{"id":4163,"date":"2009-08-11T08:17:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T12:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=4163"},"modified":"2009-08-12T17:21:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T21:21:18","slug":"google-maps-starts-newsletter-and-account-updates-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/11\/google-maps-starts-newsletter-and-account-updates-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps starts Newsletter and Account Updates Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update 8\/12\/09 4:50 PM: <\/strong>I just received the newsletter in my mailbox. Just one showed up, but no stats just yet. Ok its 5:06 and I just received a second email with a different subject but the same newsletter but now including an overview of stats for one of the listings in the LBC.<\/p>\n<p>In July of 2008, Google <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/google-lbc-upgrades-business-communications\/\">added additional communication capability settings<\/a> to the Local Business Center where an LBC account was able to request a newsletter and updates to their LBC account. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/lbc\/nl\/august2009.html#utm_source=newsletter-lbchelpcenter&amp;utm_medium=et&amp;utm_campaign=en_us\">first newsletter<\/a> has just been released .<\/p>\n<p>Here are the contents of the first newsletter:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 520px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/lbc\/nl\/images\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" height=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table style=\"width: 520px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"436\" height=\"80\" valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/lbc\/nl\/images\/lbc_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Google Local Business Center\" width=\"366\" height=\"58\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Local Business Newsletter Issue #1 &#8211; August, 2009<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"191\" valign=\"middle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/lbc\/nl\/images\/LBC-logo-medium.jpg\" alt=\"LBC logo\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" height=\"3\" valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/lbc\/nl\/images\/dottedLines_002.jpg\" alt=\"dotted lines\" vspace=\"8\" width=\"567\" height=\"2\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">\n<table style=\"color: #0066cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"59%\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">In This Issue:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Letter from the Local Business Center Team<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tips and Tricks<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"color: #0066cc; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/lbc\/nl\/august2009.html#0.1_Dashboard\">Using the Dashboard: Power Tip<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"color: #0066cc; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/lbc\/nl\/august2009.html#0.1_Optimize\">Optimize your local business listings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">August Business of the Month: TCHO Chocolates<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"color: #0066cc; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/lbc\/nl\/august2009.html#0.1_Chocolate\">Two San Francisco entrepreneurs bring their chocolate company online.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"color: #0066cc; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/lbc\/nl\/august2009.html#0.1_LBCstory\">Tell us your Local Business Center story!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Latest from Google:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"color: #0066cc; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/lbc\/nl\/august2009.html#0.1_Driving\">Driving directions on your website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/maps\/thread?tid=54201aa0f76a5bd5&amp;hl=en\">Google pos<\/a>t in the Help Forums the communication also includes the ability to get a snapshot of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/carter-maslan-comments-on-the-new-data-rich-desktop-for-the-lbc\/\">data rich dashboard<\/a> emailed on a monthly basis. It is not clear whether the mailings started or will occur over the coming month.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/lbc-upgrade.jpg\" alt=\"LBC Settings\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 8\/12\/09 4:50 PM: I just received the newsletter in my mailbox. Just one showed up, but no stats just yet. Ok its 5:06 and I just received a second email with a different subject but the same newsletter but now including an overview of stats for one of the listings in the LBC. 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