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Restaurants are natural social media entities (although most don’t know it)

May.20, 2010 in Uncategorized Leave a Comment

A lot of restaurants are now looking to somehow get involved in social media.  Or at least utilize social media platforms as a means of promoting themselves.  That’s a good thing.  The problem is that many are going into all of this without any strategy.  They lack a game plan.  They see it merely as [...]

Tags: FourSquare, Open Table, Restaurant, restaurants, Social Media, Urban Spoon, Yelp

Yelp - sales tactics and its own online rep

Feb.21, 2009 in Advertising, Branding, Business, Citizens Media, Community, In the News, Newsmakers, Social Media, Society & Culture Leave a Comment

Ah, controversy.
Now, it’s with Yelp, the mega online review site.  On Wednesday, the East Bay Express, an alternative newspaper that covers Alameda and Contra Costa counties in California, published a very provocative article , “Yelp and the business of extortion 2.0″ on the sales operations and tactics of Yelp.  The paper made some very pointed accusations, some [...]

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