About
Praise Picker exists because of a pattern we kept watching play out. A good contractor with good work and forty stars' worth of goodwill, sitting at a 3.8 because the only people who ever thought to say anything were the three who were angry. By the time anyone called us, the damage was two years old and the fix was slow, expensive, and partial.
The cheap version of that fix is asking everybody, every time, starting today.
We’re headquartered in Atlanta and work with businesses across the metro and well beyond it. Local when you want to meet in person, remote when you don’t.
Contractors and home services, doctors and dentists, salons, restaurants, retail, and professional services. If your customers can leave a Google review, we can help you get more of them.
We don't price per review. A vendor paid per review has a reason to bend the rules, and the rules here are the entire point.
Who runs it
Praise Picker comes out of a reputation management and brand protection practice — enforcement filings, takedowns, and the unglamorous work of getting false and damaging material about a business off the internet. That work is reactive by definition. Somebody calls after the fire.
What becomes obvious after enough of those calls is that the average local business doesn't have a reputation problem. It has a volume problem. The reviews it earned were never collected, so the handful it has left get to speak for the whole company. That is a much easier thing to fix, and it costs a fraction of what fixing the other version costs. Praise Picker is the preventive half of the same job.
How we work
These aren't marketing positions. They're the constraints the product was built inside, and they're the reason it looks the way it does.
Filtering unhappy customers away from Google is the single most common feature in this category and it violates Google's policy on selectively soliciting positive reviews. We won't build it. You hear about the problem first — that's the advantage, and it's a legal one.
A vendor optimizing purely for review count would keep going. The person on the other end of that text is someone you have to face at their house again next season, and protecting that relationship is worth more than a few extra stars.
Roughly a fifth to a third of people asked will post. Fifty requests is not fifty reviews. Anyone quoting you a guaranteed number is either about to buy them or about to gate them.
Month to month, no contract, and your customer list exports on request whenever you ask — including the day you cancel. Holding a business's own data hostage is how this industry earns its reputation, and we'd rather keep clients because leaving is easy.
No demo theater. We'll pull up your Google profile, count the stars you've actually got, and work out what three more a week would be worth to you.
