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Monday, July 9. 2007

Making Money with Google Earth in the Pool Biz

Chris McCall lives in Provo, Utah. To identify potential clients for his pool cleaning business he used Google Earth to find properties that had pools. Then he drove around the city to determine their addresses. Then he sent out fliers and business seems to be booming.

- KUTV

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google at 06:00 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share

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I remember reading a story (sorry, no link) about a roofer who used Google Earth to identify roofs in need of repair and launch a marketing campaign.
#1 Atanas Entchev (Link) on 2007-07-09 11:29 (Reply)
Did you mean this one?

Roofers Can Now Use Aerial Imagery to Find Customers
http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/2571-Roofers-Can-Now-Use-Aerial-Imagery-to-Find-Customers.html

That was for aerials and not via Google Earth. It was however noted on this blog from a press release.
#2 Adena Schutzberg (Link) on 2007-07-09 11:47 (Reply)
Yes, I did. Memory's not perfect, obviously.
#2.1 Atanas Entchev (Link) on 2007-07-09 13:47 (Reply)
Wait a minute! I hope he doesn't patent that, because that was my "canonical example" of web mapping back in the late 1990's. Except I called it "Joe's Pool Service". And, I admittedly figured he would be able to tell which pools actually needed work based on their color.
#3 Allan Doyle (Link) on 2007-07-09 17:44 (Reply)

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