today i want to show you how to set up your google my business listing for maximum exposure so you
can get more customers from google 100 for free so your google my business profile is kind of like
your facebook business page but the cool thing about google is that people are actually going
to google to search out answers so they might be typing in electrician in phoenix arizona or
real estate agent in phoenix arizona and if you have your google my business profile set up and
optimized the right way more than likely your profile is going to show at the very top
without spending any money on paid advertising so that when someone types in a real estate agent
in phoenix arizona they're going to see your google my business profile very first they're
going to click on it and they're going to work with you now the important thing with all this
if you want to rank at the very top you need to have a complete google my business profile which
we're going to jump on my computer i'm going to show you step by step how to set all this up but
a complete profile means you have more five star reviews than the next person you have all updated
complete information and you have the brand new google my business features set up which is google
my business chat and the cool thing about this is if somebody is searching for your business
or real estate agent in phoenix arizona on their mobile phone which most people are searching on
their mobile phone these days they're going to be able to have one simple tap and be able to chat
with your business and if you have this set up the right way like i'm going to show you guys you can
text back and forth with this person directly from your mobile phone so you never miss another lead
again so with that said guys let me jump onto my computer and show you how to set this google my
business profile up step by step and if you do not already have a google my business profile
go through and pause this video and take action and get everything set up step by step and if you
already do have a google my business profile maybe at the end of this video take some notes and then
go update your profile so you're more likely to actually rank at the top of google when someone
is searching for your business all right so let me show you how to set this up step by step and the
best part about this this is a hundred percent for free and if you take these simple steps
you can actually rank your business at the top of google 100 for free without paying any money
on advertising so the first thing you're going to do is go to google.com forward slash business and
i'll have a link down below as well so you guys can go through and do that and it's going to give
you a quick overview of what we're going to go through and set up but what you need to do is
you need to sign in first to your google account so i'm just going to quickly sign in right here
now once you've signed in it's going to prompt you to go through and add your business and you
can see right here i've already got a couple of businesses added but to go through and add a new
business we're just going to click on add business and do add a single business now if your business
is already in google system you're going to go through and just type it in right here but if it's
not in the system you've never done any of this before what we're going to do is click on add your
business to google all right so right here we're going to create our business profile so this is
just like creating your own facebook business page but it's going to allow us to be found on google
which is extremely powerful so your business name right here there's a few things that we need to
keep in mind when we're going through and setting up our business name so let's say we are a real
estate agent and i'm just going to go through and type in jason wardrop real estate agent because
more than likely if somebody's going through and typing in the search bar for a real estate agent
in phoenix arizona they're probably going to type in real estate agent phoenix arizona right or the
same thing with an electrician electrician phoenix arizona so you want to go through and be able to
leverage these different keywords in your actual business profile however if you do take this to
the extreme your google my business profile can get flagged by google so don't go through and
saying jason wardrop real estate agent near me and phoenix arizona because that just doesn't
make sense whatsoever but go through and say jason wardrop real estate agent or jason wardrop real
realty or realtor that totally makes sense right now these keyword strategies are something
important to keep in mind because if i go over here and i type in google electrician near me
check out these business names so kinser electrical contracting llc
although that is the name of their llc it's not the best way to structure the name of your
business for your google my business profile okay so i would say something like kinser electrician
and then whatever the city is in okay so those are some different things to keep in mind as you're
going through and creating your business profile account here then as far as the business category
what i would do for a real estate agent i would do real estate agent and then you can see if you
got agency or agents um depending on if you're a solo agent or if you're a full-on team i would go
through and choose whatever works best for you so i'm just going to do real estate agents right here
then i'm going to click next now what it's going to do is just going to walk you step by step
through creating this entire profile now remember what i said earlier google likes it when you have
the most up-to-date information on your profile so do you want to add a location customers can visit
now obviously depending on your business business maybe customers don't actually
visit a physical location but if there's any chance of them actually visiting your specific
location i would put yes and type in the address and all the contact information because
google likes to have the best information as possible and whatever listing is going to have
the best and most accurate information possible that is the one they're more likely to show at
the very top of their search engine now for this example just because it's a demo i'm just going to
click on no right here but then it's going to walk us to you where do you serve your customers so
this is where you're going to want to go through and put your exact city your address everything so
we're going to go through and we're going to click next and like i said even though this is optional
highly recommend going through and filling out every step of your google my business profile
okay then down here what region is your business base in united states or whatever country you're
located in how are they going to actually contact you you want to throw in your website you want to
throw in your contact phone number okay even though it says i don't need a website you want
to go through and have that website because like i said the more accurate the information is the
more likely google is going to actually rank your business when somebody is typing into search terms
for to find a business just like yours so for this example i just threw in some basic information
we're going to click next now next what it's going to do is going to ask us to put in our mailing
address to verify the business so what we're going to do is we're going to put in our mailing
address this could be where you actually live or where you work whatever works best with you
but what's going to happen is google needs to verify your business and verify the actual
location so they're going to send out a little postcard and it's going to have a confirmation
id and that's going to happen for the next two to three days after we complete this listing
and then once you get that postcard you need to go back to your google my business profile
type in that id so that your business can go through and be activated and go live on the google
search engines now although you can go through and verify your business later this is an extremely
important step because until you have verified your profile you are not going to go through and
rank in the search engine so obviously this is just a demo so i'm going to hit verify later but
i don't recommend doing that i would go through and fill out all this information because the
