Google Places – Putting Your Business on the Map

How this Google Application can Help Generate More Customer Calls

You’ve been craving pizza all day so you log into the Internet as soon as you get home. Upon encoding ‘pizza boston’ in the Google search bar, you see a list of businesses arranged like this:

Intrigued, you click on one of them and find the company details, reviews, telephone numbers and other information. You press backspace and look at the other results. Upon weighing your choices, you choose the one with the most number of positive reviews regarding the taste, quality of food, their service and the delivery time. You take note of the location of the pizzeria you picked on the map provided and promise to yourself that you’ll take the family to that restaurant soon.

Now, back to present. You’re a businessperson seeking to expand your web presence on top of the usual social networking sites. Since not everyone uses social media, one way to target the rest of the population is by placing search engine campaigns and ads. Google Places is an excellent choice because it’s a free application that automatically features your business in Google Maps. People in your local community can now get directions to your place and personally go there. You can also add pictures, product and service information, contact details and more.

But more important are the reviews from customers who’ve gone to your shop before. The number of positive reviews versus negative feedback can pull up your search ranking and make you more popular. The only bad thing about this particular feature is that you cannot screen complaints and other bad comments. What you can do though is to contact the users who made the comments and try to smoothen your business relations with them. (Users can modify or delete their comments.) Another solution would be to improve the aspect of your service that they did not satisfy them. This feature would actually help your business become better and help you improve the quality of your products and services.

Here is an example of a pizza business in Google Places:

Try this out for your business. This is another way for you to get FREE EXPOSURE while reaping MAXIMUM RESULTS. Join Google Places now to immediately place your name and location in the map. Do it before spammers claim your place.