How Selling Reviews With AI Changed My Life (My Exact System) — Transcript
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- 0:00A few years ago, my agency was doing
- 0:01over $17,000 a month, but I was working
- 0:03more than 10 hours a day saying yes to
- 0:05anything my clients asked me to do. I
- 0:07got sick of it and I cut the business
- 0:09down to $4,600 a month, and I rebuilt
- 0:11the whole entire business around one
- 0:13service, helping local businesses get
- 0:15Google reviews. In this video, I'll show
- 0:17you why reviews changed the business,
- 0:19how AI helped make the delivery
- 0:20repeatable, and how I'd get the first
- 0:22client if I had to start over again
- 0:23today. If you don't know who I am, my
- 0:25name is Clay Lawrence, founder of Review
- 0:26Harvest. Here you can see last month,
- 0:28this is our Stripe account, we did over
- 0:29$66,000 and well over 40,000 of that was
- 0:32just from helping local business owners
- 0:33get reviews. For roughly 2 years, my
- 0:35agency sold anything a local business
- 0:37owner would pay me for. I would
- 0:38literally sell something and I would go
- 0:40home and learn how to do it on YouTube.
- 0:41But after years of doing that, I was
- 0:43spending 10 to 12 hours a day in
- 0:44delivery for clients. I wasn't working
- 0:46on my business, I was strictly just
- 0:48fulfilling the work that I sold to them.
- 0:50And so, around August of 2023, I hit my
- 0:52breaking point. I was spending all my
- 0:53time just working on my clients. I
- 0:55didn't feel like I could sell any other
- 0:56clients because if I did sell them, it
- 0:58was going to sacrifice the results of my
- 0:59existing clients. And I talked to my
- 1:01wife, Carly, I said, "I got to change
- 1:02something up. This is not going to
- 1:03work." And she said, "What about that
- 1:04review thing?" And at the time, all of
- 1:06these clients I was doing work for, I'd
- 1:08implemented a review system for. It was
- 1:09just one small component of what I was
- 1:11doing for them, but it only took an hour
- 1:12or two to set up, and I was getting them
- 1:14crazy results. I started slowly
- 1:15transitioning all my agency services to
- 1:17just helping those businesses get more
- 1:19reviews, and it cut my revenue all the
- 1:20way down from $17,000 a month to $4,600
- 1:23a month. And while that sucked, I knew
- 1:25it was a necessary step cuz I was not
- 1:26going to be able to continue growing the
- 1:27business in that messy agency, and I
- 1:29finally had a scalable, repeatable
- 1:31system that I could just copy and paste
- 1:32and sell to hundreds or thousands of
- 1:34businesses. One of the amazing things
- 1:35about selling this review service is
- 1:37that most local business owners know how
- 1:38important reviews are. And if they
- 1:40don't, you can just do a sample search.
- 1:41You can see I did Houston locksmith
- 1:42here, and you can show them these top
- 1:44three organic businesses. All these
- 1:45people up here, this is paid real
- 1:46estate. These people are paying
- 1:47thousands of dollars a month to Google
- 1:49Ads, but these three businesses here get
- 1:50the vast majority of the leads, and no
- 1:52local business is going to rank up here
- 1:54at the top of Google in a competitive
- 1:55area without reviews. So, the offer went
- 1:57from I'll help you do anything to very
- 1:59concrete, very simple, I'd love to help
- 2:01you get some more Google reviews to
- 2:02start getting more customers on Google.
- 2:03And the great news about this service is
- 2:05that we can get a massive win for the
- 2:06client up front by doing what we call a
- 2:08review reactivation. So, most of these
- 2:10business owners have a list of 500 or
- 2:111,000 previous customers and we can use
- 2:13that list and slowly message them with
- 2:15our system to get them a bunch of
- 2:16reviews in the first month or two of
- 2:18working with us. You can see here, this
- 2:19was a client when they started working
- 2:20with us, they had 131 reviews. Good, but
- 2:23not great. They weren't ranking
- 2:24everywhere on Google. After working with
- 2:25us now for over 2 years, you can see
- 2:27they have over 610 reviews on Google.
