A lot of people are seeing your photos on Google Maps!
That was the headline on an email I recently received from Google. It’s quite flattering and honestly kind of motivating. When we first moved to Hendersonville I was completely enthralled by the whole experience. I felt like, This is it! This is a beautiful place and this is where I want to be! Tess and I had been coming up here for several years and every time we came we would go downtown and walk from one end to the other looking into shop windows and going into restaurants. Our first stop would always be the Black Bear Coffee Shop. That seemed so special, so unique. This was before the proliferation of Starbucks when espresso was exotic and flavored latte’s were unheard of. After coffee and wandering around we would go to Hannah Flanagan’s for dinner. They had the most incredible hamburgers with lettuce, tomatoes and onions and cap it off with a Guinness on draught. Dark brew with a foamy head. Fantastic!!!
I wanted to dig in and get to know the area so I invented a website blog, One Thousand Reasons to Love Hendersonville and here it is, Ten Years Later and I’m still loving Hendersonville and still, or at least starting again now, adding more and more reasons. When I first started I would introduce myself and explain that I was doing a website. People were very friendly and supportive but they would often ask me politely if I would do a review in Google, Yelp or Trip Advisor. I started to realize that from a business point of view they were looking for more public exposure than they would get in my little blog and so… I started doing my reviews on Google Maps and it has been a Win Win! I enjoy writing the reviews and many business owners have responded with Likes so it feels good. And that’s the whole point of the process and the project. There is an unprecedented amount of negativity and downright hate out there on the internet and sadly in our country. If I wanted to get attention and make money I could do so with a website devoted to one thousand reasons to hate liberals. That’s how insensitive and insane things have gotten but I do love Hendersonville and I love America and all the places we visit and places to eat and so I write my 5 star praises in Google and Google sends me encouragement. The link below goes to all of my pictures and my project is to gather up all of my reviews from Google, YouTube and Amazon and put them into this blog.
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