You drive to the customer. So why is your street on Google?
Fill the listing in order on your phone, before you touch photos:
1. Address: if nobody visits, hide the street and let the towns you serve do the talking.
2. Name and category next. Then phone and hours. After any hour change, put the ad schedule, the phone hours and the listing hours side by side and make them match.
3. Service areas: only towns you would drive to today. Then open the live listing the way a stranger would and write each gap.
Which gap shows up first on yours: the street, the hours, or the towns?
Clean install. A white raised panel door is the safe pick that still looks sharp from the curb. When a customer can't decide on a style, what do you show them first?
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@911GarageRepair That warning about forcing the door is worth repeating. What do Carrollton homeowners usually notice first, a crooked door or an unusual noise?
You drive to the customer. So why is your street on Google?
Fill the listing in order on your phone, before you touch photos:
1. Address: if nobody visits, hide the street and let the towns you serve do the talking.
2. Name and category next. Then phone and hours. After any hour change, put the ad schedule, the phone hours and the listing hours side by side and make them match.
3. Service areas: only towns you would drive to today. Then open the live listing the way a stranger would and write each gap.
Which gap shows up first on yours: the street, the hours, or the towns?
Thanksgiving is weeks away. Is your Google listing going to tell customers you're closed when you're not?
5-minute check, from your phone:
1. Search your shop name and look at the hours line. Does it match what you actually do, including nights and weekends?
2. Add special hours for the holidays you really change. Skip the ones you work through. Emergency trades get calls when everyone else is off.
3. Call your own number from another phone at an off hour. If nobody picks up, say so on the listing instead of letting customers guess.
Which one are you fixing first: the hours, the holidays, or the phone?
You drive to the customer. So why is your street on Google?
If nobody walks through your door, that pin shows where you sleep, not where you work. 3-minute check on your phone:
1. Search your shop and look at the pin. Is your home or shop street showing? If customers never visit, hide the street address and let the towns you serve do the talking.
2. Open service areas. Keep only the towns you would actually drive to today. A short honest list beats a long hopeful one.
3. Check name, category, phone and hours while you're there, in that order, before you fuss with photos.
What does your listing show first: the street you live on, or the towns you serve?
Someone got locked out today. They called your competitor. Not you.
Nobody standing outside a locked door reads five profiles. They call the first locksmith who looks ready to show up.
Do this check today, the way that customer would:
1. Search "locksmith near me" on your phone. Are you in the top 3 on the map?
2. Open your listing. Do the hours match when you really answer, and is there a recent review?
3. Call your own number after hours. Does a person or a clear callback promise pick up?
Which one would have cost you that lockout call?
@TylerGriffin That's a rough welcome in month one. Claim your Apple Business Connect listing next so customers still have a second map if Google blinks again.
The chatbot named a shop. Cool. Now ask it about YOURS by name and watch what it invents.
2-minute check:
1. Open ChatGPT or Gemini.
2. Type your exact shop name and town.
3. Ask for your phone number, hours, and what you fix.
4. Hold that next to your Google profile and website.
5. Circle every miss: wrong phone, Sunday closed when you're open, a service you don't even offer.
Those wrong answers usually come from an old directory page or a stale About section. Fix those this week and the next check gets cleaner.
What did it get wrong about your shop?
@3SDBROS Expedited a few times and still in line, that sounds familiar. Search your inbox, spam and promotions for Evident. They run the ID part of that check, and an unopened upload email can leave it sitting.
They said your site is a risk. Nobody told you why.
It is not about being careless. A careful owner still has the same doors. Run this check with your web person today:
1. Plugins: who updates them, and on what schedule?
2. Database: what sits behind your contact form?
3. Page code: what runs every time someone loads a page?
If any answer takes a week, that delay is your answer.
Which door does nobody own at your shop?
They said your site is a risk. Nobody told you why. Here are the three doors (plugins, database, page code) and the questions to ask your web person. How many doors does yours have? https://t.co/yho5uR7jAe