Most businesses are terrible at collecting Google reviews. Not because they don't care, but because they've made the whole thing unnecessarily complicated. Here's the reality: 81% of consumers use Google reviews to evaluate local businesses. That's not a trend. That's just how people shop now. Before someone walks into your restaurant,...

Wix makes things easy. That is the whole point of the platform. Adding Google reviews follows that pattern. If you have a local business with a Wix website and a Google Business Profile with reviews, connecting the two takes maybe fifteen minutes. If you are looking to collect more reviews, check out ReviewCow. Using Wix Apps Wix has i...

Running a Shopify store means you are probably competing with a lot of other stores selling similar stuff. Reviews help you stand out. They are social proof that real humans bought from you and did not regret it. Google reviews specifically are useful because they carry weight. People trust Google. If you have solid reviews on your Goo...

Google reviews matter. Not because some marketing guru said so, but because people actually read them before deciding where to spend their money. If you run a local business and you have a WordPress site, showing those reviews makes sense. Here's the thing: there are about fifteen different ways to do this, and most of them are overcom...

Your upcoming events are getting lost in your Instagram page. Instagram is a chronological feed, and once you post something, it gets pushed down by newer content. So if you announce a workshop on Monday, by Friday it's 10+ posts down and essentially invisible to anyone checking your page. Most of your customers are on Instagram, and y...

Are websites overrated? Let's consider a local gym in your city. Most of their customers are on social media, and if the gym has an active Instagram page, the Instagram page serves the purpose of the website. The gym's instagram is updated frequently, and gives an accurate picture of what's happening at the gym. They can showcase daily...

The purpose of bitcoin mining is to decentralize the system. Instead of having a central authority to verify and approve transactions, it’s done via mining. Along with this - miners are also incentivised via new bitcoin and fees for transactions. Regarding new bitcoin : around every 4 years, or 21000 blocks, the amount of new bitcoin p...

Synchronous daily standup meetings are a waste of time. You end up waiting for the PM or your co-workers to start the meeting. The daily standup meeting can go on and on and on if there is a discussion among people. If you're working with developers in different time-zones, it's hard to sync a good time to meet. You are interrupting de...