Join our webinar sessions and hear from the experts at GatherUp. We share industry news, strategies, and platform tips to help you build and manage your online reputation.
In this session, we explored how AI is reshaping the search landscape and why customer reviews are becoming one of the most powerful tools for staying visible and competitive. From algorithm-proofing strategies to real-world brand examples, attendees gained actionable insights into leveraging reviews to strengthen SEO and safeguard rankings.
If you missed the live webinar or want a refresher on key takeaways, the full recording is now available to stream. Learn how top-performing brands are adapting to AI-driven changes and how you can apply the same strategies today.
AmpUp
May 2025
AmpUp 2025 brought together marketing leaders, agency pros, and reputation experts to explore what’s next in customer experience. From AI-proofing your SEO to scaling review strategies, the event was packed with insights to power your growth in 2025 and beyond.
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November 2024
How digital agencies can safeguard reputation at scale and generate new revenue opportunities for their business.
Topics Covered:
Maximizing Your Online Reputation – a look at 23k businesses
October
We reviewed data looking at 23,000 locations relying on GatherUp for their reputation management needs in 2023 and shared how passive versus proactive reputation management transforms NPS and star ratings.
September 24-26 2024
This three-day virtual conference designed for Digital Agency professionals focused on providing a complete toolkit to prepare for 2025.
Packed with 8 high-impact sessions from 14 experts who will teach you actionable strategies to grow and thrive in today’s competitive landscape. 🧑💼💡
What you’ll learn:
🖥️ Local SEO strategies that drive real results
📈 Mastering social media for explosive holiday ROI
🔑 Pricing and sales tips to boost your bottom line
⭐ Proven reputation management tips for growth
Watch all the sessions of our Back to School for Digital Agencies now.
June 25, 2024:
The June 2024 webinar was all about review responses. Topics included:
• Benefits and challenges of review responses
• HIPAA considerations when responding to reviews
• New GatherUp features to help automate and accelerate responding to reviews
• Sneak peak at updates to the review request flow setup page
GatherUp CEO Michael Yules joined Product Marketing Manager Steve Hartman on the webinar to help answer questions and provide the product’s future development plans and vision.
Click here to view the on-demand recording or download the slides.
May 21, 2024:
This dynamic agency webinar focused on scaling your business by providing the strategies and tactics needed to accelerate growth and retain loyal customers or clients in the today’s competitive landscape.
We were joined by president and founder of CounselEAR, Brian Urban as well as GatherUp’s VP of Customer Experience, Matt Saeger, for an informative discussion full of tips to grow, scale, nurture and retain more clients.
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November 15, 2023:
In this roundtable, Q&A style webinar we discussed survey data and research gathered by the GatherUp team and posed questions to industry experts Colan Nielsen, VP of Local Search at Sterling Sky, and Mike Blumenthal, co-founder of NearMedia.
We examined how SMBs and agencies feel about their return-on-investment, which tactics drive success, and where gaps exist in which agencies can win more clients and drive positive outcomes throughout the coming year.
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September 28, 2023:
This agency-only webinar focused on our latest NEW feature set text message marketing and how agencies can leverage it for their growth and client success.
Campaigns is an SMS marketing feature that drives sales through customer loyalty using customer feedback to create a compliant SMS opt-in list. We also created new features called Contacts, Lists and Conversations.
In this agency webinar we covered:
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Test these new features and see how you can turn the customer voice into customer loyalty for your clients.
September 26, 2023:
In this webinar we launched our latest feature set, Campaigns.
Campaigns is an SMS marketing feature that drives sales through customer loyalty using customer feedback to create a compliant SMS opt-in list. We also created new features called Contacts, Lists and Conversations.
In this webinar we covered:
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September 2023:
In our September webinar discussed the balance of human touch and AI when evaluating customer feedback.
Andres Escobar, CEO at ReviewBiz.io joined and offered his insights on how his clients and he himself manages this balance. We covered:
Click here to view the on-demand recording or download the slides.
ReviewBiz helps gym owners build trust, crush the competition, and generate more sales. Check out Andres’ podcast, Gym Owners Growth Zone.
August 2023:
In the August webinar we took a look at generative search and its impact for marketers now and in the future.
Andrew Shotland, CEO at LSG SEO, and Krystal Taing, Global Director of Pre-sales Solutions at Uberall, joined to share their expertise and insights. We covered:
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June 2023: Agencies and AI: How to use AI to Drive Efficiency & Enhance Customer Service
In this webinar we discussed how agencies can scale activities and drive efficiencies for their clients using advances in Artificial Intelligence.
Thanks to Jay Bowen, Co-founder of Conversations by Ami, and Katy Zasada, Senior Strategy Director at Location3, for offering their expertise and insights during this webinar.
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May 2023: Drive Revenue with a Proven Review Response Strategy
In this webinar we discussed how to create a review reply strategy that can drive long-term business success. Covering topics including:
March 2023: Optimizing GBP for Multi-Locations & Franchises
In this webinar we invited guest, Darren Shaw, Founder/CEO of Whitespark, to discuss his best guidance on optimizing your Google Business Profile to increase local SEO ranking and conversions. Darren provided tips to:
Dec 2022 Agency Webinar: Holiday Edition
In this month’s webinar we were in the gift-giving mood!
