Many Nigerian businesses are spending through their noses on advertizing. Yet, the current most effective way to attract loads of paying customers or clients to any local business is absolutely FREE OF CHARGE but most Nigerian businesses are missing out on it. That is Google My Business listing (also known as GMB - not General Muhammadu Buhari though).

There's this saying that "the best things in life are free". It is true about air and love. Then, as you will see, it is true about GMB also. With it, YOU CAN GET ON THE GOOGLE FIRST PAGE for very high-traffic buyer-intent keywords in 3 weeks or less and ALL FOR FREE.

BUT, THE POWER OF GMB LIES IN DOING IT WELL ONLY. OTHERWISE, YOU WILL SOON RUN INTO A FRUSTRATING RAT RACE WITH IT. So, if you are a serious business owner (especially if you run a local business), you really need to pay attention to this webinar - a personal gift from me to the Nairaland business community. So, you'd better made the TIME INVESTMENT once and for all because of its great great value to your business life.

I'm here to reveal the huge marketing opportunity in GMB and how YOU can exploit it to the full in the interest of your business success. Most of the things that you need to do are things only you can do for yourself since they need regular and instant access to private accounts whose details you shouldn't be sharing with 3rd parties (running your Google account, for example). I'm giving you THE FULLEST DETAILS YOU NEED TO DO WELL HERE.

IdJack:
Thanks for this.

Waiting for more information

Crystalline:
Please before you buy something on Jumia, take out time to visit their page and make sure to read and understand their return / refund policy.

In case you do not have the time to go through the policy, make sure you open the product package in front of the delivery man to at least see the condition of the product before you pay for it.

I placed an order for this Rimmel bronzer, it was delivered and I paid for it. On opening the package, I saw the product wasn't intact- the powder cake was broken into pieces, I immediately notified the delivery man of my findings. He apologized and explained they do not know the condition of the products as their job is to deliver already packed products, I understood.

I immediately sent a mail to jumia customer service and I was referred to their return policy, I explained that the product was already damaged before delivery but they insisted that I could not return it. WOW!

Someone has a bad product and another person is forced to pay for it and keep it. Something wey no be me spoil? I no understand.

I was really shocked and disappointed cos if this is how they do, then it will affect their reputation and they will definitely lose their customers.

Question: What measures have they put in place to ensure that 3rd parties who advertise on their website do not sell bad products and get away with it?

If any measures have been put in place, it means someone is not doing his/her job.

ekowo:
Thanks for the topic. Waiting for more lessons. I appreciate

VERY IMPORTANT: DIFFERENT WAYS TO VERIFY YOUR GOOGLE MY BUSINESS PROFILE

Verification is nothing else than the process of receiving a code from Google and entering the code into a field to prove that...

i. The business really exists
ii. The business really belongs to YOU.

But before Google can send you the code, you need to prove THE ABOVE TWO POINTS to them yourself. How do you do that?

Most businesses do the verification by receiving the code in a post card sent to their physical business addresses as supplied to Google during the GMB profile registration. This way, Google becomes very sure that the business address is real.

But the problem with postcard verification is that it wastes time. Also, many people have complained about NOT GETTING THE POST CARD AT ALL (probably due to postal service hiccups). Google gives 14 days for the post card to arrive at your address. But in the real sense, it may take up to 6 months to arrive or may never arrive eventually. And, the delay has become even worse since the COVID-19 pandemic started messing everything up.

Fortunately, there are other faster verification options available and they are:

i. By Phone
ii. By Email
iii. By Google Search Console

With each of these options, it takes less than 5 minutes to get verified. However, your eligibility to use any of these options depends on...

i. The information you supplied during the registration of your business profile.

ii. What suits your unique situation best.

NOTE: I can't share this information openly because I'm afraid that scam artists would take an undue advantage of it to further damage the reputation of the country's business community. So, if you truly have a real business, you will need to contact me via my profile to guide you one-on-one through the process. Please, THIS IS NOT FREE OF CHARGE. But it is very affordable. I'm using it mainly as one of the means for screening out unserious people who may use the information only to execute scam operations that may further damage the country's online reputation.

Through a Whatsapp chat, I will find out what suits you best and guide you through the registration process that will make you eligible to use any of the non-postcard options.

STEP 4: Optimize Your GMB Listing

This is what is called local SEO. It is all you do to get your GMB listing among the top 3 when many popular keywords related to your business is typed into Google search. If you can do this well, you will only need to sit down in your office and people that you've never seen will be calling you again and again and again to patronize you, just like these...

www.nairaland.com/attachments/13147436_screenshot20210215173729_jpeg0c84ce9c0309ed0f5844224c8b16a52c

www.nairaland.com/attachments/13147403_screenshot20210215173021_jpegacf4c443ddceec7be2590a8e5999aa53


www.nairaland.com/attachments/13147321_screenshot20210215173336_jpega86d2b03624791ea2378b54afe50e172

Imagine that you are the owner of one of the businesses that showed up in the above search results! Think of the loads of free and very targeted clients or customers you will be getting when hundreds or even thousands of people conduct Google searches from the comfort of their own homes or offices. You will not be wasting a single word or kobo to convince them to buy from you. Yet, they'd be flowing to you like the rivers of joy and gladness!

The good news is that you can achieve that in 2 to 3 weeks. And, once you have achieved it, all you'll need to maintain the position will be just as easy as browsing around Nairaland.

That's why I am going to be devoting a lot of time to this. So, stay tuned.

I have also created a Telegram Channel where I am going to be using other media (like video and audio) to reduce the amount of reading that you have to do. If you'd like to join the Channel, send your Telegram Phone number to raymorepartners(at)gmail.com to be added. Use your Telegram phone number as both the subject line and the body content of your email.

BrandBrainBox:
I'm now ready to entertain questions and observations before we continue.

Welcum:

Mine is APPRECIATION. Thanks for your generous heart. It's so detailed and insightful!