{"product_id":"the-review-engine","title":"The Review Engine: Google Reviews For Shops","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe customer picks a shop before they call\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout 97 percent of consumers read reviews before choosing a local business. If the shop four blocks over has 180 reviews and you have 11, the customer never gets far enough to compare your work to theirs. Review count is not vanity. It is the first filter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe asking\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12 ask scripts for the counter, for SMS, for email and for the phone. Different words for the customer who just had a $2,400 job done and the one who came in for a wiper blade. Then a 30-day plan that gives you one small job a day, ten minutes each, so this gets built without becoming a project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe QR code generator\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn HTML file you open in your browser. Paste in your shop's own Google review link and it generates a real, working QR code on the spot, entirely offline. No app, no account, no internet connection, no third-party service sitting between you and your customers. Then it prints, with your shop name already on them:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand-out cards, 4 to a page\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA counter table tent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvoice inserts, 10 to a page\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA waiting-room sign\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSix more printables come with the playbook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe replying\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e40 reply templates covering five-star, four-star, three-star, one and two-star, fake reviews, and the price complaint, which gets its own category because it needs its own answer. The point of a reply is never the reviewer. It is the next customer reading it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe profile\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 28-point Google Business Profile checklist with click-path instructions. Where to click, in what order. Most shops have four or five of these wrong and have never looked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThis follows Google's rules\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eNo incentives, no discounts for reviews, no gating, no fake reviews, no review-buying services.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery script and every printable in here asks the same thing of every customer, which is what Google's review policies require. Incentives and gating, meaning asking happy customers publicly and unhappy ones privately, get reviews removed and profiles suspended, and shops that go that route lose the reviews they already had. There is no shortcut in this product because the shortcuts do not survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe tracker\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn Excel workbook that logs every review you get and calculates how many more five-star reviews it takes to reach the average rating you are aiming at. It works in \u003cstrong\u003eExcel and Google Sheets\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is in the file\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 33-page PDF playbook, the HTML card generator, the Excel tracker, and 10 FAQs on the questions shop owners actually ask. One-time payment of $23.90. Instant download. The cards \u003cstrong\u003eprint from any browser\u003c\/strong\u003e. No subscription.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mechanivo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54969446564177,"sku":null,"price":23.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1051\/9275\/1441\/files\/04_reviews_1.png?v=1789544457","url":"https:\/\/mechanivo.com\/products\/the-review-engine","provider":"Mechanivo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}