Hours for Service Area Business- with clients that mainly search after hours?

[Jessica C]

Hello! I am a newborn photographer and most of my potential clients are searching for newborn photography 10pm-5am- while they are up with their newborn throughout the night. My hours are 10-4pm on GBP, but I know this is NOT when my clients are surfing Google Map looking for newborn photography. I am temped to change to 24/7, but those are not realistic hours for me. Any advice?

 

[keyserholiday]

Set your hours to 24/7. If they call, they will leave a message.

 

[JS Girard]

Basically what Keyser said. As long as you have a way to handle out-of-hours calls (we've had clients complain about it because the number was literally their personal cell phone...), Google basically doesn't enforce anything related to hours.

 

[Jessica C]

Basically what Keyser said. As long as you have a way to handle out-of-hours calls (we've had clients complain about it because the number was literally their personal cell phone...), Google basically doesn't enforce anything related to hours.

ok thank you. I was worried my GBP would get suspended if I set to 24/7. like it would send a red flag?

 

[Jessica C]

Set your hours to 24/7. If they call, they will leave a message.

thank you! and I don't have to worry that changing my hours to 24/7 would suspend my account? Since the service is photography, I guess I didn't think Google would think 24/7 was realistic (vs a plumber who makes sense to be 24/7).