Why use Google Business View?

Everyday there are more mobile empowered people, daily doing more location based business searches. We believe that Google Business View will give your business a competitive edge today, and become an essential online marketing tool tomorrow.

  • Google Business View increases engagement with your business website, leveraging its marketing potential.  With the “See Inside” link being displayed along with search results relating to your business, this powerful virtual tour installs confidence and motivates new customers into proceeding further with their inquiry.
  • By inviting online users inside your business, potential new customers get to experience your business’s wonderful ambiance and decor, at their convenience and without the need for an appointment.
  • When first impressions count, Google Trusted Photographers provide premium quality images from within Google search platforms.
    • Google Search results
    • Google Maps
    • Google + (through your Google My Business page)
  • Hosting is free.  There are no ongoing monthly or yearly fees to pay.  Making Google’s Business View and Google’s My Business profiles some of the most cost effective and powerful marketing tools available.
  • Empowering online users to be able to see inside remote eCommerce business premises  installs confidence and trust in making an online purchase.  With so many online “Hong Kong”  businesses providing poor customer service and based outside the protection of UK consumer laws, establishing trust and confidence with potential new customers via a bricks and mortar virtual Business View tour is becoming more and more important.
  • While having a business website is always an advantage, a business website is not required for a Google My Business page and Business View.  In fact a Google My Business page is a great alternative for giving your business an easily managed online presence with no hosting overheads. 
    Feel free to talk to us about how we can assist creating and managing your online presence.
  • You do not need to be tech savvy to use either a Google My Business page or have a Google Business View.
  • Your business owns the copyright to all the photographs taken during the shoot.
  • The images are Quality Assured by Google independently to the photographer.
  • Your Business View tour can be easily embedded into your existing website with minimal technical expertise using Google’s preexisting code.
    Feel free to talk to us about how we can assist you in embedding your Business View into your website.
  • Tried and Tested.  Google Business View has been rolled out in the USA since 2011.
  • Worldwide, there are over 200,000 business already using Business View (2013). *
  • There are over 10,000 business now adopting Business View each month. *
  • 1 in 5 of all searches on Google are related to location *, and with the wider adoption of smart phones this number will grow.
  •  77.1 million mobile subscribers use local content on a mobile device, accounting for 33% of all mobile subscribers. **
  • By 2015, 30% of all search volume will have local intent and search revenues are estimated to top US $8 billion. **
  • 50% of all mobile searches are conducted in hopes of finding local results, and 61% of those searches result in a purchase. **
  • there is some evidence that using Google My Business and Business View may also enhance your local search ranking. *** (though Google keeps the working of their ranking algorithms a secret and will probably never officially confirm this).
    “    Google Business Photos/View appear to allow businesses to overcome a deficit of Google Reviews, lower star ratings, and even lower domain authority in some cases.” – Customer Paradigm
  • Business View allow your business to stand out and be differentiated from your competitors.

* provided by Google
** provided by periscopix.co.uk (April 2014)
*** According to a small study carried out by Jeff Finkelstein (founder of Customer Paradigm)