How to Get More Google Reviews for Business - Getmorereviews

It’s no secret that the most essential part of a business' online reputation is its reviews. Reviews have become the lifeblood for a business big or small.

• 92% of consumers now read online reviews vs. 88% in 2014
  
• 88% of people trust online reviews as much as a personal recommendation
  
• 90% of consumers read less than 10 reviews before forming an opinion about a business
  
• 86% of people will hesitate to purchase from a business that has negative online reviews
  
• 73% of consumers think that reviews older than 3 months are no longer relevant

A business owner only has a few seconds to impress a looking consumer with the online star rating of the company and the corresponding reviews. If a business fails that “glance test” there is only a remote chance for another opportunity to win over that consumer. Many business owners like to chalk up their negative online presence to this sentiment: “Only unhappy customers leave a review.” This does not have to be the case anymore.

Do all the work for your customer

• Do not expect “will you leave us a Facebook review?” will get the job done.
• Send them an email and SMS message alert to leave the review.

• More like lead the horse to water and even hold the bowl up to their mouth.
  • Keep in mind, if it is taking too long to get to your listing page or I they are having to login or THINK TOO MUCH you’ve lost them.
• Your mission is to get them from point A (a text) to point B (the rate and review tab on your specific listing site) as quick as possible!

• It may take 2 or 3 reminder alerts to get that person to take action
  • Maybe you caught them at a bad time or they overlooked it
• Do not think you are “bothering” them, people expect businesses to follow up with them to make sure they had a good experience

Think about it this way…

You likely have countless customers come through your doors every single day. If you’re like most businesses, chances are many of these customers generally have a good experience with you. The only problem is, that despite having countless happy customers, your online reputation is lacking, either in volume of reviews, or quality of reviews.

So what happens?

New, potential customers, end up seeing reviews for another business and calling them first. Even if the other business is brand new and you’ve been in business forever, from an online perspective it appears that you just opened your doors.

As you can see, reviews are really an “equalizer” many businesses…especially Google reviews.

But don’t worry about how to get Google reviews for your business. It is really quite easy. You can simply use our Get More Reviews tool which has great features designed to make it easy to generate more Google reviews.

Getting more Google reviews is by far the best way to optimize your time and efforts, especially in the beginning. With the vast majority of online searches being “local” in nature, Google is optimizing search results to favor businesses with good business reviews (especially those with good Google reviews).