{"id":5469,"date":"2009-12-09T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=5469"},"modified":"2009-12-08T17:45:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T21:45:52","slug":"google-favorite-places-poster-start-arriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/09\/google-favorite-places-poster-start-arriving\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Favorite Places Poster Start Arriving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my clients, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbaraoliverandco.com\/\">Barbara Oliver &#038; Co. Jewelry in Buffalo<\/a> for whom I do some internet marketing, received a <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/google-promoting-maps-with-100000-favorite-places-poster\/\">Favorite Places poster<\/a> and a congratulations letter today. Her initial reaction was muted and somewhat suspicious but once I explained that she was one of only 100,000 in the US and one of probably only 20 or so in Buffalo, she was quite pleased. <\/p>\n<p>The promotion is an interesting one, essentially recognizing early and successful adopters of the LBC in higher traffic, retail industries. I was surprised at the skepticism of the client upon first receiving the poster. I guess that SMB&#8217;s have been trained in cynicism by years of dealing with the Yellow Page folks and coping with the current onslaught of on-line offers. In her case, a 7-Pack listing has brought measurable and substantial business.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the letter that she received (click to view larger).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Favorite-Places-Letter1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Favorite-Places-Letter1.jpg\" alt=\"Favorite-Places-Letter\" title=\"Favorite-Places-Letter\" width=\"520\" height=\"690\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my clients, Barbara Oliver &#038; Co. Jewelry in Buffalo for whom I do some internet marketing, received a Favorite Places poster and a congratulations letter today. Her initial reaction was muted and somewhat suspicious but once I explained that she was one of only 100,000 in the US and one of probably only &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5469"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5479,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469\/revisions\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}