Google Places

     Just about everybody uses Google to locate local businesses, either form their desktop PC or from the new smart phones. According to Google, over 90% of consumers use the search engines to find local businesses online! Also, over 70% of all online activity is related to local information.

     If you are a local business owner, this means that you are being found through the search engines and thus providing you with walk-in traffic, inquiries made by telephone, or online sales. While most companies are spending their time and money on services such as SEO (Search Engine Optimization), backlinks, or social media campaigns, which are excellent, by the way, most companies are overlooking a simple but very effective method for grabbing new customers.

     Google Places was offered by Google a few years back to put local businesses "on the map", so to speak. Google created this to allow all businesses, from the smallest to the largest, from the smallest budget to unlimited budgets, to present all of their relevant information in one central location. To this day, over 2 years after launch, most businesses are not using this service, usually from not knowing about it altogether, or just simply not taking the time to do it!
   
     Please contact us using the form below and let us know if we can help you in setting up your Google Places application. Thanks in advance!


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