Google TOS: "it is important to note that offering incentives for customers to leave reviews, such as a discount or gift, is strictly against Google policy and can result in the business losing all of their reviews" This is illegal LOL, as others said, don't trust your business with kids.
Yes, this could get their GMB shutdown for good. Google cracks down hard on this. AI will start flagging these even more I think in the future, not worth it. Can do irreparable damage to a local business.
Does it Violate the Guidelines? • If the offer is made conditional on leaving a positive review or if the incentive is not disclosed in the review, it would violate FTC guidelines. • If the customer is free to leave any kind of review (positive, neutral, or negative) and the incentive is disclosed, it is okay 👍 🆗 .
automating Google reviews is considered a violation of Google's terms of service and is generally considered unethical as it can involve generating fake reviews, which is strictly prohibited by Google; this means using bots or other tools to create automated positive reviews is not allowed and could lead to account suspension or other penalties from Google.
It's previous customers to the business leaving reviews not bots. How is a previous user of a product or service leaving a review considered unethical?
man I love these simple 1-problem solver SaaS. Gets close to real "recurring revenue". This is something where you have a higher change of landing an exit as well since the customers are so sticky. in 2021, SaaS's were selling for up to 10x ARR.
This is sick. This is the actual correct way of using GHL. Instead of trying to sell businesses an extremely overcomplicated and ultra-complex full-stack version of GHL packed with 45 different services for clients... which just ends up overwhelming clients and causing high churn... instead of that, you just pick ONE of GHL's functions and then sell that ONE function. Built it well like Clay did, with a solid system that actually works, and you'll have raving fans and 0 churn. Brilliant model and drastically simpler to set up than SMMA.
Most people dont have the patience to run something like this and want to swing for home runs. Low ticket, and needs time to build up client base. But its much less work than an SMMA.
Honestly, probably easily because of the testimonials. Also most people willing to try a new partnership understand collaboration is necessary to be successful
Hi Thomas. I've been doing database reactivation with GHL and when sending hundreds of SMS the price is pretty high in my case. For 2.5k SMS I paid almost 500$. I am really curious, how much does Clay pay for the database reactivation, and if there is a cheaper way to do that.
@ these guys don’t want to use another software again. They have plenty of it And probably they already have a CRM Asking them to change it just for the purpose of the reviews is difficult
@@YassWayne I think you can use Zapier to connect the customers current CRM with GHL and then every new contact automatically gets a review request. I don't know how tho but I think thats why he uses Zapier
what if you offer this service to a contractor, and he hasn't got a CRM with all of his customers in it. he literally just has random numbers in his phones and uses his phone text as his crm
You probably won't offer this to the type of contractor you described. Every business needs to have CRM and automation otherwise that contractor would have personalise every message by himself which is extremely inefficient.
I generated more than 30000 reviews across my Google Ads clients. For the reactivation: How do you know which customer hasnt created already a Google review? All the time customers use different names/ emails/…?
I Hit $12,590 k today. Thank you for all the knowledge and nuggets you had thrown my way over the last week .i started with 3k in last week 2024..... now i just hit $12,590..
Well, fake reviews can backfire pretty quickly 😂 better to have 10-20 real reviews( what can take time,like months depends on your service, and how long you are in business)than 50-2500 fake ones… eventually established businesses getting back clients due incompetent businesses…
I've seen some comments saying it too, isn't this against Google's TOS ? "buying reviews" ? Unless it's a 100% legit review (with the risk of being a bad one), isn't this illegal ?
@@csmith411 in Clay’s case, he extends an offer on behalf of the business (1 review = 1 meal donated to charity). The offer here really could really be anything though
What about if the business doesn’t have a list of its customer or they refuse to provide it to you. And how are you able to access the list and convince them to provide it to you?
@@nasseraaid3302 If they don't have a list of their customers then this service simply isn't for them. If they refuse, then you find someone who doesn't refuse. Getting reviews helps get the business credibility and trust, which leads to new customers. I think more reviews also pushes you higher into the Google algorithm so you're more likely to be seen. That's enough for businesses to say yes to the service described in the video.
so it uses the early customer who purchased before but did not leave a google review. Then how will he(clau) get more reviews after that? so its not sending out one time sms to previous buyers? that wont cut it. any details would be appreciated
@@claylawrence24 How do you determine if a business should be in the Starter, Standard, or Scale package? I know you said by the size of the business, but what are the business sizes for each one?
@@thomasgonnet yes, I understood that at the beginning he gets a list from the client, lets say with 1000 past customers, but once those 1000 customers receive the email and made the review, how does he keep feeding the automation ?
@@SpartanMarketingAgency - they are past customers, the business will service new customers going forwards, each new customer is put through the automation.
