http://stevenmoody.com/2009/08/04/proverb-tuesday-does-yelp-make-location-irrelevant/ Applying CommonSense 1.0 to Web 2.0 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:30:21 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://stevenmoody.com/2009/08/04/proverb-tuesday-does-yelp-make-location-irrelevant/comment-page-1/#comment-3 admin Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:22:08 +0000 http://stevenmoody.com/?p=110#comment-3 I didn't consider the limitations of adoption of social networks, but I suspect these will only serve to accelerate the use of social referrals to quality; right now, yelp is mostly independent of our social connections, while google maps are dumb with respect to the location of our friends. So I would bet Loopt, Latitude, and similar products will increase the value of quality. I didn’t consider the limitations of adoption of social networks, but I suspect these will only serve to accelerate the use of social referrals to quality; right now, yelp is mostly independent of our social connections, while google maps are dumb with respect to the location of our friends. So I would bet Loopt, Latitude, and similar products will increase the value of quality.

]]> http://stevenmoody.com/2009/08/04/proverb-tuesday-does-yelp-make-location-irrelevant/comment-page-1/#comment-2 John Pruitt Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:04:24 +0000 http://stevenmoody.com/?p=110#comment-2 Interesting point. I have read a couple of reports of people who have had success (or failure) with Yelp and hadn't thought of the location aspect till your blog here. Although I agree that the location aspect will become less, until more of the public move to social networks, location will be a seriously large factor in success with marketing still taking a #2 spot. I don't see this changing in the next couple of years. I'd go with Location, Quality, Service. Which is probably why I don't have a business like that :) Interesting point. I have read a couple of reports of people who have had success (or failure) with Yelp and hadn’t thought of the location aspect till your blog here. Although I agree that the location aspect will become less, until more of the public move to social networks, location will be a seriously large factor in success with marketing still taking a #2 spot. I don’t see this changing in the next couple of years. I’d go with Location, Quality, Service. Which is probably why I don’t have a business like that

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