Day: March 26, 2013

A look at the Yelp Revenue Estimate. (Credit: Yelp) Yelp has a new tool in place for business owners to gauge the value of its service. The company yesterday announced a new tool, called "Revenue Estimate," that helps business owners determine the amount of revenue they're generating from their Yelp listings. The free tool multiplies…

Yelp released a new tool on Monday that helps small businesses estimate how much revenue they make through the review site. The tool, called the Revenue Estimator, lets local businesses track the number of customer leads from their Yelp profile and provides an estimate for how much revenue the merchant generated from those leads, based…

Yelp announced the launch of a new “revenue estimator” tool, which lets local businesses compare their Yelp-driven business to the national average as found in a recent Boston Consulting Group study. According to that study, local businesses with free Yelp accounts saw $8,000 in annual revenue from Yelp. For advertisers, it was $23,000. This new…

A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology. Yelp Announces A New ‘Revenue Estimator’ For Small Businesses (TechCrunch) Yelp is announcing a new feature intended to highlight and quantify the value that the listing and review site provides for small businesses. The feature separates customer leads from page views — those leads…

Websites such as Yelp! have empowered the everyday eater to become their local neighborhood's food critic, praising and damning behind the anonymity of a computer screen. So what do your neighbors have to say on Yelp? Based on Yelp!'s highest-rated star ranking, here are the top 10 restaurants in Northbrook.  Ruth's Chris Steak House Francesco's Hole In the Wall Elegance-in…

For a small business, being on Yelp can have obvious benefits. First and foremost, it gives people a resource to go and find a local business that they may not have otherwise known existed. This, of course, can lead to increased revenue, but the actual benefit that the site gave to these business was never…

Yelp Q3 Earnings Just Top Street, Shares Trade Up Tomio Geron Forbes Staff Facebook Takes On Foursquare And Yelp With 'Nearby' Tomio Geron Forbes Staff Yelp has been best known to small business for its extensive user ratings and reviews. But a major focus now for the company is to provide more insights and benefits…