Review generation and reputation for a painting company
Median review count in this trade is 11, and 46.1% of painting listings have under ten. Getting to 107 puts you in the top tier nationally, which is a lower bar than it sounds. Reviews do three things at once: they lift map pack ranking, they raise the conversion rate on every ad you run, and their text feeds the AI answers people now read instead of clicking.
The mistake is asking by email a week later, once the crew and the trucks are gone and the job has faded. Painting is a high-touch trade and you are in someone's house for days. The right moment to ask is the final walkthrough, in person, while the homeowner is still standing in a room that looks better than it did on Monday.
Two weeks of asking properly usually adds four to eight reviews. A healthy ongoing pace is three to five a month, which is roughly one out of every three completed jobs.