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Latest Yelp News From Yahoo!

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman ignored advice from Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and succeeded anyway CNN  - 9 hours Read full story for latest details. HBS Professors Investigate Faked Positive Yelp Reviews The Harvard Crimson  - 15 hours Regular Yelp users may want to exercise caution next time they make a restaurant choice based on…
Do You Want To Get Paid For Writing Yelp Reviews?
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Do You Want To Get Paid For Writing Yelp Reviews?

According to a leading attorney, you could already be owned money for writing reviews on Yelp.com. Here's what they have to say: Get paid for all the reviews that you wrote for Yelp! over the years. Federal and State laws state that as Yelp! had the right to control you as a reviewer/writer and as the reviews…
Yelp Is Ruining My Business
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Yelp Is Ruining My Business

"Help! Yelp is ruining my business!" This is the tearful phone call I get every week. Another struggling business owner, failing, due to an unfair negative review. Feeling helpless, alone, attacked, the emotion coming through the phone line sounds a lot like the rape victims I counseled in college. The same questions: How did this…
Yelp's CEO Jeremy Stoppleman Had One Thing Right
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Yelp's CEO Jeremy Stoppleman Had One Thing Right

In 2008 Yelp first did a massive clean sweep, claiming to delete spammers accounts. I got swept up in the mess. I'm not a spammer. I never wrote a review for a product or service I didn't use. And every review I received for my business was from a very well satisfied client. But the…
Delete Yelp Account

Delete Yelp Account

This is the number one question I get asked, and while there is no definitive answer, a number of community members have been successful! Remember, there is a difference between deleting your personal Yelp account, and deleting your business listing. If you want to remove your personal account, there are step by step instructions here.…
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Filter Them Out!

Love this lineup of alternative review sites you should be paying attention to! Check it out, and report back. Did you have success?