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Puddleducks Customers Get a Louder Voice

It’s always a delight to work with like-minded companies so we were doubly pleased when Puddleducks.ie contacted us recently about using the LouderVoice customer reviews system on their site. Puddleducks is a rapidly growing online retailer of outdoor clothing for both children’s and adults. In fact,  we first encountered them as personal customers of their fantastic products. Their range includes Swedish designed dungarees, jackets and trousers for children, as well as waterproof clothing and work wear for adults.

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Internet shoppers rate recommendations and user reviews over price

The LouderVoice customer reviews service is getting a lot of attention from businesses who are looking for ways to retain customers and grow sales in these difficult times. So the latest research from Avail Intellingence comes as no surprise to us. InternetRetailing reports that the research shows over a third (36%) of respondents rated peer opinions such as recommendations, reviews and customer generated wish lists as the most useful aspect of an Internet-shopping site.

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Wondering what reviews can do for your business?

How about adding $2.7B to you bottom line? Via Econsultancy: … calculates that, since displaying the most helpful reviews has increased sales in the media products category by 20%, overall this feature was worth $2.7bn to Amazon Contact business@loudervoice.com if you’d like to hear how reviews can help your business!

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LouderVoice In The Press

Nice piece by John Collins in The Irish Times Innovation magazine today about the iPhone App Store and Android. Quotes from Conor, Pat Phelan and Steve Troughton-Smith. “An awful lot of developers had no route to market before the App Store came along,” says Conor O’Neill, software industry veteran and managing director of online review site LouderVoice. He cites the case of Steven Troughton-Smith, a 20-year-old Irish student who has sold thousands of copies of his iPhone applications.

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Updated LouderVoice WordPress Plugin

We have two bits of news about our LouderVoice plug-in. The first is that it is now WordPress 2.7 compatible and the second is that we have moved the hosting over to WordPress.org. This means that from now on, when we update it, you’ll see a notification in your WordPress Admin Panel. Apart from the 2.7 compatibility change, the only other major feature is that you can opt to have all the contextual information about the review, including the stars, at the end of the text.

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Fake Reviews in a Nutshell

Scott Adams nails it beautifully as always.

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Your Opinion on Free-Form Twitter Reviews

As you probably know, LouderVoice was the first company to identify Twitter as an important source of reviews. We launched LouderTweets structured reviews all the way back in June 2007. We are also the people behind the @review user. Whilst many people have used the structured reviews since then, many others have found the structure difficult to remember or just plain awkward. We turned on free-form reviews on SMS last year and most people are much happier with that.

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LouderVoice in 2008

We’ve had a fantastic year in LouderVoice and it looks like 2009 is going to be even better with a raft of new releases in the next few months. Looking back over last year we achieved the following: In January we launched Flag Tag reviewing which enabled any blogger to have their blog reviews collected by LouderVoice with two simple tags on a post. We also added Twitter/SMS/Jaiku hashtag support In February we sponsored the Best Blog Post in the Irish Blog Awards In March we did our first major revamp with LouderVoice V2 adding on-site reviews and a ton of other features.

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Final Competition Winner

We should have posted this before Christmas but the final winner in the Three competition was Gabriel Kelly from Carrigaline in Cork for her review of the Philips DCP951/05.      One of the prize phones from Three and Custom-1 headphones from Klipsch are already on their way to her. Well done to all the winners and thanks again to George Hook for making this all happen.

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Competition Winner Week 3

The third winner in the Three competition on The Right Hook has been announced on George’s radio show. It is SarahMc from Waterford who wrote a review of a very interesting device called the Scansound Unilateral Stereo Headphone. This sends both stereo channels into one earpiece for people who are deaf in one ear. Fantastic device and really informative review from Sarah!      One of the prize phones from Three and Custom-1 headphones from Klipsch will shortly be on their way to her.

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