Walk through creating a Google Business Profile from start to finish. Add your business name, category, hours, and photos. Once you verify your mailing address, your listing shows up when people search for you.
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Foreign. Look at setting up a Google My business profile. It's really quick and easy to do, it's free and it helps customers to find you when searching online. So it's definitely something that every business should look to do. So if you come to google.com business you'll come to this screen and then you click on sign in. You will need a Google account to set this up and then you come to here and you just simply type in your business name. And then your business category. So I'm going to put Education center here as this is maybe's training account. But just obviously find whatever matches your business best and then you click next. But if you have a store or an office where customers can actually visit, you would click yes here and complete the details. But I'm going to click no and just here. Then you actually include all the places where you actually serve your customers. For the purposes of this I'm going to put United Kingdom for maybe. Then you would add a contact number and your website. Obviously the more information you put in about your business, the more ways customers can reach you and find out information about you. So if definitely best to complete as much detail as you can. And once you've done that, you click next and just here it will ask you about verifying your mailing address. So you'd complete your details there and verify. But I'm going to click verify later for this video and then based on the category you put in, it will give you some services that you potentially could offer. So I'm going to click Adult Lessons, but you can select whatever suits your business and whatever matches what you do. And you can add custom Surface. So if you want to add something else that maybe you don't already see there. And then next and then just here you add your business hours. So these are obviously the hours that you're open that your customers can expect to either get in touch or contact you. And then you would complete the hours that you're actually open to. And then you would click Next. But I'm going to skip for the purposes of this and then it'll ask you whether you want customers to be able to message you on Google for free. So it's a great way to give customers options as to how they actually get in touch with you. So you can obviously click yes or no to that, but I'm going to leave it as yes. And then you add a business description. So add in here obviously what best matches what you actually offer and what you do and obviously why customers would want to buy from you. So I'm going to put that, maybe provide social media training and support for UK businesses. We do operate wider than that, but that will be perfect for this purpose. And then next. And then it asks about adding photos of your business, which absolutely do that. It brings your Google my business profile to life. So maybe you'd want to include something like your shop front here or some pictures of your team or some products that you offer, but definitely add in photos just there because it just, it just will make your profile pop and jump out. I'm going to click Skip for the purposes of this video and here, then it asks you about some free advertising credits. So if you want to look at advertising on Google, it's definitely worth looking at that, but I'm going to skip. So we're nearly there. So, as it says here, you can edit, update your profile anytime. So obviously, if you complete some details and then think, oh, I wish I didn't mention that we offer this or do that, you can actually edit that at any time. So worry if there's something you haven't included because you can actually go in there and that's it. So this isn't visible yet because obviously the mailing address hasn't been verified. But once that's done, this profile would be visible for anyone to search. And if they were searching for a service area or name or whatever they were actually searching for, if that matched my profile, they would potentially find me on Google through that Google search. It's definitely worth doing. Hope that's been useful. I'll see you on another video soon.
