Do you know how reviews help small businesses? Most of the time, people do not take the time to review a business. The people who tend to review are passionate about the service, regardless if it was good or bad. However, people underestimate the power of online reviews. After all, these reviews can make or break a business!
A review provides potential customers insight into a business through someone’s firsthand experience. But how important are these reviews to shoppers? According to The Importance of Online Customer Reviews, 90% of customers read online reviews before visiting a business. A good portion of these people trusts online reviews at the same level as a personal recommendation. However, the effects of these reviews are immense. For example, customers are likely to spend 31% more if a business has “excellent” reviews. Furthermore, 72% of customers are more likely to trust a local business with positive reviews.
However, negative reviews have the same power. If a business has one negative review, it can cause the business to lose 30 potential customers. Furthermore, 86% of customers will hesitate to buy or get a service from a store with negative online reviews. As a result, reviews can be very powerful. Reviews provide “word-of-mouth” referrals that can help your local businesses. But where can you leave a review?
So, where can you leave a review for your favorite small business? While leaving a review is essential, where you post the reviews is also important. You want people to be able to read about your experience and opinion. Here are a few places where you should be posting your review:
These are the best places to put your review to help your favorite small, local business like Foxwood Restorations.
For over 25 years, Foxwood has specialized in furniture restorations and repairs through our amazing services. Our goal is to restore your antique furniture back to its original patina and integrity of the piece. Foxwood has a staff of seasoned professionals that specialize in restoring damaged or antique furniture to its full glory. Customers are always satisfied with Foxwood’s professionalism and expertise! That’s why we want you to share your own experience with our company! Go to any of the recommended review locations listed above and contact us for any restoration and repair services that you may need!
As a rule, any piece of furniture in good condition that passes through two generations starts increasing in value. A generation can be loosely defined as 20 to 25 years. So today in the 21st Century all of our parents furniture is beginning to increase in value and worth restoration if needed.
Have you heard the term Retro furniture Lately? Furniture manufactures are trying to reproduce our parent’s furniture and calling it Retro. The truth is, this furniture will never be made again in the solid construction or materials our original parent’s furniture was. As you can see all furniture from our previous generations is worth restoring.
I as rule will not restore any piece of furniture less than 15 years old as this is when manufacturers began to build furniture with press boards, mixed glues with sawdust and inferior rag woods such as popular and rubber trees. I have witnessed the entire furniture industry quality go down to a laughable piece of junk that looks pretty on the outside but is fundamentally nothing more than firewood kindle.
So treasure the furniture of your previous family generations. Restore it, Repair it, treat it with love. There will never again be any furniture produced with this fine woodworking, design and high end woods.
~ Best, Betty.
Foxwood Furniture Restoration is undergoing many changes to enhance it’s digital presence for 2015! Our digital face lift will include Facebook , Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ posts. Foxwood Furniture Restoration will also be making some exciting changes to our website including more blog updates. We will be blogging about changes within our company, current sales and specials, furniture maintenance and the current trends in our industry.
Foxwood Furniture Restoration has been serving the Brighton community for many years and we are excited to be able to share another year with you. We will continue to offer furniture repair, upholstery, smoke, fire & water damage removal, antique chair repair, furniture stripping and refinishing in 2015. Foxwood Furniture Restoration would also like to thank the residents of Wixom, Ann Arbor, Birmingham, Troy, Bloomfield, Brighton, Southfield, Burton, South Lyon, Dearborn Heights, Royal Oak, Farmington Hills, Novi, Fenton, Livonia, Flint, and Howell for being loyal customers!
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