review card for Google Places

Do they have in house comment and review forms?

We do and this is what we did. We picked the best from those and offered them a branded fleese jacket for leaving two reviews online at one of 4 sites.

The jacket of course will be worn by a raving fan and in areas where people will see it so it is just great advertising anyways. By choosing only raving fans we knew we would get 5 star reviews. Worked great for us.

I would suggest to skip the old school physical card and suggest he/she ask people to give a review via the internet on the spot either with a smart phone or office computer. Even better, offer an incentive to take the time to do it. All they need is a gmail to leave a review that connects to their Google Places Page/Map and it only takes a minute or two to create one if they don't already have one. Even without an 'incentive' like a little discount for the next visit or whatever, how easy is it to just ask, "Did you benefit from our services? (If yes) Would you mind doing us a big favor and writing a quick review online for us? You can do it from here if you'd like." Then train the front desk person to show people how - maybe give them an extra little lesson in utilizing the internet in some way - like show them how to search for local business! Everyone loves to support local business these days - makes them feel less powerless if they can be even a little helpful.

JPB (Jelly & Peanut Butter) =)

I'll give you a little tip I use. I make about 30 gmail accounts and will age them for a bit.
I make sure to log into them all the same day every week (sunday) at which point I leave reviews for other business's and update my profiles a bit.

I do this for 4 weeks, then I move on to actually using the accounts.
To use them I have a "system" which involves asking people to use their iphones for a couple minutes. I can be doing ANYTHING, doesn't matter where I am, I FIND someone, immediately explain how I own a business and would GREATLY APPRECIATE their help for a minute. I explain exactly what I'm doing, don't lie, people usually find it interesting and get a brief education themselves on online marketing.

As I'm using their phone I try to ask questions like "do you own your own business?", "do you do anything that you could use more customers for?" I try to engage them and build a bit of rapport and educate them for a couple of minutes.

I log into 1 email, leave a review, and thats it.

Now you do NOT have to ask every stranger you know. In fact, I rarely need to ask strangers at all anymore. I have a TON of family members, all with their own iphone, and usually that in itself can get me 20-30 reviews.

After I exhaust that there are libraries with free internet. Or several colleges in the area that I am alumni of. I walk in, check a pcs ip address, if its different then the last, I log into a new aged gmail account and leave a review.

Doing this in a library or college you'd be suprised how many different ip addresses are used all throughout the campus. You can also just find as many libraries as possible by you, and do the same thing.

Using this no bs method of mine I find very easy. Its really not as much work as it seems, and am able to get virtually unlimited reviews. I control when they happen, I control what the reviews say. Google thinks they're all coming from legitimate people, so thats all I really care about.

You can call me a very unconventional marketer if it makes you feel any better. =]
Just understand I only do this for myself, and not other people.

Thanks for the advice guys!