Have some negative reviews on your restaurant making your Yelp rating drop? There’s a way to get rid of these negative reviews without any sort of tricks or gimmicks. Let me explain .. I’m going to my 5 year anniversary dinner tonight at the Bridge Cafe and was checking out Yelp for reviews that highlighted the best meals on the menu and I cam across an interesting review..

How to Get Rid of Negative Yelp Reviews

A Yelper had posted a 1 star review, but 1 month later posted a 5 star review and retracted their original review.

How’d Bridge Cafe pull this off? Bribery? Hacking? Fraud?

Actually, what they did is reach out to the Yelper, and invite her back to the restaurant. The Executive Chef reached out personally and needed to correct her horrible experience.

She came back, had a great experience, and now I bet she’s an even more loyal, ardent supporter of the Bridge Cafe.

I’ll tell you how it is tonight or you can just read my review on Yelp.

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I know according to their TOS they forbid any publisher from running a page like this, so if you can explain the double-standard, I’m all ears.

Google Doorway Page

this page appears to be nothing but ads, with a handy navigation menu on the left hand side with categories like “iPhone iPod”, and then another ad at the bottom, a nice big 728×90.

The follow is a guest post from Amanda Green, to guest post on our site, contact us!

As you probably fully know, perhaps the best way to make money online is by drawing traffic to a website, selling advertising space, and then bringing in ad revenue. If done successfully, you could potentially find yourself with a popular website that draws thousands of unique page views per month – and that passes that success on to you in the form of a regular check.

Since placing ads is one of the best ways to make money online, it stands to follow that maximizing those ad revenues – ex. trying to make ads more numerous or lucrative – is a good approach to take when seeking even greater profits. You can look to maximize ad revenue by increasing the amount of ad space on your site, selling ads yourself instead of going through a service such as Google, and by simply asking more for each ad placement.

But allocating more space to ads may backfire in the form of visitor dissatisfaction. And asking for more money is a tactic easier said than done. Fortunately, there is another way to boost ad revenue that does not run into such issues: video. Specifically, you can often realize greater profits by adding video posts to your site.

Why is this the case? Here are a few of the main benefits that video can confer:

-More and better site traffic. The use of video can help diversify your site’s content, in the process appealing to a broader range of potential visitors. These visitors are also likely to be of higher quality than on a purely text-focused site, as video has been shown to effectively lower bounce rate. All this means that you can command higher fees from advertisers once traffic goes up and your bounce rate decreases.

-Higher-end ads. Advertisements that function like commercials are all the rage these days, and they can be sold for far more than your standard banner ad. There’s just one catch: in order for a commercial ad to be placed on a site, it is naturally necessary that a site uses video to some degree.

-Greater ad placement potential. The incorporation of video doesn’t just add diversification to your site’s content – it also allows for greater diversity of advertisement placement. Ads can be placed before videos, following videos, and in popup text boxes as part of a video stream. They also, of course, can still be placed in banner form alongside places of text. This gives you the flexibility to use a greater number of ads without riling your loyal visitors.

With video, then, you can potentially succeed in commanding more money from each advertisement posted. You may also be able to increase marketing clients to such a degree that you’ll need to visit www.contractlogix.com in order to manage your many contracts. But keep in mind: video content is not right for every website or enterprise. Before pursuing the issue and trying to secure that added ad revenue, take some time to consider whether video is truly right for you and for your content needs.

How to Pinterest

Some recent headlines worth checking out –

How to Create a Killer Pinterest Page
How to Get More Pins on Pinterest
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Top Interview Questions

If you’re looking for a new job, Glassdoor is going to help you get everything you need.

1) Find available openings
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3) How to interview and get the job

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The following is a guest post from Amanda Green, to have your story featured on the Wise Startup Blog, write to “wisestartupblog” @ gmail.com.

The Value of Research For Small Businesses

Research is vitally important to the growth of a small business. This is true for all businesses, not just companies who specialize in medical, scientific, or technologically ground-breaking discoveries. The ability and inclination to invest in research is what separates many small businesses from their peers. No matter what industry you’re in, from Internet marketing to legal representation, research is the foundation by which your company can propel itself to the next level.

Research can prepare you for the future of your own industry. Small businesses who don’t anticipate changes in their industry and prepare for those changes are doomed to fail. Research into new business models and technological platforms will allow you to foresee how you may need to alter your plans in accordance with industry trends. If you’re a medical or scientific company, glimpses of the advances being made in biotechnology, for instance, can be seen in the research being conducted by Huntingdon Life Sciences.

Research can reveal ways for you to carve new markets and integrate your services with new technologies. Industries like social media and Internet marketing show how drastically existing industries are becoming dependent on new innovative services. For example, integrating with cloud services or VoIP real-time communications may open up a new universe of delivery and revenue options.

Research will keep your abreast of how to minimize overhead costs, become more energy efficient, and utilize new technologies. Research also applies to your bottom line and how you can reduce your operating costs. For example, many companies are choosing to essentially liquidate their IT departments and outsource that work to the cloud, saving money and bolstering their security. Might not be good for employment rates, but that responsibility does not fall on an individual company.

For these reasons and more, research must not be viewed as a luxury for big corporations, but as a necessity for all business who wish to grow and adapt to industry changes. For small businesses, lucrative research is more often than not the catalyst for major growth.

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Let me Google that

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I Skyped with my grandparents

I’m going to Tubmle that picture

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Kennon Earl’s Selling LA Glasses

I found these killer glasses from Warby Parker for just $99, not exactly his glasses but they do a great doppelgänger.

Let me know if you have the exact model he wears so I can update this post.

First, thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday.

Now, deciding it was okay to treat myself, I went searching for Mr. Draper’s sunglasses at the Millennia mall in Orlando. It’s one of the larger malls in America, and has all the requisite high-end shops: Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdales, etc.

After an hour of looking, I decided to give up and just Google it.

Mad Men Sunglasses

Apparently, true to Mad Men form, the glasses are actually from the 1950s. The glasses Don wears are produced for the Air Force by American Optics, and the best part is they’re only $43!

I just placed an order so once they get here I’ll be sure to let you know how they look and feel.