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Claim your business on Google Maps and help Google to send you customers.

Help Google to send customers who are searching "[your product/services] near me ". This article if for brick and mortar businesses that have not claimed their business on Google Maps yet. It's free and will only cost you some spare time. Have you wondered why so few people come to your business after a search on Google?  Stop blaming your webmaster, the website he created for you isn't the one to blame. There is a feature setup by Google called Google My Business  that is free and will help you to gain customers that are using Google, which mean practically everyone. The time of the Yellow pages is over. Get over it !  The Yellow pages are now extinct because no one is using them anymore, they use google on the go.  Why?  Because it's free, convenient and far easier : everyone has google on their phones and it can instantaneously give you what you ask, with the location and an itinerary to get to it.  The explosion of Near Me searches. Google is not only a...

First Things First - One Step At a Time - The secret for building pyramids

My Grandfather was famous for being able to draw plans and projects for all of us at various stages of our life, but Grand-Ma was nearby to calm things down with her legendary: "One day at a time, Henry !" When we build up projects in our life and become enthusiastic about it - would it be the next holidays, buying a new home or setting up a business- we have this incredible tendency to not focus on what is essential. We take the good points and dream about it. That's a good feeling I would admit, I do that everyday. Envisioning what your life would be in a near future is good. That helps you to get the necessary motivation to put things on the move and accomplish what you dream. Self development books are full of quotes about dreams. Dreaming is a way of travelling in the future at no cost... but not at no risks. Keep you head in the sky but your heels dug in the ground. Echoing yesterday's post about  the importance of planning , this post is about the i...