Google Places Review

PROS: This is a probably the best tool to effortlessly increase the number of your patrons without having to pay for anything!

CONS: You must be patient when setting up your business through the Manager because it's quite tricky and laborious.

PROS: Google Places is a game-change for business because of its features that allows business to thrive and connect with customers. Having a business page in Google Places will improve your SEO. You can reach more customers through this app and provide them with all the necessary information they have to know about your business such as office hours and customer feedback. It also allows the customers to upload photos of your business and leave reviews.

CONS: Sometimes owners of inactive business don't take time to remove their business out of the system. This is a disadvantage for new business that will take over the location of the old business.

PROS: Google Places is well-rounded software and portal for various places of interests around the globe. It helps both businesses and customers to add and find information about a certain place -- say for example, a restaurant! It's really helpful when you're deciding on which place to go because of the reviews from customers. You can also respond to these reviews. It also updates real-time and immediately reflects any changes done in the business page, such as additional photos, promos, highlights, and special business hours. It also increases your business' visibility which is really helpful if you want to get more customers.

CONS: I see nothing bad about it! Great app!

PROS: Google Places increases trust within my community and potential customers. It supplements the legitimacy of a business!

CONS: Submitting a business page isn't really complicated but I believe it can still be simplified.

PROS: I love how it's effectively integrated with other Google apps! I also love how fast it is to set up billing accounts. The overall user experience is amazing.

CONS: With its integration with Google Maps, I noticed that some routes are so much better to take than the suggested routes!

PROS: Google Places helps us build our internet presence. It allows us to update our organization's info and control how it appears in Google Search results.

CONS: Verifying new information about our organization may take time. We experienced this one time when we have to update our address and phone numbers when we moved to a new location.

PROS: I completely trust this app because I know that similar apps just integrates Google Places in their system. As a programmer, the best part of this app is the Place Autocomplete API and the Query Autocomplete API which eases my search queries.

CONS: I encountered timeout errors a few times probably because of heavy user traffic.

PROS: I love how convenient and easy it is to create a verified business page using this product. After the whole process of signing up and verification, your business page automatically appears in Google Maps and in Google Search.

CONS: This app is great, but it's also a double-edged sword when it comes to business reviews. If someone leaves a bad review in your business page, there is no way to remove it even if it's not true.

PROS: This app provides potential customers the necessary details about our business, such as operating hours, contact information, and photos of our place, before they avail our service or visit our office. It gives them reassurance that we're a legitimate business.

CONS: We didn't have any issues about this app except that we had a hard time confirming our address. It was easily resolved.

PROS: Google Places is essential for both business and customers. It helps your customers find information about your business. It also reassures them about the quality of your business by reading reviews from other customers, and allowing them to share their own.

CONS: Setting up the business page may take time, and there's a little way to protect your business from fake bad reviews. It is also not SEO-friendly.

PROS: Google Places helps you introduce your business to the world! The process of listing your business is simple and convenient.

CONS: It's already user-friendly as it is, but I think Google can still make it simpler for new users.

PROS: I love how it provides comprehensive information about a certain place of interest. I also love how it's so easy to add information about your business yourself.

CONS: Setting up custom filters for embedding is a bit complicated.

PROS: This is another free app from Google which is a big help for us when we want to check out new places! This app allows us to see various places of interests and details about it such as ratings, contacts, schedule, photos, and reviews from customers. I usually use this when I'm looking for bars, restaurants, and hotels!

CONS: This is an extremely helpful app! I love everything about it.

PROS: I love how it's easily accessible to any device. It's so convenient to look for places with detailed information.

CONS: The downside of this software is that the places are sometimes not updated thus affecting the way it shows up in the Maps.