Yelp, the popular community sourced review site, has announced that it will finally allow businesses a public voice on their forums. Prior to this reversal, companies were left with few ways to respond to negative reviews – they could either contact reviewers privately or in the case of one San Francisco pizza shop, showcase their bad reviews on employee t-shirts in a bit of ironic marketing – both of which fell short of addressing the public at large.
Yelp co-founder Jeremy Stoppelman looked upon this previous stance as a means of protecting the consumer’s point of view, but as the site’s reach [...]




