I love enriching the the Google Maps experience by giving back to the communities. Everyone benefits from photos, either accurate street views to know what to look for when driving by, or what to expect when on the inside if the location is a store, hotel, or restaurant. By pumping more content into businesses, the business owners/operators will potentially be given more exposure and more sales. The past several years has seen an increase in preference for buying local and give more attention to independently owned businesses. The one main thing independently owned businesses lack are exposure and getting the word out. I haven’t actively tracked the greater results of my posting of pictures and reviews of these smaller places, but I would like to think that my input has and does help businesses with a bit of an edge and begin to attract more customers.
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