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Reviews & Reputation
Your reviews are your storefront, your sales pitch, and your search ranking all at once. By the end of this course you'll have a working system that generates a steady stream of honest reviews, handles negative ones without panic, and turns your reputation into new business.
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Before anyone buys, they read your reviews. Three stars and they tap your competitor. In six modules you'll build a system that generates honest reviews on autopilot, respond to the brutal ones like a professional, and turn your reputation into a growth engine.
What you'll learn
- Build the review ask system: request reviews systematically, at the exact moment customers are happiest.
- Respond to every review — glowing or brutal — in a way that sells to the future buyers reading over the reviewer's shoulder.
- Execute a systematic recovery plan when ratings crater after a bad quarter or a viral complaint.
- Turn your hard-won reviews into marketing assets deployed everywhere buyers look.
Is this for me?
Who is this course for?
Any business where customers choose based on trust — local services, restaurants, contractors, clinics, agencies.
What do I need before starting?
Customers or clients to ask. A Google Business Profile helps — this course pairs well with Local SEO — but it isn't required.
How long does it take?
Six modules at 30–45 minutes each. About two weeks to install the system; then it runs in the background.
Start here
Module 0: How this course works
Five minutes of orientation before you begin — what you'll learn, how to use the course, and what you'll have at the end.
Module 1
Module 1: Why reviews are revenue
Before building the system, understand the stakes: reviews directly control how many customers choose you over the competitor next door.
Module 2
Module 2: Setting up your review foundations
You can't collect reviews efficiently if the underlying profiles are broken. This module fixes the foundations first.
Module 3
Module 3: The review ask system
Reviews don't appear by themselves — they're requested, systematically, at the right moment. This module builds your asking machine.
Module 4
Module 4: Responding like a professional
Your responses are read by future buyers far more than by the reviewer. This module turns every review — glowing or brutal — into marketing.
Module 5
Module 5: Reputation repair — recovering from a rough patch
A bad quarter, a staffing disaster, a viral complaint — ratings can crater. This module is the systematic recovery plan.
Module 6
Module 6: Turning reviews into a growth engine
Reviews aren't just defense — they're marketing assets. This module puts your hard-won reputation to work everywhere buyers look.
Starter track
New to this? Do these modules first — they'll get you 80% of the value in the least time.
Do: Module 1, Module 2, Module 3
Then decide: enough for now, or continue to the advanced track.
Advanced track
Want the full system? Work through everything, including the teardown below and the final exam.
Do: Module 1, Module 2, Module 3, Module 4, Module 5, Module 6, then the final exam.
Course extras: Glossary · Final exam
Your build brief
Everything you write in the build brief prompts across this course's modules collects here. Download it as a designed PDF — and we keep a copy too, so when you're ready for us to build it for you, we already know exactly what you want.
Your answers save automatically as you type — on this device and to your signup email.
Teardown: the 3.2-star restaurant losing to a 4.6-star competitor
Two Italian restaurants, same street, similar food and prices. Restaurant A: 3.2 stars, 41 reviews, last review two months ago. Restaurant B: 4.6 stars, 312 reviews, new reviews weekly. Restaurant B is packed on weekends; Restaurant A is half empty. The food isn't the difference. The reputation system is.
What's working (for A): The Google profile is claimed. The food gets genuine compliments from regulars. The business is real and established — this isn't a quality problem.
What's broken: Everything systematic. Nobody ever asks for reviews — the 41 existing ones arrived by accident over years. The owner has never responded to a single review, including three detailed complaints about slow service that sit unanswered at the top of the profile (Google surfaces recent and detailed reviews first — the worst ones are the most visible). There's no process: no QR code on receipts, no follow-up message, no ask at the right moment. Meanwhile Restaurant B asks every happy table, responds to everything within a day, and features reviews on their website.
The fix, in course order: Module 2 — audit and complete every profile field (hours, photos, menu link — incomplete profiles rank lower). Module 3 — build the ask: a QR code on the check presenter linking straight to the Google review form, plus staff trained to ask when a table is clearly happy ("Glad you loved it — would you mind sharing that on Google? It really helps us"). Module 4 — respond to all 41 existing reviews this week, especially the complaints, with specific professional responses (Module 4's framework). Module 5 isn't needed — there's no crisis, just neglect. Module 6 — put the best new reviews on the website and in ads. Within 90 days of asking consistently, Restaurant A should have 100+ reviews and a rating climbing toward 4.0 — and the weekend crowd will notice.
Want this done for you?
Rather do it with us? Our Review Engine Setup ($697) — the ask system plus response templates, running on autopilot.
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