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Background

This doc uses a fictitious company called Lustrous Lashes, experts in the application of artificial lashes. The owners are Brandy and Candy - (and for the record, I know very little about artificial lashes. 😄)

The receptionist, Mandy, is encouraged to add 4 happy customers a day to the tracker, using the Add Customer data form. She chooses customers who express an interest in submitting a review when asked at check-out after their service.

Also, she is assigned the responsibility of tracking the customer review responses throughout the workflow. Mandy finds this doc - well, very handy! (and so too, do Brandy and Candy🙃)

Please note that the GMAIL and SMS buttons and some of the other buttons and tables have dummy data and will not send external data. Copy the doc and add your personal data during the set-up process to customize the doc to your specifications.

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Set-up

Go to the

Set-up page⁠

and complete the checklist. You can also view a

video summary⁠

of the set-up process.

A quick summary of the set-up and tracking workflow is as follows:

First, customize the forms and templates and set up your Google My Business profile.

As needed, add customers to whom you wish to send review requests.

When a customer submits the survey form, the survey results are collected in a database and the workflow continues and with follow-up emails.

Review and analyze the feedback. Improve your service. Engage with and attract more customers.

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Customer Review Tracker

Use the

Customer Review Tracker⁠

to initiate the review request and then view the Survey Responses.

At the top of the page are Links to the data input forms and the customer communications templates. Customize them to suit your needs.

Filter the detailed view by customer name or status of request.

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The request statuses are:
Waiting First Request Sent Second Request Sent Customer Submitted Review Opt Out
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Use the Request Review button in the detailed view to initiate a review request. After requesting the review, the button is disabled and the workflow process is automated. If you don’t have time to push the button manually, the review request button is pushed as part of a time based daily 10 AM automation.

If a customer submits a review, the automation will email either the

Thank You⁠

Negative Review Response⁠

template, depending on the survey results.

Reviews of 3 stars or more receive a

Thank You email.⁠

Reviews below 3 stars receive the

How Can we Improve⁠

email.

Another automation notifies you when a review is submitted.

Access the survey results with the green button in the detailed view or on the page in the sidebar. The green button is disabled, if there are no survey responses.

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Feedback Analyses

Use the Feedback Analyses dashboard to evaluate the results and take action to improve your service. Use the Website Embed subpage to embed real time results on your website.

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Manually track and update your Google my Business rating in the dashboard. There are paid widgets that can be added to the dashboard which will automatically pull the rating, but that is beyond the scope of this doc.

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Workflow

The Customer Review Tracker workflow uses checkmarks to either enable or disable the action buttons as you move through the workflow.

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When you request a review, the status changes from Waiting to First Request Sent.

A 2nd request for review is emailed 7 days after the first request - if there is no response.

The status Changes to Second Request Sent.

The opt out button is checked (true) if there has been no response to the first or second request after 21 days.

The status changes to Opt Out.

Survey results are submitted, changing the status to Customer Submitted Review.

A thank you page is emailed if the survey review results are rated 3 stars out of 5, or higher.

A response to a negative request is emailed if one of the review responses is 1 or 2 stars out of 5.

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Automations

There are 3 automations:

Send review requests and follow-up reminder (time based)

Notify users when a review is submitted (row change)

Send follow-up emails when a review is submitted (row change)

The 1st automation is set for 10 AM, Monday through Friday. I made this automation time based because I also wanted to have the option to request the review manually. The pushed buttons will -

Request a review via SMS and Email, if the button is active,

Email a second request for review, if there is no response after one week,

To reiterate, you can also request a review directly from the

Customer Review Tracker⁠

The 2nd automation is triggered when the Overall Rating column changes.

The 3rd automation is also triggered when a customer submits a review and the Overall Rating column changes.

Send the Thank you or Negative review email.

Remove Duplicate Data

All automations are currently turned off.

Background

Set-up

Customer Review Tracker