- 2:29And now when you do a search for water
- 2:30filter companies near me, you can see
- 2:32they're ranking up here at the top
- 2:33organically with all of their reviews.
- 2:35You can see now inside their HighLevel
- 2:36sub-account in the tool we built called
- 2:38Hey Segment, even just in the last 7
- 2:40days they've gotten over 18 reviews. So,
- 2:42that review reactivation is just the
- 2:43beginning. You can get integrated into
- 2:45their existing business or get them to
- 2:46send you customers on a weekly or
- 2:47monthly basis so you consistently get
- 2:49them reviews for months and years to
- 2:50come. You can see this business in
- 2:52particular has paid us over $8,200 and
- 2:54been a client for over 2 years. So, for
- 2:56years I was using a snapshot and
- 2:58automations in HighLevel to basically
- 3:00duct tape this service directly in
- 3:01HighLevel. And it works and you totally
- 3:03can do it this way. You can see I
- 3:04created a ad-hoc dashboard here. You
- 3:06have to, you know, create your own
- 3:07automations and add the contacts to the
- 3:09contacts page here and get everything
- 3:10integrated. Typically, you have to get
- 3:12them to log into HighLevel and connect
- 3:14their account. But, over time with A2P
- 3:16and getting phone numbers getting harder
- 3:18and harder, we decided to build out our
- 3:19own system right inside of HighLevel so
- 3:21it sits inside of their sub-account so
- 3:23you can upsell them other services. And
- 3:25it's called Hey Segment. So, you can see
- 3:26if you scroll down here, we can see Hey
- 3:27Segment. This takes client setup from
- 3:29about an hour or 2 hours of manual
- 3:31onboarding work inside of HighLevel and
- 3:32getting them to log into HighLevel on a
- 3:34Zoom call and connect everything. To now
- 3:35we can literally to get started, we can
- 3:36just send them an onboarding link and we
- 3:38can set up their account in just 5 to 10
- 3:39minutes inside of Hey Segment. It allows
- 3:41you to connect your own custom SMS
- 3:42provider so you don't have to go through
- 3:44A2P approval every single time if you
- 3:45don't want to. Make sure you check your
- 3:47local SMS laws and regulations to
- 3:49confirm you're allowed to run the the
- 3:50that way. [music] So, now instead of all
- 3:51that manual work and approval inside of
- 3:53HighLevel, you can just click into
- 3:54HeySummit, you can click on onboard a
- 3:56business, you can type in the business
- 3:58owner's email, let's just put a demo
- 3:59email in here, say Joe Schmo, put their
- 4:02name in, put their business name in, and
- 4:04you can put their phone number in if you
- 4:05want to. One thing that we do for our
- 4:07clients at Review Harvest, and you can
- 4:08do this natively inside of HeySummit, is
- 4:10we send out personalized image review
- 4:12requests. So, if we go into HeySummit,
- 4:13we click on personalized image right
- 4:14here in the subaccount, we can see
- 4:16instead of just sending out a boring
- 4:17text or email, we upload a photo from
- 4:19their team, a photo of their business
- 4:21owner, whatever it is, and we can
- 4:22auto-populate the customer's name on
- 4:24this image and text this out. So, that
- 4:25they get a much higher review conversion
- 4:27rate, it gets their customer's
- 4:28attention, they immediately know who's
- 4:29messaging them and why. And so, right
- 4:31here when you're sending an onboarding
- 4:32link, you can add a sample personalized
- 4:34image, so I'll just add my face here for
- 4:35now. And when you click on create link,
- 4:37and so what this will do is it'll
- 4:38automatically email them this link, and
- 4:40when you open up this link, they can
- 4:41just click here to connect their Google
- 4:42Business Profile, they can choose what
- 4:44Gmail account manages their Google
- 4:45Business Profile, and click on continue.
- 4:47From there, they can choose their
- 4:47business that the Gmail has access to,
- 4:49we'll just choose this business for now.
