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Mike Garvey (6:03)

And we're back talking about Google Business Profile for getting leads. This way, it's organic. Okay. It's reviews are building you a optimized Google Business Profile again. That's going to rank in the top places, that's going to show up in local keywords. It sends direct, you know, people directly to you. So before you spend thousands of dollars on Facebook ads and Instagram ads and Google Ads, let's like spend two hours cleaning up our Google business profile. So I think this is a good thing for spring. A little spring cleanup for our business pages and I'm going to do it myself for Tom's River. Let's do some things. Let's check the business name. Let's make sure the phone number is working. Let's check the website link. Let's update our service areas. Let's update the business description. Do we have the proper services listed? Fertilization, aeration, mosquito control. Have we updated? We need to update more photos. Logo and cover photo. Video is big now in Google Business profiles. Is your messaging turned on? Where is that messaging going? Give your hours listed. So if you have no photos or at least 20, let's go take some tomorrow of something of equipment, of trucks. So they can look to seeing your truck online to. Then they see the truck on the road and say, wow, that guy. I've seen that somewhere else. Some of your most beautifully cut lawns. So again, reviews impact ranking, Reviews impact trust. Get as many reviews as you can. If you have five customers, get a review from each of those five customers. You can text them right now, send them the link and say, please fill this out. It would really help me. Boom, you have five reviews. Five is better than none. Then you get another customer, you get six, another one, you get seven. Most of the companies we don't ask consistently, but I'm, I shared with you how I ask. It's automatically done through Jobber once I complete the visit. And you better believe I have 10 accounts in the new branch. I need all 10 of those people to leave reviews because, you know, and other things too. You can post on, on, on, on, on these on Google, right? You can post updates, post photos, post promotions, post your new services, seasonal reminders. Google sees this. They see activity as legitimacy that helps with your ranking. We worked out all the new service areas for the new branch. I'm going to be updating that, tying it to my main website with another landing page for just that branch and start building that out. There's some mistakes too. Some people set this up they never touch it again, never think about it again. Instead, I think treat it like a credibility engine, right? That it's something that needs to be updated monthly, weekly. However, whatever your cadence wants to be, it is a sales tool. It is the hub of where people make decisions to pull the trigger. I have to say I ask in Google or I ask on my job request from how you found me, I have to say 8 out of 10 times, it's Google. If someone Google's your business tonight, Ask yourself, if someone Google's your business tonight, what do they say? And if the answer is not much, then set up a Google business profile or update it. That's your homework. And I'm going to do it myself too, because I'm doing it with you. With the new branch and I'm set. I didn't just set it up and leave it. I'm gonna get photos up on it. I'm gonna get five reviews in the next 30 days. I'm gonna add 25 photos this month. I'm gonna get it going. I encourage you to do that as well. This is time sensitive. This is. This should be done before the spring rush. It's not hard. We got snow on the ground. Still, we can be doing these things and optimizing, setting up our Google business profiles and really making them look great. I encourage you to do the same. I will be doing the same for the new branch and I hope this was helpful to you guys. We'll catch you on the next one.

Mike Garvey (10:41)

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Mike Garvey (11:24)

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