Hi Baird, if you never got any work from yelp & you signed up and still nothing? I wouldn't worry about any negative reviews because it sound like it's not working where you are anyway. 
If you can't get any work to benefit you from yelp then you probably won't get any negative reviews to work against you either. 
The only reason I took notice of yelp was because they had already took notice of me and there was activity developing along with a few positive reviews. At that point I started to fill it with the free pictures option and the other free options. 
The only reason i started to pay was because in my area it was already working for me and I wanted to capitalize what was already in effect. 

From my experience if your not noticed by yelp it's not a bad thing. Maybe just leave it. but if they find you and list you, you have to deal with them and steer their advertising in your favor.
They find you by people looking you up for your services.

If customers are not searching yelp for your servise then yelp may not be a popular advertising review site for stone restoration yet in your area... I assume not sure. 

The funny thing is I also looked up other companies, "want to be stone restoration AKA Carpet cleaners" that screwed up stone jobs that I was hired to refinish and found them to be no where on yelp. Which was a little frustrating because they caused damage to the customers floor 
 With that being said, I have no idea why some are listed and others not.

Just make sure you know if a job came from yelp so you can treat them best to get a 5 start review. 

Tony DeLuna
925-625-9625
www.PatriotStoneRestoration.com

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On Dec 3, 2016, at 12:12 PM, Debbie Shaw <debbie.shaw@gmail.com> wrote:

Yelp reviews are very important and they are going to be there whether you are paying or not... 

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Roger Konarski (via sccpartners list) <nobody@simplelists.com> wrote:
I like Yelp ! Bad reviews have hurt some of my competitors. But they deserved the bad reviews. 1 1/2 training @ Donjon does not make you a stone restoration tech.
 
Roger


On Friday, December 2, 2016 2:08 PM, Id Est Productions <admin@idestproductions.com> wrote:


He lied to you. Period.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Pat Staples <cpstaples@msn.com> wrote:
The guy from Yelp basically told me if you're not paying to play most of your reviews from customers are not going to get posted.



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-------- Original message --------
From: Stu Rosen <rosen.stuart@gmail.com>
Date: 11/30/16 1:18 PM (GMT-05:00)
Subject: Re: Yelp

We use yelp.
We get jobs from it.
It can be productive but you have to work it and qualify the clients.
I hate the sales staff.
Here today gone tomorrow


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On Nov 30, 2016, at 8:03 AM, Eric Vogel <evogel@countercrew.com> wrote:

Tony,
Can you forward your yelp link or company name? Would like to check out your site. 

Thank You,
Eric Vogel


On Nov 30, 2016, at 07:54, Brian Kornet <bkornet@fabracleen.com> wrote:

Just completed my contract with Yelp. No difference in response from paid ad or organic search. Will not renew.

On Nov 29, 2016 2:37 PM, "Pat Staples" <cpstaples@msn.com> wrote:
Good afternoon Partners,
Is anybody advertising with Yelp and how is it going for you???

Thank you
Carl Staples
Classic Marble & Stone Restoration
610-356-4100
www.marblerestore.com
 
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