- 4:50They can either upload their own
- 4:52personalized image, and they can just do
- 4:53all this directly from their phone, or
- 4:55they can choose the photo that you
- 4:56uploaded as a recommendation. You can
- 4:57click on finish setup. So, now inside of
- 4:59HeySummit, you can see that all four
- 5:00steps have been complete, they've
- 5:02onboarded, and you can click on create a
- 5:03new business. So, now we pretty much
- 5:04have almost everything we need to go
- 5:06ahead and launch this review
- 5:07reactivation. So, when we were
- 5:08onboarding clients the old way, we
- 5:09needed a 30- to 45-minute onboarding
- 5:11call just to typically get connected to
- 5:12their Google Business Profile and get
- 5:14access to what we needed to to launch
- 5:15that review reactivation campaign. Now,
- 5:17just texting and emailing them that
- 5:18link, they can onboard directly from
- 5:19their phone, and we can go ahead and
- 5:21start the review reactivation before we
- 5:22even book the onboarding call. So, now
- 5:24you've created the business, you want to
- 5:25go ahead and set up the defaults. So,
- 5:26let's go to messaging here. Typically,
- 5:28there's a lot of complicated workflows
- 5:29and stuff that you have to use in A2P
- 5:31approval, all sorts of stuff. If you
- 5:32click on messaging and you click on
- 5:33senders right here, you can go ahead and
- 5:35just choose if you have a custom SMS
- 5:36provider, you can just choose the
- 5:37numbers that you have available. If you
- 5:38have a custom email provider, you can
- 5:40connect the email provider here as well.
- 5:41And then, since you're integrated with
- 5:42GoHighLevel, you can just use your
- 5:44sending domain inside of GoHighLevel, so
- 5:45let's just go ahead and say Joe's
- 5:47Plumbing, and then you use that sending
- 5:49domain, so r.reviewharvest.com.
- 5:52That's the domain that we use to send
- 5:54our emails inside of HighLevel. We set
- 5:55up at our agency level, and so you can
- 5:56just onboard and verify that email here.
- 5:58So, you can see it's sending email
- 5:59there, making sure that email system
- 6:01works. So, now we have an email to send
- 6:02a review request from, and phone numbers
- 6:04to send a review request from in less
- 6:05than a few minutes. So, we go back to
- 6:07messaging, and we click on destinations.
- 6:08This is basically what's the link that
- 6:10we're going to send out in these texts
- 6:11and emails. So, you can add your own
- 6:13link in here. So, it says like Review
- 6:14Harvest that's the name of our business,
- 6:16but you can add your own in here. So, if
- 6:17yours is like Review Blast, or Local
- 6:19Marketing Pro, or something like that,
- 6:20you can add your own domain in here, or
- 6:22you can use one of our gray label
- 6:23domains and just add these to the text
- 6:25messages. From there, you can decide
- 6:26whether you want to send them to Google
- 6:27or a custom link. If you want to get
- 6:28Facebook reviews or something like that.
- 6:30So, then if you scroll down a little
- 6:31bit, you can see what happens after they
- 6:32click the link. Do you want to take them
- 6:33straight to leave a Google review? So,
- 6:35this will get the highest conversion
- 6:36rate, it'll get you the most amount of
- 6:37reviews. But, if you have somebody
- 6:38that's really concerned about negative
- 6:39reviews, you can click on ask how it
- 6:40went first. It's like a review filter
- 6:42page. So, if they said it didn't go
- 6:43well, then it'll take them to an
- 6:44internal page internal feedback instead
- 6:46of directing them directly to Google.
- 6:47So, this is technically against Google's
- 6:49terms of service, but Google doesn't
- 6:50really govern this, and so if you do set
- 6:52this up for your client, I just
- 6:53recommend you letting them know, "Hey,
- 6:54this is technically against our terms of
- 6:55service." Nothing pretty much ever
- 6:56happens, and so it's really up to you
- 6:58what you want to do. If you want to set
- 6:59up the review filter page, you can click
- 7:00on the link theme here, and you can edit
- 7:02how this looks. So, we have the faces,
- 7:04we have stars. I recommend using faces
- 7:06or stars, and then you can change the
- 7:07colors and stuff to match their
- 7:08business. From there, if you scroll
- 7:09down, you want to click on review
- 7:10request messages. So, by default, what
- 7:12we recommend is using smart messaging.
