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How Ignoring Calls Can Cost Your Small Business Big Time
When customers reach out, they don’t want to be left hanging. They crave engagement and timely responses.
Buy Yelp Reviews! (NOT!)
Solicitation I Just Got Offering Yelp Reviews For Sale Before you get too excited, I'm not ever going to tell you to buy reviews. It's stupid, dangerous, and has the very likely potential to get your account labeled as fraudulent. I'm not even just making assumptions. We tested it by creating "new businesses" (that didn't…
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Why Local Small Businesses Should Use Generative AI in Advertising
Running ads is one of the most expensive and time-consuming parts of marketing. Traditionally, you’d need photographers, copywriters,…
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Yelp Now Has Court Permission to Change Business Ratings for Money. Don’t Forget It.
Posted By Anna Roth @annaroth on Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:02 AMThe internet’s all in a tizzy the past few days thanks to a Wednesday ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which said that review site Yelp could manipulate its ratings for money.So, say a small diner makes a big ad buy on the site, those extra…
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Freebies, Discounts, and Upgrades for Business Owners
FoundersCard is a community of over 50,000 members comprised of the world's most successful and influential entrepreneurs, innovators, and business owners. Are you an entrepreneur, an innovator or a startup creator? There’s an exclusive club with unique personal and business perks that might be of interest. FoundersCard is a private membership program, designed to give…
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Yelp Stock Plummet’s 30% on Poor Earnings Report
Great idea and very convenient, but too many botched deliveries. Review: One star. That, in a nutshell, sums up investors’ sentiments on Yelp right now. The company’s stock fell as much as 30% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company posted disappointing sales results. That drop effectively erases all Yelp’s stock gains from the last…
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Freedom of Speech is NOT Freedom From Consequences
Pierson College Dean June Chu issued a public apology Saturday after reviews from her personal Yelp account began circulating at Yale.“There are no two ways about it,” she wrote. “Not only were they insensitive in matters related to class and race; they demean the values to which I hold myself and which I offer as…
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Car Dealers Are 3x Their Sales By Reducing Bad Customer Experience
I thought all digital marketing PPC services were the same, or at least, similar. I was wrong. When one business owner who'd been getting killed in SEO and outranked by all the competition came to me, I set them up with the PowerSuite team. They had been paying upwards of $8000 per month for crappy AdWords…
Online Reviews – 50 Stats You Need to Know
Your company provides a service to customers, and those customers communicate their experience to the world through an online medium, often online reviews. These reviews contribute to the digital portfolio of every business. Your local business clients need reviews. Aside from building customer trust and helping with SEO, Google’s markup of a company or product…
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Restaurant takes Trump photo down after Yelp complaints
A New York German restaurant doesn't want the negative online reviews simply for having a picture of Trump on its wall. Fred and Amber Urban opened Schnitzel Haus in 2007, and Brooklyn Daily reports that they were friends back then with Trump's head of security. The mogul came by to wish the restaurant success in…