Honeydo Hints/ Importance of Ratings

Most everyone will agree that the best source of new business is a referral from a previous customer. Why? Because the referral customer already put you over the hump to establishing trust and confidence with the prospect before you even meet.

That process is too random and inefficient to count on for building your business every day. However, if you can let every new prospect see what your past customers have said about you, and show them the work you have done, it is very close to a direct referral. Ratings and Reviews, make it easy to turn every customer into a referral source.

Ratings and Reviews and portfolio photos and videos set Honeydo.com apart from all other forms of advertising and promotion. You can't put your reviews and photos in Yellow Pages, on your vehicle, or on your coupons. Even if you could, you couldn't have new and fresh ones posted every week!

The most successful providers work hard to please each customer and keep new ratings and reviews pouring in to their profile. If you visit many of the internet contractor/service sites you will find very few service providers with any reviews and most of those have only one or two. WHY? The answer is that the great majority of service providers are just too lazy to follow up with their customers to make sure the customer posts a rating about them. It is so easy, and costs $0 to ask your customer to rate you. This is the single biggest way to get more work, AND IT'S FREE.

Honeydo.com also provides you other simple tools to get each customer to submit a review for you. Simply click on the Review form link and print out forms as you need them. Give one to each customer at the end of the work, and ask them to immediately go onto your honeydo profile and rate you. Check back a week later, if the customer hasn't posted a review, call them and ask them to please do so.

In the beginning, it is very important for you to contact some of your past customers and ask them to come on the site and rate you.

Another tip that some service providers have used is to carry copies of your reviews to every prospect. You can put them in a binder with your portfolio photos, and then let the prospect review them. They may have found you on Honeydo.com but they may not have looked at your detailed reviews. Or they may have found you from some other source and not even know of your happy customer reviews. This solves all of those problems.