1. Online advertising like Google Places is the way of the future, and it will soon replace paper phone directory listings that cost thousands of dollars per year.
2. Google Places is free.
3. When your Google Places listing is optimized properly, your business listing appears on the first page of Google.
4. You can offer discounts and coupons for one day, one week, or one month.
5. Your website, physical mailing address, and your phone number are displayed in your listing, which allows customers to find you more quickly and to get the information they need.
6. Mobile phone users can find your business listing immediately, and they don’t need a computer to do it.
7. You will receive more traffic and new customers.
8. You don’t need a physical retail or warehouse location to get accepted into Google Places.
9. By using citations and reviews, your Google Places will move up in ranking. With high ranking, within eight weeks, rather than eight months or eight years, your free advertising with Google Places will bring you more targeted customers faster than traditional organic methods.
10. Finally, and the most important to your financial goals, is that because it is so easy for customers to find your business listing, you will make more money than you did before your business was listed in Google Places.
