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Yelp put out an announcement calling for small business owners to volunteer for its Small Biz Advisory Council. Specifically, they're looking for Yelp aficionados who wish to act a...

This Facebook Feature Could Help Businesses Get Better At Customer Service

Facebook has a new customer service feature for businesses pages, which would enable them to serve a canned response to users who send them messages. Early comments about the featu...

Yelp Aims To Better Deal With Duplicate Business Listings

Duplicate listings have proven to be a pretty big challenge for Yelp, the company revealed in a post on its engineering blog. It's not an issue Yelp takes lightly, and it's putting...

Is This Facebook’s Most Small Business-Friendly Offering Yet?

Facebook announced the launch of its local awareness ads last fall. These enable local business advertisers to target Facebook users based on their location. If a person is near th...

Is Facebook More Small Business-Friendly Than You Thought?

Facebook is dedicating more resources to trying to stay in the good graces of small businesses, even after it has continually made changes to its News Feed algorithm over the past...

Sheryl Sandberg On What Facebook Is Doing For Small Businesses

In recent months there have been a lot of articles written about how Facebook is hurting or "failing" small businesses. In November, Tech Times...

Yelp Gets Legal Victory In Privacy Case (Because Subpoena Was Issued In Wrong State)

Yelp has been embroiled in a legal battle for the past couple years as a Virgi...

Does Your Business Have The Time To Get Online Marketing Right?

The fewer people a business has, the harder it is to do marketing right. Most small and medium-sized businesses don't think they have the time or knowledge to manage their digi...

Square Gives Small Businesses Attractive New Email Marketing Option

Square just announced a new service that might make email marketing service providers a little nervous. It's called Square Marketing, and comes with an email marketing solution for...

Yelp Documentary Puts Out Call For Stories From Businesses

Yelp documentary-in-the-making Billion Dollar Bully met its Kick...

Amazon Starts Handpicking Local Service Businesses To Put In Front Of Customers

Amazon announced the launch of a new service called Amazon Home Services, which lets customers browse, buy, and schedule appointments with professional services via a marketplace o...

Yelp Documentary ‘Billion Dollar Bully’ Reaches Funding Goal

Last week, a Kickstarter campaign kicked off to raise money for...

Yelp Documentary: The Plot Thickens [Updated]

As previously reported, last week, Prost Productions announced a new...

Exclusive Chat With Director Of Yelp Documentary

UPDATE: The plot thickens. Last week, Prost Productions announced...