Do you have a Google My Business (GMB) account? Quite a few online businesses do, as many brick and mortar businesses do as well. As unfortunate as it is, there are going to be times when some business owners are going to lose control of their GMB accounts due to the creator of the account […]
Apple has been getting ready to launch public transit data, as previously reported, with iOS according to sources that had time to speak with 9to5 Mac. This public transit data was intended to launch with iOS 8, but it was pulled before it was released. Supposedly, the transit data is going to include bus, subway and train schedule […]
(Also called Google Places, Google Local, and (erroneously) Google Maps) Written by Scott Orth If you’re a local business, you want local visibility and traffic, right? What better way to gain local exposure but to show up in Google local search, with a Google My Business page? If you don’t already know, when you type […]
People really know how to out-do themselves, don’t they? Sure, we’ve been hearing about the little hacks that some have done with Google Maps, such as pictures of Android mascots urinating or references to Edward Snowden, but there are other things that we should probably leave alone. In this case, somebody used the tool for […]
The way we market our businesses these days have definitely changed since the days of the old, such as the Yellow Pages, and simply doing television and radio spots. With the introduction of online marketing, things really have become different. But within the last several years, online marketing got shook up yet again with the […]
Recently, Amazon launched a brand new marketplace for local businesses, called Amazon Home Services, which is a new marketplace meant for local businesses to sell professional services to customers.In a nutshell, this new service allows customers to purchase and schedule professional services, such as plumbers, landscapers and the like. This new service simply adds a whole new […]
Who is the latest company to purchase Nokia’s mapping unit HERE? That company would be Uber. According to the NY Times, Uber was reported to have submitted a $3 billion bid for the mapping provider. At this point, that amount hasn’t been confirmed. Assuming that Uber can obtain HERE, this will be the second successful mapping acquisition […]
Thanks to some folks who enjoy creating hacks, Google has temporarily suspended Google Map Maker, which is a service that lets the community create edits to Google Maps, which isn’t too unlike Wikipedia. Recently, public edits were the cause of the suspension due to the fact of how easy it is to create fraudulent edits […]
When it comes to growth strategy for multi-location businesses, acquisition of competitor locations is quite the common strategy. By focusing on competitor locations, there are a number of advantages that present themselves, such as quick entry into a market, or economies of scale. Unless you don’t have a very good understanding of how easy it […]
Have you ever wanted to bookmark places you find on Google Maps? Well, now it looks like you can! Google has give users the ability to save places from the Google local box in search results. Basically, you can bookmark places you want to map now or visit later. So what is the new way […]