#119 - Do reviews really matter that much?
Built by Business: Amazon FBA, E-Commerce, Brand Building
Andy Isom | Amazon FBA Seller & Agency Founder
4.9 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I discuss the importance of product reviews and share some of my mistakes that you can avoid and the lessons I've learned.
Everyone who starts an Amazon business stresses out over reviews, I've been there myself! While reviews are not the most important, it definitely helps your business grow especially when you're just starting out.
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| 0:00.0 | Sadly, reviews do matter early on. |
| 0:03.3 | However, however, however, I don't think it's necessary to lose sleep over the number of reviews |
| 0:08.9 | you have or to really, really stress out about this. |
| 0:12.2 | You gotta be patient. |
| 0:13.5 | The other point for when reviews do matter is if they are bad reviews. |
| 0:18.2 | First make that clear, bad reviews always matter. |
| 0:20.3 | You should never get bad reviews. If you get bad reviews, First, make that clear. Bad reviews always matter. You should never get bad reviews. |
| 0:22.0 | If you get bad reviews, you are screwed. So don't get bad reviews. |
| 0:29.0 | What's up, guys? You're listening to another episode of Selling on Amazon with Andy Isam. |
| 0:38.3 | In this episode, we're going to talk about reviews. Do reviews really matter that much? |
| 0:44.3 | I know that if you are a brand new seller on Amazon, this is probably the number one thing you are stressing about, is how do I get more reviews? I need to get more reviews. I will sell more |
| 0:56.0 | product if I can just get some more reviews. I know this is you because I've been there. |
| 1:01.0 | I think we've all been there. Everyone who started an Amazon business has been in that situation |
| 1:05.0 | where you are just, you know, stressing about getting more reviews for your product listing. But do reviews really |
| 1:12.3 | matter that much? I'm going to share a couple of thoughts in this episode about when reviews do matter |
| 1:18.0 | and when they actually don't really matter. But first, I want to give some shoutouts. I got to give |
| 1:22.8 | some shoutouts here. Oliver, Rosanna, Jackie, Mike, the matched, Gagador, and Nina. I know some of those |
| 1:30.4 | names are kind of weird because some of those people have been DMing me on Instagram saying |
| 1:34.7 | thank you so much for the podcast. Others are new reviews on my podcast over on Apple. So again, |
| 1:41.5 | thank you guys so much for the kind messages on social media, as well as the |
| 1:45.7 | reviews on the podcast. That is definitely something I check frequently is to hear your feedback, |
| 1:50.6 | hear what you're liking about the show. It makes me feel really good, obviously, that you |
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