Advertise Your Texas Business for Free!

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Here's a step by step guide on how to create a guidespot guide for your Texas business, which will give you free advertising on Texas.com. Your guide will show up automatically on guidespot.com and on Texas.com as a featured business, thus providing two free places to advertise your business.

1. Create a Username & Profile

First thing’s first: make yourself a username and some interesting stuff about your business in your profile, then click on “Create a Guide.”

2. Start Your Guide

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At the top of your empty guide you’ll see a Title Bar & Description Bar section like the one in the image above. Place the name of your business in the title bar and a brief description of your business.

For example, “A pet grooming business that’s been pampering your pet since 1974, Doggie & Kitty Grooms-a-Lot is your one-stop location for making your pet pretty.”

3. Add In Information

In the guide Icon, a great image for your business is the front of your store, your logo or an image that directly relates to your business. There is a default icon provided for Texas, but you should use one for your business to optimize customer interest.

4. Add in your Location

Finally, fill in the Locations box in the right hand side of the page. You could put something like “Dallas, TX, Texas, Fort Worth”. You want to put as many places as your business serves, since it will show up on Texas.com only in those cities where locations match.

5. Tags

You don’t need to edit the tags for your business to show up on Texas.com, it’s already done for you!   

6. Fill In Your Guide

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Now you can start the really fun stuff!

If you’re listed in the Yellow Pages, you can find your business through the right hand navigation buttons under “Business/Attraction” and Guidespot will do the rest.

If for some reason your business is not listed in the Business/Attraction list, add in a “Custom Address” for your business and the location will pop up in your guide automatically.

Our Business

1239 South Main Street Dallas, TX 76051

7. Add a Map

After adding your business, click on “Map” and you can choose which businesses or addresses you want to show up.

My Business Location

We’re located just off Main Street. Come by and see us!

8. Add an Image & Video

Add an image from your desktop or from Flickr. Be sure you have permissions to use the image!

If you have any video, be sure to upload it to YouTube and feature it here to showcase your business.   

9. Link to Your Website

If you have a website, you can link to it with the “Link” button.

10. Final Touches

Finally, remember that you can drag and drop your boxes anywhere in the two-column spread that Guidespot has. Add more images and intersperse them with text, or move that video to the top so your customers can see it easily.

When your guide looks the way you like, publish your guide with the “Make this Guide Public” box at the top.

Adding a guide to Guidespot can help your business because it’s not only a quick way to get out on the internet, but it’s completely FREE!

Publish Your Guide

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After you click this button, your guide will be out there and will appear on Texas.com

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