Posted by Rich Rao, Director of Global SMB Sales, Google for Work
This year, some of the world’s leading online service providers —
Wix,
Weebly and
Endurance (parent company of
Bluehost and others) — chose to offer
Google Apps for Work as part of their mission to help small businesses get online. Now, we welcome two more to the Google for Work Partner Program: content management systems
Squarespace and
WordPress.com, who chose Google Apps for its simple integration process and common goal of helping business get off the ground and grow. And, as Google Apps customers themselves, these companies are deeply familiar with its benefits and understand the value it can bring to customers.
These partners make it simple and seamless for businesses to register a domain name, create a new website and set up custom business email through Google Apps, all at the same time and in a single signup process. In addition to the ability to communicate professionally right off the bat, businesses also get a familiar, easy-to-use productivity suite featuring tools like
Google Calendar for scheduling,
Google Hangouts for video meetings and
Google Drive for storing files. Customers have everything they need to build and maintain their online presence as well as run their day-to-day business in one central place.
With a set of APIs that lets these companies build Google Apps into their existing user interface, the process of integrating with these partners’ own products is just as seamless as their customers’ signup process. That’s one of the reasons
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, chose to offer Google Apps: “We’re constantly looking to optimize customer dashboards,” says Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s founder and CEO, “so integrating Google Apps was a natural decision for us.”
These partners also experience the benefits firsthand in their own companies — they’ve seen how the tools encourage teamwork, improve communication and let employees work the way they live — anytime, anywhere, on any device. “We're huge proponents of giving our customers access to the services that we use ourselves to run our own business,” said Anthony Casalena, Squarespace’s founder and CEO. “We've been using Google Apps since we were a small team, and we continue to use those same tools to power 390 employees.”
We’re thrilled to be teaming up with our new partners, and we’re proud that they’ve chosen to share Google Apps for Work with their users. If your company offers online services to business customers who can also benefit from the value of Google Apps, feel free to
email us.
