people might also pop in to join your interactive webcast. It is a powerful tool, it is free and it is your choice, how you are going to use it! I will share some of my video courses with Hangout in the near future. What will you do? Your task for today: Start a hangout with somebody and share a video So do the next step now and come back for more!
