If you run a retail business, you know what a royal pain online review sites can be. Get one unreasonable customer, and all of a sudden their bad day is turned into your business nightmare. An angry one star screed torpedoes your average and you’re left to rebuild, bit by bit.
But what if you could capture ten times as many positive reviews from your happiest customers, cheaply and easily? And at the same time, you could motivate your employees to give the best service ever?
Well, you can. EyeRate, an innovative software startup from the Sacramento area, has created an incredible tool that both generates awesome reviews and motivates employees.
Here’s how it works:
1) Customer gets a haircut (or any other service).
2) Afterward, the customer gets a text message “You just saw Sarah. How was your experience? Rate us 1-5.” (Customer info pulls from the POS, so no need to enter anything.)
3) Customer texts back 5.
4) Customer is automatically prompted to post the review to Google, and does so with a single click.
5) Sarah gets a cash reward (usually $5-10 each time), which is automatically processed by EyeRate. The business owner doesn’t have to do anything.
By prompting happy customers to review you, EyeRate generates an average 10x increase in positive reviews for its clients. If a customer rates you less than a 4, the customer has the option to post OR share their feedback privately with the business owner and the message is forwarded to leadership to followup.
Where would you rather spend your scarce marketing dollars: expensive Google or Facebook ads with questionable usefulness? Or motivating your employees to provide great service and capture the awesome reviews, building your brand online and making your foot traffic skyrocket?
95% of consumers check online reviews before deciding which store to go to. Online reviews are also critical to your position in Google search. This is the where you will make or break your business.
I just invested in EyeRate, and the company is growing at warp speed for a reason: it produces reliable, massive increases in revenue for its customers that far exceed its modest monthly fee. Competitors like Podium and BirdEye can prompt a customer for a review and aggregate the data, but they can’t handle payments to employees, which is how you motivate them to give great service and ask for reviews.
Check out EyeRate today, before your competition does!
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