30-Day Yelp Challenge

No sign up needed right? Just start posting?

That's right, just write a review every day from the 1st to the 31st. Maybe there should be a special prize for anyone who makes this the 31 day challenge...

I'm creating a list to keep track of my posts: http://www.yelp.ca/lis...

This is so very exciting! I am IN, IN AND IN!

Can I just go on a review binge and write them all in one night? I've got 32 in the hopper right now that I need to write.

I hope this can force me to get back on the reviewing horse. I've had so little mojo lately! I haven't even reviewed the last Elite party :(

I'm in, bishes!

Ack! What if I have nothing write about, or go somewhere new?

I'm right there with ya "Nicole "the Antipodean one" H.
Work hasn't been giving me time off lately and I've missed out so many good reviews.

Vivek, do updated reviews count? :p

I'm in.

Here's an inspirational short 30 day video!!

http://www.ted.com/tal...

I take possession of my new house next week (!!!) so I foresee a lot of home depot/realtor/furniture store reviews in the month of October, but I'm in!

Me too Erin! Just hope I can find the time though all the chaos. But I will make an effort. Great idea Vivek!

@Vivek: How about an award for most worldly? My list will cover at least 3 different cities.

I have 40+ reviews behind... so I should take it easy.. and write one everyday... :)

a reason to get my computer with me, when I go to Vegas... do the reviews have to be local?

@Kat- your reviews can be international!!! :)

@Kat K: Yep, you can reviews in any city. And be sure to check Yelp in Vegas, I found some really great stuff that way when I was down there in the spring.

I'm in like Flynn!

I suspect many of my reviews will be the "a-ok" places I haven't felt compelled to bother reviewing.  Ah well!

I'll give this a shot!

for those out there like me who were making some mental excuses like too much work etc, check out Madelaine "SO FUN!" D. link...its a 2 minute motivation...i'm in...

Mindnumbingly shameless Yelp plugs.

Ugh, I've already used my one day off due to a whole day of wedding craziness yesterday. Though now I have 5 reviews waiting to be made!

what a good excuse to eat out more !!!!! I'm in !!!

Ooh, a challenge.  I like, I like.  I'll give it try!

I am challenged.

Mmm... I just found out about this challenge! So I am behind by one review! But no problem, I'll catch up starting today! I am at 42 reviews now, so I should be at 72 by the end of the month!

I accept your challenge Sir, and I raise you a CYME!

I'm late... but still joining!

I'll make up for it by writing three reviews today...

What Susan said!

I'll give it a shot :) Although I may have to batch some reviews.

I think I joined too late. :(

I have a review from Oct 1, 3. Am I disqualified because I missed Sept 30th?
@ChrisP, 3 Cities within Canada does not worldly make.

@Kat: Calgary, San Diego, Escondido, San Marcos, Laguna Niguel, Irvine, Laguna Beach, and Oceanside. Maybe not "worldly" but at least multi-national :P

I missed a day already.

@ChrisP: If that award exists, i'm determined to beat you at it! I'll be in Denver (and area), London (and area), Paris (and area), Nice (and area), Cannes (and area), and HERE of course this month.

@Vivek, does FTR reward also go out internationally? Cuz I find that I'm like the only one updating most things France...=P

Ooohh... this will be tough.  I will have to catch up!  At least it's motivation to get to that 200 review goal before the end of the year.

Alright, I'm in! I can do two a day for the next three days and catch up.

I wish I had seen this earlier!

I think I already technically missed two days (yesterday was a full-on miss) but an earlier date was a "I started on the right day but didn't finish the review before midnight).

Still -  I WILL CARRY ON.

ooh... it's def. challenging to find a new place to review each day for 30 days.
so far, so good, but i usually visit tried and true haunts - places that I've already reviewed, in other words.

My rockstar Yelp friend KK is here (um, she has nearly 150 fans, FTW?) and has out-Yelped me by writing about the awesome place I took her today: Evergreen Brick Works.

http://www.yelp.ca/biz...

and I can't even take credit for it, even though I'm in it.

ha!

er, sorry, only 110+ fans. Anyways, I'm not keeping up with the daily writing but it's fun to push myself...

I have 1 fan.. - and that's my husband! LOL
Anyways.. I love this challenge. I finally get to write the reviews for all those businesses I have bookmarked.
I have no issues finding places to write about. Heck, I think I could even write 1 review per day for the rest of the year easily.. :)

Another challenge is time and effort.  I'm sure the reason this is called a 30-day "challenge" is because Yelpers typically yelp after they visit a place they decide or know is yelp-worthy.
I've not typed Yelp reviews so consecutively before.  This isn't my norm., although it's a nice exercise and goal that I want to be aware of in October.  Ha, only 21 days/reviews left.

I am trying my best to do this for 30 days, but the idea of writing one review a day for a whole year would be completely impossible given my work and life schedule.

I just realized that being a night owl doesn't work in my favor here. I'll start a review at the end of the day, when I'm catching up on TV (say, around 11pm or so), and then when I hit submit it's past midnight! So it looks like I've missed a couple of days in a row when actually my own time clock is off by an hour or two. I'll just pretend I live in another time zone  ;)

I thought that moving to a new 'hood this weekend would make things more challenging because I'd be spending all my time moving, unpacking, and unboxing useful things like routers and power cords. And I am. But I'm also eating take out and finding new places for groceries, home junk, and other things, all of which I can yelp about. Yay!

Woo! Half way there!

This Challenge is flawed, how about 'MUST' include picture of a receipt?

@Corrupted, for what purpose? There are plenty of reasons to write a review without having a receipt on hand.

@Randy, I mean for the challenge.  Just to make sure the review is current (and on that day).  Wait...is there a prize for this?

Anyways, I joined late, but I'm still participating :)

No real prize, and there's no requirement that the review be for an experience on that day. Just that you write a review every day.

Aw nuts... I totally missed out on this.

Would have been down for the challenge.

Quite the challenge :)

At this point I'm writing for pride. Unfortunately my job gets in the way. Stupid work getting in the way of valuable computer-based slacking... ;-)

Last few days guys! Who's still going? I missed a couple days, but kept on...  how 'bout you? Who's made it this far without using their freebie?

I've got 28 reviews... Should be able to get through to 31.

Burned the grace one on day one.. late start. But I'm going strong!!!

Woohooo!!! Almost to the finish line, team!!!

I still have not used the freebie and have posted a review each of the 28 days of October, with 20 of them being FTRs!!!

Who else???

Congrats on the FTRs Nicole!  Now THAT truly deserves a prize!

SEriously Nicole! 20 FTRs!

Almost to the finish line!  I burned my freebie on day 1 too.  I was out of town with no Internet!

Thanks, ladies. It is much easier to get FTRs in the burbs though. :)

Anyone that just made the cut for a particular day to get the reviews in? Twice I had reviews posted around 11:50pm

Done. 31 Days, 31 Reviews. To those participating next month, have fun! I'm toast. :)

I'm done too. Though only 30 reviews. I'm done too. 1 a day is hard for quality!