Category: Google Business Builder

From The Wall Street Journal back in June: Google Inc. has repeatedly tried, and largely failed, to crack the market for local business advertising. As early as next month, the Internet company will try anew, as it trains its largest-ever assault on the roughly $20 billion market. Google plans to have its newest small-business service—which at one point it was calling Business Builder—up and running as early as July, said a person familiar with the matter. Well, that Olympics coverage…

Lots of good stuff this morning on Google “Business Builder” – GOOG’s roll-up of high-powered SMB marketing tools slated to roll-out in July. Here’s a nice infographic from the Wall Street Journal: Mike Blumenthal has a nice overview and some healthy skepticism: “When this occurs the real Google+ Local will be rolling, not just a new location for a landing page, but a substntial improvement to the static and marginally functional Dashboard. Let’s hope that it is an integrated marketing…