Are you missing out on revenue opportunities by not helping your offline clients Yelp?
But suffice it to say that if you're not helping your small business clients with Yelp.com you're doing them a major disservice as a marketing consultant.
Rather than explain the entire thing, you can wander over and check it out for yourself, but it's essentially "Angie's List" without the pay wall on the consumer side.
A lot of small businesses are freaked out about it, especially when they find that they've been panned hard. But the reality is that it's a great tool for the business to monitor their customer base, and keep tabs on the prevailing attitudes.
An entire service segment could be created for small businesses to pay an outsourced consultant to implement a PR system using Yelp as the framework. Yes, that's revenue... sales... the green stuff.
I have some ideas about this, but unlike a lot of the offline WSO hucksters of late, I am going to pick a couple small clients and test the concept before I even discuss it further.
No, for the backlink salesmen who pretend to be marketing consultants, Yelp is not going to be much of a SEO strategy. The business profile is allowed a website URL, but they're pretty ham fisted about their TOS.
And yes, business owners will be caught by the community if they attempt to spam or game the system. They're more militant about spam than the Warrior Forum.
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