Beyond the Star Rating: Extracting Strategic Content Insights from Customer Feedback

Beyond the Star Rating: Extracting Strategic Content Insights from Customer Feedback

July 2, 2026 · 39 min · Season 4 · Episode 25

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The episode discusses how to leverage customer reviews as a focus group using NLP tools to uncover market trends.

Send us Fan Mail Local SEO strategy often gets stuck playing a quantitative numbers game with review counts and velocity benchmarks. But what happens when you treat the collective text of your market's customer reviews as an ongoing, free focus group? This week, Celeste Gonzalez joins us to show how tools like Apify and Natural Language Processing (NLP) allow local agencies to scrape hidden market trends from Reddit, TikTok, and competitor Google Maps profiles. We break down exactly how...

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Hosts: Greg Sterling, Mike Blumenthal, David Mihm

Guest: Celeste Gonzalez

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Organizations: Apify, Natural Language Processing, Reddit, TikTok, Google Maps

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