Tried Making $800 in 4 Hours with Google Maps (To See If It Works)

 Intro

my team just challenged me to make a least 800 as quickly as I could but I

cannot use any of the skills that I already have and I have to do it in a way that anyone could and to make it worth my time I'm gonna give myself four

hours let's do this okay so let's think

Business Idea

strategically what would be a smart

business idea that we could choose that  we could actually make money with in  four hours because every business idea that has to do with physical products like Drop Shipping and Amazon FBA are probably gonna take a lot longer because we need to find a company to Source the product from and then we need to agree on the product features and no that's a

no-go but how about print on demand because there I don't need to Source anything I don't need to ship any product myself there's no inventory and I could definitely bring the product to Market in less than four hours but I know myself I will probably want to test the quality of the product and make sure that it's in good shape and that it brings the right value for what I'm charging so no that's a no-go as well so it has to be a service based business wait I could do Consulting I've consulted businesses big and small from startups to multi-billion Dollar

corporate operations for the last 18 years I could easily do that well my team said I cannot use any of the skills that I already have so think think how about we try to make money with

Google Maps I've always seen loads of opportunity in Google Maps shall we try

that let's do this but before we dive

 Check Viability

straight in let's do one thing let's make sure that we check the viability of this business idea because I don't want to be wasting my time and I'm sure that you don't want to be wasting yours either so let's use a tool that I'vementioned before and that I completely swear by it is one of my secrets and itis always going to show you how much demand exists in any Niche that you choose not only that but it is completely free and you can use it to test demand and interest in any niche inany country around the world at any given time and what I think is evencooler is that and probably the reason why I trust it so much is because it is

also from Google which is the largest search engine in the world and because

of that you are able to see everything about that Niche that you want to test including be able to compare Trends over time and this way you make sure that

whatever you're getting yourself into is not a sinking ship so let's use Google

Trends and let's see if this is a good idea or not great so what you want to do

is come to trends.google.com and I would suggest you choose the past five years

you could do worldwide or you could choose a country you have literally all

the countries in the world here and I'm gonna test Google my business first of

all and definitely we see that there's consistent high levels of interest but I

know that Google changed the name of this product or service and they no

longer call it Google my business they call it Google business profile so let's

try for that as well and make sure that this also has high demand

wow this looks amazing it's definitely a width okay now I'm convinced this is

what we're gonna be doing we're gonna be using Google Maps to make the 800 that I

committed to my team to do as quickly as possible and I only have three hours and

36 minutes left so we need to hurry up the only problem is I don't know

anything about Google Business profiles and I always want to over deliver for my

clients it's another one of my secrets I always do it and the more value I add to

them the more they want to work with me and build a long-term partnership which

allows me later on to add more valu deliver more services and be able to charge more and as you can see they getmore value I get more value into my company so I can keep growing it so it'salways a win-win and you know what they say it's a lot easier to sell to an existing client probably a hundred times easier than it is to acquire a new one

alright so let's see if there's a way that I can learn this thing as quickly as possible and Google have a lot of free courses so I bet they must have at least one about Google my business or Google business profile let's check so I'm just going to Google Google business

profile manager course and let's look for one from Google here we go Google my

business in the skill shop all right Google my business learn how to use your

free Google my business to create listings that will stand out when customers search online 42 minutes all right let's do this I've got 42 minutes to learn this

Find Small Businesses

all right let's find some businesses to serve and what you want to do and by the way feel free to do this along with me I'm gonna explain it step by step so what you want to do is open Google Maps so maps.google.com and then look for small businesses either in the area

where you live or literally anywhere in the world under one condition that you

speak the local language of that area I live in Switzerland so for the purposes

of this challenge I'm not going to be calling businesses in Switzerland

because that means I would need to speak either French or German and in that case

maybe not everybody would understand so I'm gonna look for opportunities in

small towns in the US so I can speak English and I can record some of the

calls and then you guys can see how I handle them okay let's start working all

right so now I'm on Google Maps probably everybody has seen this before I don't

need to explain to you what it is and what I'm gonna do is first let's find some small towns in the US let's pick Wyoming okay how about sunshine I like sunshine

and I miss the sunshine we we haven't seen the sunshine here in Switzerland

for a few weeks now okay so let's look for plumber in sunshine

okay there we go we already have some now what you want to do is look for

small brick and mortar businesses right you can look for hairdressers for pet

groomers for plumbers for painters for coffee shops you can obviously also look

for higher income businesses like law firms like dentists chiropractors and so

forth but my recommendation would be that you try with some smaller less

complicated businesses first because you'll probably be able to sell to them

relatively easier than it would be to sell to a law firm so let's try it out

and see if that works once you found a list of businesses and you see you have

them listed here on the left side then what you want to do is try and identify

the ones that have incomplete profiles the ones that have not claimed their

business account the ones that that have very few reviews very low ranking in search so this way you know there is a lot that you can do to help them so let's see what we can find so I'm

definitely not going to call this company because it looks like they have

a lot of reviews they already have pictures okay so that's not somebody that I want to talk to let's see the next one this one either no okay let's look lower for companies with

a lot less filled in in their profile how about this one so for example this one could be a good

