customer reviews the lifeblood of your Amazon business good reviews mean more
sales and bad reviews could mean disaster but what if you have no reviews
where do you start well you start right here JC Franco here the no bullshit
Amazon seller so if you looking for a place to learn about Amazon FBA without
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so in this video we're gonna cover reviews I'm gonna show you tell you
about ways to get reviews legit reviews in this day and age of Amazon FBA as
well as things to avoid so that your reviews don't get removed or worse get
suspended okay but before we do that leave a comment that says no bullshit
with the poop emoji and you can win a special prize alright so the first thing
we're gonna talk about is one that most of you might be familiar with but that
is the Amazon early reviewer program so there's a program by Amazon where you
can pay $60 to get up to 5 reviews so it's basically like $12 per review and I
think amylin goes out and reach out to people and offers them like a $3 credit
to leave a review for your product now it's a nice way to get started it's a
nice little program definitely worth it for the 5 reviews however there's a few
things to keep in mind okay so it's not immediate so it's not like you pay $60
and then you boom have 5 reviews it couldn't take up to a few months to get
these reviews okay and then on top of that there's no guarantee that these are
going to be good reviews right so if it's your first 5 and one of them is a
negative review they don't like your product that can really hurt another
thing to keep in mind is when we're looking at the things to not do later so
your reviews don't get removed is that these reviews can get removed so you buy
these reviews they are legit from Amazon but then you do some of the shady things
and your reviews end up getting removed your early reviewer program reviews can
get removed as well now sometimes the best way to get something and the
easiest way to get something is to ask right I'll give you an example can you
guys please leave a like on this video for me see it's easy simple now same
thing goes for reviews so one thing I actually do when you're starting
especially when you're at a small scale you can actually just
you'll be email people that purchase your product and ask them to leave you
overview right so the way you do this you just go into manage orders and your
seller central account and you go to your orders you click on the order ID
number and you can press contact right so now it'll open up wait to email these
customers through Amazon system so you don't need anything external you don't
need to use your own email you don't need to get like an automated software
you can just do it right inside seller central so once you do that you can just
write out an email right and then copy and paste that for all the people that
purchase your product at the very beginning and it can just be simple
write some things to note is that you don't want to incentivize it so you
can't say leave me review and I'll give you this or you don't want to ask for a
positive review right you can just say can you please leave me a review or can
you please leave me an honest review right so that's all you're doing just
write something tell your story if they thank you so much maybe give them why
you started selling on Amazon why you decided this product why this brand and
then ask for an honest review now one thing that some people do that you
shouldn't do is don't leave a sob story right don't make it seem like you have
to pity you and they're giving your view out of pity because no one wants to do
that I don't want to read that it's just a downer right so just leave something
simple something concise and then ask for review and then that's all you got
to do just ask through analyst system and you can do that for the first little
bit until you know you start getting so many sales that she becomes unreasonable
so number three is Facebook groups so the first thing I comes to mind for most
people is review groups right so groups where you literally are made for
reviewing Amazon products if you just search that on Facebook you'll find a
bunch of them where people are trading reviews or offering reviews for refunds
okay now that is actually not the way that I would suggest doing it it's just
not my favorite way it's not there's a smarter way to do it through Facebook
groups and that is to join actual groups that are related to your niche so
whatever your product you're selling say you're selling some kind of beauty
product doing beauty groups right makeup groups or whatever kind of groups out
there that are related to your product and then join that group and become a
member so become active you know make some post reply and comment on people's
posts and do that for about a week and then after that once you've kind of you
know become part of the group you can do a few things okay so the first thing you
can do is you can ask a moderator or ask the owner of the group if you
publicly offer your products give it away people in exchange for a review and
then you refund those people on PayPal or if you don't wanna do that you can
just private message people owed that group so directly message them and say
hey you know I just got a brand-new launching a new branding product
I love for you to try it out and I can refund you for the product if you leave
me a review so that way you're actually a people that might be interested in the
product and if it's cleaner than going to a review group in my opinion and then
it gives you the benefit of if your product is great which it should be you
know the people that are actually passionate about the product that are
using it and that can tell their friends and spread the word of mouth and you're
now part of this group right and your brand is now part of the stream of
people knowing you in this in this group that is related to your product now this
one is a little bit more risky because it is technically against amell's TOS
but if you play it safe you might be able to get with away with but again
proceed with caution at your own risk this is friends and family so there's a
few things you can do to make sure that you know to be as safe as possible you
do this what I like to do is not ask them direct you know like immediate
family but friends of your immediate family or friends of your your close
friends right so instead of asking you know your your dad did buy your product
and leave your review maybe ask your dad's work friends right does your dad
have any co-workers or does your sister have any you know friends from school
that might want to leave you a review and maybe they might not be interested
in your products or not you're gonna actually buy the product I'm just gonna
refund them then most likely you'll get a few people that will do that for you
unless you're just a terrible person and nobody likes you
right so if you want to friends and family
make sure try to you know have a degree of separation the more degrees of
