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Everything we have learned about guest reviews

Written for the person who has ten minutes in the morning and four platforms to get through. No statistics we cannot stand behind.

Reputation·7 min read

Why guest reviews decide bookings, long before anyone reads one

Most of a review's work is done before anybody reads it. Understanding that changes where you spend your effort.

Justin Ciappara

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Restaurants·9 min

Review management for restaurants, where one bad Saturday travels fastest

A hotel guest decides weeks ahead. A diner decides in the street, on a phone, in about ninety seconds.

Keith Matthew Borg

Product·10 min

What hospitality review software actually does, feature by feature

Every vendor lists the same eight features. Here is what each one means in a working week, and what to ask before you believe it.

Keith Matthew Borg

Platforms·9 min

Booking.com, TripAdvisor or Google: which hotel reviews actually move bookings

They are not four versions of the same score. They are four different questions, asked of four different people.

Justin Ciappara

Operations·10 min

What hotel guests complain about most, and what each fix actually costs

The loudest review is usually about something that happened once. The costly one is the mild note a hundred guests made in passing.

Keith Matthew Borg

Restaurants·8 min

Your restaurant's Instagram comments are a booking channel, not marketing

Nobody files them as sales. They sit under a photo of a plate, asking whether you can seat six on Friday.

Justin Ciappara

Google·9 min

Google Business Profile for restaurants: the fields that actually matter

Your listing is doing more selling than your website. Most restaurants have never finished filling it in.

Keith Matthew Borg

Replies·9 min

How to reply to a negative review, with examples that are not apologies

The reviewer has already gone. Everything you write is for the next person who reads it.

Keith Matthew Borg

Google·8 min

How to get more Google reviews for a hotel or restaurant

Most guests who would happily leave a review never do. The gap is almost always friction, not goodwill.

Justin Ciappara

Intelligence·8 min

Guest sentiment analysis: finding the complaint hiding in your good reviews

A four-star review can contain a worse problem than a one-star one. Reading by score will never show you that.

Justin Ciappara

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