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Optimizing Google My Business: 7 ultimate tips

Have you already claimed your Google My Business? Google My Business is one of the most important aspects of local SEO. It is one of the most powerful and free marketing tools you should use to manage your business listing on Google Maps. It should therefore be at the top of your to-do list to be found better in local searches. Here are 7 ultimate tips to optimize your Google My Business. What is Google my Business? On Google My Business (GMB) you can share your contact details, location and opening hours with the public. This is also the place where you can respond to Google reviews and share your own photos and videos. If you have an important announcement, you can also share it via post. This gives your visitors a better picture of your company at a glance. By optimizing your company profile, you help your company with a higher ranking in local search results and Google Maps.  Register your business with Google My Business  Before you can get started with optimizing your co...

Online Marketing Checklist

 Do you want to get more out of your restaurant ordering site? Want to generate more attention for your new business? Online Marketing offers the ideal tools to achieve success. In this blog we tell you more about some quick win s , such as Google My Business, Social Media, Branding and more! How To Start? Online and Offline have increasingly merged in recent years. It is no longer about the menu at the front door of your restaurant. Thanks to the internet, the customer can be convinced of their purchase much earlier. That is why it is important to ensure presence in as many places as possible. For example, think of your own website and social media. Ordering platforms can also provide that extra visibility, but their large presence means they can compete with the other 'gateways' you've created, leaving you stuck with the high commissions. It is of course up to you as an entrepreneur to make that decision. Quick Win My Bhavya has handy Marketing tools to get started right ...

This is how you can delete or adjust the first photo of your company on Google

As a local entrepreneur you are obviously busy with 1,001 things. In addition to actually running your business, you also have to ensure that the identity of your company is conveyed the same everywhere. This ensures uniformity and thus recognizability. However, sometimes it happens that you don't have everything under control. The same goes for your business listing on Google. The photo that is shown first when you (or your customers) search for your company cannot always be as current and representative. In this article, we'll explain how you can edit, or even remove, this first photo of your business on Google. Content This is how customers see your company This is how an image is chosen on Google Adjust photo or image on Google Delete photo or image on Google Some tips This is how customers see your company If you regularly Google your own company name, you will see how your company is displayed on Google to your (potential) customers. Such a search usually shows a number o...

Google My Business adds the chat function to the desktop version!

 While we were very happy a while ago with the chat function on the Google My Business app on your phone, here you could go a step further with communicating with your (potential) customers, we are now even more enthusiastic about the chat function on the desktop version of your Google my Business. Google is rolling out the messaging functionality within the Google My Business desktop interface. This is not fully live yet, but many can already see it. Previously, the chat function was only available via the mobile app and not within the desktop interface, but that is about to change. This is what the chat function looks like When you log in to Google My Business in your browser (or go to Google and click on the 9 dots at the top right, then on My Business, see below), the page below will open. You are now logged in to the desktop version of your company's Google My Business page. Click here to get more reviews on google When you log in to Google My Business in the desktop browser, ...

How do you request online reviews?

 How do you request online reviews? The advantages & disadvantages of each approach There are no “solutions” - only compromises. Your job is to choose the interaction - or the combination thereof - that suits you best. That applies to most areas of local SEO and marketing (and life), and it also applies to your efforts to get more positive customer reviews on Google Maps (and other local review sites). You probably know there are many ways to encourage people to review your business online, but you're not sure which one works best. In this article we describe the pros and cons of each way to get more reviews: Ask personally for a review Personally vouch for a mobile on-site assessment Review station Email one customer at a time Using an email service Email blast Provide printed handouts with instructions Send instructions via email 1. Personally request a review Benefits: You plant the seed, but you don't expect the customer to reassess your business. Once you've determ...

With 2 reviews already stars in Google: get started with your reviews!

 Don't have any stars in Google yet? Okay, check it right away (if you don't know yet): google your company name or business activity and see if your company has stars in Google. If that is not yet the case, then you really have to get started to get reviews in Google. The stars have already been shown in 2 reviews since the beginning of February 2017. That has advantages and disadvantages. In this article you can read the pros and cons and of course more about the phenomenon of stars in Google. UPDATE 8 February 2020:  stars have even been seen at companies with 1 Google review. More about this as a supplement at the bottom of this article. Get more about google review management software From 5 to 2 reviews Previously, you needed 5 reviews to display the average star rating in Google. These stars came from your reviews in Google, via Google My Business . It was just as hard to get noticed by those stars in your business listing. You were then ahead of many competitors, beca...

7 effective online marketing tips for your successful business

You probably read interesting marketing tips more often and you think: “I really have to do something with that in my company”. Then you proceed to the order of the day and that tip remains on your large to-do stack. Do you also notice more often that as soon as you want to get started with something concrete, it makes you dizzy again and you wonder whether you are working on a meaningful action point? You will find new information and inspiration everywhere, whereby the theme is always slightly different. Where do you start now? What is really useful for you as an entrepreneur to spend your valuable time on? In this blog I share 7 effective online marketing tips that will certainly benefit you. 1. Provide structure and regularity Especially when you start with online marketing it is quite a challenge. But know that it is absolutely worth your effort and your time. Because at a certain point these activities become automatic and they will yield a lot for you. In addition, you can plan ...