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G2 review ask all engaged customers, not just promoters
Ask engaged customers for G2 reviews across the full sentiment range instead of screening for likely praise and publishing a suspiciously tidy story.
Why this can grow a startup
A public review program becomes less useful the second the buyer senses it has been stage-managed. G2 is direct about this in its collection guidance: do not ask only promoters. Ask customers who are actually engaging with the product and with your team. That does two things. It makes the review set look more honest, and it gives the company a better external record of where the product is strong, awkward, or still improving. The buyer gets a more believable page. Product and success teams get sharper feedback than a praise-only funnel would ever produce.
Key metric to watch
G2 explicitly warns teams not to target only promoters when collecting external reviews.
Ian's take
From scaling consumer platforms across MENA and Southeast Asia, my default is to distrust growth work that only looks good in a slide. My bias is to treat this as a small market test first. Make the audience narrow, make the promise concrete, and let the first real response decide whether it deserves more work. I would run it small enough to learn quickly, then only scale the parts that real users repeat, save, reply to, or buy from. For this tactic, I would watch one clear growth signal before putting more time or budget behind it.
Action plan
- Define one narrow startup segment where g2 review ask all engaged customers, not just promoters can create a measurable lift.
- Turn the tactic into one offer, page, campaign, or workflow for the Brand and Customer Success channel.
- Use the evidence from learn.g2.com to set the first version of the message, format, and audience.
- Launch a small test for 7 to 14 days with one success metric: one measurable growth signal.
- Review the result, keep the winning message, remove weak variants, and turn the learning into a repeatable growth playbook.
Source-backed example
G2's Review Playbook says teams should not target only promoters and should ask all engaged customers for feedback to show they take customer opinion seriously enough to display it externally.
Source: G2 Review Playbook (learn.g2.com)
GrowthDex source hub: G2 Review Playbook
Last checked: 2026-05-30
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Ian Goh has helped grow consumer platforms across Southeast Asia, India, and MENA. His work includes scaling Tiki to 100M+ users, doubling BIGO's MENA revenue in 7 months, and increasing OYO's direct booking share across 6 Southeast Asian markets.
- Helped scale Tiki to 100M+ users.
- Doubled BIGO's MENA revenue in 7 months.
- Raised OYO's direct booking share by 50% across 6 Southeast Asian markets.
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