NoDaddy

Today was more tedious than others have been -- however it was performing these tedious jobs that enabled me to learn a lot about purchasing domain names and how Google+ and Hootsuite work.

We finally came to a conclusion as to how to fix our Google + problem... Amongst other problems, the one I worked on today was transferring all of our Google+ page posts onto one page (seeing as the problem was that we had two Google+ pages as a result of Google taking over the world. We had created a Google Local and Google+ page before the two had become connected so thus we had two pages. One with customer reviews and one with over one year's worth of content).

My job was to go through our Google+ page that contained all of our posts and transfer them to our other page which contained our reviews (since it is less tedious to copy and paste them all onto the other Google page than ask all the people to re-review us).

I made a Word document and copied and pasted ALL (well, most) of our posts from the original page and then went through and pasted them individually into HootSuite, reposting them onto the newer page. Also, HootSuite was acting strange, so I had to go to the physical pages of websites we had posted links to, copy the link in the URL, and THEN paste that into the HootSuite post. Don't ask me why... there always seems to be something!

Anyway, now the page looks great and we have a presence on it (everything posted within two hours!) and then it was time to move onto my next task: GoDaddy.

More like NODaddy!

Geez.

For the past few weeks, Nikki and Brad have been trying to purchase  a certain domain, however each time we logged into GoDaddy to purchase it, it hasn't been available.

I spent an hour or two chatting with Gwen K., my new best friend, and employee of GoDaddy, who was able to add the domain to our cart and purchase it. Yay!

But, no.

Because we then got an email saying the domain was unavailable.

As it turns out, the domain has expired, however the original owner still owns it for 43 more days unless they choose to buy it again. Meaning that we have to WAIT and then when/IF it is for sale, we have to BID for it!!! AGH!

This is all a lot simpler sounding than it was... we then had to ask for a refund and then PAY for a backorder (which basically just lets us know when it is available). Grrr...

It doesn't sound like much, but today involved much tedious busy-work... busy-work that allowed me to become an expert in the fields of GoDaddy, Google+ posting, and HootSuite managing!