Google My Business

The #2 Spot in Google 3-Pack Search Results Outperforms the #1 Spot for Clicks NEWS SUMMARY: The top spot in the Google 3-Pack isn’t the most impactful in terms of performance for nearby businesses. Rather, the number two position often garners more clicks, suggesting that consumers use other factors when choosing between businesses in the Google 3-Pack.* When choosing from the brands presented in the Google 3-Pack, 64% of consumers said proximity is a top factor, followed by familiarity with the brand (57%),…

Opera Limited, one of the world’s major browser providers and leader in AI-driven content delivery, is extending its offering to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria to become easily discoverable online by announcing the launch of its new service Opera For Business. With Opera For Business SMEs can create an online profile of their business, tell their story to their customers online, and show accurate location as well as opening hours across Google’s popular services such as Google Maps. The new offering of…

According to a recent survey, small businesses without a pre-existing e-commerce presence were twice as likely (31% vs. 15%) to have temporarily stopped operating during the Covid-19 crisis Israeli startup Rise.ai, which offers AI-driven customer re-engagement solutions, has been selected by Google to help businesses offer digital gift cards through their public listing on Google My Business (GMB). The agreement with Google is Rise.ai’s strategy to enable small and medium businesses to survive and even thrive during the…

Vendasta is proud to announce it has been named a Featured Partner by Google My Business (GMB). The company received the status for accurately and efficiently claiming GMB listings on behalf of its partners’ small and medium business clients. Marketing Technology News: Adobe Named a Leader in Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Personalization Engines Through the Vendasta service, partners avoid the toil of contacting individual businesses to track verification numbers by phone or email, allowing SMBs to more quickly…

Bargain Storage encouraged by the return of Google reviews amid pandemic Google My Business this week began publishing customer reviews for the self-storage industry, restoring a core function to its platform that had been temporarily disabled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Marketing Technology News: REaD Group Acquires UK Changes’ Assets The return of comments will aid shoppers who want to hear about other customers’ experiences before deciding where to store their personal belongings. Google’s decision to restore…

Award-Winning Brand Success Platform Introduces New Integrations and Propels Growth with Expanded Global Client Roster Loomly, creators of the acclaimed collaborative platform for the world's leading marketing teams, announced its strongest year to date. Underpinned by multiple industry accolades, the rapidly growing technology company closed out 2018 with 600% growth and will again post triple-digit growth in 2019 and Annual Recurring Revenue surpassing $2 million. "We are inspired by the continued growth of our…

The Leading Social Media and Reputation Management Platform Lands at #417 For the second year, SOCi Inc., the leading platform for social media and reputation management for multi-location brands, has been named one of the fastest-growing companies in America by Inc. Magazine. Landing at 417 with a three-year revenue increase of 1,125%, SOCi has made a significant contribution to the localized social marketing industry. According to a recent audit of more than 300 client-connected accounts, brands on the SOCi…

New Integration Enables Local Businesses to Efficiently Manage a Social Marketing Strategy on Google, Enabling Engagement with Google’s Vast User Base SOCi, the leading platform for social media and reputation management for multi-location brands, announced a new Google Posts integration on its platform for Google My Business (GMB) pages. SOCi’s Google Posts integration enables its existing customers already using GMB to publish localized posts within the SOCi platform, rounding out SOCi’s integration with all major social…

WebCEO has launched a fully packed module for local SEO that provides integrated data from the Google My Business service, as well as proprietary data on local competitors and their performance, all powered by WebCEO. The new module features comprehensive widgets and dynamic reports with aggregated historical data on searches and views for all local business profiles registered with Google Maps, customer reviews and ratings, and a breakdown of the local businesses competing with a given business on Google Maps.…

A new report from the localized social marketing leader shows high valued engagements combined with boosted posts, and strong reputation management strategy crucial for multi-location businesses SOCi, the leader in social media and reputation management for multi-location brands, today released its Q1 State of the Market Report, Localized Social Marketing: The Value of Organic AND Paid Social Content which showcases key trends in social content distribution and engagement between Q4 2018 and Q1 2019. The report also…

The Company’s Disruptive App Shares User’s Posts With Friends and Followers on Facebook, Twitter, Google My Business, LinkedIn, and Other Social Networking Sites; Posts are Easier to Find in Google Searches Findit, Inc. The Company, is the owner and developer of Findit.com, an open source social networking platform technology site which enables users to easily transmit the same posting to social media outlet/applications at the same time, giving members a broader reach, reducing time and making the content easily…

Google+, Google’s own social media platform which launched in 2011, is to shut down in April 2019 after a new leak occurred. The social channel had quite a strong start in its early days but never managed to generate sufficient interest or activity to compete with other platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. A study from Stone Temple Consulting revealed that 90% of people registered on Google+ had never posted anything on the platform. The network was due to shut down in August 2019, but a new bug that…

Industry First Advances the Most Comprehensive Platform to Manage Online Presence eClincher, the platform to manage and promote identity and engagement across the Internet, is the first social media management solution to integrate Google My Business. This joins other major social media and web applications, streamlining comprehensive management of business and organizational Internet presence more than ever. “Integrating with Google My Business is a key advance because it is a powerful way to boost search results,…

Text Request, the online business texting service that lets businesses text using their current business numbers, can now be used to manage text conversations started through Google My Business listings. Google's free business listing platform, Google My Business, now lets mobile searchers message businesses directly from search listings. Text Request provides the backend dashboard to receive these messages, and makes it easy to manage conversations as a team. Businesses can use Text Request with their current landline,…