Sams Teach Yourself Google Places in 10 Minutes

A clear, super quick, easy-to-understand guide for new Google Places users The first book to cover Google Places! Google Places allows small business owners to cost-effectively market to potential customers while they are searching online. Organized into lessons that distill the most crucial information on each Google Places topic. More than four million businesses have already signed up for their place page. Google Places is a hot new Google service for small to medium sized businesses (SMBs). There are more than 4 million businesses with storefronts in the US alone, and possibly 10 million US businesses who are good candidates for Google Places. According to Google, more than 80% of local information queries are made by online search. This is increasing as Google Maps catches on, with free turn-by-turn navigation on smartphones and integration with Google Contacts and Google Earth. Sams Teach Yourself Google Places in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers for fast results. By working through the 10-minute lessons, readers learn everything they need to know to quickly and easily master Google Places. Step-by-step instructions walk readers through the most common questions, issues, and tasks... Did You Know? tips offer insider advice and shortcuts... Watch Out! alerts help them avoid problems. Sams Teach Yourself Google Place in 10 Minutes tips pointing out helpful shortcuts and solutions, cautions to help avoid common Google Places pitfalls, and is written in a clear easy to understand format.