- 7:14So, if you just click on turn on smart
- 7:16messaging there. Smart messaging is
- 7:17basically saying, "Hey, at Hey Segment
- 7:18and Review Harvest, we sent out millions
- 7:20of review requests, so we have really
- 7:21good data as what's the best message to
- 7:23send, what's the best follow-up cadence,
- 7:24all that sort of stuff." So, leaving
- 7:25this on will confirm you get a really
- 7:27solid review conversion rate. But, if
- 7:28you want to customize the messages, you
- 7:30click on write my own messages here, and
- 7:31you can customize each and every review
- 7:32request and follow-up. If we click back
- 7:34to messaging here, you can go to email
- 7:35template. You're able to adjust the
- 7:37email template. We recommend plain text,
- 7:39that's what's going to get the highest
- 7:40conversion rate and land in the inbox
- 7:41the most. And so, if you scroll down to
- 7:42delivery settings here, this is
- 7:43basically where you say what gets sent
- 7:45out and when. So, do you want texts and
- 7:46emails? You can just leave those turned
- 7:48on. How long do you want to wait to send
- 7:49out a review request once we get
- 7:51customers' information? The sending
- 7:52window, so set the time zone and you
- 7:54want to send from like 10:00 a.m. to
- 7:556:00 p.m. or something like that. We
- 7:56recommend two days between messages. It
- 7:58doesn't hurt your conversion rate. And
- 7:59if you're messaging every day over and
- 8:00over and over again, um it can like show
- 8:02some spam stuff to carriers. So, we
- 8:04recommend two days between messages. And
- 8:05then you can set your sending limits.
- 8:06So, do you want to limit how many review
- 8:08requests go out per day? A reason to do
- 8:09this would be like you want to drip this
- 8:11review reactivation out over two months,
- 8:13so it comes in slowly and they're still
- 8:14getting reviews and they're still happy
- 8:15two months down the line. Maybe if they
- 8:16don't have a lot of new contacts coming
- 8:18in, you want to do the review
- 8:19reactivation slowly. That would be
- 8:20adjusting this returning contacts, this
- 8:22reactivation, down to like a lower
- 8:24number. So, if they have like 500
- 8:25contacts that you want to reactivate,
- 8:26you set it to 10 review reactivation
- 8:28requests per day, then that'll go out
- 8:29over 50 days. And then new contacts is
- 8:31like if they get new contacts flowing
- 8:32into the system every day just cuz they
- 8:34completed a job, how many review
- 8:35requests do you want to send? So, you
- 8:36can change those numbers there. And then
- 8:38re-engagement is basically like if they
- 8:39already were requested a review and went
- 8:41through the sequence and then didn't
- 8:42leave a review, do you want them to be
- 8:44able to be asked to leave a review
- 8:45request again in the future if they're
- 8:46added to the system? So, I recommend
- 8:47keeping that turned on. And then lastly,
- 8:49you can see the personalized images. I
- 8:50recommend having that turned on as well,
- 8:52unless multimedia messages, like images
- 8:54with photos, are really expensive in
- 8:55your area, then you could turn that off
- 8:56if you like. From there, you just want
- 8:58to click on personalize image.
- 8:59Obviously, you'd want this photo to be a
- 9:00photo of the business owner, but you can
- 9:01go ahead and move where this name is.
- 9:03You can adjust your powered by logo, and
- 9:05you can change the size and the font and
- 9:06all the stuff on the personalized image.
- 9:08From there, click on reviews, and you'll
- 9:09click on settings, and make sure to turn
- 9:11on automated review response. That way
- 9:12we can automatically respond to all the
- 9:14reviews for your business, so they don't
- 9:15have to. You can even come in here and
- 9:16click on add examples, and you'll see
- 9:18all the old reviews and review responses
- 9:20from this client's Google Business
- 9:21Profile, and you can add those as like
- 9:23the voice of the AI to kind of adjust
- 9:24what it sounds like. And we'll even link
- 9:26contacts to the reviews. So, if you've
- 9:28ever gotten reviews in HighLevel, it
- 9:29doesn't match the review from Google to
- 9:30the person that left the review. It
- 9:32creates a new contact, and you can't
- 9:33really connect the two. And so, what we
- 9:35do is we automatically connect and we
- 9:36send that data back into the high level
- 9:37sub account. And then whether the
- 9:38contacts are already in their high level
- 9:40sub account or you want to upload
- 9:41contacts manually inside of their high
- 9:43level business here, either way works.
