Sharing is something that we all should do. It’s that feeling of providing what isn’t always palpable. Each of us walk different paths, sometimes close to one another and sometimes not. Nonetheless, life is always a learning curve and living in a community (which I believe most of us do) means cohabiting with others` lifestyles, learning new bits of knowledge, sewing new friendships, expanding however we can.
Doing all of this with others creates infinite possibilities. A few years back I got to know the Local Guides program and how it made me feel that way about my community. We don’t always find easy ways to share and being able to do that through your smartphone is, honestly, groundbreaking, since it enables us to reach far more people.
I go out a lot with my friends and so, I started sharing experiences of places I went to, expecting to reveal how it felt for a common person to be there. I imagined “Why not?”, since, like myself, there must be others craving for information and tips of where to go out there. Whenever I went out, Google asked me to review my experience and It’s exactly what I did, always considering what could be helpful, useful, meaningful and, most of all, with an impartial point of view before I wrote.
That’s when Google sent me an email informing those reviews had reached more than 5 thousand views.
I couldn’t believe it, because that meant I could potentially be informing or helping 5 thousand people shape their own experiences. That kept me motivated and I almost tripled that number.
The Local Guides program also helps me give business owners a north, considering it’s not always easy to measure customers` happiness, and that could influence their decisions, marketing strategy, menu creating, and so on.
It’s fun knowing other people might consider going somewhere because of something I wrote or said and that gives me responsibility to commit to certain values, since that is influencing.