My favorite strictly local SEO podcast is Last Week in Local with Mike Blumenthal and Mary Bowling.  If you include podcasts that aren't strictly local, then I'd also mention Agency Ahead with Garrett Sussman.  

Agree with Zach. Local U's Last Week in Local is far and away the most insightful local SEO podcast out there. 

100% Last Week in Local, you gotta love Mike, Mary and Carrie!
BrightLocal have started off well with  ‘Adventures in Local Marketing’ 

frak, not available in my region

 Davis Baer  I use all of that Google stiff for clients that have absolutely nothing. I always offer it to others as well. Some people get a lot of use out that marketing kit stuff. 

It is not available in Spain 😔

Perhaps it's more important for something to be, **near me** with consideration given to the notion of people who are doing their best to limit the radius they travel from their self-imposed sheltering in place?

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 so what are you waiting for? i have 5 + years experience in GMB. Do you have any questions about your GMB just DM me I am happy to help.

I haven't. 
If it's a new feature Google is trying out, then there are more questions to be asked. 

Anyone knows how Google confirms how long a business has been operating? 

How is Google making sure it's not abused by GMB spammers? 

I noticed that today and wondered how they got that. 

So it only works on mobile and only seems to send the message to the business owners mobile. So not really that useful. Would be much better if you got a notification on your desktop device.

Been using it for a few years. The only issue I found was when a customer send a message via GMB I was not getting notifications until it a week later. Probably just me. 

I do this all the time, for my company and my clients. Never had any issues.

When Google launched Q&A, they specified that it can be used by brands to ask and answer their own questions. This is a built-in role of the feature. Best practice is to identify the brand's top FAQs and use G Q&A to feature them. 

No problem here also

GMB isn't a huge priority for SMB's. Those who do understand marketing are killing it, but that's like 10% of businesses. Take businesses that think a FB business page is as good as a website (so annoying) - then when it doesn't bring in clients they give up. Or their website is all about them and everything is just to make themselves feel good - not really communicating with their potential customers. 

They get scared to waste time on something that won't work. They don't know what's working or have to time to figure all this out. They have things they think are better to use their time on. 

Additionally, all this (organic) stuff takes time and people don't want to wait. 

You’re right, so many business owners don’t make the most of this feature of GMB. 

I was one of those business owners. I only really discovered it when someone had asked a question on mine and a random person (incorrectly) answered. 

I’ve just started using the space as a FAQ based on questions our clients ask, and questions that a prospective client would want answered. 

Does the Q&A section have any SEO (or other) benefits besides helping customers understand more about a business? 

Hello, 

I can't find the section to add your own questions and answers. Where is it under? 

Thx