Hi guys,
this post ist just for fun! Cause its so much fun to be a Local Guide! And its double fun when your partner is a Local Guide too!
Here is our story. My hubby has been a Local Guide almost since the beginning of the program. We were on our vacation on the US West Coast and though that it looks a bit strange if each of us start to write reviews on the restaurants we visited together. Contributing to Google Maps was like a game for us and we felt ourselves like very important examiners of this and that location. It was just fun to lie in the bed in the evening and remember where we had been and what we had visited that day, discuss what we liked and what could be improved. My hubby left then reviews from his account.
After returning back home from this exiting vacation, my hubby continued to contribute to Google Maps and I… well, it took me another year or so till I registered as a Local Guide myself. We got our first child and being a Local Guide became my huge hobby. Through this program I was able to open my tiny moms world to the international community, to show how beautiful my surrounding are, share useful information and improve the quality of Google Maps presence of many local businesses.
So it turned out that both of us became Local Guides. And at this point the real fun just began!!!
It is so exiting to share our experience on Google Maps while having a dinner together! It is so challenging to compare the monthly updates and the amount of points while kids are asleep! It is so passionate to discuss who is allowed to take pictures of what while entering a shopping mall together!
As a result I was invited to attend the Local Guides Summit 2017 and my hubby the Connect Live 2018! And each of us is thankful to the other for pushing forward and supporting at any down.
A couple of months ago our personal challenge had its peak – both my hubby and I were missing just about 1,500 to reach the next level. We had a strategy meeting every evening and discussed how and when each of us is going to achieve this goal. I loved that time! My hubby won by the way – he was like a week ahead of me!
Or this challenge to decide how to divide a shopping mall or a grocery store between us to avoid similar photos! From one side the most simple way is he takes the left side and me right (the lady is always right, right?!)))). But some huge labels can dominate on one of both sides, or there might be a turn at the end to only one side! And the most important questions – who gets the kids and who is more mobile to cover more places?! :-)))))
You cant imagine HOW much I LOVE this our little hobby we share!!!
My hubby is winning on the amounts of places he manages within Google My Business as well as amount (and quality) of 360 degrees photos, as well as views per one photo.
I am better at all the other stuff ?
If I find someone to film us, I will make a video about life as a Local Guides Family – sharing the passion and competing the results at the same time ?
Please tell me we are not the only ones! Do your partners can understand and support you being a Local Guide?! Although nothing supports more than a challenge ?
Cheers, Ksenia
@JuanChnow you have met both of us! The next time come over and we will introduce our kids!
Oh by the was kids! They are very well aware of what Local Guides do - they do photos and check the diaper stations :-)))
Our toddler knows perfectly when one of us says - come lets hide! (when we are taking a 360 degrees photo) - and he loves this game and explains the rules to other kids sometimes ? And he also often “takes a photo” of his meal prior to eating it ? That looks sooooo sweeeet, you cannot imagine!
Cheers, Ksenia
My partner loves helping me out with my contributions on Google Maps. He always makes sure that I have mentioned all the important details in my reviews and his photography skills are always very handy when I’m struggling to capture a photo of a place or dish. Unfortunately he haven’t yet committed fully to Local Guides, even though he loves the program and what it represent. Thinking about it, I don’t really know why, probably because it’s not a habit of his, but hopefully with time things will change. We’ll see. 
I have even come up with a term for that crazy phenomenon: level fever.
why not 
