A Great Reason to Clean Up Your Shop: Google Street View (Business Photos)

By now, most people are familiar with Google Street View.  This is the service that lets your virtually drive / walk down just about any street. 

Well did you know that this can now extend to the indoors?  Google's photographers are busy mapping out the insides of famous places such as many museums, NASA and all sorts of places.

Right about now you might be thinking, "Hey it would be pretty neat if Google were to take photographs of the inside of my store."  Well, that is now well within the realm of possibility.  

Prices will vary as they hire local photographers, you choose from their vetted list, and they are supposed to offer you a reasonable rate for their time.  Some businesses have even been lucky enough to have been approached by Google so they can have a few showcase reference customers in their portfolio. 

To see what it looks like try the Street view of a local wine store, Vino 100 of White Plains, NY.  Click on the picture below and you should be taken directly to the storefront.  

Note:  This will take about 10-15 seconds.  First you'll see a regular Google Map (of somewhere's else), then a few seconds later, you should see the store front. 

Storefront of Vino 100 White Plains in Google Street View

Now, just go on in and have a look around for yourself!

Getting Google Business Photos for Your Business

As the heading just up above implies, Google's chosen brand name for indoor version of Street View is called, "Google Business Photos."   Click on that link and you'll be taken to the Google's Business Photos page website.  You can read all about the service and when you're ready, click on the [Get Started] button.  

First, don't forget to tidy up a bit .

Say, "Cheese!"