Google TOS: "it is important to note that offering incentives for customers to leave reviews, such as a discount or gift, is strictly against Google policy and can result in the business losing all of their reviews"
This is illegal LOL, as others said, don't trust your business with kids.
ahahahahahah
Yes, this could get their GMB shutdown for good. Google cracks down hard on this. AI will start flagging these even more I think in the future, not worth it. Can do irreparable damage to a local business.
Spreading fake news just to get the most liked comment 🤡
Kind of a grey area since it’s not the clients business that’s offering the discount it’s a separate entity/agency
@@thomasgonnet It is actually illegal to offer a discount for a review.
The editing here is seamless. Love how it all comes together!
this is the way in 2025, specializing in one highlevel feature that is easy for clients. this is gold
Let’s get it!
Does it Violate the Guidelines?
• If the offer is made conditional on leaving a positive review or if the incentive is not disclosed in the review, it would violate FTC guidelines.
• If the customer is free to leave any kind of review (positive, neutral, or negative) and the incentive is disclosed, it is okay 👍 🆗 .
They are the business customers that already opted in with a form or past appointments not random people.
There are many other guidelines in the ftc oct 2024 rule updates
Does the “30% discount on your next job if you leave a review” offer go against the new FTC guidelines?
@@RatonSinDedoswomp
@@zachryan686 no
Yes it does lmao
no but it goes against google terms and conditions
@@morsingroupI don’t think so. He is not incentivizing a 5 stars review.
automating Google reviews is considered a violation of Google's terms of service and is generally considered unethical as it can involve generating fake reviews, which is strictly prohibited by Google; this means using bots or other tools to create automated positive reviews is not allowed and could lead to account suspension or other penalties from Google.
It's previous customers to the business leaving reviews not bots. How is a previous user of a product or service leaving a review considered unethical?
man I love these simple 1-problem solver SaaS. Gets close to real "recurring revenue". This is something where you have a higher change of landing an exit as well since the customers are so sticky. in 2021, SaaS's were selling for up to 10x ARR.
For sure!
This is an imaginary story. Great acting and edits, along with army of positive comments bots. Cool stuff.
🤣🤣
Alright brother enjoy your average life because your arrogance and ego is blinding you
This is sick. This is the actual correct way of using GHL. Instead of trying to sell businesses an extremely overcomplicated and ultra-complex full-stack version of GHL packed with 45 different services for clients... which just ends up overwhelming clients and causing high churn... instead of that, you just pick ONE of GHL's functions and then sell that ONE function.
Built it well like Clay did, with a solid system that actually works, and you'll have raving fans and 0 churn. Brilliant model and drastically simpler to set up than SMMA.
Most people dont have the patience to run something like this and want to swing for home runs. Low ticket, and needs time to build up client base. But its much less work than an SMMA.
What happens if you cancel the subscription? Are all the automations and funnels built for the client deleted?
100% the simpler the better!
Why can't the owner or salesman offer 15 to 30% to customers directly when customers buying online or from stores if they submit a review ?
That's bribing, which when found out by Google, is punished. THat's what they say.
How does he get a business to trust him with their clients' list?
Honestly, probably easily because of the testimonials. Also most people willing to try a new partnership understand collaboration is necessary to be successful
Hi Thomas. I've been doing database reactivation with GHL and when sending hundreds of SMS the price is pretty high in my case. For 2.5k SMS I paid almost 500$. I am really curious, how much does Clay pay for the database reactivation, and if there is a cheaper way to do that.
I'm interested in the charity offer setup? How do you afford 50+ donations? Or is the business owner donating?
I would love to purchase this automation if he's willing to sell it.
What types of businesses have a large client list and are therefore ideal for that business? Restaurants, for example, don't have a client list.
Will potential businesses agree to share their existing customers, which will then be approached for this campaign?
The main issue with this is the customers need to use the GHL CRM in order of the review automation to work
How’s that an issue?
@ these guys don’t want to use another software again. They have plenty of it
And probably they already have a CRM
Asking them to change it just for the purpose of the reviews is difficult
You can ask them to download their clients info onto an excel file and then just reupload it to GHL, no? That’s possible with Zapier
@ so it will be useful only for database réactivation
Not for day to day reputation management
@@YassWayne I think you can use Zapier to connect the customers current CRM with GHL and then every new contact automatically gets a review request. I don't know how tho but I think thats why he uses Zapier
what if you offer this service to a contractor, and he hasn't got a CRM with all of his customers in it. he literally just has random numbers in his phones and uses his phone text as his crm
The app already has a built-in CRM ready to use, and other functions
You probably won't offer this to the type of contractor you described. Every business needs to have CRM and automation otherwise that contractor would have personalise every message by himself which is extremely inefficient.
Omg, I didn’t see that coming! 😱
I generated more than 30000 reviews across my Google Ads clients. For the reactivation: How do you know which customer hasnt created already a Google review? All the time customers use different names/ emails/…?
