Cool perks for local guides ¿?

Hi

I am just wondering about when are the cool perks happening for local guides who are in the upper levels. I started being a local guide for no other interest than sharing my own perspective of places and food. I am so happy to know that my photos are very much viewed and have succesfully helped people.

For me, pictures speak more than a thousand words. I have found many times myself looking at photos from other local guides to decide about places and food I would want to try at certain place. Having pictures from places and food does help a lot when deciding or going somewhere new.

So, I do appreciate other people’s efforts when they take the time to capture a place or food. I do invest some time in capturing the best shot and this involves making a stop (when on the road) or walking the extra mile to visit a place and get that picture. Other times, I try to capture the best shot for the meal I ordered, and this unfortunately makes my meal warm or makes me drool and hangry while I attempt to capture the dish.

So, with all this, (I guess it has happened to some of you as well) I sometimes wonder if there will be any cool benefits for us, I mean, the people that take their time to make photos and upload them. Many other sites compensate their “content creators” VERY WELL… so… we are also these kind of “content creators” and there are no cool benefits (in my own experience) for us ( sadly :frowning: )

I think it would be very encouraging, nice and supportive to receive some kind of reward for making these kind of contributions, in the end, we are spending our most valuable resource: time. Anyways, i’ll keep posting cool stuff for people :smiley: and hopefully some cool perks will come along as well.

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Hi @Grecia ,

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your feedback with us.

As you are new to Connect, you probably are not aware of this, but the Local Guides program is constantly evolving. Perks for different locations may be offered from time to time. That said, benefits are not specified for each and every level. The points that you earn leads to higher levels of the program, as well as to benefits like early access to Google features and special perks from partners. Also, if you have any suggestions about a specific perk that you would like us to review, please feel free to share your idea in the Idea Exchange board.

To maximize your chances of being eligible for a future perk opportunity, continue to add high quality contributions to Google Maps. The best way to be informed about future perks is to make sure you update your email preferences visiting your setting.

P.S.: I’ve released your post from our spam quarantine. Apologies for any inconvenience caused - our spam filters are sensitive and can be triggered by a myriad of functions. To learn more about this topic, feel free to check - Why was my Connect post marked as spam?. And one last thing, I relabeled your publication and it now appears in the How-tos section, which is dedicated to questions that Local Guides may have about the program.