- 9:44Contacts will start flowing through,
- 9:46they'll start getting review requests,
- 9:47and you're done. That's literally how
- 9:48easy it is to set up a review
- 9:49reactivation campaign. The only other
- 9:51thing here is you want to set up a CRM
- 9:52integration with the business so that
- 9:54they do use a software to run their
- 9:55business on a daily basis, you're
- 9:56automatically getting those customers. I
- 9:58plenty other videos on my channel about
- 10:00how to do a CRM integration. We also
- 10:01have really nice notifications in here.
- 10:02So if you click on settings and you
- 10:04click on notifications, you can see if a
- 10:06Google Business Profile disconnects, we
- 10:07automatically send an email to the
- 10:08customer so they can reconnect it. So
- 10:10typically in high level, we'd have a lot
- 10:11of Google Business Profiles silently
- 10:13disconnect and we wouldn't know until
- 10:14clients were frustrated not getting
- 10:16reviews, we weren't responding to
- 10:17reviews, and so we'd lose clients over
- 10:19it, right? Also, if a customer leaves
- 10:20private feedback on that review filter
- 10:22page, you can have that automatically
- 10:23emailed to the business owner as well so
- 10:25they can handle it. And then lastly,
- 10:26this is one of my favorite
- 10:27notifications, contact activity. So if
- 10:29they don't upload more than one contact
- 10:31every 14 days or whatever setting you
- 10:33want to set it to, we'll automatically
- 10:34email the business owner that they're
- 10:35not getting enough contacts and they
- 10:37need to upload more contacts or you need
- 10:38to fix the CRM integration. This is
- 10:40great for people that don't have a CRM
- 10:41and told you they'd upload contacts
- 10:42manually on a weekly or monthly basis.
- 10:44This keeps them in check. And then I
- 10:46think most importantly, now in the
- 10:47account level of Hey Segment, you have
- 10:49this group view where you can see all
- 10:50the businesses you've onboarded. You can
- 10:51see what issues they're having, you
- 10:53know, is have their Google Business
- 10:54Profile disconnected? Do they not have
- 10:56an image? Are review requests not going
- 10:58out? Are they not uploading contacts?
- 10:59Are they not getting reviews? And so you
- 11:00can manage all of this from one
- 11:02dashboard here. You just don't have
- 11:04something like that in high level in the
- 11:05sub account view. And so it could get
- 11:06really messy when we're trying to run
- 11:08hundreds and hundreds of clients
- 11:09directly through high level. But the
- 11:10amazing part about all this is that if
- 11:12you upsell websites, you upsell lead
- 11:13follow-up, AI agents, whatever you're
- 11:15doing, this still sits directly inside
- 11:17their high level sub account. And so you
- 11:18can see down here at Hey Segment, all
- 11:20the information, everything sits
- 11:21directly in here. Contacts flow back and
- 11:22forth, and so you can easily upsell them
- 11:24on other services inside of high level.
- 11:26If you want to build this out inside
- 11:27high level, my link is down below in the
- 11:28description. Starting an account or
- 11:30upgrading to the next level get you into
- 11:31my paid high level house community for
- 11:33free. In that community, I have weekly
- 11:34coaching calls, I have templates, I show
- 11:36you the account setup, and I have dozens
- 11:37of other five-click trainings to make
- 11:39sure you don't miss a single step. But,
- 11:40do that after the video cuz first I want
- 11:41to show you exactly how I'd get my first
- 11:43review client today if I had to start
- 11:45over. Getting your first couple clients
- 11:46is always the hardest by far, but after
- 11:48you get your first five, everything gets
- 11:50easier from there. So, what I recommend
- 11:51to most beginners is do your first
- 11:53couple clients for free. You can set
- 11:54these clients' accounts up really
- 11:55quickly. You can get case studies and
- 11:57testimonials that'll make it easier to
- 11:58sell your future clients. So, the place
- 12:00I always recommend getting your first
- 12:02client is from your warm network. People
- 12:03that already know, like, and trust you.
