Learn how to turn
Google Maps into revenue
Not sure where to start? These step-by-step guides show you exactly how to run your first search, work with the CSV, and turn raw locations into paying customers.
From search box to clean CSV in 5 minutes
This guide walks you through your very first search: choosing a niche, picking a location, and exporting a CSV of real businesses you can contact today.
- Pick a simple niche. Examples: "dentists", "coffee shops", "roofers", "hairdressers". Start with something obvious where you understand the customer.
- Choose a location. Think in terms of cities or metro areas. "Berlin", "Austin", "London", or even a specific district if you want to go narrow.
- Run your first search. In the dashboard, type your niche + location (for example: "dentists Berlin") and hit search. The scraper will turn that Google Maps query into structured data.
- Scan the preview. Check that the results look right: business names, addresses, websites, phone numbers, ratings. Adjust your query if the niche is too broad or too weird.
- Export to CSV. Once you like what you see, click export. You’ll get a clean CSV with one row per business, ready for Sheets, Excel, or your CRM.
- Save the search if it works. If this query is a winner ("dentists in Berlin"), favorite it or note it down. You can come back later, re-run it, or build variations like nearby cities.
Goal of this guide: stop overthinking and get your first CSV of leadsin front of you. Once you see the data, everything else becomes easier.
Clean, qualify, and prepare leads for outreach
A CSV is only valuable if you can act on it. This guide shows you how to clean the data, choose the right leads, and organize everything so outreach takes minutes, not days.
- Open the CSV in a spreadsheet tool.Google Sheets or Excel both work. Freeze the header row so you always see the column names.
- Remove obvious bad fits. Filter out closed businesses, chains you don’t want to work with, or categories that don’t match your offer.
- Add simple tags. Create columns like "Priority" (A/B/C), "Notes", or "Status" (Not contacted / Contacted / Customer). You don’t need a full CRM to start.
- Sort by highest opportunity. Use rating/reviews and website presence as quick signals. For example, a business with good reviews but a bad website is a strong lead for web design agencies.
- Create your outreach list. Filter down to 50–200 leads you actually plan to contact this week. Export that as a smaller CSV or keep it in a separate tab.
- Plug into your outreach tool. Import into your email tool, cold outreach platform, or just work directly from the sheet with a simple templated email.
The goal here is signal over volume. 1,000 unqualified leads are worth less than 100 targeted, tagged, and ready-to-contact businesses.
Turn Google Maps data into monthly retainers
If you run an agency or freelance service (SEO, ads, web design, consulting), Google Maps is an endless list of potential clients. Here’s a simple playbook you can repeat in any city.
- Pick a service and one niche. Example: "Google Ads for dentists" or "web design for local gyms". The tighter the combo, the easier the pitch.
- Scrape 2–3 nearby cities. Run the same search ("dentists") for multiple cities. Combine the CSVs into one sheet and add a column for the city.
- Mark obvious opportunities. Look for businesses with bad sites, no website, or low review counts compared to competition. These are your A-leads.
- Build a very short offer. One paragraph that explains what you do, the outcome, and a simple next step ("Reply YES and I’ll send 3 ideas"). No long sales pages.
- Reach out in small daily batches. 10–20 businesses per day is enough. Adjust your message using details from their Google listing or website so it doesn’t feel like spam.
- Turn wins into case studies. Each new client is proof. Add results to your outreach (“We helped a gym in Berlin add 47 new members in 30 days”). This makes every future campaign easier.
You don’t need a huge agency to make this work. With a few good searches and consistent outreach, this can be a repeatable client acquisition engine for any B2B service.