The GatherUp product and engineering teams have been hard at work the past few months building amazing new features, some of which were recommended by our agency partners.
We started off highlighting our takeways from the Moz “The Impact of Local Business Reviews on Consumer Behavior” study. We also took a look at Facebook’s new page experience and what it means in relation to GatherUp and reviews.
Chris Walker, head of sales, walked you through the new features:
If a you’re interested in testing out our Agency Business Report and/or the new Stars feature to collect 1st-party reviews, email [email protected] with subject line BETA TEST [Feature].
Thanks to all who registered and attended this month’s webinar. Enjoy the holiday season. We’ll have even more exciting news to share in 2023!
July 2022: Bolstering the Customer Experience with Business Texting
On July 14th, we welcomed Aaron Weiche back to the GatherUp webinar. Weiche, is the co-founder and CEO of Leadferno, and the former CEO of GatherUp.
Together with Steve Hartman, the two talked about how business texting creates a connection that can make for an incredible customer experience. Once that experience is delivered businesses should be capturing, marketing and learning from customer feedback.
Marketing reviews helps drive customers to your site where utilizing a web-to-text app like Leadferno can drive conversion rates and close more leads. With products like GatherUp and Leadferno working together your business can deliver amazing customer experience.
May 2022 Agency-only Webinar: 5/19/22
On May 19th, 2022 we welcomed our agency partners to join us on our first agency-only webinar of the year.
We’ve brought agency resources into the application. This is a huge win as it is much easier to find, access and utilize the tools provided.
Reputation Scorecards launched on May 17th. This new tool helps agencies prospect new clients by highlighting their online reputation and compares them to the nearest competitors. The scorecard can also be used as a benchmarking tool for existing clients.
Chris Walker, Sales Team Lead, showcased his sales tips in the Anatomy of the Sale. He showed how to use the Reputation Scorecard in the sales process.
Lastly, we highlighted Sendible, an all-in-one Social Media management solution. Sendible is owned by the same company as GatherUp, and thus there are discounts available for GatherUp customers when you buy Sendible. Our agency partners have enjoyed Sendible’s platform, ease-of-use and feature set.
June 2021 Webinar: Integrated local marketing for franchises: Maximize your digital presence
GatherUp joined forces with Location3, a Denver-based digital marketing agency specializing in delivering enterprise strategy with local activation. The webinar focused on paid and organic strategies for driving business to enterprise brands on a local level.
A walk-through of next-level processes for feedback gathering that will make you a GatherUp power user.
Mike Blumenthal says farewell. And we showcase the brand new GatherUp Inbox functionality, Reporting, and Google review attribute monitoring.
February 2021 Webinar: 2/24/21
We discussed Google Posts, social sharing, surveys, our partnership with Whitespark, and Integrations.
The sendoff of Aaron Weiche, a walkthrough of Tags and TextBack, Beta testing for Inbox, and Google Review Summaries.
December 2020 Webinar: 12/23/20
The launch of custom notifications, new send mode display for easy updates, 2020 in review and 2021 predictions.
October 2020 Webinar: 10/31/20
A new notifications interface and options update, Cyfe and GatherUp integration for digital dashboards, and a walkthrough of adding customers to GatherUp.
September 2020 Local SEO AMA Webinar: 9/8/20
GatherUp’s third local SEO webinar covering both local search tips and a lengthy AMA section featured Amanda Jordan and Claire Carlile along with Aaron Weiche and hosted by Mike Blumenthal.
The addition of Quick Links, the Feedback URL, Google Attributes now in the Review Widget, masks and reviews research and case study, and the power of tagging.
The launch of Google review attribute monitoring and smaller updates to social sharing, Direct Mode, and a new review badge option called minimal.
June 2020 Local SEO AMA Webinar: 6/23/20
Mike Blumenthal hosted Joy Hawkins, Krystal Taing, and Aaron Weiche to share local SEO tips, Google My Business changes, digital marketing strategies, and more.
An in-depth look at the power of using Tags. We also cover how to create better Social Sharing backgrounds, the return of Google reviews, new integrations and Google’s newest review feature, review attributes.
New updates to our Social Sharing feature with a Twitter integration and new cropping tools. We also cover recent articles on review strategy, digital marketing with your reviews, our Local Search AMA webinar, and more.
April 2020 Local SEO AMA: 4/24/20
Joy Hawkins of Sterling Sky and Darren Shaw of Whitespark joined GatherUp’s Mike Blumenthal and Aaron Weiche for an hour packed of insight, local SEO strategy, COVID-19 adjustments and Google My Business tips.
February 2020 Webinar: 2/25/20
Social Sharing has launched! Tune in to see our newest feature in action and take a look at new user management tools.
We’re kicking off 2020 with a trio of new features you don’t want to miss. Optimized Layouts, Social Sharing, and…
GatherUp will make customer experience the backbone of your business, building a continuous cycle of happy customers and powerful reviews to help you capture your next customer.
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