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Yelp Challenge 2019

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Since there is no more Review Challenge contests, here is my list of all the reviews that I have written in 2019 - total 171 reviews. 5.0 star SING 1/4/2019 · ROTD 4/5/2019 5.0 star Little Caesars Pizza 1/19/2019 5.0 star Holcombe Medical Supply 1/24/2019 4.0 star Meccha Matcha 1/25/2019 ROTD 7/22/2019 1.0 star Sichuan Noodles 麵麵聚道 1/29/2019 Updated review 5.0 star Bite of Spice 2/3/2019 5.0 star UYE: Viet-Ventures Ep 1 @Pho Ga Dong Nai 2/5/2019 3.0 star YEE: Valentine Chocolate Tasting at Cacao & Cardamom River Oaks 2/7/2019 First to Review 3.0 star L P Trading 2/8/2019 Updated review 5.0 star Lunar New Year Festival 2/11/2019 Updated review 4.0 star National Culture 2/16/2019 First to Review 3.0 star Hotpot Year Of The Pig #ChinatownCrawl UYE 2/17/2019 First to Review 2.0 star TeaWish 2/18/2019 5.0 star True Texas Boil House 2/19/2019 2.0 star Kroger Store in Medical Center area 2/23/2019 5.0 star Solstice Medicine Company 美国蘇氏藥業有限公司 2/25/20...

Send to Phone

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Yelp has this convenient feature on the website similar to Google Maps' Send to Phone feature. Just in case you are at a computer not your own, like in a library or public places, send a page to your phone to bookmark it. It is also convenient to share a location with a friend who is looking for places to eat. I discovered this feature early April 2017 From a biz page, look for "Send to your phone" link. sample Enter your cell phone number and hit "Text Link"

Throwback at Melita's

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This is about a biz page I added 2 years ago - Melita's Restaurant . One day, I was driving to James Lee Park and saw this untapped treasure. I thought they should be on Yelp. I started to take photos and the bartenders got nervous. I told them I just wanted to share my dining experience with my friends. I think they were nervous because they never seen Asian guy speaks Spanish and eat Salvadorian food. I grew up in South America and this ain't nothing new to me. I don't remember how I told the owner Melita about Yelp. It might be after I took a photo of storefront or after I wrote the review. I also added photos to Google Places. I was over there few months ago. Upon check in, I noticed 4 more reviews and a "From the Business" section on the bottom. I think her daughter may have claimed the business. Not bad. They are catching on. I'm going back this spring after daylight savings time start. I got my Fitbit. I will walk the park and eat pupusas at M...

UYE's in 2016

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My Mr Magoo look Do you like my UYE's? These Unofficial Yelp Events are uniquely designed. I welcome your feedback. As usual, I incorporate cultural events and local businesses to interact with the guests. There is always trinkets offering at my UYE. 2016 is going to be a busy year for me. I'd like to plan my UYE far in advance. It is very time consuming to send invitations on Yelp. So, please pay attention to your friends' feeds on mobile app, Talk posts or Events page for the latest announcement. Remember, it takes 2 to have an UYE. If no one replied "I'm in", the event is likely to be cancelled. I need your support to promote my events by your "Sounds Cool" votes. Date Name Purpose Sun, 1/31 Year of the Monkey UYE Celebrating Lunar New Year at Jinya Ramen on Louisiana (moved due to schedule) Early March Cross+Cities UYE – Dallas Edition Similar to my Austin Edition March ...

Update Biz Page

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This is a question for business owners. If you had a business recently relocated, do you change the address on Yelp page or tell the world that you moved to a new address? It prompted me to this blog. I recently go contacted by a business owner in Chinese: Subject: 百利中医皮肤科 ( TCM Acupuncture & Herbs Clinic ) Mr lou  您好!谢谢您在yelp帮我们!我们现在搬到新址所以­还得麻烦您帮我们把旧的照片删掉!多谢多谢!   杨晓娜 (Hi, Mr Lou! Thank you for helping us on Yelp! We moved to a new address. Please delete the old photos you posted. Thank you. Xiaona Y.) I got very curious and found out the storefront  and store hours  photos were removed. I suspected that the biz page owner already removed them. My first expression was, "oh no. They did it all wrong." I was a little pissed off at first. But then, I realized Chinese are getting more adoptive to new methods of advertising. That's what Yelp is about. I drove by to see the old location. It is occupied by a massage therapist and TCM is still on the wall. ...

Send to car with Yelp

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I have been searching for a perfect combination of "send to car" convenience on a GPS - linking business location search to GPS. I learned about this during car shopping last year. I saw few car manufacturers had Google's Send to Car feature. But the cost of on-board GPS does not justify the feature. My recent GPS purchase from best buy and a phone upgrade got me interested to revisit this again. So I experimented with several ways to copy an address to GPS. This is only possible with Android. Here is how: On Yelp app, click on direction or the map.  Tap on MORE icon (...) and select on Garmin Smartphone Link app to complete the action.  When the location is shown, tap on NEXT icon (>) and select SAVE. turn on Bluetooth on both devices and begin to synchronize. On Garmin GPS, tap on Where to and select Saved. Voila! You're ready to take off. Garmin nüvi 2597LMT Portable GPS works well with Yelp If you hear me saying, "I bookmarked it on my...