Something that came up recently got the ol’ brain box ticking over and took me to what some may call the bleeding obvious – a question that I imagined should have a universal and obvious answer – what is a review? It may sound simple, as we may think...
NoCowboys isn’t a directory in the traditional sense, it is a platform where Kiwis can contact businesses after reading reviews. Our verified reviews are a point of difference to other sites, such as job boards, and they are the best metric to guiding your...
For over a decade BrightLocal had conducted and published the results of its annual “Local Consumer review Survey”. Last year’s survey results were released a few weeks ago, but hey, we are in a global pandemic, so who is going to call them out for...
We are strange creatures and no matter what the enterprise, the unscrupulous amongst us do anything they can to secure an advantage. It’s been this way for millennia and it’s just the way it is. Even still, that doesn’t mean that the rest of us have...
Survey results published in the US last month cement the absolute dominance of online reviews and star ratings driving consumer behaviour. 6500 consumers were surveyed by PowerReviews and for the first time the findings indicated a substantial shift in the values...
We have known this for years and the research affirms it year in and year out – consumers aren’t just taken in by 4 and 5 star ratings – they want to read the actual reviews themselves. An article I read this week brought that into greater focus and...
