Recently one of our clients pointed out that there were interested in having a Yelp Application added to their Facebook Fan Page. The problem was that I had never heard or seen one. After some research, still nothing. I was disappointed to not find anything because I really like Yelp.
A Month or so later our client sent me an email which braught me to the site www.socialappshq.com. I became very excited when I found out that a Yelp Facebook Application really does exist. I surfed right onto their website and in the bottom right corner saw the “Our Apps” table where the Yelp Application logo was sitting. I clicked on over to their page and added the yelp application to a few of my clients fan pages.
The first fan page I added the Yelp Facebook application to didn’t work… It gave me an error stating that “Yelp did not return any data for the given phone number”. I went make sure the phone number matched on the Yelp and Facebook page, and it did. I also made sure that it matched like (555) 555-555. I made that change, but it still didn’t work.
After looking at it some more, I noticed that it requires you to create an account at SocialAppsHQ. Once I made an account, there it was “Select Your Plan”. I did not notice the “Pricing” tab when I first went onto their website and the application page didn’t say anything about it being a paid app. After looking that the pricing, the lowest plan was only $0.99 per month BUT it has a maximum of 100 fans. The next and “Most Popular” was $9.99 per month.
So now I have no idea if the application will work or not once I pay their fee. From what it looks like to me, it doesn’t work. But once you make the payment… the phone number thing may not be an issue.
Now, I do like Yelp, and I would like to have that application on my Fan Page, but I really don’t think it is work $10 per month to have. I know I can offer it to my clients if they really want it, but I think they will agree with me on the pricing. Our clients or typically small businesses and entrepreneurs, perhaps larger businesses or higher revenue generating businesses wouldn’t mind this cost.
Either way, way want to get some more info on this app. Have you used the SocialAppsHQ Yelp Facebook Application or any of their others? What do you think about it? Is it worth the investment?
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Hey there. Great, highly relevant article. I was FLOORED to find the same thing … that nothing really exists for this. I may recommend to my client that we go ahead and try it out for a month – but considering the SocialAppsHQ has poor App ratings (and very few to begin with) – we may not stick with it long.
Thanks Trevor. I’m glad that I wasn’t the only one to find the same thing. Let me know what you find when you try it out.
I’m a social media consultant which targets restaurants and bars and work with different platforms to create custom tabs for my customers…I found out that It is a little tricky for the developers to create such an app since the API sends too many requests to Yelp and the team at Yelp basically kills it. I hope this helps and if you find one that works…let me know.
I would just suggest to my clients to tell customers to leave reviews on the Facebook Reviews application. I think that would work just as well. localmedialab
Hi Kelsi and Trevor, I really appreciate your views and would like to clarify that our $9.99 per month plan (“Most Popular”) include 15 other applications such as Gifts, coupons, video, polls, tweets etc. besides Yelp reviews tab. So, its a whole bundle of our 16 apps that comes with $9.99 per month plan.
Drop me a note at [email protected] and i would be glad to further help you out on this.
You can check our Yelp Reviews app in action at Facebook fan pages such as http://www.facebook.com/barniescoffeetea?sk=app_121594424525104 , http://www.facebook.com/ignitenetwork?sk=app_121594424525104.
We have also launched an app to help marketers promote restaurants on Facebook. Refer https://www.socialappshq.com/products/restaurant-for-facebook-pages?app_id=60 for details about the ‘My Restaurant’ FB app. Let me know if you any query regarding the app.
Thanks for commenting @sharmasunny. My point was not really the price as much as the application actually working. That is great to have 16 apps for $9.99 per month, but do they all function like they are supposed to with no glitches?
@sharmasunny Thanks for commenting about your product. My point was not really the price as much as the application actually working. That is great to have 16 apps for $9.99 per month, but do they all function like they are supposed to with no glitches?
@sharmasunny Also, Sharma, maybe you can give us a few tips on how to get this yelp application to work? Maybe create a video showing how to set it up?
@KelsiGuidry Yes, i would suggest you to check out the individual product examples quoted with every app to see them in action. https://www.socialappshq.com/products
@KelsiGuidry We already have a video demonstrating how to setup the app. Please refer the My Yelp Review app page https://www.socialappshq.com/products/my-yelp-tab-for-facebook-pages
Still not working for me for julianthomasdmd.com but I’m trying another solution.