The yelp post garnered 5 times as many views as anything I have ever posted, and stimulated a lot of interesting conversation on multiple outlets. This is a follow up, clarifying a lot of stuff…
Why you will never trust Yelp ever again
If this is your algorithm yelp, you have built your business on one of the most flawed I have seen. Just my two cents. If real reviews by real people is what this is all about, yelp has some serious explaining to do about the incredible flaw in their model. I don’t think this is fixable, and I don’t think they can defend it.
Yelp to allow Businesses to respond to reviews publically.
Below was sent to “elite” (read “drunken”) members of yelp. This is INCREDIBLY exciting. This will legitimize yelp, and I have to say this is the most important development in the last couple months
Facebook all a’twitter *OR* I didn’t really want ads on my Facebook stream
Brands on Facebook are nothing more than dissonance now. Whereas before they were meaningless, and the pages were little more than non-functional, limiting, and fairly non-interactive static places…. ….now
So which TripAdvisor reviews should you respond to?
The answer is simple. It is, unfortunately, all of them. You need to respond to every single review that goes up in regards to your property. You can’t reply to just one, because you will look