Reviews and Review Generation
Product reviews are an extremely powerful tool for getting exposure on SourceForge as well as for acquiring new customers. When your product gets reviews on SourceForge, it helps rank your product higher in categories and search results. If you are on a paid marketing plan, customers reviews can improve your campaigns performance by 35% to over 150%.
SourceForge review generation services are available to all SourceForge customers on the SourceForge Plus plan or above.
SourceForge offers a service whereby you can provide your customers with a special review link, and then SourceForge pays for and sends electronic gift cards to your customers if they write and publish a review for your product.
This is how it works:
- We will give you a special link that you can email your customers
- We will also give you content to include in that email that explains the guidelines
- When customers who write a review for your product get their review published by SourceForge, we will email them a digital gift card (paid for by SourceForge!)
- Eligibility Note: this program is only available for users in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
You can grab the special incentivized review link on the "Reviews" tab within your SourceForge product admin section.
Let SourceForge help you generate reviews from your customers and users. With our Managed Review Gen program, we can run a review generation campaign, where we do all the work. All you have to do is upload a list of your users and we will take care of email template creation and email sending. You can get started with this on the "Managed Reviews Campaign" tab within your SourceForge product admin section.
Once you upload your customer list, we will email them asking them to write a review for your product in exchange for an electronic gift card. Here is an example of the email we will send your customers.
- Contact List Specification: Please upload the list of your users that you want us to email in the form of a .csv file. We require the users' first name, email address, and two-letter country code. Here's a CSV template you can download.
- We require a minimum of 100 contacts, but suggest providing at least 20 contacts for each review you'd like to generate for the most effective results.
- The following countries are allowed. Customers located in other countries will not be used. Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Finland, France, India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States. AE, AR, AU, BR, CH, FI, FR, GB, IE, IN, JP, MX, PH, PT, SA, SE, SG, TR, US
- To receive 50 reviews as quickly as possible we suggest you provide at least 1000 contacts. If you do not have that many, we can still run a campaign, but more is better.
Showcase your SourceForge customer reviews on your company website with the SourceForge Review Widget. The SourceForge Review Widget enables you to display your great customer reviews on your website in a beautiful review carousel widget, which you can see an example of below.
The SourceForge Review Widget only displays 4 star and 5 star customer reviews, and only shows the โProsโ and โOverallโ sections of each user review. Reviews lower than 4 stars, and the โConsโ section of reviews will not be shown, enabling you to showcase the best parts of your product on your company website.
The SourceForge Review Widget is responsive, so it will work on any website or mobile browser, or you can change the height and width to fit the space you want.
Example:
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