To effectively manage your reputation on TripAdvisor it is first important to understand why (and from whom) you are getting reviews.
TripAdvisor reviewers break down into many subgroups, but the two main ones are:
- dedicated TripAdvisor reviewers: who review every hotel they stay in
- unhappy guests: who rarely, if ever, post unless they were not satisfied
And here is a sample (again, representative) of the same hotel's negative reviewers:
There are two very strong messages here:
- Regular TripAdvisor reviewers will post a review of your hotel - come what may
- Guests who have never posted to TripAdvisor before will post a negative review if they are not happy
This goes a very long way to explaining why Dialogue works so effectively:
- Guests like 'j80jsd' are captured by Dialogue and will bring their complaint direct to you in private. Why? because they don't post to TripAdvisor to help their fellow travellers find great hotels, they post because they are unhappy (do you think 'j80jsd' has only ever stayed in 5 hotels and has been plain unlucky)? They just want the hotel to know that their expectations weren't fulfilled.
- Guests like 'VictoriaJK' are also highly likely to respond through Dialogue, but are even more likely to go on to post any positive reviews they write through Dialogue to Tripadvisor afterwards. Dialogue stands a very good chance of choking off any negative review she might have been considering writing
- Guests like 'Mme_X', who review every hotel they stay in (and write overwhelmingly positive reviews) are also highly likely to re-post the review they write to you through Dialogue to TripAdvisor...