Wakefield Business Owners: Claim Your Listing on Patch

Before Wakefield Patch launched in Wakefield last year, you may remember editors and contributors venturing to local businesses to collect information for our business directory. The result: Patch Places.

Patch Places is the spot to find descriptions, reviews useful information like store hours, accepted payment methods and more for spots around town.

But here's where business owners come in. Local businesses get extra bonuses when they "claim" their free listing.

To "claim," sign in and and search for your business in the search box. Once you find it, look underneath the photo section. There is a box with the question: "Do you own or manage this location? Claim it!" Just click "Claim it!" and a form will pop up asking for contact information and authorization to claim it.

Within a few days, someone from Patch will contact you to verify your authenticity. You'll then be approved as the business owner and will see a "Manage Your Listing" button.

From there, you have plenty of options to add photos, see your statistics and edit the listing. Here are the tools you'll see and what they mean:

Your Stats
Here you can see how many users have rated, reviewed or follow your listing. You can email your customers to seek out more reviews, and link the Patch Place to your Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Edit Listing
Add photos, website information, hours of operation, contact information and more under the Basic Info tab. Some of this information cannot be changed, but you can request a new description if you think your business is inaccurately described.

Choose Extra Info to add information like the founding date of your business, what kinds of payments you accept, parking information and more.

Manage Photos & Media
Here you can add and edit photos and choose which image is featured. If you have a video or PDFs, you would add that here.

Reviews
You can see what people have to say about your business and respond to reviews.

Paid Tools
You can upgrade your listing with a video profile, add a message from the owner and become a featured business on the Places page for a fee. You can learn more about these options and see how to get in touch with a sales team member.

Claim your listing today to help keep Patch users up to date with your company and keep your listing looking fresh.

No Listing?
Businesses come and businesses go like anything else, and we missed some while creating our directory. If you can't find a listing for your business, contact editor Sara Jacobi at sara.jacobi@patch.com, and we will create one for you as fast as we can.

Please take a look at the short video above, which shows how easy it is to claim your listing.

Questions? Contact Patch Directory Support at directorysupport@patch.com or Wakefield Patch editor Sara Jacobi at sara.jacobi@patch.com.

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