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You can claim your listing with Yelp for Business Owners. That way you can correct any errors, add information that is useful and relevant to your customers, respond to reviews, and create offers.

#IMAGE PLUS YELP HOW TO#

Here are some basic steps that you can take to get the reviews that help your business, plus some tips on how to escape the review filter.Įven if your business is already listed on Yelp, you should go ahead and claim your business. So how do you get your customers to leave positive reviews without resorting to disreputable tactics (which can be costly and hurt your business in the long run)? It may seem like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be.

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There are some things you can do to free your reviews from review filter purgatory. And when you only have a dozen or so reviews showing, each new positive review becomes even more valuable in maintaining or improving your star rating. The problem is, this filter often captures legitimate reviews. For example, a sudden influx of positive reviews may have come from a business owner emailing a slew of his or her contacts, asking them to please (please!) leave a favorable review in order to boost the business’ star rating. Yelp will also look at review patterns to decide whether a review is suspect.

Real people.' As Yelp's CEO Jeremy Stoppelman explains, in order to preserve Yelp’s authentic, word-of-mouth experience, the site uses a review filter to weed out fake reviews, such as that glowing review left by the store owner’s best friend, which was the first and last time that person ever contributed to Yelp.įiltered reviews are hidden behind a CAPTCHA wall, and do not go towards your star rating. Yelp does what it can to live up to its tagline of ' Real Reviews. Of course, businesses will try many different tactics to make themselves look good, and Yelp has occasionally resorted to some harsh measures for those businesses that want to manipulate the system. They play a huge part in increasing sales both in-store and online. Reviews can make a business listing rank higher in local search. But when I want to get a better feel for a business, I go to Yelp. If I just want the address for a business, I'll probably look it up on Google. Love their salon-brand hair products! If it's a hard-to-find item or higher-end salon hair product you are after, Image Beauty may work well for you.Yelp wants to see itself as a community, but I see it more as a research tool for consumers. There isn't a massive, super-wide selection (they may carry some items, but not in all colors/styles/sizes) and only a few of certain items (nail polish, some hair colors, etc.). The only downfall is that Image Beauty doesn't carry everything on my list. No Super-Wide Selection and/or Availability US-based toll-free number, email, and physical address listed.

It's always a good sign when an online retailer has several ways to contact them for order and product support, returns, etc. I haven't had any real issues with Image Beauty but you never know. Some online retailers don't bother to add a packing slip and appropriate padding/bubble wrap to secure items (and some don't even provide tracking) but Image Beauty pays attention to these important details.Īlways pay with PayPal or Amazon Pay, people - either will fight the battle for you should there be an issue. The order confirmation is sent immediately, which includes the tracking number and detailed delivery updates. I've received my orders within a week, packaged securely, with a detailed packing list. They offer frequent 15%-off store-wide coupons.

For that reason, I think they are great! Prices are the same as I've seen at any Target, CVS, Walmart, other Beauty Supply retailers, Salons, etc. I've shopped at Image Beauty online a few times because I have had difficulty sourcing particular products (long discontinued nail products that pretty much cannot be obtained unless 3rd-party retailers happen to have 'new/old-stock' at their disposal). Discontinued Items I Can't Find Elsewhere

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