Hello everyone! Henry Ghost here! Today I want to tell you how the Google Local Guides Program has changed my daily routine!
It all started as everybody starts, receiving some notifications from google maps asking for a qualification or a review of some place I recently visted. I used to not paying too much attention to those notifications, sometimes I did write the review, sometimes I did not. But the magic happened just last year, there was a click between the Google Local Guides Program and me. It specifically happened when I notice the mails from Google with my Timeline Update and the mails with “Your photos reached a new record on Google!” as subject. And there was when I realize the impact that I was causing.
Since then the Google Local Guides Program took a different meaning to me, I was and I am being part of something big and important. I am now a factor that can help local businesses, and at the same time I also help people to discover places and at the same time (sorry for the redundancy) I encourage myself to go visit new places. And here is where everything gets interesting, in order to add points to my profile I always try to go to new places.
Whenever I go visiting a new place, automatically starts a new experience and I think that is what Google Local Guides Program is all about: Experiences. Experiences for us, the Local Guides and experiences for those who just read and see the pictures.
What I like most about these experiences of going to new places is how the experience is captured through the photos. I always try to get as many photos as I can in order to transmit the whole experience to others. I also love the badges/insignia section. They are like challenges to complete and as I am a gamer I want to complete them!. Recently I have been busy with that. The Google Local Guides Program has become a little job to me. A little job that I love to do and that makes me be closer with my loved ones through experiences.
Unfortunately, here in Mexico, meetings between Local Guides are not used but so far so good interacting through the app!
Caption: Here we are (my girlfriend and me) eating some tacos at a restaurant we found in Google Maps! You should definitely try them!!