Tell Your Yelp Story
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Tell Your Yelp Story

It’s time to share your story… stories will be chosen from the comments below to be profiled on the site with the truth of how Yelp has done you wrong.If you really want to help, read through the comments and thumbs up or down the stories to help the media select the best stories to…
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Yelp Inc Soars as Investors See Opportunity to Buy Stock at Discount

The stock price of Yelp Inc (NYSE:YELP) increased 11.23% to $31.21 per share on Friday as investors perceived an opportunity to buy the company's shares at discount prices. Yelp lost more than 42% of stock value year-to-date. The company's stock declined from its highest trading price at $59.37 per share to its current trading price.…
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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…
Buying Better Yelp Results
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Buying Better Yelp Results

If you're a Yelp business owner, no doubt you saw the Important Message that went out today from Yelp talking about "reputation management" and how you can't buy results on Yelp. That is TRUE! You can't pay for Yelp advertising to remove bad reviews, you can't bribe them to take down negative reviews, you can't…
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Beware of Fake Online Reviews

HARTFORD, Conn. - Online product reviews can help or hurt a business. They can also steer consumers in the wrong direction, especially when the review is fake. The Better Business Bureau, Consumer Reports and even the Federal Trade Commission are warning consumers to be wary of online feedback and reviews of products and services. For…
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Is Yelp Ripping Small Business Owners Off?

From a great candid review by Raymond Fong: Maybe you know and maybe you don’t… but Yelp (a local search and reviews online service) offers paid advertising for businesses called the “Yelp Sponsorship Program“. To sum it up, according to the page advertising this opportunity, this Yelp Sponsorship program allows you to: Put up a…
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Yelp Documentary

[youtube TiBtTRp0kg8] Great look back at the start of Yelp in 2005 and what the site was intended to be. I think the intention was great. I think the end execution leaves a lot to be desired. One thing is for sure. This is one company that understands branding. Transforming the social site into one…
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The State of Restaurant Reviews

[youtube aZnGVn9kiOU] Anthony Bourdain at Barnes and Noble in Union Square in New York City, June 8th, 2010 commenting on his opinions of the competitiveness of the restaurant business and his views on Yelp and the role it (and sites like it) play in the 21st century of restaurant reviews. Best line: it's like one…