Hello good people,
Any tips on how we could tap on sponsorship for meet ups.
What experiences do you have to share from your local guides community?
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Hi @KevinWa , can you share in details about the “sponsorship”? Please note that Google will not provide funding for Local Guides initiated meet-ups.
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I would recommend reaching out to local guides in your area. When you have enough interest to have a good size meeting, I would then recommend starting with a newly opened local business that may be interested in some publicity. Perhaps you can arrange for your own Happy Hour, or discounted dinner and drinks in return for posting reviews, pictures, and ensuring they are accurately mapped on Google with links, address, and pictures. Work with local businesses to Help Them, and maybe they’ll be willing to Help You with a partial-sponsorship meet up.
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The reviews should be from anonymous visits. Your idea of sponsorship reviews for free drinks or discounted dinner is not helpful for people which are looking for good places. The reviews should be trustfully for orders. The status ogłoszenia local guides is not for earning money or free drinks.
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I understand what you’re saying, but I wasn’t suggesting their reviews be in exchange for positive reviews. Similar to Amazon’s Vine program, discounted products for honest reviews, offered to those who have shown a history of effective product reviews, it was simply to encourage reviews and spread the word.
As far as reviews being anonymous, you are aware that reviews are actually PUBLIC and profiles/profile pictures are viewable by others, right?
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When you take some profits from the place you will feel obligate to write a good review. Also the place which will give something for the group of local guides behave different as to the other guests.
You are anonymous at the moment of being at the place. You are as aby other guest. After that your opinion is public.
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Point taken.
+1
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In my opinion the support should come from Google and his partners. Maybe more levels and different rules of points. Now the quality of opinions od photos does not matter. Now the most important is quantity. To write good review is much more difficult than to give rates for 15 places. In long term users wont be able to trust in opinions where quantity is more important than quality.
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Your idea is good and i appreciate it
But to conduct an event and to bring new people we have to make them happy someway
May not a dinner but atlest some batches and small goodies may b provided to keep the spirit up and to make people to contribute much actively for the community
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