How’s this for a testimonial?
Found on the HouseSimple site (£495 upfront, or no sale, no fee from £895), is this glowing reference:
“When it came to selling our house we were really torn about the best way to sell. We’d heard of people selling their houses with an online agent but never really knew much about the process. HouseSimple has been hassle free and so simple. The photographer came to value our house on the Tuesday, by Wednesday evening we were on right move (sic) and we’d accepted an offer by Friday! Nothing has felt too pushy, we’ve felt respected as customers and our phone hasn’t been ringing non stop with estate agents 24/7.”
As the agent who drew it to our attention remarked: “Always good to hear photographers can value houses!”
(Actually, he said a bit more along the lines of did the house go under offer a bit too quickly, did the vendor twig it might not have been at full market value, and well . . . you probably get the gist.)
But anyway – we suspect that testimonials could be the next big thing on EYE, so do send us in your favourites.
Comments (9)
Rating sights have one thing in mind to make money for themselves. You are having a laugh if you think they are there to help you? That’s their spin, it is a business which frankly is open abuse with false information and lies. While some reviews and rating may very well be right, they can be damaging for a business and should be regulated and pay the penalty when found wanting. Isn’t that what they are about …. promoting for a fee, this business is better than another.
We have stayed off all these rating sites and I pay 0 attention, couldn’t tell you whether I’ve got any reviews good or bad, the only time we’ve really noticed is on the odd occasion a staff member mentions somebodies said something about us on their bookface feed and that’s mostly good stuff anyway as by definition they are ‘friends’
We have a non existent social media strategy, seems to me you either have to go all in which means either keep creating content to populate your various feeds or farm it out to a third party which I don’t want to do either, I look at competitors FOLLOW US ON TWITTER/FRIEND US ON FACEBOOK/YOUTUBE and I think why the hell would they do that when I’m in the property business and you will only want my professional services on the odd occasion, far better to be known as professional, discrete, effective, decent offices, right portal choices, contemporary website, good board presence, targeted physical local advertising etc
Hear hear
Hooray – the voice of sanity.
If selling privately, why would you not want your phone ringing 24/7?
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/jan/26/fake-reviews-plague-consumer-websites
And yes lots of cards/wine/presents over the years, but I dont see the public making the effort to tell you how great you are in this way….
I have a few testimonials, but they are short and sweet. Exactly what do you have to give these happy customers to get them to write a large verse about how wonderful you are/were.
We as British consumers are not naturally inclined to this type of activity so please tell me how is it done?
Photographers valuing properties? Let’s see what develops…