Sunday May 20th 2012

Posts Tagged ‘yelp’

Reputation Management for Small Business: Options?

Social media continues to expand and become a larger part of marketing and new customer discovery for small businesses. How are businesses supposed to manage the ever growing amount of sites, profiles and reviews in the social space? Hiring a dedicated social media lead is not reasonable for many businesses. Outsourcing the work to a social [...]

Yelp Says No IPO in 2010 – “Why Rush”

In a recent WSJ Blog post,  Jeremy Stoppelman, the co-founder and chief executive of Yelp, said that it is unlikely to issue an initial public offering for “several years.” Yelp “will definitely not go public this year,” he said. “2011, who knows? But why rush out the door if I can avoid it?” Rumors last year flews around about [...]

AT&T gets local with Buzz, competes with Yelp and Google Place

These days, everyone is trying to go local. Yelp has cornered the market on local business reviews, Google is attempting to integrate similar functionality in Google Maps with “Place Pages,” and it’s also at the heart of promising services like location-based game Foursquare. Now AT&T wants in with a new service of its own called [...]