hey there this is Jophiel with SkyPoint Studios and today I want to talk to you about updating your google my business profile or your google maps profile and this is where people find you on the google maps they might put in plumber near me or dentist near me or web developer near me like for my company and it pulls up on the map listings you actually have a profile you can go on if you put in google my business and you log in with the Gmail account that you set up your google local profile you can go into the dashboard and manage the profile and what’s really important is to update the posts there’s a way you can post to your google my business profile and it’s like a blog essentially you can update what’s new what kind of products you’re putting forward for the springtime what kind of sales you’re having any successes you have like I usually update what are our latest clients websites that we built and the more often that you’re updating your google my business profile the higher it’s going to come up in search so it has a lot to do with how many reviews you have how long you’ve been in business how what the quality of the address is like is it in a really high-end business district where there’s a lot of other businesses or is it just a residential house so there’s levels to the address quality so we want to do all these things so our profile comes up really high on the google maps for example if you put in web design billings you’ll see that our company skype studios is the number one listed on the map we currently have 84 5 star reviews so we’re we’re very very high up there we get a lot of phone calls and a lot of business from this and so I’m encouraging you to go out there and work on your google my business profile because it is free advertising down the road and who doesn’t love free advertising if you’re looking for other great tips about how to build your business stay tuned I’ve got a lot more coming this is Jophiel with SkyPoint Studios and thank you so much for watching