If you’re a local business and have not heard of Groupon, you will.  They’ve been around for 3 years and have been building a coupon/offer business with a social networking aspect.  We’ve been tracking them for awhile and have heard many great success stories about their service for local businesses.  That’s just been further validated by a whopping $135 million investment, putting their company valuation at $1.25 billion!  Therefore, we thought it was time to put together a short blog on the service offering for local businesses to understand what it is, how it’s helped others, and what to expect.

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Google is finally making their Maps product friendly to home-based and service businesses who are very local in nature, but they don’t have a “physical location”. They often come to you. Until now, businesses had to display a physical address to get a listing on Google Maps in one location. This makes it difficult for service-based businesses that come to you, target additional towns/cities. This new feature (still in testing) should solve that problem.

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