Google offers a lot of great services. There's a very good chance that you use at least one of them.

However, many of the small business owners I speak to don't leverage Google's great tools in the best way they might. They buy Microsoft Office, when Google Docs would save them a bundle. They buy Google Adwords but don't use Analytics to properly assess how they're ads are performing.

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GOOG-411's



Google's new 411 service is free, fast and easy to use.

1-800-GOOG-411

Note: "The bippedy-bippedy-bippedy sound you hear when using 1-800-GOOG-411 is actually a senior voice designer at Google. (Here's the sound.) The technical term for that noise is the 'fetch audio,' and it's more complicated to design than you'd think. For the first time, the voice of GOOG-411 talks about how he came up with it, how important that sound is, and how people now ask him to 'perform' it."

"Google has come come up with a novel way to boost the information it has about local businesses. As part of its Business Referral Representative program, Google is offering individuals up to $10 to visit local businesses and tell them about Google Maps and Google AdWords, collect information (such as hours of operation and types of payment accepted), and take digital photos of the business. Reaction to the program has been mixed."

You can find out more about Google's program here:

http://www.google.com/services/local-business-referrals/repfaq.html