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85%

85% -- share of consumers trusting online reviews for Consumers (local businesses) (2017)

2017  · BrightLocal

85% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations.

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85%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2017
Entity
Consumers (local businesses)
B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
BrightLocal Primary Tier C
https://www.andolasoft.com/blog/how-to-increase-sales-of-saas-products.html ↗
Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2017 Channel: Common Crawl
Source Article
How to Increase Sales of SaaS Products
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BrightLocal · Original study ↗

BrightLocal consumer review survey, cited secondhand

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Consumers (local businesses): 85% share of consumers trusting online reviews. Source: BrightLocal (2017). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/consumers-trust-online-reviews-2017
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/consumers-trust-online-reviews-2017" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>85%</strong> -- share of consumers trusting online reviews for Consumers (local businesses)<br><small>Source: BrightLocal (2017) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/consumers-trust-online-reviews-2017" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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