So what is Yelp?

Yelp is an online community of people who share their opinions of local businesses. People can log on and rate your business good or bad based on their own personal experience.

What does this mean for you?

Well if you’re in business you probably welcome good reviews and want to fix any negative experiences that your customers may have. Yelp makes it easy for you to follow your business reviews and get real valuable feedback, and it’s FREE.

So how can you use Yelp to increase in store traffic and boost online sales?

Simple. Link to Yelp from your website, blog, Twitter, Facebook page, MySpace page or a combination of these to encourage new reviews and to show off the positive reviews you have already receieved

How do you start?

Most local businesses are already on Yelp, you can check by Starting Here >>

Now What?

Once you are all signed up, you want to create a graphic to link to your yelp page from your website. Yelp also offer business owners a few tools to help your monitor your performance and create offers and coupons.

So give Yelp a shot and take advantage of free local reviews from real people with real opinions about your business.