It's Baton Rouge: Out To Lunch

As the way we do business evolves over time, so do the tools we use. Today, products and services that didn t exist 20 or 30 years ago are indispensable parts of our companies and commerce. That s particularly true in the digital economy. "Word of mouth" has a whole new meaning. And power. Like, for example, Yelp. Yelp is the go to public forum for online reviews, recommendations, and warnings about thousands of business in dozens of categories in cities throughout the U.S. The service was founded in 2004, when online commerce was still in its relative infancy, and today Yelp averages some 90 million unique views per month on its combined app and website. Yelpers have written some 102 million reviews over the past 12 years and the number keeps growing. Rebecca Whyte is the local Yelp manager in Baton Rouge. Another relatively new business service is executive coaching. It s only been around since the late 1980s, and in the decades since has grown to become an indispensable tool for company executives, who fac