{"id":298,"date":"2010-03-13T17:08:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T04:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainaudit.com\/members\/?p=298"},"modified":"2010-03-13T17:08:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T04:08:26","slug":"testimonials-should-you-correct-clients-testimonials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainaudit.com\/members\/testimonials-should-you-correct-clients-testimonials\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimonials: Should you correct client&#8217;s testimonials?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve used yoor product. And it&#8217;s definately the best product I&#8217;ve ever used. It made our business grow by over 33% per cent in the last qarter. And I recomend your product to everyone I meet, becuase it&#8217;s the very best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notice how distracted you were while reading that testimonial?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You so wanted to read the testimonial, but somehow the spelling mistakes kept you from concentrating.<\/p>\n<p>The more you ran into spelling mistakes, the more you had to struggle to keep your focus on what was being said. You should have been running a 100 metre sprint, but instead you got stuck in a race with hurdles. And it frustrated the heck out of you.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nYour prospect feels exactly the same when reading testimonials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No matter how earthy and wonderful the testimonial, your prospect goes bananas when trying to negotiate the spelling &#8216;hurdles.&#8217; Sometimes, the prospect just gives up and reads no more. In many a case, the bad spelling contained in the testimonial bounces back on you, making your business less professional than it really is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what&#8217;s the verdict?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Should you or should you not correct a client&#8217;s testimonial? The answer is simple. Do you want your prospect to read, or be put off by what they&#8217;re reading? If you want the customer to read, then be sure to remove the &#8216;hurdles&#8217; and present the client&#8217;s testimonials without spelling mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>A testimonial without errors presents both you and the client (who gave you the testimonial) in a good light.<\/p>\n<p>And best of all, it helps you sell.<\/p>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t that the reason why you put the testimonial up in the first place?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve used yoor product. And it&#8217;s definately the best product I&#8217;ve ever used. It made our business grow by over 33% per cent in the last qarter. And I recomend your product to everyone I meet, becuase it&#8217;s the very best.&#8221; Notice how distracted you were while reading that testimonial? You so wanted to read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-testimonials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainaudit.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainaudit.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainaudit.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainaudit.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainaudit.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brainaudit.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/brainaudit.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainaudit.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainaudit.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainaudit.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}