What is Google Places? In short, it’s a way for a business to take control of its business listing on Google. Beyond that, there are advertising and marketing components, but let’s start with the listing. Imagine: Google has your phone number wrong, or shows a closed location as still open … yikes! At Serving Social [...]
Local search has replaced the yellow pages as the source for consumers to do restaurant research, and similarly influences buying decisions. I’d venture to say more so, considering search results are not limited to controlled advertising messages. On the modern web, user-generated content prevails: articles, reviews, photos, videos, discussions, Tweets, status updates and so on [...]
Facebook officially hit 500 million users last week….you probably already know this. Lately, it seems like Facebook is the world’s 3rd largest country – apparently, it is as populous, based upon the number of mentions online and offline. In fact, when you think about it in that perspective, how many times did your kids, your [...]
