Any transcription business will benefit from dominating their local market. Dominating one's local market means more leads and prospects (potential paying customers) and better transcribers for your transcription business.
Google Local helps in dominating local market in the search engines ie Google.
It also helps brand visibility and accessibility.
Killing Two birds in One Stone
- It's a free marketing and lead generation tool to promote your transcription business locally so you get more queries and leads and of course, paying customers.
- Google Local is also a free recruitment tool. Job-seekers in your local area will easily find you without the hassle of you looking and searching for them.
Well, now I guess, you know why you'd like to dominate your local market. Following is how you can do exactly that!
10 Easy Steps to Dominate Local Market using Google Local
- Go to www.google.com/local/add.
- Login to your Google account (You need a Gmail account to do so, if you don’t have one you can set one up for free at: mail.google.com/mail/signup)
- Click Add New Account.
- Fill out the form with your business information. Enter your business web profile address as your website (ex: http://transcriptionhq.blogspot.com/). Be sure to use your keywords in your description and in the categories selection.
- If you have specific specialties (ex: legal transcription, medical transcription, general transcription, sermon transcription, podcast transcription ), be sure to add this as an additional category on the form – you can have up to 5 – and in your description.
- On the next screen, confirm your listing by clicking on the correct address.
- Additional Data form: Enter in your business hours of operation, payment options, photos, and video. Photos: it is helpful to add your company logo or a nice headshot of you. Please be sure it is a professional photo that meets Google’s requirements. Additional Data: You may want to input things like Additional Services: translation, virtual assistant, etc if you provide these services.
- Confirmation Page: Confirm your listing information, and choose your phone as the verification message. Important Note: A Google rep will call you almost immediately to verify the information you provided is accurate, and you are a real person with a real business. Make sure the phone is nearby!
- Google will give you a PIN number that you must enter into the next screen in order to validate your listing. Enter that number after they call and click Verify.
- You are done! Your account has been successfully added and should appear live online under the keywords you indicated within 3 days to one week
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