Google Places Now Offers Posts - Twitter-like Tool!

Google Places Business Listings  has so many ideas that are so clever, useful, and inexpensive, that it should start pulling way ahead of the other Local Search Engines real soon. This one could be called the Twitter of local search.

As a marketer or business owner, you should be monitoring your Google Places Analytics daily or at least weekly to see trends and make revisions in your strategy for both Google Places and your other online advertising. While you are checking your Analytics, you can easily put up a quick update as shown below.     
Google Places POSTS.

Note the box under the "Post to your place page."  I created a post for this client.  All you do when you want to change it is do a new one in that box.

Here is where your Google Places News Flash appears.  Note how I also used the location to create another link to the website.