How to get more Google reviews, honestly.
After a job, a short, personal review request gets drafted for that customer. You read it and send it.
How to get more Google reviews after each job
- Pick who sends the requests.
- Read each one, then send it.
- Ask every customer the same way.
- Build it around how jobs finish.
- Write requests in your voice.
- Keep it running.
Texts you can copy.
Yours to use, even if you never hire us.
Hi [Name], it's [your name] at [Business]. Thanks for having us out for [the job] today. If you have a minute, would you leave us a Google review? It helps people nearby find us. Here's the link: [your review link]
Subject: How did [the job] go? Hi [Name], Thanks again for choosing [Business] for [the job]. If you have two minutes, a Google review helps your neighbors pick someone, and it helps us a lot. Whatever you thought, we'd like to hear it. You can leave one here: [your review link] Thanks, [your name]
Hi [Name], it's [your name] at [Business] again. No worries if you're busy. If you get a minute this week, here's that review link: [your review link]. Thanks either way.
Live in 30 days.
- KickoffYou name one approver.
- 5 business daysYou give us access.
- 48 hoursYour approver gets back to us.
- 30 daysLive, or we work free until it is.
Questions.
Ask every customer, right after the job, with a direct link. A short, personal request that names the job turns a review into a one-minute favor instead of a hunt for your profile. Send it the same day while the work is fresh. Then reply to the reviews you get, so the next customer sees a real person reads them.
Ask once, by name, and mention the job. Give them the link so they don't have to search for you, and say you want their honest take, good or bad. If they don't answer, one gentle nudge a few days later is plenty. After that, let it go. A customer who felt chased won't write a kind review anyway.
No. Google's review policy doesn't allow offering anything in exchange for a review, like payment, a discount or free work. It also doesn't allow asking only the customers you expect to be happy, or discouraging bad reviews, and reviews that break those rules get removed. Ask every customer the same way, with nothing offered. It's the slow, honest way to get more Google reviews.
Use whichever way you already talk to that customer. If they text you about the job, a text with the link is the easiest thing for them to tap. If you send invoices by email, a review request email right after the job works well too. Either way, you or someone on your team sends it, the same day if you can.
No. A request gets drafted for each finished job in your words, with your review link, and it waits for you or someone on your team to read it and send it. You can change it or skip it before it goes. That way a customer with an open problem doesn't get a review request in the middle of it.
