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September 23, 2011 • 1:23 pm 0

Judy’s Book Social Search® Releases Family Tags

You asked and we listened!  With a large mom, homeowner and family base, one of the features our users asked for was to see reviews from people similar to themselves.  When reading a review our users want to know if a mom, dad, or homeowner wrote the review and where the person lives.  For a mom in Albany reading a review, one written by a single student from Manhattan is much less relevant to one from a mom in her own area.

To see tags, simply write a review  Judy’s Book has started asking users to tag themselves with a few simple tags;  Mom, Dad, Homeowner.  Users who tag themselves have their tags displayed in results and reviews to help our community find relevant results faster.

In the future we’re going to add filters for users to quickly find reviews by a certain tag.  If you have an idea for a tag you’d like to see added let us know by e-mailing info@judysbookteam.com.

Thanks,

Ali

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September 11, 2011 • 9:15 pm 0

Judy Picks the Top 10 Farmers Markets!

After all the brilliant reviews, we decided it was time to pick the best of the best. The Judy’s Book team have looked far and wide to bring you the top ten farmers markets but it’s up to YOU to decide which of the ten is the absolute must-go-to farmers market of Western Washington.

Below are the farmers markets (in no particular order!) and the link to review your favorite! Tell your family, friends and coworkers to rate the absolute best. The farmers market with the most and best overall reviews, wins. Good luck!

1. Broadway Farmers’ Market

2. Ballard Farmers’ Market

3. Issaquah Farmers’ Market

4. Redmond Farmers’ Market

5. Mukilteo Farmers’ Market

6. Sammamish Farmers’ Market

7. Bainbridge Island Farmers’ Market

8. Phinney Farmers’ Market

9. Bellevue Farmers’ Market

10. University District Farmers’ Market

Which one was your favorite this summer??

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September 7, 2011 • 3:11 pm 0

The Judy’s Book Difference: Easily see the most favorable and critical reviews.

A contractor that recently did some work for us offered to pay for dinner and membership to a review site I won’t mention in return for a good review.  Although I turned him down, it got me thinking.  Contrary to what one of our competitors believes you don’t need to charge members to get trusted reviews from real people.  Judy’s Book deploys several tools our members can use free to quickly filter through reviews on a place to get an accurate picture, I’ve mentioned some in previous posts and we continue to roll out new features.

One of our most popular is the ability to quickly see the most favorable against the most critical review.  This prevents users from gaming the system by getting others to submit a bunch of good (or critical) reviews to hide their bad review farther down in the list or page results.

-Ali

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September 6, 2011 • 12:28 pm 0

Judy’s Book mobile site for Quick and Easy Reviews

Judy’s Book’s new mobile site draws more users into content creationRecommending your favorite places just got easier with Judy’s Book new mobile site and QR code window decals.The mobile site combined with the QR decals allows users to write a review in less than 1 minute and gives businesses a way to generate far more reviews than previously possible.  Historically, only a very small percentage of users on social media sites have participated in content creation.
Judy’s Book’s new mobile site has been shown to greatly increase the degree of participation.Positive reviews are one of the best levers to drive new customers, and the best method to increase rates is for a business to ask the customer for a review at the time of the transaction.   The Judy’s Book’s mobile site doesn’t require any downloads, is device and platform agnostic, and since most smartphones users have a QR reader on their phone, a user can write a review in 3 simple steps and less than a minute by scanning the QR code mapped to a Judy’s Book local listing.Judy’s Book’s mobile site details lets users write a review in 3 simple steps:
  1. Scan the QR code to navigate to the listings detail page.
  2. From the place details page click the write review button.
  3. Write your review and submit.
For more information visit Judy’s Book on the web or through your mobile device.  Businesses can get get a unique QR decal for their location and find more information at www.judysbook.com/Biz.

For Press inquires e-mail press@judysbookteam.com.

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