It's been nearly a year since one of our members (shout out to Blossom!) created a Google Business Profile community topic about the lack of an appropriate category for longarm quilters.

Within a few days, we racked up hundreds of upvotes on this topic from other longarm quilters who had the same question.

Since we haven't received any follow-ups from Google (we thought it could take several months to hear a resolution), I recently contacted Google support for help in how to proceed.

Because I contacted support while logged into my own account but was asking on behalf of our industry as a whole, this is the advice I received:

I wanted to make sure I understood what raising a ticket was and the rep explained that it was the same process I took to open a chat with support.

I'll go through these steps with you so that you can open your own ticket. There are no guarantees, but I'm hopeful that if enough quilters request this new category, Google will create it for us. If that happens, t...