When they get started with us we don’t know, but moving forward we use trigger links to track it.
I Hit $12,590 k today. Thank you for all the knowledge and nuggets you had thrown my way over the last week .i started with 3k in last week 2024..... now i just hit $12,590..
How please can you explain because I've been making a lot of looses trying to make profit trading.
Doing what?
@@mobythewhale3828 porn
I’d believe you if you didn’t repeat $12,950 twice
@@SamaSama-o2i He didn’t say that he hit $12,950; he said he hit $12,590.
Do the business owners know of the 30% off deal priorly or how does this play out?
Of course. That’s negotiated in the sales call
Well, fake reviews can backfire pretty quickly 😂 better to have 10-20 real reviews( what can take time,like months depends on your service, and how long you are in business)than 50-2500 fake ones… eventually established businesses getting back clients due incompetent businesses…
Crazy SMS marketing🔥🔥
he really should start doing ads. This thing can be scaled to 4 figures a day easily.
I've seen some comments saying it too, isn't this against Google's TOS ? "buying reviews" ?
Unless it's a 100% legit review (with the risk of being a bad one), isn't this illegal ?
You're not buying reviews. You're asking someone who was a previous customer if they could leave a review of any kind. They don't have to say yes.
What happens if a business doesn't get a lot of new customers each month? Then the reviews wouldn't grow much.
What if the business doesn’t want to give a 30% discount on the next job ?
@@csmith411 in Clay’s case, he extends an offer on behalf of the business (1 review = 1 meal donated to charity). The offer here really could really be anything though
Even making it 10% people will jump on it alot
From 20k how much fees is deducted by Stripe?
Like $600ish
Merchant fees are between 4-6% for most merchants.
so what if everbody copy that ??
About 25,000,000+ businesses need this service so I think we are good
What about if the business doesn’t have a list of its customer or they refuse to provide it to you. And how are you able to access the list and convince them to provide it to you?
@@nasseraaid3302 If they don't have a list of their customers then this service simply isn't for them. If they refuse, then you find someone who doesn't refuse.
Getting reviews helps get the business credibility and trust, which leads to new customers. I think more reviews also pushes you higher into the Google algorithm so you're more likely to be seen. That's enough for businesses to say yes to the service described in the video.
Serious question: how do I set up something exactly like this but for a different country?
If you get it,share with mee tooo
so it uses the early customer who purchased before but did not leave a google review. Then how will he(clau) get more reviews after that? so its not sending out one time sms to previous buyers? that wont cut it. any details would be appreciated
Name with the image is really a good idea. i take my client picture and put it on a dollar bill put it on the email. it works nice
What is the platform / software that is showing the review harvest website? Is it built from scratch or is there a editable template?
Built off webflow
@@claylawrence24whats webflow?
This video is just and Ad for GoHighLevel software
@@claylawrence24 How do you determine if a business should be in the Starter, Standard, or Scale package? I know you said by the size of the business, but what are the business sizes for each one?
Can anyone tell me a suitable price that I hire a contractor should be per client per month?
Where did you purchase Those clear Glasses & how much ??? Really cool
What happened to joel kaplan
Does he follow up or just send one text?
I'm assuming the ones the don't respond are sent a multiple follow up messages until they say they're no longer interested.
How is he getting the list of customer numbers?
his clients give him the past customer list with their emails and phone numbers
From the clients CRM database
How is this free initially to businesses when they have to give up 30% of their next sale in exchange for the review as shown in your video?
they got more customers from good reviews, especially if it's restaurant.
and what about GHL messaging 160 characters limit and no emoji or super text. and 0.016 per message sent so for 1000
Clay is a fucking genius.
how did he acquire the initial batch of customers, before all the referrals?
Probably cold outreach
simply ingenious
Fire🔥🔥
Wicked idea
Thomas looks and sounds more and more like Elon Musk 😮😂
Crazy
🤔🤔🤔
once he goes across the list for the first time, what's next ? how does he get more "client lists " from his clients each month?
@@SpartanMarketingAgency he sets up the automation to trigger for each new client
@thomasgonnet so the reviews start to decrease after the first 48 hours and what he gets in the first 48 hours would be the highest for the client?
@@thomasgonnet yes, I understood that at the beginning he gets a list from the client, lets say with 1000 past customers, but once those 1000 customers receive the email and made the review, how does he keep feeding the automation ?
@@SpartanMarketingAgency through all the new clients the business acquires
@@SpartanMarketingAgency - they are past customers, the business will service new customers going forwards, each new customer is put through the automation.
People forgetting thomas got exposed ?
How he is exposed?
from?
?
Not suprised, this guy been yappin a while about stuff. But pls provide the link so we can see
Exposed how? We'd like to know