Did you know that 97% of consumers search for local businesses online?
97%!
Now lets take advantage of that number. How? Google Places.
Google Places is a part of Google’s latest strategy to provide the best search experience to their users trying to find local businesses to fill their needs.
This has proven to be wildly successful in user experience, it’s proven to be a challenge to local businesses who would like to rely on Google searches to drive customers to their businesses. Where their formerly successful local organic results were working just fine, now they’re hardly visible below the map results (take a look at this search as an example). As is the case with any challenge, however, it also provides a tremendous opportunity for businesses like yours to skyrocket their business to the front of Google for local searches. It also gives you the ability to display pictures, videos, a description and reviews from Google, Yelp and the other review sites!
Once you make the decision to move forward, the process is simple:
- Set up an appointment with one of our consultants – probably won’t have to be any longer than 30 minutes on the phone but we’ll put you in for an hour just to be safe – we don’t want to rush this.
- We’ll dive into your Places profile – claim it, verify it and make sure everything in there is accurate and up to date.
- We’ll write up a short description of your business based on our conversation.
- You can provide us with pictures of your business or we can draw from the massive stock image library we have at our disposal
- You can also provide us with video to upload or upload it yourself
- We’ll show you how to log back into your account and update information and make changes and additions
- You’re done!
If you’re a local business and you haven’t claimed your page yet or optimized it to show up in these searches, don’t you think it’s about time?
