Santa isn’t the only one coming to town in December; it’s time for another Local U interview! With our LocalU Advanced event coming up in Williamsburg on March 5th, we thought it would be fun to interview a few of the speakers. This month we have the pleasure of interviewing Joy Hawkins. Business Development Can…
Good Morning, LocalU Friends! Last week we were lucky enough to have a wide variety of GMB experts weigh in for our first #gmbchat co-held by LocalU and Sterling Sky, our parent company. We had time in the hour to address 10 great questions crowdsourced from Twitter and some question submissions and we’re excited to…
The trip from Toronto to Blue Mountain for LocalU Advanced in October is a scenic jaunt through Southern Ontario. Taking a little less than two hours when coming from Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ). There are a few routes you can take but all will give you a great view of all that Southern Ontario has…
Matt Casady spotted the connection in a Lawyer’s LSA account. Businesses in legal verticals can book appointments with clients directly via LSA via Leadconnector. Just noticed booking leads are now available for legal verticals on Google Local Service Ads (LSAs) previously they were only available for home-service-related verticals. pic.twitter.com/pBx0x4gdTa — Matt Casady (@MattCasady) February 6,…
Oh great… another new blog post Changing how we think about content creation as a deliverable in the new year This is probably something fairly controversial in the agency/deliverable mindset – but I think it’s time to have a conversation about blog posts. Specifically, blog posts as a “deliverable” you create for your client. We’ve…
In the last few weeks, the number of Google Maps notifications I’ve received from businesses I manage via my Google Account has steadily increased to level: annoying.With the help of my colleague Josh Mallett, who figured out where the setting was – here’s a short video of how you can turn those GMB Messaging Notifications…
We’ve received a question for the LocalU Correspondence corner from an anonymous submitter looking for help to get their GMB verified. Their business does not receive mail, it’s a parking lot. While they did not indicate what category they are in, they might be a used car lot, a park and ride location, a…
We’ve received a question for the LocalU Correspondence corner from an anonymous submitter looking for help to get their GMB verified. Their business does not receive mail, it’s a parking lot. While they did not indicate what category they are in, they might be a used car lot, a park and ride location, a…
A brand new help center document appeared that outlines the procedure for anyone to report a user profile if that user is “contributing false information, uploading offensive content, or taking other abusive actions that violate Google Maps user-contributed policy ” This is another way that marketers can report spam that appears in the form of…