The falsification of reviews of products and businesses is nothing new, being a favored dirty trick employed by competitors wishing to mar a rival's reputation, or employees hoping to boost that of their own company. Thankfully, the sheer number of reviews and their inherent transparency...
Yelp has been up and running for 3 years now, empowering businesses with our free business tools on Yelp Business Accounts to help them build their own unique identities and carve out their niche in the market. It's been only 2 years since Yelp began...
It's been a year since Yelp launched their Yelp check-ins service on the iPhone, and a little less since launching it on Android-powered phones as well. Since then, Yelp has also added check-in offers, which gives all of the businesses on Yelp the power to...
Yelp has a great track record of listening to comments and suggestions from their users in order to help improve their apps and services. One of the newest innovations to come out of this willingness to listen and learn from their users is the creation...
One of the newest features to hit Yelp's brand new business owner dashboard is called Check-in Offers, and it's been generating a lot of buzz, and a lot of questions as well. What exactly is a check in, and what's a check-in offer? The "Check-in" Well, first...
One of the best ways to maximize your business listing on Yelp is to make it as descriptive, personal, and unique as possible. This way, you can be sure that your listing will at least catch the eye of a few customers, even if it...
Nothing quite hurts like a negative review. However, having your business receive one isn't necessarily the end of the world. In fact, you can even use it to your advantage. There are of course plenty of websites other than Yelp that allow customers to post feedback...
Some time ago, Yelp released some pretty interesting statistics regarding how their apps are used: just over 25% of the searches on Yelp are done via iPhone. Another amazing fact is that someone, somewhere, uses Yelp to call a local business every 5 seconds. These numbers...
People who are familiar with Yelp's user feedback policies know that the company is quick to respond to suggestions for improvement. Given how 29% of businesses reviewed on Yelp are made up entirely of restaurants, this latest innovation should come as no surprise. Yelp has recently...