Topic: Graphic Design | Page Updated: August 02, 2026
Google Business Profile (GBP) is a free platform that makes it easy for a business to build and manage their online presence across Google, including Search and Maps. And while it presents itself as being pretty straightforward, GBP can have some quirks and rather rigid barriers to some users. This is where Google Designated Product Experts can save the day with Google-centric intelligence.
James Clemens, is currently a Google Designated Gold Product Expert for Google Business Profile. He has worked closely with the GMB platform way back in 2013 or 2014, and enjoys untangling problems businesses face while using Google Business Profile. And James is quite honored to have spend most of those years as a Platinum PE that enjoyed personal interactions with the GBP backend team and the world famous GBP Team featuring Mike Blumenthal, Helmut Geissler, Joy Hawkins, Krystal Taing, Ben Fisher, Tim Capper, Jason Brown, Tom Waddington, Colan Nielsen, Dan Foland, David Cox, and Yan Gilbert to name a few. To learn and collaborate with such brilliant and skillful people makes my coursework with expanding my Google Business Profile intelligence quite accelerated... and humbling, too.
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James Clemens is the founder of Mica Specialties and he is deeply-involved with the movements of the Google Business Profile platform and how it aligns with SEO, SEM, SMM, and pretty much anything and everything related to branding, marketing, advertising, and building a successful business online today. James brings more than 30 years of business and marketing intelligence, starting in SEO and web development in 1996.
James has earned a large collection of awards, accolades, and certifications that solidly reinforces his ever-sharpened skillset within this exciting industry.
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