Google announced a new program called the Google Business Referral Representative. Google wants to pay people out up to $10 for each local business that you refer. By referring a business, you will need to take a picture of the business location, get some basic information such as hours of operation, payments accepted, [...]
Google announced a new program called the Google Business Referral Representative. Google wants to pay people out up to $10 for each local business that you refer. By referring a business, you will need to take a picture of the business location, get some basic information such as hours of operation, payments accepted, etc and tell them about Google Maps/Google AdWords.
Google will pay you $2 for each approved business you submit, and then $8 when the approved business verifies the information you provide. They will not reimburse you for any expenses (ex: gas, digital camera), so don’t try asking…but remember if it’s a business expense you can write it off on your taxes.
This seems pretty easy to do, and successfully, it can easily work out to a nice hourly rate for those that get in early. Imagine how much you can make in a city, where there is just business after business next to each other. Just a few blocks could turn into a couple hundred dollars/hour.
Garrett Rogers brought up a good point…with over 24 million businesses in the US, Google is prepared to pay somewhere between $48-$240 million dollars for the information people will be collecting for them. I think for the information and accuracy they would be getting, this is nothing, and will be worth so much more to them. It’s a genius idea.
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Erik Karey
08/07/2007 12:45 pmInteresting, I hadn’t heard of this before. I’d be interested in hearing from someone who has done this already.
Brandon Hopkins
08/07/2007 1:08 pmHadn’t heard of it either. Have you taken any pictures yet Dave?
David Pitlyuk
08/07/2007 1:29 pmI just found out about this this morning lol. I don’t think I’ll be doing it just because I’d rather spend my time doing other things which I hope will be worth more
I think the key is for people that ARE going to do this, do so NOW. I think businesses will start to get pissed off when they have 10 people a day coming in trying to do the same thing. Get in early, be the first, make the money.
Scot Smith
08/07/2007 2:13 pmHow about thinking of a way to get businesses to submit this information to you ;).
Tye
08/27/2007 12:57 amI’m in it. Thought I’d leave a comment.^^
Tye
08/27/2007 12:57 amForgot to mention:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-local-business-referrals
David Pitlyuk
08/27/2007 12:58 amTye - How’s it working out for you??
Tye
08/27/2007 12:41 pmIt’s awesome. Random people now call me “the Google guy.”
Payment takes time, though. The photography is the biggest hassle (in my opinion). Then there’s some people who either say “nothing’s free - nothing!” or basically “you seem like a salesman to me - go away.”
Other than that, I’ve had a lot of fun. If you can get in the program, it’d be worth your time. Plus, it’s Google.