How to help your local businesses, thrive and survive!

One of the things that motivates me to continue on my Google Maps journey is the assistance it provides local businesses, i.e.: mom and pop businesses, who sometimes have a hard time competing against larger competitors. So I will go up and down side streets, looking for businesses that I believe might not have a strong presence on Google maps. While there I check out their presence on Google maps and if it is limited, I will go in and take some pictures and then take some additional pictures from the outside. The photos I have attached is an example of a small auto body shop that if you drove by, you would not know what it was but you could easily harbor a guess, of course. I like to go back and check the amount of views that photo(s) has received and that lets me know that my efforts may have made a little bit of a difference for them since I made those posts. For me that is a great motivator.


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Great experience. Thanks for sharing. I love doing exactly the same.

You may want to check the guidelines about not sharing redundant photos to protect your account.

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Hello dear friend @RBGmilw , I appreciate your thoughts on helping the local business.

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Love to see what motivates me also motivated you, @RBGmilw.

No greater feeling than a business saying thank you or a friend trying a new place because of my photo or review!

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