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Maximizing Yelp Reviews: Ethical Strategies for Business Success

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Learn how to boost your businesss online reputation and attract more customers with these ethical strategies by maximizing Yelp reviews. Importance of Yelp Reviews for Businesses Yelp reviews significantly impact a local business’s revenue, with 97% of people making a purchase after visiting Yelp, highlighting the substantial influence of reviews on consumer behavior. For example, […]

How to use the Tools Google Provide

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This blog is all about the tools Google provide, for free, which can seriously help your business grow and your online review strategy to blossom.

Have Online Reviews Become More Popular?

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With more and more businesses undoubtedly using online reviews to transform the way they build awareness, raise their profile, increase footfall and, ultimately, drive sales, we wanted to look at the trends that are emerging within the wonderful world of online reviews.

How Much Time are you Wasting on Review Admin?

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Admin is rarely anyone’s favourite job, but we appreciate that it is something that must be done. However, just because this is something that must be done, doesn’t mean it can’t be done efficiently!

How can QR Codes be Used in Marketing?

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As we’ve discussed in our previous blog, ‘How will QR Codes be Used Post-COVID-19?’, QR Codes have experienced something of a renaissance over the last 18 – 24 months being, as they are, a rather elegant enabler of touchless commerce.

How Important is Social Proof?

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 Social Proof is a psychological phenomenon whereby people are confirmed to be liked by, similar to, or accepted by the influencer or wider society.