Episode 321: 4 Easy Steps to Asking for a Testimonial – and Why You Absolutely Should

Hey there! Are you ready to learn the secret to making it rain with testimonials? Look no further, because on this episode, we'll be sharing all of our best tips and tricks for collecting and using client feedback to boost your business. We also have a freebie download for you as well! In this episode, we'll be discussing how to make it rain testimonials and how they can help build trust and credibility with clients. Asking for testimonials can also serve as social proof, showing others that your services are reliable and effective. Additionally, sharing testimonials can help foster a sense of community and connection with clients, which can improve customer loyalty and retention. It's important to highlight the most important parts of a testimonial, rather than posting long paragraphs that may not get read. Testimonials can be used in various ways, such as on social media, on your website, or in email marketing campaigns. When asking for testimonials, be sure to make it easy for clients to leave a review and to thank them for their feedback. Remember to also follow up with clients who have had a negative experience and see if there's anything you can do to improve their satisfaction. By following these tips, you can effectively use testimonials to market your business and build strong relationships with clients. Biggest Takeaways: 8:10 Steps for asking for testimonials 8:16 Send a message or email to your client 10:45 Ask for testimony once feedback is received 12:50 Post testimonials to social media 14:50 Ask if they will share on their socials Grab Your Freebie! Recommendations: Testimonials are the proof behind the work. It shows potential clients how satisfied current and past clients are with you and your company. A freebie like I am giving to you today is like the freebies and challenges our members regularly see in our Mastermind group. This group is not only filled with like-minded business owners who are making huge strides in their businesses. But it is filled with HR advice, group coaching, freebies, challenges and so much more that helps push them to the next level. If you haven't checked it out yet, this is your sign to see what we are all about. Transcript: Welcome back to another episode of Bella in your business Happy New Year. It is now 2023. My goodness, I'm so excited to be here with you, we have so much in store for you this year that you, you're gonna be blown away, I have kind of personally sat down, and I'm going to be going in pretty heavy on hiring and hiring methods. I've learned a lot over the past two years working with all of you guys. And I've really understood how proper phases and hiring, interviewing, onboarding, and training how that entire process is so sorely neglected. And it is the root cause for a lot of the reasons why people are not having success in hiring. And not just in the pet industry. So I'm letting the cat out of the bag here a little bit. Before we get into today's topic about getting testimonies from your clients, and I have something free for you. But this year, I'm going to be focusing a lot on that. And you are going to be getting the fruits of that labor over and over again, I have so much written I have like over 10,000 words, written so far, all broken up into tiny sections and details and nitty gritty. And I'm going to be showing you a lot of that starting in February here on the podcast. So you're definitely not going to want to miss that. This month, we also have a really cool interview coming up with two of them, we're going to change the cadence of me sitting here talking with you. And we're going to be bringing on Becky Lee, and Stephanie Sargent from that they're in the mastermind and better marketing, but you're gonna hear their unique individual stories, and how they've gone about the kind of coming through COVID and dominating their markets, it's definitely going to be inspirational, and really motivating. I got motivated, just by talking to them and recording the interviews. So those are also coming up this month. So the best thing that you could do for me right now would be to like, subscribe, and share. And if you're really daring, I love for you to drop a review. Anywhere that you listen to this podcast, that would really help us we're really focused on growing our listeners, our weekly listener numbers. Because you know, this is really the intimate spot. This is where I get to talk to you guys every single week. And it's just you and me. Kind of, and I just really enjoy this time with you. So I hope that I'm asking for your help if you could go ahead and do that. Now something that has happened time and time again, as I've been talking to people, they're all but Bella, they care so much about price. But Bella, I can't charge that much. And there's a tool that I don't think is used enough. And I'm not just talking about in the singular way in which people do it. And that is testimonials. Now, when you think about testimonies, you pretty much probably think of like Google reviews, Facebook reviews, maybe some emails, that kind of thing. Well, I'm gonna, in true form and fashion, try to expand your brain a little bit more about that. First of all, I'm gonna help show you how to make it rain testimonials today. And I'm also going to give you the script for it. But you have to stay tuned to the end of the show, to get the special URL so that you can download it. But I've literally written out scripts for you. So when I'm teaching you this stuff, and I'm saying oh, just send a text message or send an email, I'm gonna give you the script for it because life's too short, right? You got other things to do. And so that's also something that I hope to do maybe once a month be able to give you a free download, just to say thank you for spending some time here with me on the podcast. So let's get into it. Asking for testimonials from clients. It's super important because it provides valuable feedback on your services. And it helps build trust and credibility with potential clients. Now, guys, this also works for employees. So if potential employees see testimonies about how much your staff loves working for you, you know, they're like on your IG stories. They're on your grid. They're doing videos for you that just like also add to all of this. So anytime we talk about any kind of marketing, it's not just for clients, it's also to help build your team. So the other thing is, is that whether or not we're in a recession right now, or we're headed to a recession, the fact of the matter is, is that it is your number one job as a marketer, to break down the wall of fear. People are going to be fearful and more fearful this year to spend money. And so what you need to do is you need to expect and deliver their objections, their concerns, you need to build a rapport and have an experience and that's more company culture, then it, you'll blow the competition out of the water, it is the difference between us spending extra money on something when you could have spent a lesser dollar on something, but you were happy to spend more money because you knew that you were gonna get great customer service, you're gonna be well taken care of you are going to be heard, and the product was going to be full of a quality product. Okay? Now I know every single one of you out there is thinking I'm the best pet sitter dog walker out there, we have the best business we care the most about our clients. Well, nobody gives a damn about that right now until they know like and trust you. And so one of the best and most beautiful ways of doing this is going to be getting testimonies, but then using them in such a way that it's lethal. All right, I'm totally going off-script already. One thing I see people do is get a paragraph of a testimony. And then they put it on a graphic, and it's so much to read and no one's going to read it. What you got to do is you got to cut out and use the dot, dot, dot and show and highlight the most important part. And I would bold, the words like I can trust would be in bold that company or they give me so much bold peace of mind unbolt right, are you with me. Alright, let's get back to the show notes because I just get too excited with you guys. So testimonials from satisfied clients can serve also as social proof, showing others that your services are reliable and effective. Additionally, asking for and sharing testimonies can help foster a sense of community and connection with your clients. Because now they feel like they're helping you. The people that know like and trust and love your services are falling over themselves because most of them probably would do anything to help you because you have filled such a beautiful need in their life. So allow them that opportunity to foster that sense of community. And it's only going to improve your customer loyalty and retention. Because what happens when we actually do a testimony of someone, or we actually like pledge our love for a company like online, your kindness, like sealing that bond. So the testimony isn't just important for you to be able to use. But it's also important that actual action that's happening, you're bonding with them. So how do you get more testimonies? Well, you ask, and I'm gonna give you a couple of steps here. Four to be exact. And here's how we're going to do it, the very first thing that you're going to do is, step one is going to be you're going to send an email or text message to your clients, asking them if they're satisfied with their experience working for you. Now, you can send this to all your, active clients right now. Or you can put it in your customer experience process, where they come home, from maybe from a trip if it's petsitting. And maybe three days later, because it's always like crazy, like the day off, right? And usually,