Google LBC’s New “Post to Your Place Page” Feature
This is really cool. Not sure when Google LBC released this new feature, I haven’t heard anyone speak about it yet. I was in tweaking a couple of things with a fairly new client’s account and I noticed a new feature called “Post to Your Place Page”. It looks like this:
And then when it goes live it looks like this:
This new feature is really, really cool. I hope they are not just testing and to only watch it disappear in few weeks. I think this new feature can be used in so many interesting ways.
You can see here (in the example image above) that I am testing with my client as a daily call to action. I am going to take a few clients and write a daily call-to action on their Google Maps Listing and see if it pulls in some extra sales fro them.
It’s a great way to get small businesses to login and interact with their Google LBC more, creating a habit of using G-Maps. Which I am sure Google wants. The more interaction they can get with SMB’s the more ways they can then eventually monetize it.
This call-out reminds me of Twitter a little. It’s a micro message meant to be daily. It looks like whatever you write will expire in 30 days so they are pushing SMB’s to keep the call outs current.
Has anyone else seen this yet…? Tell me what your thoughts are about this new feature in the comment section below. How do you think a small business owner can use this new feature to increase sales & conversions…?
Wow! Very cool find and no i haven’t seen this anywhere else. I see another twitter integration possibility with this that could prove very nice.
Great post, i just noticed it when checking on a clients local business statistics, so I quickly called them and requested a short statement that they wanted to show…
They are going to get back to me with a list of items I can include, which kinda defeats the purpose but its great to see that they were that excited they were going to spend some time drafting up some options.
I have seen it. Great feature. I am sure it will be something that consumers will love. Soon, I assume Google will be sending this data via mobile check-ins as well. Promotional codes may also be a method of measurement!
Cheers,
Mike Stewart
The Dallas Google Guru