one to contact because you can see they have very low reviews very low level of

performance from reviews it only has 3.4 and only 10 reviews

they only have the phone number but they have no website only two pictures that

could probably be better so this could

be one that I'm gonna call let's look for a few more

foreign so now we found one that is the perfect

example of what I'm talking about you see here it says claim this business and

what it means is that this company has created an account for their business

but never claimed their business account and they would need to do that in order

to then be able to better optimize it a lot of these things you're going to

learn in the 42 minute course that I just took so definitely brag plumbing

and heating Inc is one that we need to call let's look for a few more

here's another one claim this business is still an option and another one this is getting too easy already okay so you can see these companies only have their address

their name very very few reviews there is no business account being claimed and

oftentimes they have really poor quality pictures they have no website and

sometimes no phone number these are amazing opportunities for us to offer

some services to them and help them get ranked a lot higher and this way they

could make a lot more money because they would show up in front of people who are

searching for a plumber in sunshine and this way they could get a lot more phone

calls or more feed through the door all Call Small Businesses right you guys I was already able to find 22 different plumbers and Painters I decided to go a little bit more

towards the east coast because due to the time that I am filming this

challenge at it's gonna be a lot easier to find small business owners available

and willing to speak to me at this time on the East Coast so we've got enough I

feel but because we only have two hours and 12 minutes left I won't have enough

time to email them and wait for an answer because I really want to make

sure that I make at least some money with this challenge so um I'm gonna have to call them wish me luck I first need to think about what I'm going to say and how I'm going

to pitch my newfound business so I'mgonna take a couple minutes to brainstorm a little bit and come up withsome uh very loose script that I would like to have in front of me as I talk to them because I want to make sure that I land the value that I'm able to provide to them through my services as quickly and as um you know in a meaningful and impactful way as possible so wish me luck I'm ready let's do this okay this one didn't pick up let's try another one so here's the thingmany of these businesses that haven't claimed their business account and that are perfect opportunities for us to reach out to don't have a phone number in their profile either so how am I going to call enough companiesto be able to sell at least three or our I would say services so that I can reach the 800 okay let's look for some more okay here's one that has a phone number hello yeah hihi nice to meet you my name is Laura I am calling you from a digital marketing agency calledum scale Studio yes look I'm a Google trained and specialized individual and Ihelp companies okay this one did not go well I could not get through to the business owner which is really important if you want to sell something quickly on the phone so let's try another one hi yes hi hi my name is Laura and I'm calling you from scale Studio yeah I'm Google trained and I specialize in digital marketing yeah I help yeah I help businesses small and medium typically brick and mortar ones maximize their online presence particularly on Google

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okay so we made a call we have a follow-up for tomorrow but I was not able to sell to her right now so I am going to go ahead and make a lot more phone calls okay all right you guys

so um things are not looking great I have one hour and four minutes left I went

through all 22 companies that I had initially found I actually had to go ahead and look for more um because I couldn't get through to the owner and when I did so I got seven

companies that I got through to and two of them said that they weren't

interested two of them asked me to send them a free assessment that I made for

them but I couldn't get confirmation for a follow-up call and the others were

willing to have a follow-up call um and then I also realized that I mean

it's not great that I didn't sell anything so far but um if I had there was no way that I

could have charged them other than Through my company and I wanted to do

that by not using any of my existing skills or assets so I'm gonna have to go

and create a Fiverr account and find a few more companies and hopefully sell a

couple of services before the time runs out okay so let's do this foreign

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okay so the Fiverr profile is done I did not think about this one before uh good

thing is that it didn't take that long to create and obviously I know enough

about freelancer profiles that I could do that quickly and

um now let's look for more companies okay so the time is out

we um are done with the challenge and it turns out that I actually had a lot more

luck with painters instead of plumbers and a lot more luck with Georgia so

around Atlanta based small businesses now if you want to try this yourself you

don't have to call only painters around Atlanta you can still look for other

small brick and mortar businesses anywhere in the world but this was my

luck today so I managed to actually sell

the threeum I was able to sell to two companies

for 250 dollars and to one company for  two hundred dollars after some

negotiation now I need to go ahead and deliver because I obviously want to make sure that I give them the best Services possible so I am not there yet in terms of making the 800 but I only gave myself

four hours probably if I had another 30 40 minutes I probably would have made

the other missing dollars to reach 800 but hey it was a challenge and the

time's up so I have to give it to the team this was fun I actually had a lot

of fun doing this I hope you did as well and I hope it was helpful by the way if

you think it's gonna help I'm gonna work with the team and create a free

downloadable guide that we're gonna link down below this video and I'm gonna

write in there everything step by step everything that I did um how I looked for companies what kind of companies you can look for we're gonna give you a lot more types of brick

and mortar businesses that you could search for and what to look for exactly so you can replicate this as well okay thank you guys so much for watching I hope you enjoyed today's video until next time I suggest you go ahead and watch this video over here like this video if you liked it be sure to subscribe if you haven't done so and also share with a friend who might also want to see how I make a lot of fun of myself I guess but you know after all

it's not a bad outcome I'm really pleased with what we did today so thank you for watching and I'll see you next time bye