Reviews
Online reviews are critical to the success of local businesses today. The importance of reviews will only increase in the future. Reputation management software gives you more control over your ratings on major review sites that consumers use to decide whether or not to patronize your business. This software allows you to generate new reviews, gate reviews so that you get more good reviews, monitor reviews to increase customer satisfaction and use the best reviews to market your brand to potential customers.
UnlockSEO provides Bay Area businesses in Berkeley, Oakland, and San Franciso a comprehensive solution to reputation management. We offer a self-service reputation management option and a fully-managed solution which includes review monitoring and responding.
The San Francisco Bay Area is a very difficult place be a business owner. Businesses that take control of their online reputation have a competive advantage over those that don't. Why wait? Get in touch with us today and take control of your online reputation!
A Large Population
The San Francisco Bay Area is the home to 7,753,000 people. Thirty eight Fortune 500 companies have headquarters here, many of them are in the tech sector. The city of Berkeley has over 60,000 students at the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley City College, Graduate Theogical Union and several other smaller institutions. Bay Area residents include students, employees and retired people. These are all your potential customers.
Hyper-Competitive
There are thousands of consumer-oriented service companies in the Bay Area. There are 8 Three-Star Michelin restaurants, the most in the United States. All of these businesses compete for Bay Area customers.
According to Globe Street and CBRE, downtown San Francisco and the Peninsula rank #3 and #4 for the most expensive commercial office space on the continent. Taxes and minimum wages are high, competition is fierce.
Reviews—A Key Role
Online reviews matter to these customers and play a key role in how they decide where to spend their money. Ninety-seven percent of consumers read reviews for local businesses in the Bay Area. Eighty-four percent trust online reviews as much as friends or family. They are checking Yelp, Google, Facebook, Ebay, Angies List, and many other specialty review sites (like ZocDoc, WebMD, etc.) prior to purchasing a service or dining out.
These consumers are used to, and demand, a high level of service. One of them could become an outspoken evangelist for your business...another could become a picky critic. You need to know them both and all the others in between, and you need to respond to them in order to optimize your reputation.
Unless you have someone in-house dedicated to this task, it can seem overwhelming. We understand the challenges of doing business in the Bay Area. UnlockSEO is located in Berkeley and can help you with a cost-effective solution to managing your reputation.
UnlockSEO is not accepting clients. Jeff Bradt is now working full-time for Saint Mary's College of California as the Director of Graduate Marketing. If you have any concerns, please contact Jeff at (510) 842-7238. The contact form below has been disabled.
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Berkeley, CA, USA
Phone: +1 510 842-7238
Email: jeff (at) unlockseo.com
