Set your Google Business hours to when you accept appointments, add a note asking customers to call, and include a calendar link. Google sends a postcard to verify your address and marks you closed outside those hours, but your profile stays visible.
So I'm at— I, I'm filling it out as we're going and I'm stuck at add business hours. I, I want them to call for an appointment, but it doesn't have that. It just says open or closed, and then the open, it says provide a valid time, for example, 2:45 PM. I want them to call for an appointment.
So what I would do is put the range of time where you would Accept an appointment and then in your description put in there, please call for an appointment because they don't have that as an option.
Okay. And I'm under the impression from you is that all— and they're going to send me a postcard to validate my address. They usually do. Yes. Okay. They said it's going to take 5 days. Well, it's Hawaii, so it could take however long it's going to take. Yeah. But my impression is the more information that I make myself available validates the place that I'm a real business, right?
Yes, the more complete your profile is, the happier Google is, if that's what you're trying to say.
That's what I'm trying to say.
That's why you want to have hours Like, like my hours I put, I think are 9 because I don't take any appointments before 9 and I either closed it at 3 or 4 because I don't want anything after that. But again, it's not, I'm not a drop-in service. And so people always call for an appointment and there should be a link in there further down, Katie, where you can put, if you using an appointment calendar, you can put that link in there.
Okay, well, not my calendar link. That's so funny because I put 9 to 4 before you gave me that suggestion. So that tells me I'm on the right path.
Yeah. And then I have mine that says I'm closed on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday because honestly I'm closed on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. And then if someone visits your profile outside of your posted hours, it'll actually say closed. On your profile is where the hours are.
Oh, okay. So is your profile still visible?
Yes.
Okay.
It's just, it's not like the business is closed. It just lets people know that they're not open. And I believe it says closed, opening again at, you know, like the next day at 9 o'clock for me.
Thank you.
