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Help people choose
Recent, genuine customer experiences give prospective customers useful context while they compare nearby options.
Review tools for local businesses
Make it easier for customers to share their experience.
Reviews help people compare local businesses and can contribute to local visibility. Locally Shown is testing a simple placard that lets genuine customers tap or scan to open a business’s Google review form.
Free for selected Los Angeles-area pilot businesses. We install it, track taps and scans, and share a concise performance report.
Why reviews matter
Trust and visibility meet at the customer experience.
A review tool should remove friction after a real customer experience. It should not manufacture praise or promise that one signal controls local search.
Read Google’s local-ranking guidance02
Support local prominence
Google says more reviews and positive ratings can help a business’s local ranking, alongside relevance and distance.
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Build a responsible habit
A clear request point makes honest feedback easier without incentives, rating pressure, or filtering customers by sentiment.
The local pilot
One simple path from finished service to honest feedback.
The first version stays intentionally hands-on. Each selected placard is prepared, delivered, and tested with the business before Locally Shown decides what should scale.
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Match the business
We confirm the public business profile, customer handoff, and a sensible place for the placard.
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Prepare the placard
The insert, QR path, and NFC tap point are customized around the business and its Google review form.
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Deliver and test
Aaron brings the placard to the business, tests the tap-and-scan path, and helps choose a practical placement.
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Measure and improve
QR scans and NFC taps are summarized during the pilot, followed by a results review of the placement, customer handoff, and most useful next step.
What selected businesses receive
A working customer handoff—not a box of parts.
The pilot is designed to be useful on day one. Locally Shown handles the physical setup and confirms that both paths reach the correct review destination.
- 01A customized 4×6-inch placard insert
- 02A QR code connected to the business’s Google review form
- 03An NFC tap point programmed to the same destination
- 04Local hand-delivery and an in-person function test
- 05Practical guidance for an appropriate customer handoff
- 06A concise weekly summary of QR and NFC activity during the four-week pilot
- 07A brief results review with placement and next-step recommendations
Responsible by design
Make feedback easier. Never predetermine it.
Invite honest feedback
The message is neutral and intended for genuine customers after a real experience.
No incentives
The placard does not offer discounts, gifts, or benefits in exchange for a review.
No review gating
Customers are not filtered by satisfaction before they reach the public review destination.
No ranking promise
Reviews can support prominence, but no placard controls search results or guarantees improvement.
More than a placard
Review tools belong inside a larger local system.
The physical request point solves one practical problem. The pilot then creates a measured starting point: we review what happened and determine whether the next constraint is the request process, the business profile, or local demand.
Measured pilot
Test the request point, receive activity reporting, and review the results before deciding what comes next.
Request the pilotReview management
Build a responsible process for requesting, monitoring, and responding to customer feedback.
View serviceGoogle Business Profile
Keep the information customers see around reviews, calls, directions, and local discovery dependable.
View serviceQuestions before requesting
Practical questions about the review pilot.
Pilot request / 01
Request a review placard
Aaron will review each request and contact businesses selected for the first local placements.