When your business has an irregular schedule, like this criticisms or special events, you can enter special hours in advance. If you schedule special hours for an official holiday, users will be told that those hours are scheduled specifically for that holiday.
Open 6 - 10 Christmas Eve. Closed Christmas day.
You can schedule the whole year out in advance if you want to. But days that don't have special hours will keep your normal hours.
The option is only available in GMBL. Which is "locations" or "list view". But now of course, even a single business can just go to list view to use features there any time.
Here are the official Google My Business Help Docs that explain how to do it, based on where you are editing:
Here is Emily Harris's post at the Google Small Business Blog with more details: Updating Your Holiday Hours on Google? Easy as Pumpkin Pie.
Heather Mohorn, owner of Momo’s Tree House, adds special hours on Google to let last-minute shoppers know when her business is open. “The holiday hours feature makes it easy to communicate [changes in hours] to customers,” she says. “It reduces the number of phone calls we receive to ask whether we’re open, which is nice when we’re busy wrapping those last-minute gifts on Christmas Eve.”
With Google My Business, you can update your business info on Google for free to ensure that your phone number, address, and hours of operation are correct so customers can find you this season (and beyond).
To help you make the most of the season, we put together a holiday workshop filled with tips for using the web to connect with shoppers. Preview the section on updating your holiday hours above, or watch the entire workshop at gybo.com/livestream.
For a list of step-by-step instructions on how to update your hours on Google My Business, visit our help center
We hope this is one thing you can easily check off your holiday to-do list.
Cheers,
Emily Harris, on behalf of the Let’s Put Our Cities on the Map team
No comments:
Post a Comment