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Five Stars : Putting Online Reviews to Work for Your Business.
Title:
Five Stars : Putting Online Reviews to Work for Your Business.
Author:
Couzin, Gradiva.
ISBN:
9781118763353
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (312 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: You Are Here: Understanding Your Opportunity -- Online Reviews: An Important Marketing Channel -- Know Where You Fit In and How to Focus -- Brick and Mortar -- E-commerce Retailers -- Manufacturers, Brands, Software -- Destinations and Activities -- Service Providers -- Charities, Nonprofits, Civic and Community Organizations -- Chapter 2: The Online Reviews Landscape -- Types of Online Reviews -- Types of Review Sites, Platforms, and Services -- Review Sites -- Social Commerce/Product Review Platforms -- E-Commerce Merchant Review Collection Services -- Shopping Comparison Sites and Online Travel Agents -- Reputation Management Services -- Local Search -- Fake Reviews -- The Scale of Fake Reviews -- Love for Sale -- The Fight against Fake Reviews -- Chapter 3: Understanding Reviewers and Reviews -- Who Are the Reviewers? -- Reviewer Demographics -- Power Reviewers -- Paid or Fake Reviewers -- What Triggers a Review? -- Being Asked -- Social and Emotional Motivations -- Customer Experiences That Trigger Reviews -- Influencing Factors in Reviews -- Variety and Volume -- Reviewer Identity -- Freshness -- Chapter 4: Monitoring and Learning from Your Reviews -- Why Monitor Reviews? -- Review Monitoring for Best Results -- Review Monitoring Tools -- Learn from Your Reviews -- An Honest Assessment -- Taking Action -- Chapter 5: How to Get More Reviews -- Tools and Techniques for Getting New Reviews -- Cultivating a Word-of-Mouth Mentality -- Authenticity and Ethics -- Staying Outside the Spam Filter -- Staying on the Right Side of the Law -- Complying with Terms of Service -- Chapter 6: Review Venues: -- Yelp -- Claiming Your Listing -- Filtering and Reviewer Verification -- Troubleshooting and Support -- Options for Communicating with Reviewers -- Promotion and Advertising Opportunities.

Showing Off Your Reviews -- Monitor and Measure -- Google+ Local -- Sorting Out Google's Services -- Who Sees Google+ Local Listings? -- Claiming Your Listing -- Filtering and Reviewer Verification -- Communicating with Reviewers -- Troubleshooting and Support -- Ways to Increase Your Visibility -- Closing the Loop -- TripAdvisor -- Claiming Your Listing -- Filtering and Reviewer Verification -- Communicating with Reviewers -- Increasing Your Visibility -- Support -- Angie's List -- Claiming Your Listing -- Filtering and Reviewer Verification -- Communicating with Reviewers -- Increasing Your Visibility -- Troubleshooting and Support -- ResellerRatings -- Claiming Your Listing -- Gathering Reviews -- Managing Your Reviews -- Bazaarvoice -- Collecting and Displaying Customer Feedback -- SEO Factors -- Moderating and Responding -- Alerts and Intelligence -- Chapter 7: Navigating Negative Reviews -- Discouraging Negative Reviews -- Check In With Customers -- Provide Nonreview Paths for Common Complaints -- Set Realistic Expectations -- Broadcast Your Willingness to Listen and to Correct Issues -- Create a Process for Learning from Negative Feedback -- Responding to Negative Reviews -- Before You Respond -- Public and Private Responses -- Building Your Response -- Responding in Social Media -- Redress and Removal -- Why It's Not Easy to Sue Review Sites -- When Can a Review Be Removed? -- Chapter 8: Showing Off and Being Found -- Show Off Your Reviews -- Badges and Widgets -- Review Excerpts -- Visibility on E-commerce Sites -- Amplification in Social Media -- Testimonials and Case Studies -- Marketing Communications -- At Your Physical Location -- Improve Your Search Results -- Branded Search Results -- Rich Snippets -- AdWords Seller Rating Stars -- Product Reviews and SEO -- Chapter 9: Maintaining Your Momentum -- Developing Your Plan.

Local Businesses: Find and Update Your Presence on Review Venues -- E-commerce Sites and Brands: Make the Most of Product Reviews -- All Businesses: Monitor Your Reviews -- All Businesses: Use Feedback to Improve -- All Businesses: Respond to Reviews -- All Businesses: Encourage New Reviews and Leverage the Ones You Have -- Power Moves for a Time-Strapped Small Business -- Reaching for the Stars -- Index.
Abstract:
Create positive visibility for your business with this essential roadmap Everyone now understands the importance of online reviews on sites such as Yelp. This unique book helps you influence the process and leverage the results to increase sales and revenue. Five Stars is the perfect guide to a timely and crucial marketing tactic for today's savvy small business owners and marketers. Find out how to get more (and better) online reviews for your business, track and monitor them, leverage them effectively in social media and elsewhere, and handle negative reviews with aplomb. Packed with tools, techniques, and great case studies, this practical book is what you need to grab the reins, shape the online conversation, and get reviews that sell. Shows you how to get and leverage online reviews from websites such as Yelp and niche sites related to your business Explains tools, techniques, and tactics you can use to start shaping conversations and building positive visibility Demystifies a complex topic, empowering you to make the most of this valuable marketing tactic Written by the expert author team of the popular and practical SEO_An Hour a Day books; the authors offer a similar task-based approach to help you succeed If you're a retail, service, or e-commerce marketer, you won't want to miss Five Stars: Putting Online Reviews to Work for Your Business.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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