I was recently working with a start-up that desperately needed some help getting the word out for their products and they weren’t’ showing up anywhere. Additionally, their business required that customers find them on a map. Being a start-up they didn’t have the funds to invest in some of those “premium service” offers to bulk submit and manage updates to your listings for a monthly fee.

Luckily, I’ve gone through the manual process a couple times and offered to help. In less than 2 hours, I was able to submit their business, location, and contact information at no cost to them.

A month later, their company listing showed up across the web and key maps.

Below are the local listing submission services I used. The great news is that these services leverage each other to make sure they each have the latest companies populated in their databases. Some of them are redundant submissions but I figured for the amount of work, might as well do them all.

And if the company ever needs an update then simply follow the same steps.

1) Google Business Listings

Sign up with your business information.

Mark where you’re located on the map.

Verify the business by phone or mail.

2) Yelp for Business Owners

Create a social / local listing on Yelp.

3) Neurostar / Localeze

This submission powers other location services like Bing, Yahoo, and YP

4) Yellow Pages

Search for your business, click “Claim” or “Suggest a Business”

Enter your business information.

5) Express

Gets your listing on Google, Bing, and many more sites across the web.