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8 Effective Strategies to Increase Your Google Reviews and Boost Your Online Reputation
Google reviews play a crucial role in shaping the online reputation of your local businesses. Positive reviews can help attract new customers and improve search engine rankings, while negative reviews can drive potential customers away. So, it's essential for businesses to actively seek out and...

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The Three R’s of Concern Resolution
The most loyal customers are those who have had their concerns personally addressed. Concern resolution is a very large part of customer service in any business. Customer’s concerns can be tricky to maneuver whether they’re quickly posted online or in-person. If a customer leaves without their concern addressed, they may...

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Why business’ should care about their ...
Businesses need to manage their online reputation. In today’s world, people search for reviews about businesses and products before buying or visiting. In fact, 88% of consumers trust reviews as much as personal recommendations. A negative review or comment about your business or product will have a negative impact on...

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The Dark Side of Reviews
For the record, 5-star reviews are fantastic. It is absolutely spectacular that a customer takes time out of their busy life to leave feedback about the experience they had at your business. All admins crave it and all customers want to have something to 5-star. However, no good deed goes...

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3 Easy Ways to Keep Customers Coming Bac...
Customer retention is not an easy thing to figure out. You have to constantly modify strategies as society progresses. There is always going to be competition. There will always be someone trying to take your business. As a business owner, you must ensure you’re at the top of your game...

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The Ultimate Review Response Guide
If you have been paying attention, you have noticed that we have put out rules on how to respond to every type of review. Negative, neutral, positive, non-verified, fake, we have guidance for them all! SureCritic thought it might be nice for admins to have a go-to list of helpful tips for responding to reviews....

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How to Handle Fake Reviews
The world has seen a plethora of technology faults. For example, who thought a person’s information would be stolen through an HVAC system? That is just crazy. Security has to get tighter and smarter to keep data safe. Although, as security gets smarter, so do hackers. Every new technology has...

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Why You Should Respond to Reviews
By now, we have engraved it into your brain that you should respond to all reviews. You must respond to the happy customers, the unhappy customers, and the I-know-I’m-in-the-wrong-but-I’m-going-to-complain-anyway customers. The question is, do you know why you should respond to the reviews? The happy customers –sure, easy to respond to, “Thank...

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The Worst Advice We’ve Ever Heard Abou...
The internet is stuffed with information about just about anything you are remotely interested in! Some of it is bogus, some of it is factual. When it comes to SEO, everyone seems to have their own opinion. We went ahead and weeded out the worst advice we came across regarding SEO, all...