Why use our service?

Find out why Real Word of Mouth is the best way to get recommendations and reviews for businesses and services.

Benefits - Why use our service?

• Trust what you read
• Find the right services
• Protect your privacy
• Keep it all in one place
• Get the details straight

Features

• Privacy control
• Powerful search
• Ask for recommendations
• Send recommendations
• Groups
• Millions of business listings
• Search from a street address

Benefits

Trust what you read

We help you get recommendations from people you know and already trust. That alone is a huge time saver. When searching the web and reading recommendations from strangers, it's hard work and takes time to read hundreds of reviews, figure out who to trust and understand their biases or perhaps hidden agenda. On Real Word of Mouth, there are no anonymous recommendations or reviews.

Find the right services

Friends do far more than save you time. Friends help you find the right service for your needs, style and how you like things done. Even among friends, not all recommendations are equal. You know which friends share your values, who is an expert on various subjects (professionally or as a hobby), and whose tastes and budgets are most like yours. And your friends know you - they will know which businesses and services could be a good fit for you.

You don't need millions of recommendations to make a decision or solve a problem - you need the right recommendations... from people you know.

Protect your privacy

What you say in private among friends - the real "scoop" - can be quite different from what you might say publicly to strangers. Real Word of Mouth was created from the ground up with privacy protection at its core. We believe trust and privacy go hand-in-hand.

Keep it all in one place

No more pieces of paper, voicemails, e-mail messages, or business cards to lose. Jump online and easily access and search recommendations any time you need them.

Get the details straight

No longer forget who recommended which business, what they said about it, and when. And easily ask people you know for more details. Real Word of Mouth helps you find the services you need, and do it quickly and easily.

Features

Privacy control

Real Word of Mouth protects your privacy by giving you total control over who can see each of your recommendations. Privacy settings include:

• Just you - Make personal notes just for yourself that no one but you can see.
• Your friends - Only your friends can see what you have to say.
• Friends of Friends - They may not be people you know well, but as the saying goes "a friend of yours is a friend of mine."
• Groups - Share your recommendations with people who have the same interest, cause or business. Create and belong to as many groups as you like.
• Public - If you want to make a public statement to share with the world, you can do that, too.

You can be as private or public as you like.

Powerful search and browse

Search Real Word of Mouth with a purpose in mind, or just browse to discover new services and the things your friends like. You can search recommendations by keyword, and refine your searches by location, date, distance and more. Browsing the recommendations from people you know or the groups you belong to is a fun way to discover new businesses and services, get ideas for things to do, new projects or places to go.

Ask for recommendations

Can't find what you're looking for? Privately ask your personal network for recommendations. A friend, or friend of friend, may have just the right recommendation for you.

Send recommendations

Easily send a recommendation to a friend, client or business colleague. When recommendations are sent from Real Word of Mouth, all the business contact information is automatically included. If the person receiving the recommendation has permission to read your review, they will be able to read about your experience.

Groups

Not everyone you know is your friend and someone you would want to share everything with. With Real Word of Mouth groups, you can bring together people you know professionally or through a common interest, and share recommendations together with just the members of the group. Join and create as many groups as you like.

Millions of business listings

On Real Word of Mouth, you have access to over 6 million verified business listings - 3 million in the United States alone. We make it easy to share recommendations.

Search from a street address

Need to find the closest business to you? Set your search location to a street address and sort the results by distance. Don't just find businesses in your city and neighboring areas - now you can find the businesses that are closest to YOU.