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Top 5 Complaints from Local Business Owners About Google Reviews

Since launching LOCALBOSS, I’ve been in touch with local business owners daily, and it’s astonishing how many of them have entirely given up on reviews. What once brought them joy has turned into a hassle, a source of frustration, and a significant pain point.

And it’s totally understandable.

These are my TOP 5 complaints from local business owners regarding Google reviews (AI would need to make countless calls to gather these insights)

How to ask your customers for a review and don’t feel awkward about it

Let’s be honest, asking for reviews can feel awkward, especially if you’re shy or worried about pressing your customers. Let’s see how to achieve it so you can boost your ratings and don’t feel bad about it.

How AI and chatGPT will transform small local businesses

AI is here, and it will transform everything as coal, elecricity, computing and internet did before. In the wake of this new 5th revolution that is only starting, learn what is ChatGPT, see in action and learn how it can help your Small Local Business.

How to track Google Reviews, and why every local business should track them

Tracking your reviews is critical to determining whether your business is facing some threats (lose the current rating) or to benefit from opportunities (increase your rating faster!).

It also helps you understand your baseline and quickly identify when your rating is drifting (and why).

Tracking your reviews also will naturally help you set targets, and you will intuitively push to reach them.

Google Business Messages for local business: Should you activate the business chat or not? 🤔

Few years ago Google introduced a very cool feature for Local Business Owners: a chat to allow customers (specially the ones considering buying from us) to chat with businesses from Google Maps. This is called Google Business Messages and has it’s own entity in Google.

How to respond to negative reviews on Google: The complete guide

When we meet a new local business owner the first thing they ask us is always the same: “Can you remove my 1 star reviews?”. No, we can’t, but we can tell you how to deal with them to turn them around or at least minimise their impact.

Google Maps is testing new expanded review forms for Restaurants, Hotels and Attractions

Google is launching expanded review forms for the Hotel, Restaurant and Attraction categories and this is what you have to know about.

Announcing the last Free Version of LOCALBOSS

It’s hard to believe that we launched the first public app exactly 3 months ago, on March 2022. That was our MVP and we had no idea of what the reaction would be. Now, 3 months later, we are delighted to announce that the MVP has had an amazing success and we are moving on to the next phase: monetization.

My customer reviews are not showing up on Google Maps

10-06-2022 Update: Barry Schwartz recently wrote about this topic 30-06-2022 Update: I found this great post from Joy Hawkins on the topic Has it happened […]

Restaurant owner kindly asking a customer to leave a review

Boost Your Restaurant’s Google Reviews with These 5 Effective Strategies

Customers often rely on these reviews to decide where to eat, so having a solid online presence can make or break your restaurant’s success. In this blog post, we’ll explore five effective strategies to increase your restaurant’s Google reviews without breaking a sweat.

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Google Business Messages for local business: Should you activate the business chat or not? 🤔

How to respond to negative reviews on Google: The complete guide

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