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A new Yelp tool is helping local businesses figure out how much of their monthly revenue can be credited to the Yelp platform. The Revenue Estimate tool is launched after the recent release of a Boston Consulting Group study that claims...
Ever since Facebook launched the beta version of Graph Search , there has been some speculation around the ’Net that the social network’s new feature could end up being a Yelp and/or Foursquare killer. If that is the case...
Would you eat at a restaurant that scored less than perfect on a 100-point health score? What would be your cut off; ninety, eighty? Thanks to a recent Yelp announcement, you may have to decide. According to Yelp’s blog, the...
It is time to get serious about the holidays, because as of today, merchants only have a month to prepare for the busiest shopping day of the season – Black Friday. While most merchants are putting the finishing touches on their...
It’s been quite a while since we last covered Yelp, but the local Web darling made an announcement last month that may just bring it back to our collective attention. Yelp, which already offers a deals solution, introduced a...
Identifying – let alone actually combating – fake online reviews has been a constant source of angst for many business owners and marketers with an online presence. Now, I hate to break it to you guys, but it’s only...
Last week, Microsoft’s Bing search engine announced a huge partnership with user review and recommendations site Yelp that could help position both companies to overthrow their common nemesis, Google, and its Google Places service...
Everyone on the Internet seems to be going local these days, and it seems to be the key to success for many small business with a Web presence – especially companies that focus primarily on their brick-and-mortar stores. In a...
Cloud backup service provider Backupify is the latest company to try to calculate the actual monetary value of social data such as Tweets, Facebook users, Yelp reviews, etc. After looking at a variety of social sources that included...
According to a study titled Anonymity, Social Image, and the Competition for Volunteers: A Case Study of the Online Market for Reviews , by economics professor Zhongmin Wang, Yelp.com offers the most balanced business reviews when...
Crisis can hit any business, at any time. It could be a missed shipment (affecting one customer) or a failed server (affecting thousands). It could even be one little word, as was the case when a Chrysler social media representative...
According to an internal analysis of small business search results, Marchex – a provider of small business marketing products – found that more than 80 percent of results did not point to the websites of those businesses...
Yelp, one of the Web’s most popular destinations for online reviews of local businesses, recently released some powerful data for would-be mobile marketers. Based on activity in December 2010, the company recently announced that...
Have you been doubting Yelp? It's certainly got its fair share of competition in the check in and review spaces, but despite some hiccups related to its review practices, Yelp is growing at a rapid clip. Yelp released some growth...
Local review site Yelp has joined the location-aware craze and unveiled Check-in Offers. The new feature, available within the business owner dashboard, allows business owners to rewawrd customers with a coupon when they check in to...
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