Hey Everyone, I'm sending this late night and making the post before we have to wake up super early and I forget or don't have time to post this as we run out the door to the airport. Something kind of ODD happened to me last week, and I though I'd share a surprising L I took and how we shook it off quickly and turned it into a W. We recently helped a franchise client in the massage and facial industry generate over 100 reviews in just 60 days using our system. Sounds like a huge win, right? But here’s the curveball: they canceled. Not because the system didn’t work — it worked too well. But their internal service and operations didn’t match the reputation we helped them build. 🔎 Here’s what happened: - The reviews flooded in. - Their visibility skyrocketed. - But their star rating stayed flat… because the customer experience didn’t improve. 👀 What we learned: - You can generate attention and traffic with reviews. - But you can’t paper over a broken process. - A review system is only as powerful as the experience it reflects. ⚙️ What we’ve changed: We now set stronger expectations with clients from day one: “Our system drives reviews. Your job is to earn 5 stars.” That simple shift has made all the difference. Compound that with our Review Rush strategy that is taking off this summer 🚀🚀🚀 ( I typed these and put them in not AI, but it did add the others lol ) and I quickly shook it off and moved on. And while I was here I started to document things and instead of keeping it internal, I stopped recording and decided to carve out some time and record the simple process of our Review Rush strategy and how you can close 10 new clients in 10 days. WANT ACCESS? If you want a deal on it the program type "RUSH" in the comments below and I will hook you guys up later this week at a special rate JUST for this Skool group! IMPORTANT NOTES - I recorded the training for you in the early mornings on vacation here in Mexico City while my family slept, or on rainy days, so it's going to be delivered a little different than usual.

Going door to door to install review plates in the local businesses in my area, using the mini mall method 😊 Anyone else still doing this?

I'm not sure if Jeff ever made this REALLY CLEAR or not, but if he did, it did not sink in with me. So let me save you some time: if a business is not showing up in Reviewly or Searchly, don't waste your time talking with them about Review management. (Reviewly and Searchly use the Places API to get their data.) I've attended a few small networking meetings this month (April) and had a table and spoke at a large meeting last week, and ALL BUT TWO (2) of the people I talked with were home-based or service businesses, or whatever you call the mess that real estate and insurance agents are wrapped-up in (1099 "independent contractors" who are chained to working with one specific company that imposes a ton of branding restrictions and mandates on them, and just about anything you can do for them ends up benefitting their "employer" rather than them directly). I had a LONG talk with ChatGPT about this, and here's the bottom-line: I'm not going to waste my time with anybody who does not have a GBP that shows up as a retail business in the Places API. Period. That means they need to show up in Searchly or Reviewly. Everybody else is an uphill battle that's not likely to get you anywhere. As much as I'd love to help solve their visibility problems in local search, Google has made them second-class citizens and nearly impossible to serve. Sorry if this has been mentioned a bunch of times already, but it's a messy, complicated problem that took a while for me to realize it's just a black-hole we're all better off avoiding. (As a programmer, I tend to be an optimist when it comes to figuring out ways around stuff like this, and if I was working for a big company with tons of resources, there are solutions. But for what we're doing, it's just not worth it.) Also, there's a shift of focus from Google to AI-based searches, and similar barriers exist there as well when it comes to home-based and service businesses. You can inject JSON-LD data into a website, but it seems that will mainly help if/when the training data for a given model has swept-up sites that have that data in them. You cannot easily extract data for them from the GBP API and add it to the web pages on a regular basis without having to jump through the same privacy and security hoops that keep it out of reach from Reviewly and Searchly. If you're going to go that way, work with companies that are already in the Places API because their public data is easily accessible and available to inject into their web pages.

Help - Is there anyone who wants to help me get my ScanSuite Setup? Feeling overwhelmed at the moment and really want this done. @Chuck Maddin @Carla McNeil @Art Remnet and anyone else who has time this afternoon. We can do a quick zoom. It is mostly my Google API and funding the account again.

My Recent Convertri-Project with ScansSuite-- Hello Beautiful Consultants! This is just something I 'had" to do the other day. It's not perfect, it's just a first attempt ... but, I'm just getting started! https://localrankscan.convertri.com/vsl