separation the better so as your dad's bosses sons girlfriend then that's best
right and then also keep in mind try not to have people with the same last name
that are family members of you in the same last name or people that live in
the same city now too quickly on top of that as well is you want to make sure
they have spent at least fifty dollars on their Amazon account so if it's
someone who has never used Amazon before and they just sign up for Amazon to buy
your product don't do that okay or at least give them some time have
them buy some products on Amazon and then give them a month time and then
have them buy your product and also lastly make sure they're waiting a
little bit of time after they've received your product right so not after
they bought it and not even the day they receive it wait tell them to wait a week
you know the longer the better seven to like 10 to 15 days to leave a review
after they receive the product so next smart way to start general reviews
without having too much effort is to include an insert card in your product
right so an insert car if you don't know he's like a little piece of paper or
like biz basically the size of like a business card or credit card you put
into your box in your packaging for your product that can do a few things right
so you can say thank you for your purchase tell your brand story tell your
mission leave your socials and then you can ask for a review now a few things
about this you can't ask for an incentive eyes review just like with
emails you can't ask for incentivize reviews you can just simply ask for a
review now a really cool way to incorporate this is not to just ask but
to also include a mani chat scanner so if you don't manage that is it's like a
messenger bought its facebook messenger it's a software you can you can get it's
pretty cheap you can set up like email automations but in messenger so you can
say you can offer them something on that to join your manager so can be like a
free training like if a product where it can be you know five tips to use this
product or if it's just something about your your your niche in general so
they're selling something like a beach ball right you can just give a little
article about five fun things to do in the summer or whatever it may be make it
you know put some time and effort into it but then what will happen is once
they join your man you chat your money your manage that sequence and they scan
it and they get you give them the you know whatever you offer them now they're
in the secret three days later you can ask them hey
how are you enjoying my product and then depending on how the answer you can say
okay great thing if they said I love your product you can send them a link to
then review it from there right so it's more than just asking it's actually
getting them involved and then now you actually have that contact in your your
magnetic sequences okay so that's a cool way to do it have an insert ask for
reviews and then if you want to go to the extra mile you can set up a magnet
track sequence for those inserts as well alright so now you get your reviews
coming in right I just want to leave a note here don't get greedy with this
there's a point when you transfer from this grindy kind of review stuff to
something more automated right so maybe you're super popular you got a bunch of
friends and family and they're all buying your products you're getting a
bunch of reviews and it's going well you're flying under the radar you got
maybe you're an earlier reviewer program you got your five reviews from them you
sent out a few manual emails you got reviews from them and now you got like
10 20 reviews don't keep on doing like things that are like Facebook groups or
you know friends of family don't get greedy with that time to move on to
getting an actual automated email system going on now what I suggest for this is
something like feedback whiz right so feedback whiz if you want there's a link
in the description to get it it's a system that will automatically review
customers and you can just get this going automated so you have to worry
about anymore you can leave like one two three day
follow-up sequence just like with mani chat right but over email at this time
and with nicing what this is that unlike with manage chat they don't have to sign
up you can just automatically send it to them if they purchase your product
through feedback Wiz okay so feedback Wiz is now where you're going to
actually be able to scale this and go long-term and not have to worry about
the singular day-to-day review and I would set it up just like the manga chat
system like thank you for buying product brand story and then three days later
what did you think and then maybe you know and then three days after that if
you love the product leave a review right and again don't aside device and
don't ask for a positive review now let's cover some of the dome some of the
things on these lists some people will argue say that's to go too far you'll
need to do that much you don't need you know Amazon doesn't care that much but
if you're gonna try and keep it safe keep it safe as possible and these are
just the things just keep in the back of your mind so try not to ask for of your
get a review from someone that you've shared the same Wi-Fi connection with
right and we want to smart like that they know these things I think it fair
out and they can say hey these people are living in the same house so they can
delete that review right next talk about this already briefly but don't get
reviews from your social media friends so if your friends on Facebook your
friendly Instagram I try not to get reviews from that those people and if
you are going to it's best if those if you unfriend them and if these friends
aren't living in the same city as you so if you have friends on social media you
want to offer this to make sure to unfriend them and if you want to go the
extra mile make sure they're not living in the same city or they're not family
members of yours with the same last name next doing review for review again you
mention this but don't trade reviews with other sellers you know buy one
product I buy yours you buy mine I review as your review mine because again
Amazon will detect that next don't have people review the product right after
they buy it right Amazon will know that hey I just bought this product ten
minutes ago and he left a five-star rating review that's really easy for
Amazon to catch and finally don't get too many reviews right don't go over
like ten percent for the first little bit for your review so that means one
review per ten to fifteen sales okay you keep it like that keep it smart
because if you have you know a review for your for every you have ten sale you
have ten reviews emmalin's gonna catch up really quickly within their algorithm
now good luck with your launch and go out there and get your first initial
reviews this is all you really need to know to get that ball rolling to get you
going and get your product up there so you can start making some might now if
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