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1. Do you need a professional account?
If you have fewer than 10 businesses, you do not need to create a professional account. If you only want to create a personal Google Business Profile account, sign up on Partoo!
If you have more than 10 businesses, the Partoo teams will create a professional account for you, which will make managing your Google Business Profile listings easier!
To find out if you already have a professional Google Business Profile account, log in to your Google Business Profile account (here) and check the bar at the top of your account. If it says "Places," you have a personal account; if it says "Professional accounts," then everything is ready.
2. Transfer of ownership to the Partoo teams:
a) If you have a professional Google Business Profile account, you can designate Partoo as the account owner. Don't worry—you will remain the primary owner and keep full control of your listings.
b) If you do not have a professional Google Business Profile account but have a personal Google account, you can create a professional account as shown below:
3. Going further: understanding the differences between a professional account and a personal account.
Professional accounts are specially designed to facilitate shared management of a large number of businesses on Google Business Profile. They are created from a personal account and linked to a Gmail address:
The personal account allows you to use Gmail, Google, and YouTube and manage your businesses on Google Business Profile. However, Google My Business management options are limited with this type of account.
Professional accounts, on the other hand, allow you to securely share responsibility for managing your businesses with other users, just like sharing a folder. A personal account can own multiple professional accounts, which can be useful for managing multiple brands, for example.