Yelp, a local social networking and user review Website,  is rapidly gaining traction as an online review site that mixes in a social aspect and local search to make the user reviews more believable and relevant. The Website allows businesses to have a listing. This can be a good or bad thing for your business. If customers have a good experience they may talk about it, unfortunately they will talk about it if their experience is bad. Here are 10 Easy Ways to Supercharge Your Small Business’ Yelp Presence. If you love Yelp, check out their fan club.

The annual ADDY Awards were held Friday, March 12th in Reno, Nevada.

The results are in. Drum roll please…

Gold Addy Award
Collateral Material Category
Client: HD96 Publishing / North Lake Tahoe Marketing Coop

Gold Addy Award
Newspaper Advertising Campaign Category
Client: Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team (non-profit)

These entries will now automatically move on to the District ADDY Awards (Northern California, Northern Nevada)

Plus 4 Silver ADDYS

We all feel very proud to produce award winning work for our valuable clients.

Advertising Association of Northern Nevada

American Advertising Federation

Apple says its Wi-Fi version of the iPad will be available on April 3rd with a 3G version available later in the month. According to a CNET poll, this is what you are thinking:

I’m waiting for more features – Webcam, multitasking, etc.	34.8%
Not April 3, and not ever.	26.7%
I’m fine with Wi-Fi only, so yes.	16.7%
I’ll wait for the 3G version later in April.	12.0%
I already have an iPod Touch, thanks. No need to supersize.	9.8%

We want to congratulate all of the Tahoe area Olympic athletes for their inspired performances in Vancouver!

Ever wonder why the Postal Service is struggling? There are many issues obviously, but the one that stands out the most is that the mail volume has dropped by 25 billion pieces in 2009. The USPS admits this is a 13% decrease. It doesn’t take a Finance major to figure out that when mail volumes drop, revenues follow.