- 12:05It's going to be your family members,
- 12:06your friends, anybody in your phone
- 12:07contacts, anybody that follows you on
- 12:09Instagram and Facebook. And so, I sent
- 12:10this message out to all my phone
- 12:12contacts when I was just starting out,
- 12:13and it's basically just saying, "Hey,
- 12:14their name, I'm starting this new thing
- 12:16where I help local businesses get Google
- 12:17reviews so that they can get more
- 12:19customers from Google. I'm setting up
- 12:21the first couple businesses for free
- 12:22just to get feedback. Do you know any
- 12:24business owners who'd be interested?"
- 12:25When you sit them down, explain to them
- 12:27the review reactivation. Hey, "You've
- 12:28got 500 customers that you've already
- 12:30earned a review from. It's just about
- 12:31letting us go out there and get them.
- 12:33Typically, on this review reactivation,
- 12:34we can get anywhere from 10 to 15% of
- 12:36their previous customers to leave a
- 12:37review. So, what you can do is you can
- 12:39pull up the search on Google, and you
- 12:40can say, "Hey, I'm looking you up. I'm
- 12:42not seeing you here in the top three.
- 12:43And so, if you had 50, 60, 100 more
- 12:46reviews in the next couple months, do
- 12:48you think you'd be more likely to show
- 12:49up here at the top of Google?" This
- 12:50review reactivation gets your foot in
- 12:51the door and gives them a big win up
- 12:53front. At Review Harvest, we charge
- 12:54anywhere from 100 to about 279 per month
- 12:57for this type of service depending on
- 12:58the size of the business. And a lot of
- 13:00times, after that review reactivation
- 13:01and getting them a big win up front,
- 13:03they'll just start to pay your service
- 13:04like a utility bill cuz they know how
- 13:05important reviews are and how much
- 13:07they're required to start ranking higher
- 13:08on Google. And if for some reason you
- 13:10exhausted your local network of
- 13:12Instagram followers and contacts in your
- 13:13phone, then what I recommend is reaching
- 13:15out to local business owners in your
- 13:16area. I've got dozens of videos on my
- 13:18channel how to get your first clients,
- 13:19but in the beginning, if you start
- 13:21reaching out to people locally, you can
- 13:22sit next to them face-to-face, you can
- 13:23buy them coffee, and it's just so much
- 13:25easier to get your first reps. It's like
- 13:26playing this marketing agency game on
- 13:28easy mode. But now, after you set up
- 13:30some clients, you've gotten some case
- 13:31studies, you've gotten reviews coming in
- 13:33from these businesses, it's the perfect
- 13:34time to upsell them your other services
- 13:36of websites, AI agents, automations,
- 13:38whatever else you're selling inside of
- 13:39HighLevel or your marketing agency. They
- 13:41already know, like, and trust you, and
- 13:42very, very few local business owners
- 13:44have had an experience of somebody
- 13:46selling them saying, "Hey, I'm going to
- 13:47get you more reviews." and then
- 13:48providing that result and providing it
- 13:50quickly. And so, since they've never
- 13:51really had that sort of experience with
- 13:53a marketing agency before, they will
- 13:54love you and ask you what else you do.
