I have an online business and want to create a Googlee Business Profile/Google My Business Profile (what's the difference??).

My main goal is for our customers to leave Google reviews for us.

I already have a Google Ads account and I want to make sure it gets connected to my Google My Business Profile afterwards.

I am planning to get a business address at a co-working space but it may not be enough (it'll just be an address and I'm not renting an office).

How do online businesses set up a Google My Business account if we don't have a physical address? How do we get verified without a physical office (ie. can't take a video of the office)?

So, you’re shelling out $400 a month for someone to “manage” your Google Business Profile, and you’re not seeing results.

Why?

Because you only need to optimize it once. Paying a monthly retainer for this is basically lighting your money on fire.

Sure, regular posts and fresh photos help a bit, but the meat of it is in relevance, authority(review, backlinks), and making sure your website and profile are in sync.

Instead of padding someone else’s pockets, invest in automated review requests and a simple tool for auto-posting yourself and save your $299 for backlink efforts. For a fraction of the cost and a little bit of effort, you can get the same results without being taken for a ride.

Maybe you’re lazy and just want to offload the automations and set up, you shouldn’t be paying more than $99 a month for this. These folks charging $299+ for optimizing it one time and throwing a GBP post up here and there thinking it’ll take the local plumber from ghost town to superstar is wrong, very wrong.

I rather sleep well at night knowing that my clients are taken care of and not being fed fluff and BS.