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Like many industries, our purchasers depend on referrals and social proof for suggestions for services. Within the aggressive panorama of PropTech, any point out of your model is efficacious, whether or not it is in a evaluation, article, comparability information or discussion board.
Excessive on the record of Google search outcomes for our business are PPL (pay per lead) evaluation web sites, that do acquire sincere critiques from customers, however show outcomes which can be curated by the positioning based mostly on bidding methods and those that wish to seem on the high of the record no matter score or variety of critiques. These websites could show outcomes for “most really useful,” which principally means if you happen to pay a premium, the positioning will record your product first and because of this “advocate” it essentially the most.
I’ve had profiles on these PPL websites for over 10 years, and I’ve grown more and more pissed off on the value versus worth. I might place a bid to get to the highest of the really useful record, solely to be outbid the subsequent day and drop to the underside, though our product’s score by buyer critiques was nonetheless one of many highest on the platform. Somewhat than proceed to compete with the promoting budgets of opponents, I select to shift our advertising and marketing finances in one other course.
I made a decision to reinvest our promoting {dollars} again to my workers within the type of evaluation bonuses. The outcomes? In lower than a month, our Google score has jumped to 4.9 out of 5 stars, which is larger than any of our high opponents. Here is the precise method I took to reward my workers for critiques, which gave impactful leads to just a few weeks.
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1. Begin with a function price bragging about
I’ve at all times recognized that my firm has nice customer support; it is one of many key differentiators that makes our product stand out within the business. Our buyer success crew goes past being pleasant and useful; they supply further worth as a result of everybody has coaching and expertise in our business, to allow them to construct a private reference to our purchasers.
I do know that our purchasers beloved working with our customer support crew, I usually obtain private emails from purchasers telling me about their optimistic experiences. I’ve additionally seen emails between purchasers and our help crew saying one thing like, “It has been a pleasure working with you, I might be completely happy to refer you.”
2. Give your workers a motive to ask
It was clear that we had a function price bragging about and that our purchasers would share their expertise given the precise alternative. I requested our crew to ask their purchasers to depart critiques after optimistic interactions.
However the suggestion to ask was not a motivating sufficient motive for my crew to comply with by means of. Maybe it was the concern of rejection or the concern of asking for assist that prevented them from asking for critiques.
Evaluate solicitation campaigns are pretty frequent and historically contain an organization paying somebody to depart a evaluation. I wasn’t against providing incentives to our purchasers to depart a evaluation, I simply needed to see what would occur if we simply requested first.
I nonetheless wanted to determine the way to inspire my crew to recover from their concern, so I developed the easy “Rewards for Evaluations” marketing campaign for our customer support crew.
Rewards for critiques (it is a copy of the precise undertaking proposal I shared with my crew)
We wish to reward glorious customer support and person expertise! If a consumer has a very good expertise with you or the software program, we wish to hear about it.
In accordance with BrightLocal, 85% of customers belief on-line critiques as a lot as private suggestions. Nice critiques enhance our model consciousness and result in extra purchasers utilizing our providers.
The way it works:
- Present nice service
- Ask for a evaluation
- Earn $20 per evaluation you collect
Particulars
- After a optimistic consumer interplay, ask for a evaluation. A good time to do that is with a follow-up e-mail to a service name. (see the instance under)
- If a consumer leaves a Google evaluation, and if you happen to have been the final particular person to talk with the consumer, we pays you $20.
- After we obtain a brand new evaluation, it’s going to get shared on the #critiques slack channel and Nathan will comply with up with the SSO crew to see who requested for the evaluation
E-mail instance (we are able to add this as a saved reply):
It was my pleasure working with you at present. In case you have time, would you thoughts writing a evaluation on Google for us? This lets others study concerning the worth of software program for his or her rental enterprise and helps us a ton!
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3. Work as a crew
Whereas a program just like the one recommended above awards a person, you possibly can encourage the entire crew to work towards success collectively. If a person receives a optimistic evaluation, share and have fun the reward with everybody. This validates the work everyone seems to be doing to fulfill a mutual aim of a very good services or products. You may also contemplate providing an extra bonus if the entire crew hits a sure variety of critiques collectively.
4. Comply with by means of with the rewards
In a couple of weeks, I’ve already paid over $500 in evaluation bonuses to our customer support crew. This $500 might have gone in direction of a PPL bidding technique that may have moved the needle on a software program rating web site for a day or two. As an alternative, this funding goes again to my workers and has positively impacted our Google score. Every fraction of some extent on Google is significant. As an added bonus, we get to see actual suggestions from purchasers about their expertise with our firm.
You possibly can look in direction of methods like this to bonus your workers, get perception into your purchasers’ experiences together with your product and, hopefully, earn new enterprise because of your organization’s on-line repute.
The underside line
Managing your social repute, accumulating critiques, offering a top-quality services or products and rewarding your workers — these ought to all be a excessive precedence in your skilled technique for achievement. If you wish to enhance your critiques, you possibly can comply with the steps outlined above and see the extra return of rewarding your workers and collaborating on a mutual aim.
