Our reviews — and where to leave one

We have no reviews yet. Not a good average, not a thin one — none. Checked on every place a review of us could sit, on 30 August 2026.

We sell review systems, so it would be easy to arrive here with a wall of stars and let you assume. The honest position is that this business has finished one build for one paying client, and the count is zero. When that changes, this page changes with it, and the date above moves.

This page is where the count lives. It is a real page with a real number on it, not a promise that reviews are coming.

Where a review lands

Two destinations, and nothing else counts. A review is worth something because a stranger can find it without being handed a link by us.

01

Facebook — open now

Our page carries a reviews tab and it is reachable today. It currently reads 0 reviews. If we have done work for you, this is the one that works right now: leave a review on our Facebook page.

02

Google — not open yet

Our Google Business Profile is created and sitting at address verification. Until that clears, Google issues no review link, so there is nothing here to click. That is a queue we are in, not a decision we made. When it verifies, the link appears in this spot, and the printed card we hand over at the end of a job can finally go to press.

We do not collect reviews on our own website. A testimonial we typed out ourselves and put on our own page proves nothing, and you cannot check it. Both destinations above are public and both sit outside our control, which is the entire point of them.

Where the ask happens

This is the same sequence we install for a client, run on ourselves. It starts when work is finished, and it is two messages long.

01The job is marked done

Nothing is sent at this point. The crew may still be on site, and an ask that arrives while a truck is in the driveway reads as pushy. A finished job is the only thing that starts the sequence — there is no schedule, no batch, and no monthly round-up.

02The next day, one ask

Twenty-four hours later, one email. A night has passed, the finished work has been seen in daylight, and an opinion has formed. It asks for an honest account and carries the review link on its own line. It does not ask for stars, it does not ask for five of them, and it offers nothing in return.

03Five days later, one follow-up

Only if no review has appeared. It says it is the last message on the subject, and that is true, because there is no third one. Anything else — a reply, a review, a request to stop — ends the sequence immediately and a person picks it up.

04A card, handed over in person

A printed card at the end of the job with the review link on it. Not a third message — a different route, for people who would rather not deal with email. Ours is drawn and cannot be printed yet, because the square where the Google link goes is still empty.

05Every review gets an answer

Good, middling or bad. A bad review that has sat unanswered for a year stops being a review and becomes the business’s position on the matter. We answer the specific thing that was raised, we do not argue the facts in public, and we never mention a refund or a discount in a reply.

Text messages are not part of this yet. They do not switch on until the phone carriers finish approving a number to send business texts, and that is a queue nobody here can hurry.

Four things this never does

Three of these are platform policy or advertising rules rather than taste. They apply to our own reviews and to every client system we install, and a client asking us for the first one is asking us to break a platform rule on their behalf.

  • It never screens people first. No “how did we do?” step that quietly sends happy customers to the public listing and unhappy ones to a private complaint form. Everyone gets the same link in the same message. That pattern has a name — review gating — and it breaks the rules of the platforms that host the reviews.
  • It never offers anything in exchange. No discount, no draw, no credit on the next job.
  • It never asks for a rating. The word “honest” is in the ask on purpose, and the words “five star” are in none of them.
  • It never promises what reviews will do for a business. We will tell you what the system sends and when. What it earns is not ours to promise.

How to check this page yourself

A page that reports zero should tell you how to catch it if it were lying. Both destinations are public, so this takes about a minute:

  • Open our Facebook reviews tab. You do not need an account to read it. Whatever it says is the truth — if it disagrees with the number at the top of this page, this page is out of date.
  • Search Google Maps for our business name. Today nothing comes back, which is what an unverified profile looks like from outside.

Reviews measured 30 August 2026 by reading both destinations directly. The only number this page will ever carry is one you can check the same way.

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(469) 587-8280 · jesse.mccoy@marqueandheir.com

Marque & Heir — premium websites and recurring marketing systems for local businesses. The Marque Endures

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