Reviews from previous customers are a powerful form of marketing!
What’s New?
We now allow you to store all of your reviews online using SafariNow.com. We also provide you with the tools to display these reviews on your own personal websites.
You will have full control over which reviews get displayed on your site, and you can easily add and remove reviews yourself without needing to get in touch with your “web guy”.
As well as SafariNow.com reviews, you may also add your own reviews that you have received from previous customers. These could be from your guestbook, or from your own website.
How do I add my own reviews?
Sign in to SafariNow.com and click the reviews tab. There are 2 buttons on this page clearly marked for you to “Add a Review” (from your guestbook or other source) or “Invite someone to review you”.
Adding a review yourself
Click the “Add a review” from your reviews page. Fill in all the required fields and click “Submit”.
You will be taken back to the Reviews page where you will now see it in your list of reviews.
Invite Customers to Review you
You may also invite customers to submit reviews of your establishment. In this case, we will send them an email with a link to submit a review for your establishment. Once they have received the email, and if a review is submitted, we will notify you via email. You can then view the review on SafariNow.com and if you like the review, you may include it in your review feed.
Please note that SafariNow.com will only display reviews on SafariNow.com that have come from SafariNow.com customers. Reviews that you add yourself are for your use on your external websites only.
How do I use the feed?
The SafariNow.com Review’s Widget is a great way to add all your reviews to your own private website. When you get new reviews, all you need to do is select them for your feed and they will automatically get added to your webpage on your own private website.
You have full control over which reviews get displayed on your site, and you can easily add and remove reviews yourself without needing to get in touch with your “web guy”.
Example by Chapman’s Peak Bed and Breakfast
Setting up the Review’s Widget is really easy!
There are 3 main steps required to get reviews onto your own website.
1. Select which reviews to include
2. Configure how you would like them to be displayed and get the code
3. Copy the generated code and insert it onto your own website
Selecting which reviews to include
1. Sign In to your SafariNow.com account.
2. Click on the “Reviews” tab in the establishment-zone.
http://www.safarinow.com/establishment-zone/reviews/myreviews.aspx
3. Tick the check boxes of the Reviews you would like to include in your Feed.
Configure how you would like them to be displayed and get the code!
1. Click on the “Widgets” tab.
2. Click on the link “Reviews Widget”. (It is below the header “Reviews for your website”).
3. Now it’s time to configure your widget.
Here you can set the:
· Height in pixels
· Width in pixels
· Number of reviews per page. (Review’s Widget is pageable!)
· Style.
4. Click “Generate Script and Preview”.
5. Look at section 2 & 3 of the page. “Get the code” and “Preview” respectively.
6. If you are happy with the preview, select all the text in the textbox and copy it to your clipboard.
Implement the code on your own website
If you manage your own website, then follow the steps below. If you have a web person managing your website, paste the code into an email, along with this tutorial and ask them to do it. It should take no longer than 5 minutes of their time to implement this for you.
Doing it yourself
1. Open the webpage that you want your Review’s to display on. Most website developers have special programs that open website pages like Microsoft Visual Studio or Macromedia Dreamweaver, but for the sake of this tutorial I will use Notepad.
2. Now paste the widget script you copied earlier into your webpage into an appropriate area.
3. Save your changes and open your webpage in a browser. You may need to update the page on your website first.
Your Reviews should now display on your website. Remember that any new reviews you receive will automatically be updated on your site if you include them in your feed.
If you require any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us via email on techsupport@safarinow.com or call us on +27 21 780 7000.