Judging beyond the cover
When it comes to deciding on trying out a new restaurant or even weighing up what to buy, the first words people use are, “Google it”. The next, albeit lazier alternative, is to make a Facebook post about it and hope someone has the right and honest answer. Advertisements are treated as just that, shorn of much real substance, and word of mouth reigns supreme. Doom and gloom aside, this situation actually presents businesses with a unique opportunity. Instead of hoping customers walk into your business, now you can bring your business to them, using social media, Google Maps and much more.
This is where Google Business View comes in. Instead of just telling them what you are about, why not show it to them? A picture paints a thousand words and nothing tells a potential customer what your business is about more than the ambience your work area generates. Google Business View captures exactly that and now, for the first time in Bangladesh, it is starting its services right here!
The premise of Google Business View is simple enough. It offers businesses the chance to create a virtual tour of their establishment, bringing your business to life. A 360-degree interactive tour of your business is generated and it provides customers the chance to interact and connect with your business like never before. This is beneficial for both product and service related businesses, because your premises can be a key selling point for your company. It’s the best way to show the customers that you are more than just a business and thus allows them to connect with you further.
Google Business View also markedly improves your online visibility. By becoming a part, your business instantly gets featured on Google Maps, the most reliable map in existence today and the most used. This brings your business to a range of clients the world over, all of whom, with a click of a button, can visit your store. You can use the photos of your ‘points of interest’ or areas that you think can appeal most to your potential clients. Your business will also get featured across all of Google searches, including Google+ and you will be able to share the tour on your website and your social media pages to gain further visibility.
Getting featured through the whole range of Google searches related content, an additional bonus will be how your business will be presented to the customers. Once you are listed, every time someone searches for your company, they will be shown your company’s information, including the location, address and the pictures, filling in half of the computer screen, instantly distinguishing your business from the rest and elevating your brand image.
Google Business View is also extremely affordable. Imagine having to pay for an ad space in the biggest used medium in the world just once and reaping the benefit for the rest of your life? Google charges no subscription for this service and there are absolutely no hosting fees; you only pay the photographer under Google’s Trusted Program, a one-off fee, and that’s it.
To ensure that the quality of the work remains of a high standard, Google Business View only hires photographers and agencies that meet strict quality and quantity requirements to be certified under the Trusted Program. Thus, when you use Google Business View, you get the best quality of pictures and a sizeable, impressive portfolio, from which you can choose what pictures to use to best sum up the spirit of your endeavor.
Simply put, Google Business View has tremendous potential of delivering brand new customers, increasing the value of your establishment by forever capturing its essence and charm in colorful, vivid pictures and is accessible through a wide array of devices including computers, tablets and cell phones.
Wherever, whenever, Google Business View literally puts your business right on the map and keeps your clients at a mere fingertip’s distance. Its introduction in the Bangladeshi market is guaranteed to be a real game-changer.