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Once you create your business profile on Google My Business, you will be asked to verify your business. Verification allows us to confirm that you are the rightful owner of the business, so that you have permission to manage your Google Business Profile.

Your security is important to us and we don’t want anyone else but you making updates to your Business Profile. For most businesses, you can verify ownership over the phone, via SMS, or by requesting and receiving a postcard to your address from Google.

Learn more about how you can verify your business here. Due to limited capacity, please expect a delay for verifications for some listings. If it has been longer than 14 days since you requested the postcard then you can request a new postcard.

Yes, you can add multiple addresses to Google My Business by creating multiple Business Profiles within one Google My Business account. If your business has multiple locations and is open to customers, you can create a Profile for each location.

If you have 10 or more locations, you can use bulk management tools. Learn more.

Yes! It’s a good idea to have both a personal channel and brand channel. A brand account is an account that is specifically for your brand. This account is different from your personal Google account.

If a channel is linked to a brand account, multiple people can manage it from their Google Accounts. You don’t need a separate username or password to manage YouTube channels with a brand account. Learn more.

At a high level, Hangouts is optimised for consumer use cases and Meet is optimised for more business centric use cases. Some examples of this are that Meet is highly integrated into other applications that are used in Business such as calendar, making it easy to schedule meetings with colleagues, customers and partners.

Google Meet has significantly higher scale, allowing 250 video participants, 10x the number of participants Hangouts can host. Google Meet has more security controls, allowing the organiser to maintain better control of meetings.

Google Meet has better sharing capabilities allowing users to share documents, presentations or even full motion video.