Collect And Post Reviews To Google Places For Local Marketing

I've put together a video series, "20 Tips To Grow By", for businesses with a local market to a) help them get found by the people already looking for them, and b) help them do more business with their current customers and visitors.

The information in these videos could be vital to the success of your business. I offer you a Free Marketing Analysis because it is so important and I know I can help.

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The Third video in the series is: Collect and Post Reviews. I have a friend who has a computer repair business in Lindenhurst, IL. When I type that into Google the mapped results are at the top of the page with my friends listing showing first. I want to post a review for him. Let's go to his place page. Google tells us he already has 8 reviews. Along with a lot of other information on his place page is the actual reviews as they are listed in Yahoo and Dex Knows, and also a Google review.

Just below the review section is "related places". This is our competition and Google puts it on all place pages to give the searcher/visitor some other places to go just in case they did not find what they were looking for at this place. When we have a lot of information and reviews on our place page, that pushes this related places section way down on your page. Chances are, if we included a lot of information and reviews, our visitor will never notice this section.

Back to posting a review for my friend. It is often best to start with a review that a customer has hand-written. I print out a form to give to customers. After they fill it out and sign it, I scan it and upload it to posterous.com where I also type out the review in the same post as the scanned review. Posterous allows you to post via email also which makes this service quite convenient, as it is also free.

I filled out a form for my friend's business and scanned it. Then I uploaded it to posterous and typed it also. When I finish posterous gives me a link that leads back to this post. Now I type or copy and paste my review to Google with a note at the bottom "original review can be found at " followed by the link from posterous. The goal is to collect real reviews and post them in such a way that they appear real also.

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