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I’ve had some experiences getting hungry while visiting unfamiliar city centres pre-smartphone and wishing there was more public advertising of restaurants. Th

I’ve had some experiences getting hungry while visiting unfamiliar city centres pre-smartphone and wishing there was more public advertising of restaurants. That is to say, there’s definitely some minimal amount of advertising that I apparently want in my life. If you don’t rely on advertising (speaking directly to possible customers) then you have to work with journalists other middle-men, whose tastes might not reflect those of your customers, or you have for a network to build, which might be too slow. Possible grateful future customers loose out here too.

Jochim 6y ago
In what way do the aggregators/reviewers not solve that issue for you though? If I see a place that has 100+ 5 stars on tripadvisor/yelp I'm much more likely to go than if I see an advertisement, because at that point I know a reasonable number of actual people have gone and liked the experience. I typically dismiss any claims an advert makes as total bullshit because adverts are lying to you the majority of the time. In the case of a restaurant it might work if you're advertising that you're newly opened, but otherwise I'm wondering why people aren't being pulled in when they look on sites like tripadvisor/yelp.