The system also sends a coupon/flyer with a request to share it to your customers who give you less than a five star rating and to those who do not respond to your review request after a set number of days.

This is a powerful form of social proof when read by the friends of your customer. If your customer gives you less than a five star rating or does not respond to your review request, your customer will receive a coupon or flyer that reads, “Thank you customer name for your business.”

Additionally, very few customers will write a review if they have not verbally agreed to do so first. And it may cause your customers to think that you’re spamming them.

The key to getting reviews to acquire them consistently over time. The safest way to do that is to personally ask your customer for permission to review your business first, and then send them a review request.

This will also dramatically increase the percentage of responses you receive from your customers from below 2% to as high as 85%.

It makes that big of a difference. The other thing you’ll notice if you send review requests in bulk without getting permission first, is that the majority of customers will give you less than 5-stars.

If you attempt to send review requests in bulk, your system will be automatically turned off before it damages your reputation with your customers.

Here’s what you can do:
You can send your customer a coupon, as long as you do not make it contingent upon them writing a review. If you choose to use the coupon feature, the system will send your customers a coupon whether they write a review or not.

An even better idea:
Reward your staff for asking your customers to review you. You can do that without breaking any rules!*

*Please check the Terms of Service for individual review sites. These change frequently. Ditto on the FTC rulings.

You also want testimonials that you can share on social networks and on your own website to build your visibility and credibility.

You can even tailor each review request you send to each customer if you choose to do so.

The system presents your customer with a list of links leading directly to your review sites. Not only that, it gives them an opportunity to leave a testimonial if they don’t want to set up a username and password in order to leave a review on the Internet.

Customers who do not respond after 3 days automatically receive a review reminder email. This carefully crafted message is currently generating an additional 100% reviews. That’s right, 100% more reviews. You could copy our follow-up email and send it to your customers too, but you would have to check the review sites every few day to see if a review has been posted for every customer before sending the reminder. This is very, very time consuming.

The system also sends each of your customers a coupon or flyer with a request to share it with their family and friends. Take a look at the coupon/flyer feature and you’ll discover that it’s much more time efficient and effective than anything you could do on your own.

And finally, you’ll have access to our review consultants and a script based on thousands of review requests. This alone has shown to increase the number of reviews by as much as 500%. Actually the number is closer to 4,000%, but that sounds too unrealistic.

Testimonials
A testimonial is a comment your customer writes about your business that is not posted on one of these websites. Testimonials can include identifiable information and they can be shared. We created the system to allow your customers to leave an optional testimonial because many people are not comfortable creating an account with a review site in order to leave a review. So, rather than do nothing, this group of customers has the option of leaving you a testimonial.

You don’t want your customers to review your business on only one review website. You want 5-star reviews everywhere your customers look for the products and services you offer.

A resort condominium uses the system to generate 5-star reviews on the Internet that are linked to specific rooms (condo owners).
Instead of having a photo of a salesperson show up on the coupon or flyer, the room number and a view from the balcony shows up with text that reads, “Please ask for (Suite 201) when you call or visit.” The condo owners love this.

An automobile repair owner uses the system to gather the names and email addresses of his customers so that he can send them emails in the future about special deals.
He just loads the customer contact information into his email marketing program when he’s ready to offer a deal and hits “Send.” It’s the easiest and quickest way to get his customers to agree to receive email from him.

A bed and breakfast owner uses the system to post his customer testimonials automatically on his website.
His prospects get to read testimonials that are less than a week old.

An appliance repair company uses the system to improve the quality of service provided by their technicians.
When the owner notices that one of his technicians is getting a lot of positive feedback, he shares that information with the other technicians. When he sees a negative comment, he shares that with his technicians too. He is improving the quality of his service every day.

A mortgage company is using the system to post customer testimonials to their very popular Facebook page.
They find that posting testimonials is one of the most valuable pieces of content they can share with their followers.