Reputation management workflow in Redmond
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Reputation management workflow for a busy service desk
Late on a Tuesday, we got a call from an office manager at a regional home services company that had just noticed a pattern: customers were happy in person, but their Google profile was showing a new one-star review before anyone on the team had even seen it. The owner was worried because one bad review can sit at the top of search results and shape the next ten phone calls. They needed a process, not just a one-time reply. That is where our reputation management workflow came in.
We started by looking at how review requests were being sent today. In this case, the team had been asking customers manually, which meant some jobs got a follow-up email and some did not. We also confirmed that nobody had a reliable alert when a new Google review came in. The business wanted scheduled review requests for routine follow-up, plus an emergency path when a review needed immediate attention after hours.
What we checked before changing anything
Our engineers reviewed the current customer follow-up flow from the CRM to the email system. We checked the outbound domain settings, including SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, because review request emails were landing in spam for some recipients. We also verified that the message templates were using the right sender name, reply-to address, and tracking links so the team could see what was actually being opened and clicked.
On the alerting side, we confirmed how their Google Business Profile was connected and whether review notifications were being delivered to a shared inbox. In this case, notifications were going to an individual employee who had gone on vacation, which is why the one-star review sat unanswered for too long. We documented the current permissions, login recovery options, and who on the team should receive alerts in the future.
Building the scheduled and emergency workflow
Once we knew where the gaps were, we set up a scheduled review request workflow tied to completed jobs in their CRM. When a ticket moved to the closed stage, the system would wait a set delay, then send a polite request by email with a direct Google review link. For customers who preferred text, we used the approved SMS channel and kept the message short, with no extra tracking clutter that could make the message look suspicious.
We also built the emergency side of the workflow. New Google reviews were configured to trigger immediate alerts to a shared mailbox and a Teams channel using a webhook-based notification step. That way, if a review came in after hours, the on-call manager could see the star rating, the reviewer name, and the review text without logging into multiple systems. We added a simple escalation rule: anything three stars or lower generated a second alert if it was not acknowledged within 30 minutes.
Resolution, follow-up, and what the owner could expect next
After the workflow was in place, we tested it end to end. We ran a sample closed-job record through the scheduled request path, confirmed the email delivered, and watched the review alert fire in the shared inbox and chat channel. We also checked that the Google review link pointed to the correct profile and that the alert message included enough context for a quick response, but not customer data that did not belong in a notification.
Before we wrapped up, we documented the process for the office manager and the owner. That included who approves response templates, where alerts go after hours, how to handle a negative review, and how to pause campaigns during a service outage or holiday closure. A week later, they had already caught two new reviews within minutes instead of hours, and the office manager told us the biggest change was simple: no more guessing whether a review had come in.