Chapter 5

How to Get More Reviews

There’s a well-kept secret about online reviews, and we’re going to spill it now. The success of your business doesn’t depend on getting 5-star reviews. Rather, it depends on getting more reviews, as many as you can ethically accumulate, so that the customer voice can tell the real story of your business to your prospective customers. In this chapter, we’ll show you straightforward tactics for getting more reviews and a more representative sample of your customers, clients, or membership while remaining authentic and steering clear of review site filters. Put some energy into these efforts, and you may just feel sorry for your competitors by this time next year.

In this chapter:

  • Tools and techniques for getting ...

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