Add the new GQ badge to your company website!
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In January, I previewed the new GuildQuality badges. And as of last night, they are ready for you to add them to your company’s website. Click here to get started.
A few great things about the new GQ badge:
1) It’s smart like a chameleon. If you publish your customer report, it instructs people to “view customer feedback” and links to the report. If you don’t publish the report, the badge instructs people to simply “view member profile”, and directs traffic to your profile page. Also, if you’re not a Guildmaster Award Winner when you add it, but you earn that recognition later, the badge automagically changes to reflect the accolade. And if you ever decide to cancel your membership, the image will mysteriously and unceremoniously disappear from your site.
2) People will recognize it. It’s designed to give a consistent representation of the GuildQuality brand across our entire membership.
3) It plays favorites. The badge communicates with the GQ system and rewards those that use it with higher ranking in our membership directory.
4) It can save you some money and earn you prizes. To celebrate the launch of the new badges, we’re giving a credit of $50 and a koozie to the first 10 members that add it to their site. So forward these instructions to whomever manages your website, and ask them to set you up!
3/15 Update: A bunch of members jumped right on this and added the GQ badge pretty quickly. Way to go! We hurdled the 10 member goal in two days. As of this morning, we’re at about 20.
Very cool idea. Is there any way to get a larger, higher-rez version of the badge? Maybe a higher-rez source image that would allow us to specifiy a custom (larger) size in the code snippet?
Well, that was easy. I updated the ‘badge’ from old to the new badge. The part of the badge that reads “view customer feedback” is a very light text. Though, it could be just my pc or worse, my eyes.
Otherwise, the badge looks good.
Thanks, Joanne
Guys – thanks! Looks like we’ve had about a half dozen members add the badge since yesterday afternoon, and both of you are among them! Your koozies are in the mail.
Tim – we’ll look into creating multiple versions of varying sizes. It is something we initially considered, but ultimately decided to launch something simple, and expand from there.
Joanne – I checked out your badge and I think it looks fantastic. But the View Customer Feedback part is definitely lighter. We’re getting more and more badges “out in the wild” and if need be, we can tweak the image on our end to improve legibility on our members’ end without them having to make any changes.
Thanks again guys. You should see an impact on your member directory ranking the morning after you’ve added the badge.