sooner you can get that postcard the sooner you can go through and put in that little id code
and the sooner you can activate your google my business profile so for this example i'm just
going to do verify later so now it's going to have you add your services and like i said although you
can skip it i highly recommend going through and filling this out as complete as possible so it has
right here appraisal so we're just going to click on that and we can even come in here and say home
evaluation something like that and we're just going to hit next so next we're going to add our
business hours so what we're going to do is just going to check on monday do the opening time the
closing time you're going to do that for every single day of the week and like i said you want
a complete profile for this example i'm just going to click skip for right now and then the
ad messaging this is huge guys this is a brand new feature that google my business is releasing
and this is so powerful this is going to allow people that are searching for your business
on their phone to be able to just tap message business and i'm going to show you guys here in
just a second how you can get it going directly to your mobile phone to text back and forth with
that customer with that potential client so you never lose another customer you never
lose another lead again so we want to accept messaging right here we're going to click next and
then we're going to go through and add a business description okay and like i said be thorough
with this add a couple of sentences i would add three to five sentences about who you are what
you do even if you're like a real estate agent or electrician and everyone already knows what you do
go through and add the information and let people know what you do and how you can help them so for
this one i'm just going to hit skip and then once again add some photos right here add some nice
professional photos the the key thing about photos guys is people are very visual so the better the
photos the more likely somebody's gonna actually click on your profile so make sure you're going
through and getting good quality photos that you're gonna go through and add to your google
my business profile and if you don't have great photos right now that's okay you can go through
and add a photo or two just something that you've got on hand but then i highly recommend going and
getting some great photos taken of your business to help you get ranked higher and then once you're
ranked to get people to actually click on your google my business profile okay so skipping this
right here um this one is going through and setting up an ad for your business we don't
need to go through and do this obviously that's how google goes through and makes their money
um but we don't need to go through and set up an ad because some of these little strategies that
i'm walking through right now are going to just naturally help you get ranked in the top of google
with your business profile so we'll click on skip right here it says your business profile is almost
ready we're going to click continue and then it's going to take us to this final thing right
now so this is a quick overview of the profile that we just created and you can see right here
verification needed so this is where they're going to send you out that postcard and once you
get that postcard it's going to have a little id number on it and then we're just going to click on
verify now and it's going to go through and verify the business and obviously i didn't put in the
the address but once you put in the address then it's going to when you hit verify now it's going
to have you put in that little id code and you should be good to go and another one of
the big keys of actually getting your google my business profile ranked is your online reviews
the more online reviews you have the more five star online reviews you have the more likely
your business is going to show up at the top but in order to start getting these online reviews
you have to have your business verified and to start doing the google my business messaging
you also have to have your business verified so go through and get that done get it verified as
soon as possible and then once it's verified i want to show you guys how to go through and
automate all of your online reviews and also add the google my business chat to be able to text
back and forth with all of your customers right from your mobile phone all right so to automate
your online reviews as well as with your google my business chat and be able to text back and forth
with a customer you have to use a third-party software so this is a third-party software that
i'm going to have a link down below if you guys want to go through and get started with this
but all we're going to do is we just have to connect our google my business profile
to this third-party software and then everything is taken care of the online automated reviews and
the google my business chat button will actually appear on your google my business profile so that
when somebody searches out your business they can tap chat and message back and forth with your
business as you see right here so we're just going to click on settings we click on integrations
we connect our google account right here which is a super easy process we're going to click allow so
now that we have our google my business profile connected right here we can come over here to
google my business and select a google my business profile page okay so we come over here we've got
a drop down of all of our different um google my business profile so this is the one i just
created right here so jason wardrop real estate agent so i'm going to go through enable gmb call
tracking so that means we can go through and track anyone that calls in and if they call in
and if you're under unavailable we can send an automated follow-up text and say hey sorry we
missed your call is there anything that i can help you out with so that way you're not missing out
on potential customers and clients and you're able to convert more of these leads coming in
into actual appointments and close deals so we're just gonna go over here click connect right there
super easy just a couple of clicks to go through and integrate this and you can see now jason
wardrop real estate agent is all connected now the cool thing about this is now when we go and
type in your google my business profile name and you can see this is what it looks like when
you're pulling this up on mobile because most people are actually searching on their mobile
device if we scroll down right here we have a few ads but then check this out they can call
your business and this will go directly to you on your mobile phone they can tap chat right here
which are going to start a chat conversation back and forth that you can text this lead
they can get directions or pull up your website okay and then obviously we've got the reviews over
here go through and automate you can see they got 24.8 reviews and the more reviews you have
then the more likely you're going to go through and show up and the more complete your profile
having the calling chat website and directions be able to go through and connect with your business
more likely you're going to go through and actually show up at the top of google
when your potential clients and customers are searching you out so anyway guys i hope this
video was helpful on how to set up your google my business profile to maximize the exposure for
your business and like i said if you do not have a google my business profile quite yet
go through this video again pause the video and take action step by step get your business
verified as soon as possible and if you already have a google my business profile just go
in take notes of this video and go in and update it make sure it's a complete profile then if you
want go through and connect these third-party tools and softwares so you can automate your
online reviews so you can get more reviews more five star reviews so you're more likely to show
up the top and then also be able to chat back and forth with all of your customers that are
searching for your business so with that said if you found this video helpful go ahead smash that
like button i would greatly appreciate that if you have any other questions drop them below and i am
here to help answer any of your questions and with that said i will see you in the next video