Comments on: CityVoter Adds More TV Stations http://localonliner.com/2008/07/08/cityvoter-adds-more-tv-stations-45000-reviews-in-sacramento/ Peter Krasilovsky's Fri, 18 May 2012 14:01:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jim Ryan http://localonliner.com/2008/07/08/cityvoter-adds-more-tv-stations-45000-reviews-in-sacramento/comment-page-1/#comment-161281 Jim Ryan Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:17:21 +0000 http://localonliner.com/?p=800#comment-161281 Just one more venture where the “city guide” concept of monetizing is a flawed business model because it presents a false value proposition to the local business -Meaning these sites have very limited users (local consumers). It’s about eyeballs people! What local business cares about their rating and reviews if the site doesn’t deliver a reasonable amount of traffic? City Voter is a terrible search engine - a user only gets the local businesses that have been sold a sponsorship by the third party reseller, the local radio, TV station or print publication. I typed in “office furniture” and got florists because the local media company hasn’t sold any office furniture businesses into the local guide. You only get one chance in this world of Internet users. CityVoter is just one more player behind the 100’s in the long tail of local search - the tail begins after the 95% factor of all searches that originate on Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL. With the exception of “Yelp”, a foodie review site, Cityvoter is just another Kudzu (talk about a terrible name!) Just one more venture where the “city guide” concept of monetizing is a flawed business model because it presents a false value proposition to the local business -Meaning these sites have very limited users (local consumers). It’s about eyeballs people! What local business cares about their rating and reviews if the site doesn’t deliver a reasonable amount of traffic? City Voter is a terrible search engine – a user only gets the local businesses that have been sold a sponsorship by the third party reseller, the local radio, TV station or print publication. I typed in “office furniture” and got florists because the local media company hasn’t sold any office furniture businesses into the local guide. You only get one chance in this world of Internet users.

CityVoter is just one more player behind the 100’s in the long tail of local search – the tail begins after the 95% factor of all searches that originate on Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL. With the exception of “Yelp”, a foodie review site, Cityvoter is just another Kudzu (talk about a terrible name!)

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