- 13:56So, about 16 months ago, I got with a
- 13:57developer and I needed these sort of
- 13:59tools. I needed to be able to connect to
- 14:01custom SMS provider so I didn't have to
- 14:02go through A2P verification. I needed an
- 14:04onboarding link. I needed simple
- 14:06reporting and simple metrics. And I
- 14:07needed to be able to manage all my
- 14:08clients like an admin dashboard where I
- 14:10could see everything and know what
- 14:11clients were likely to churn. And so,
- 14:13over the last 16 months, we've been
- 14:14building out this tooling for Review
- 14:16Harvest, and now Hay Segment is that's
- 14:18just giving that to you in the form of a
- 14:19HighLevel app that sits directly inside
- 14:21of your sub accounts. Now, instead of
- 14:23getting your clients to like log in to
- 14:24HighLevel and figure out how to upload a
- 14:26CSV file, you can just click on uploads
- 14:28in their business in Hay Segment. You
- 14:29can click on send upload link and it
- 14:30just goes ahead and automatically emails
- 14:32them a link to upload contacts. No login
- 14:34required. They upload a CSV file and it
- 14:37automatically matches the columns on the
- 14:38spreadsheet with AI. So, phone number,
- 14:40email, first name, those can all be
- 14:41matched automatically. And if a client
- 14:43ever asked for a report or to see what
- 14:45was going out, you had to give them
- 14:46access to HighLevel and it's
- 14:47overwhelming. There's AI agent this, AI
- 14:49summer this, pipelines, opportunities.
- 14:51They're like, "Hey, I thought you were
- 14:52just doing reviews." So, we solved that
- 14:53problem by creating a custom white label
- 14:55login for them. So, you can see, this is
- 14:56a portal that your client can see. They
- 14:58can come in here, they can adjust their
- 14:59personalized images, they can adjust
- 15:01their messaging, they can review all the
- 15:02metrics to see what click-through rate
- 15:03they're getting, what percentage of
- 15:04people are leaving a review, what's the
- 15:06sending activity like. And so, it's a
- 15:07very clean, very simple dashboard that
- 15:09fits with exactly what you're selling.
- 15:11And unfortunately, it's still not just
- 15:12clicking a few buttons and it's done.
- 15:14But instead of 2 hours of admin work for
- 15:16you or your VA, now it's just 15
- 15:18minutes. And now that onboarding clients
- 15:19is so much easier, you can spend all of
- 15:21that extra time into sales and marketing
- 15:23because I've still had to personally
- 15:25close over a thousand local business
- 15:27owners on a Zoom call in the past couple
- 15:29of years. And that is a full contact
- 15:31sport. That takes time, dedication,
- 15:32consistency, and it's not easy. So, if
- 15:34you're just getting started or you are
- 15:36running that agency that's doing
- 15:37everything for everybody and it feels
- 15:38super messy and you're spending all of
- 15:40your time in client delivery, I would
- 15:41encourage you to look into this model
- 15:43and start trying to run it for some of
- 15:44your clients. But know, for about a
- 15:46year, I was below that $17,000 a month.
- 15:48It took me almost a year to build it all
- 15:50the way back up to $17,000 a month. But
- 15:52once I got to 17, 20, 30, 40K per month,
- 15:55it was a completely different business.
- 15:57Cuz now I'm making that sort of money
- 15:59and I can literally run the business
- 16:00just by responding to about 30 minutes
- 16:01of support emails per day. There's no
- 16:03ongoing delivery. It's a set it and
- 16:05forget it system. So, just keeping your
- 16:06clients happy is all that's required to
- 16:07run the business on the day-to-day.
- 16:09Obviously, trying to grow the business
- 16:10with ads and sales and marketing is a
- 16:12whole 'nother thing. But now you'll
- 16:13actually have the time to do that. And
- 16:14so, I was able to grow that all the way
- 16:15up to $40,000 a month just helping local
- 16:17business owners get reviews. In the last
- 16:19four or five months, we've added on
- 16:20websites and local SEO as a service. So,
- 16:22that's been a big part of our growth up
- 16:23to over [snorts] $66,000 a month. So,
- 16:25all I ask for you today is to start
- 16:26sending out some texts and emails to
- 16:28your warm network to try and get your
- 16:29first client. If you want to see every
- 16:31part of running this business inside a
- 16:32real high-level account in a complete
- 16:34step-by-step walk-through where I show
- 16:35the one-time account setup, client
- 16:37onboarding, messaging, contact imports,
- 16:39review matching, review replies, and
- 16:41reporting, watch this next video here to
- 16:43build it with me.
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