Jonathan Bowen | Hub Edge Realty | July 19th, 2018
Channel: Hub Edge Realty
Date: 2018-07-19

Jonathan Bowen has been selling real estate around Greater Boston since 1999 and, since that time, has helped people buy and sell over $100,000,000 worth of real estate. Jonathan is currently the Managing Broker of Hub Edge Realty. Jonathan loves his family...

Jonathan Bowen of Hub Edge Realty discusses Yelp and the way it can help you with your real estate business...

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Jonathan Bowen has been selling real estate around Greater Boston since 1999 and, since that time, has helped people buy and sell over $100,000,000 worth of real estate. Jonathan is currently the Managing Broker of Hub Edge Realty. Jonathan loves his family...

Transcript...

Hey folks, how are you? It's, ah, Jonathan Bowen with Hub Edge Realty and today I want to talk to you about a little thing that I did on Yelp, ahm,  Yelp is a website that I've, ahm, had a bit of a contentious relationship with over the years as a consumer, ah, I was, ahm, Yelp gave me the Elite Badge one ye..., (skip) ...ah, as they said it, they, ah, I was a business owner, ah, and they don't allow business owners have the Elite Badge, this was a long time ago, ahm, they've also removed a couple of reviews that I posted, one was for a restaurant in California called Sebastian's which was featured on Kitchen Nightmares, ahm, and I reposted that review again, or a similar review again, and then, ahm, I, ahm, posted a review to a now closed restaurant in Boston, ah, I forget the name of it, ahm, but they rev..., they removed that as well, ah, one of my old friends and I were kind of fightin' on the review and, ahm, the owner of the business, ah, didn't like it, it was right on the State Street, right across the, ahm, street from the Aquarium Station, I forget the name of it, it was just, ah, they kicked me out, it was a long..., (skip) ...to provide value to your community, Yelp offers, ahm, something called "collections", and I know that it's too bright, you can't really see it, so what I did yesterday and improved upon today is, I created a collection of places and businesses that I frequent in, I live in Stoughton, Massachusetts, ah, so I basically used Stoughton and all of the communities, all of the, eh, cities and towns: Avon; Brockton; Canton; Easton; Randolph; and Sharon. All those towns touch Stoughton so I created a collection of places that I like to go, ahm, for people who may be thinking about moving to Stoughton, alright? Right now I have 47 places in this collection, I will add this collection, I'll add a link, ah, to this YouTube video, to the collection that I've created in Yelp so, you know, it's places that I like to go, ah, places that I visit, okay? Obviously IKEA is one of those places, ahm, I added a place called the Bird Street Memorial Conservation Land, I added that today, ahm, yeah, I have a three-year old daughter so the Ames Street Playground in, ah, Sharon, ahm, The Grape Leaf in Canton which is a really great, ah, Mediterranean restaurant, ahm, I belong to Boston Sports Clubs in Canton so I added that, Maxie's Deli in Stoughton, I added 47 places and I, what is cool about this is that Yelp allows you to add some notes to these places so you can give a little depth into the, ahm, places in your collection so, for instance, I'll give you a good one here, ah, Crescent Ridge Dairy, I added "Nom nom nom... Want to skip the long line? Go inside and buy something like milk and, presto, you get to order ice cream too! Don't tell anybody..." Okay? That's, ah, something that I used. Ah, Polillio's Garden Center: "The employees are wicked nice and it's a great place to pick out a Christmas tree." Ah... "The new building looks great!" Okay? Ahm, Cumberland Farms on Washington Street in Stoughton: "The cheapest gas in town if you use the martPay app on your iPhone." So just adding little stuff like that, The Village Toy Shop and Canton, ah, "You are missing out if you don't patronize The Village Toy Shop. Good service and an excellent variety of toys you won't find at Target or Walmart." Now, as a real estate agent, I think that this is a great little tool for you to use and to advertise, ahm, I actually did add my own real estate company into this collection, Hub Edge Realty, why not?