Sep 15, 2026 · 14 min · 9 segments
Google reviews can be one of the most powerful—and least expensive—ways to grow a local service business. In this episode, Mike breaks down a practical 30-day strategy for generating 25 new Google…
Mike GarveyHost
And then we get all the thatch out, blow it out, go over it again, go over it again, blow it out, go over it again, keep going.
And then we... you know collect all that thatch dump it aerate it seed it fertilize it and uh it was this lawn that we've been doing for a really long time and we've just been having some problems with it and you know it had so much excess thatch from all the years it's never been done uh so it was really um really a cool uh kind of reel that I did, I thought, and it was just, the guy was shocked.
The guy was really shocked about how it came, how it came out, and came out, gave us waters, was like, I can't believe this, you guys did such a great job, I can't thank you enough, all of this, and it got me thinking about, up in my Google reviews, I have like 175 right now, Recently got two negative ones that are no fault of our own, but it just happens.
And 25 might sound like a lot, but when you break it down, it's really one per business day.
You finish the job, send the invoice, send a follow-up, hopefully they leave your review.
Customer could be really happy, just doesn't give it a review or they're not savvy with that or how to do it on Google, but these reviews matter.
Law and Fertilization, Near Me, Landscaper, Tom's River, they compare the businesses against each other.
And a company that has 20 reviews against another company that has 327 reviews, which one do you feel safer to call? Ask yourself these questions.
And every review is someone that's a salesperson working for your company 24 hours a day.
And then we get all the thatch out, blow it out, go over it again, go over it again, blow it out, go over it again, keep going.
And then we... you know collect all that thatch dump it aerate it seed it fertilize it and uh it was this lawn that we've been doing for a really long time and we've just been having some problems with it and you know it had so much excess thatch from all the years it's never been done uh so it was really um really a cool uh kind of reel that I did, I thought, and it was just, the guy was shocked.
The guy was really shocked about how it came, how it came out, and came out, gave us waters, was like, I can't believe this, you guys did such a great job, I can't thank you enough, all of this, and it got me thinking about, up in my Google reviews, I have like 175 right now, Recently got two negative ones that are no fault of our own, but it just happens.
And 25 might sound like a lot, but when you break it down, it's really one per business day.
You finish the job, send the invoice, send a follow-up, hopefully they leave your review.
Customer could be really happy, just doesn't give it a review or they're not savvy with that or how to do it on Google, but these reviews matter.
Law and Fertilization, Near Me, Landscaper, Tom's River, they compare the businesses against each other.
And a company that has 20 reviews against another company that has 327 reviews, which one do you feel safer to call? Ask yourself these questions.
And every review is someone that's a salesperson working for your company 24 hours a day.
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