Submission Policy
The Social Diary provides two forms of contact; one for Modern Social Strategy, Business and Organisers; and one for the General Public. In order to ensure your submissions reaches us, please do not spam or include links. We eat spam, but we don’t read spam. Besides, our system automatically deletes submissions designated as spam.
Contact for Businesses and Organisers
The Social Diary is open to partnering with businesses and organisations. We leave collaborative options open for the right opportunities.1 Please send us a social invite to get the ball rolling on evaluating your hospitality setup and event strategy, in addition to preparing your staff for this important social engagement.
The Social Diary provides services and expertise for publicly noted events and socials. We can also provide evaluations for private members’ clubs2. These undercover evaluations can play a critical role in the success of your event. We provide these evaluations so you, your organisation and event can put your best front forward3.
Contact for Modern Social Strategy
The Social Diary is open to receiving your communications. Submission forms handled by Social Editors, record and respond accordingly. Your message also defines your purpose. You can request a meet up “social” to learn more about our services, best practices and methodologies.
Whether you decide to move forward with our programme is up to you. The social, designed to be a personal introduction, is a relaxing way to meet and greet. At Modern Social Strategy at The Social Diary, we execute what we preach and; encourage society unplug and meet in “real life” for authentic, unhampered connections.
You are welcome to submit general enquiries, social invites, submit a story or send us your Yelp-Yaps4. We accept general enquiries regarding etiquette and manners, however, we may respond with a future story in our publication.
Contact for the General Public
The popularity of public review sites like Yelp should help consumers and businesses5. But do they? For instance, a review may help change business practices. Moreover, it can warn other consumers of a bad experience. Additionally, good to great reviews can help businesses attract more foot traffic or increase online sales. This is the logical “best practices” scenario. But Yelp is not reliable and is a broken system.
Take public review sites like Yelp with a grain of salt. That’s because the reviews are only as authentic as the reviewer. Moreover, don’t rely on Yelp’s “algorithm” which elevates fake reviews and hides the real ones. For this reason, The Social Diary covers our reviews “Beyond Yelp.” Additionally, you can voice your “Yelp-Yaps” in contacts. Sometimes these ugly truths about Yelp turn out to be the real truth. So, tell us your Yelp story. Our investigation uncovered that Yelp is nothing more than a Billion Dollar Bully.
Legitimate reviews on these public sites should “weigh” more than AAA Diamond, Forbes Travel Guide or Michelin stars. That’s because these reviews are coming from actual consumers. They are not coming from “compensated” reviewers. However, did you know that Yelp “Elites” are compensated with free parties, gifts and other “perks?” That’s why it’s important not to weigh Yelp reviews more, just because Yelp says so. Additionally, they heavily promote Elite reviews over non-Elites.
Our investigation also uncovered a “pay to play” scheme. The more a business or organisation pay for services, the more “elevated” reviews they receive. Yelp suppresses the negative reviews and don’t even bother counting them into the overall score for that business or organisation. It’s a scam!
Changes to this Page
Please note the following changes.
- The etiquette “exercise” on table setting moved to Hospitality. We invite you to link over to Hospitality where we provide three examples of table setting standards in America. In addition, to providing information on British and French standards.
- The Social Diary selection process moved to the About page. We felt it was too confusing in contacts. This section details how The Social Diary makes our selection process for events we add to the Social Diary. We add and remove events and programmes based on certain criteria.
- We provide complimentary hospitality evaluations for public engagements. ↩︎
- The hosting member of the Private Members’ Club should adhere to the public engagement notifications. ↩︎
- Undercover evaluations support our staff training to high standards. ↩︎
- The Social Diary is investigating Yelp. This is your opportunity to review Yelp and send us your favourite Yelp-Yaps. ↩︎
- Our relationship with review sites have dramatically changed due to our own investigations and Member and public submissions ↩︎