Okay, so diving right in, I brought you over to the Google My Business homepage. Easiest way to find this would be to just go to Google and type in Google My Business, and you're going to be able to find this page. So what you're going to have here is they're going to walk you through a little bit about what you get here. And it's completely free to get your business on Google, there is no charge for this. I imagine you could be someone that's watching this, and you get phone calls all the time from people pretending to be Google, and they're trying to help you and all this stuff. And I can tell you right now that Google does not call you up on the phone, unless, of course, you've probably made a request to have them call you maybe you've been working with them through support.

So I just wanted to get that out there right off the start. Because every time I talk to a contractor, anyone that's in a local business, they'll say to me, Well, Google calls me all the time. It's so annoying. And I'm going to tell you right now, today, if you're watching this, Google does not call you on the phone, but you can get set up on Google completely for free. And that's what I'm going to show you throughout this course. So this is the Google My Business homepage.

Basically kind of gives you A little bit of an insight of what you're going to get, you know, you'll show up across Google, you can give customers the right information about your business, build lasting relationships with your customers, people will be able to leave reviews, things like that. And you know, they talked about being found by your customers, make it easy for your customers to get in touch through, you know, cell phone, starting a conversation with people through the actual Google, Google Plus setup there. So what we're going to do is if we do get on Google, I'm going to walk you through this, you're basically going to be taken to a map, you can't go to Google Maps to do this, you have to do it through the Google My Business Page. And if you were to start typing in a business, I'm going to use let's just say, I'm going to use an example one here.

This is the page I'm going to use. So this is actually the company I'm going to use them as an example page to show you guys but basically, if you're already on Google and you start typing in your business name, you're going to see them appear in this list. You're not you could, let's just make up a fake name, we'll call it. We'll call it hero. plumbers. Actually, we won't because my M key does not work during recording, I apologize.

I'll type in hero electrician. So that's, that's the business name that I own. And you can see it didn't find any results. So if I hit Search, it's basically going to say we cannot find hero electricians. And you'll then want to do I've correctly entered the name and address. And from here, you're going to fill out all the information about your business, the country street address, city, state zip, main phone number category, don't worry too much about this for now.

So in this case, you know, we will do electrician, you'll see as you type, they will give you some very easy to pick categories. If there's something here that may not quite match up to what you do. Don't worry about it. We can change this later. And here you want to mark whether or not you're a service based business or not, I deliver goods and services to my customers at their location. So this is going to be variable important if you're someone like an electrician, in this case, if that was the business I was registering, then I definitely would want to check this box because I'm not having people come to my office, I'm going to their houses, going to commercial buildings, things like that.

So I'm not actually going to hit continue here. If I do this, this is essentially going to create the profile. In the next upcoming videos, I'm going to actually use an example profile that's already 100% complete. And I'll just walk you through all the different aspects of the Google My Business Page.