#localservices — Public Fediverse posts

Google Local Services advertisers lose dashboard access 14 days after email: Weekly budgets divide by seven, manual bidding ends and BBB callouts disappear for US home service firms. Non-US accounts wait until 2027 for the same switch. https://ppc.land/google-local-services-advertisers-lose-dashboard-access-14-days-after-email/ #GoogleAds #LocalServices #OnlineAdvertising #HomeServices #DigitalMarketing

FYI: Google folds Local Services Ads into Google Ads, cuts historical reports: Reports won't carry over and manual bidding disappears as US home service accounts migrate first in August, while non-US accounts wait until the 2027 rollout. https://ppc.land/google-folds-local-services-ads-into-google-ads-cuts-historical-reports/ #GoogleAds #LocalServices #DigitalMarketing #PPC #Advertising

Google folds Local Services Ads into Google Ads, cuts historical reports: Reports won't carry over and manual bidding disappears as US home service accounts migrate first in August, while non-US accounts wait until the 2027 rollout. https://ppc.land/google-folds-local-services-ads-into-google-ads-cuts-historical-reports/ #GoogleAds #LocalServices #PPC #DigitalMarketing #OnlineAdvertising

Commission full Independent Review of Council Tax & Stamp Duty

We call onGovt to commission full, independent review of #Council #Tax & #StampDuty to deliver #evidence-based reform the #UK’s #housing market urgently needs

Council Tax arrears have risen to £8.3 bil with over 2 mil #households struggling to keep up

Petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754331/

#tax #LocalServices #CouncilTax

Maybe it's just me, but surely showing up is key to customer satisfaction & retention? If your "bookkeeper" keeps getting it wrong, you need a new bookkeeper. 🤷

#LocalServices

#Alibaba’s #Amap mapping service reached 400 million users with its new #AIbased #destinationranking feature, Amap Street Stars, launched last month. This move intensifies Alibaba’s competition with #Meituan in the #localservices sector, particularly in #restaurant and #hotel rankings. https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3327794/alibabas-amap-hits-400-million-users-new-ai-ranking-feature-local-services-push?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Rising #CouncilBankruptcies in England, as at #Thurrock, highlight severe financial strain. #Austerity cuts have crippled #LocalServices, impacting the most vulnerable.

-- Prof. Mia Gray and Dr Anna_Barford report. From The conversation -- thanks!

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/local-government/14-years-of-conservative-rule-has-made-council-bankruptcy-commonplace/

#Birmingham’s cuts reveal the ugly truth about #Britain in 2024: the state is abandoning its people

First it was #austerity. Now it’s something even worse: the suggestion that people didn’t need vital #LocalServices to begin with
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/17/birmingham-britain-state-cuts-austerity-local-services
#ToryPoliciesInAction #UnderfundingPublicServices

Tories cut council funding down to the bone. Labour must restore it | Local government | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/08/tories-cut-council-funding-down-to-the-bone-labour-must-restore-it

#Tories
#Labour
#CouncilFunding
#LocalGov
#LocalGovFunding
#Hunt
#LocalServices
#ServiceCuts

How the Tories drove Britain’s local services into bankruptcy.

Councils provide social care, schools and housing. And half of them are about to run out of money

Read the full piece here:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/council-cuts-austerity-tories-bankrupt-youth-services-sure-start-school-nurses/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=toriesbankrucy

#UKPolitics #UKPol #tories #Conservatives #LocalCouncils #Councils #LocalServices #socialcare #schools #housing