Overview
For any business, getting feedback is a significant milestone, but how you react is where true magic happens. With the new HubSpot Customer Review function, HubSpot has fully completed the loop, regardless of whether a customer is praising you or sharing a negative experience. Nowadays, striking up a discussion is more important than simply gathering stars.
This guide dives into how you can use HubSpot Service Hub to manage your reputation effectively. We explore the strategic side of the new "reply" tool, including:
- The Golden Rules: Why timing and strategy matter when you only get one shot at a reply.
- Managing Expectations: Understanding how notifications and edits work within the platform.
- The Art of the "Thank You": Personalizing positive feedback to build long-term loyalty.
- Handling Heat: How to internalize bad feedback and respond with empathy and solutions.
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Tips for Replying to Client Reviews - Hubspot
It’s a common practice for clients to write reviews on your website, as feedback for all the good work that you have done. However, they sometimes come from not-so-happy clients too. You can try your best efforts in delivering what the client has asked for but sometimes things can go wrong and the client can end up leaving on a bad note, literally! So, what do you do? Until now you couldn’t do much about it but learn from your mistakes and make sure you put in more efforts in the next project. However, there might be things you want to say, right?
Well, now you can! With HubSpot’s new “reply” feature, you can leave a reply to all those unhappy reviews in a timely and strategic way. Combined with a structured customer onboarding process, this can help you create a better client experience from the beginning.
What does the feature deliver you?
- Reply to a review in a timely and strategic manner
- Edit and add more information to your review
- Each review can have only one reply, so use it carefully
- If you leave a reply, the client who wrote the review will not get a notification as of now
- It is recommended to follow up with the client you left the reply for
Some Tips for Replying to Client Reviews:
- If it’s a positive review, acknowledge them by their name, show gratitude, and leave extra value for them to consider in the future. This is one of the many ways businesses can strengthen relationships using HubSpot CRM features
- If it’s a negative review, internalise the feedback first and discuss with your team, empathise with them and offer the most suitable solutions that could give them a better experience
If you want to understand more in detail about how to handle a negative review or how to respond to a positive one, click here.
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