91% Of Businesses Believe The Company's Star Rating Can Determine Whether They Win Or Lose A Potential Employee

The 86% of businesses doubt the integrity of online reviews. However, they understand the huge effect user rankings have on their business. Unfavorable consumer or employee reviews can influence 90% of job seekers.

Source: Career Arc

Consumers Could Invest 31 Percent More With A Business That Has Fantastic Reviews

Pay attention to this statistic. The better other users explain your product or service, the more cash you can charge and consumer review stats reveal to us precisely just how much more.

Source: Martech Zone

Consumer Reviews On Items Are Relied On Nearly 12 Times More Than The Makers' Descriptions

Word-of-mouth reviews are miles ahead of the makers' description. People trust other individuals viewpoints before they ever trust what the producer says. The reason, producers' descriptions are essentially advertisements.

Source: Martech Zone

89% Of Customers Read A Businesses Responses To Reviews

Not only do a lot of clients check out the review replies, 30% of them value them highly. Practically 96% read the responses to their own reviews.

Source: Brightlocal

Google Represents 57.5% Of All Reviews World Wide

As can be anticipated, Google is in the lead, followed by Facebook, TripAdvisor and others.

Here's the online reviews distribution rankings:

Google at 57.5%, Facebook with 19%, TripAdvisor with 8.4%, Yelp with 6.6% and Others with 8.6%.

Source: Review Trackers

95% Of Travelers Read Online Reviews Prior To Booking Travel Services

Leisure and business tourists alike check out reviews to form an opinion. Business tourists check out an average of 5 reviews vs. 6-7 for leisure tourists. 59% of all tourists report that they check out reviews 'always' or 'very frequently'.

Source: Trust You

If They Were Asked, 77% Of Customers Would Probably Post A Review

More than a 35% would leave a review to notify others about their client encounter and 24% would rather direct their review to the business itself.

Over a 26% would be willing to submit a review to assist other people with their decision making process.

Source: Podium

Negative Reviews Can Increase Conversion By Up To 85 Percent

It sounds insane, however negative reviews can be a positive force for users to devote more time on your site. According to online review statistics, individuals spend more than 5 times as long on a website when they check out negative reviews.

When there are a mix of negatives and positives, more than two-thirds of users trust reviews more. An overwhelming 95 percent suspect censorship or fabricated reviews if there aren't any negative ones.

Source: Reevoo

Just 6% Of Consumers Do Not Trust Customer Reviews At All

According to customer review stats, a massive 19% of consumers always trust online reviews and never ever a make a purchase without checking out reviews.

Source: Statista

83% Of All Young Consumers Were Invited To Leave A Review Recently

Of those invited, 80% of clients did leave a review. Overall, companies have actually asked 66% of all clients to post a review on their business.

Source: Brightlocal

More Than Four Negative Reviews About A Company Or Service Might Decrease Sales By 70 Percent

One negative review is enough for 35 percent of a website's visitors to choose not to buy. Three negative reviews can cost a business 59 percent less sales.

Obviously, they can be compensated by the large variety of positive reviews you get.

"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it." -Benjamin Franklin

Source: Martech Zone