Yelp

Online brand and reputation attacks have become some of the easiest and most impactful mechanisms for individuals and companies to cause serious harm to businesses. These types of attacks can originate from a variety of...read more

Many ratings and reviews sites filter positive reviews and/or charge businesses to ensure they are posted. While it seems unethical, the good-and-bad isn't so clear cut. But there may be a better way to handle businesses and their reviews.

Yelp tells business owners to not solicit reviews, but assumes far too much about how they would do so, in effect shooting the company in its own foot.

The best startups focus unwaveringly around one thing: solving a real-world problem. The best bloggers focus exclusively on another thing: participating and publishing in social media. Combine the two and your organization has a simple framework for success in the digital space.

Social media has changed the way we do almost everything.  We make buying decisions, find jobs, play games, listen to music and learn socially.   But for business it’s clearly been a more challenging shift.  Engaging...read more

The future of location-based apps is in getting you there, not bragging where you've been.