{"id":6414,"date":"2010-04-06T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=6414"},"modified":"2010-04-05T22:39:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T02:39:06","slug":"google-to-offer-local-business-center-webinar-to-smbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/06\/google-to-offer-local-business-center-webinar-to-smbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to Offer Local Business Center Webinar to SMBs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Google Maps team will be offering a brief 45 minute webinar about the basics of the Local Business Center with a\u00a0focus on Local Business Center for small businesses. It will cover:<br \/>\n&#8211; adding and verifying your local business listing to Google<br \/>\n&#8211; creating a great listing<br \/>\n&#8211; frequently asked questions<\/p>\n<p>You will need to sign up on this <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets1.google.com\/viewform?formkey=dG85MTlLM1RPdWpxdkJYelpYSFlOUkE6MQ\">form<\/a> so that Google can send you an email invitation.  Sign-ups close Friday, April 9, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Since last year with the rollout of the Favorite Places <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/google-offers-new-ads-promoting-maps-with-a-maplet\/\">campaign<\/a>, their Favorite Places <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/google-promoting-maps-with-100000-favorite-places-poster\/\">Poster Campaign<\/a> &#038; sponsorship of <a href=\"http:\/\/getlisted.org\/university\/\">GetList.org Local U<\/a>, Google Maps has been involved in more efforts to reach out to SMBs and educate them about the Local Business Center and its potential. Its a welcome communication strategy that can only increase SMB participation and understanding of Local.*<\/p>\n<p>Full Disclosure &#8211; Google Maps is one of the primary sponsors of GetListed Local Univeristy of which I am participating instructor and organizer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Google Maps team will be offering a brief 45 minute webinar about the basics of the Local Business Center with a\u00a0focus on Local Business Center for small businesses. It will cover: &#8211; adding and verifying your local business listing to Google &#8211; creating a great listing &#8211; frequently asked questions You will need to &#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-6414","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\/6414","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=6414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6417,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions\/6417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}