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If you are a small business owner, you have probably heard of Kudzu. Maybe even posted a review of your own on there for a fellow small business owner. We know how important they are and what a vital part of keeping new business coming in. Without reviews, no one knows about our good name, and there is no better advertisement for us than a satisfied customer.

So, how about telling people about all the good referrals you have? Share the reviews online. You can choose to simply link back to your Kudzu business page, or create a widget to do this. We talked about widgets on Tuesday with creating a Twitter Widget, and you can do exactly the same with Kudzu.

The first thing you need is a Kudzu account, and also, some reviews! Click on the following link to get started: https://register.kudzu.com/login.do If you already have an account, simply go ahead and log in. If this is all totally new to you, click  the link to actually set up your business on the site. Once you have this done, go to the Promote your profile section, and click on the Create Reviews Widget.

Next, select the layout and appearance of the widget. You can only return up to a maximum of 5 reviews, so I say go for that one! Would be nice if you could pull in more, but it is what it is. You can select what the minimum review rating is. Then change colors of borders, headline and text along with changing the size. Finally, click to generate the HTML code of the widget.

Once you have done this, now comes the fun part. Adding this to your website. As I said with the Twitter widget, you have a few options for this.

• Send the code to your web designer and tell them where you would like it on your website.
• If you have access to your own pages and are comfortable modifying the code, paste it in directly where you would like to see the Kudzu widget
• If you have WordPress, simply log in, go to Appearance on the left navigation, click on Widgets, and use a Text Widget and simply paste the code in there.

And finally, here is the finished widget! Yes, they are lovely reviews, I agree! Don’t be afraid to ask your clients to take time and leave one for work you have done. Although people will say yes, often they don’t quite get round to it. Those that do, thank them!

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