For businesses comparing listing management quotes
The listing itself is free, so every dollar quoted is somebody doing the work on it. Published management runs from about a hundred and fifty a month per location.
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Australian agencies publish listing management between a hundred and fifty and twelve hundred dollars a month for one location, and three hundred to fifteen hundred to set one up.
Google charges nothing for the listing, so the whole fee is labour.
Setup runs from about three hundred to fifteen hundred dollars once, and ongoing management from a hundred and fifty to twelve hundred a month, priced again for every extra location.
These come from the agencies that publish prices. Most quote on request, so a single number is hard to place without them.
Four things: the listing kept accurate, posts and photographs added, reviews asked for and answered, and questions answered before somebody else answers them.
A quote that cannot be split into those four is hard to judge against another one.
A single-location business in a quiet category can run its own listing in about twenty minutes a month, and plenty do it well.
The fee buys back time and consistency. Where neither is short, the money is better spent elsewhere.
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Published Australian rates run from about a hundred and fifty to twelve hundred dollars a month for one location, with setup a separate three hundred to fifteen hundred.
No. The listing is free and always has been, so any fee quoted is for somebody doing the work on it.
Each location is a separate listing with its own categories, photographs, questions and reviews, so the work repeats in full.
Yes. A single location in a quiet category takes about twenty minutes a month once the categories and services are set up correctly.
One monthly fee covering everything, month to month, no lock-in. The number depends on the business and gets given on the call.