We’re proud to announce that Lookaly won ‘Best Mobile App’ at this year’s DANI Awards.
It was a great night at the Hilton, Belfast and the awards show featured other great NI digital talent from the likes of iON, Bluecube, Belfast Giants and more.
Have you downloaded our free iPhone app? It helps you find the best places nearby including restaurants, cafes, bars and takeaways. Download our iPhone app here.
Big thanks to DANI for the award.
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We’re excited to announce that we’ve started listing cinema times on Lookaly.
If you’re anything like us, you find it an inconvenience to look up a movie on several cinema websites to see what time suits you best.
Now you just need to go to our cinema listings and you’ll see every cinema and every movie so you can compare times across multiple cinemas.
Do you think we can make this service even better? Then let us know and we’ll make it happen.
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Like we’ve said from the start, we rely on your feedback so we know what to do next and what to improve.
We received this review from sgough in the app store for our iPhone app.
sgough was totally right. Having to log in or register is not a great first user experience.
So as soon as we could afford to, we made the necessary amendments to the iPhone app and now it’s live in the app store.
First time users no longer have to register or log in to use the app. You’re only required to log in to write a review or upload a photo.
Tell your friends they can all now use the app for free.
Help us and review our iPhone app
You can help us out by reviewing our app.
1. Search for ‘lookaly’ in the app store.
2. Scroll down to the ratings.
3. Tap ‘write a review’.
Give us feedback
If you have an idea for us let us now via the Lookaly feedback site and we’ll add it to our list for future development plans.
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What does it mean to be number one in your town?
Best of Bangor
Here is a quick insight into our analytics for Bangor.
The percentages you see represent the click throughs i.e. 12% of people clicked through to Makhulu 5
As you can see it makes a big difference being first, or even in the top three.
Restaurants in Bangor
Now take a look at the restaurant listings in Bangor.
Again it helps to be at the top. You can’t see it here but after the first 10 listings the click through rate is down to less than 1%.
How do you get your business to number one?
Provide a good service and encourage your customers, Facebook fans, website visitors and Twitter followers to write good honest reviews of your business.
If you haven’t already done so, add or claim your business on Lookaly for free.
Posted in Business by Lee | 2 comments | Tags: best, businesses, ratings
We thought it would be fun to make some predictions for this year’s Fate Awards winners.
The Fate Awards are Northern Ireland’s ‘Best of’ awards for a range of categories including restaurants, bars, hotels, which also happen to be the most popular categories on Lookaly.
What we’ve done is looked at the short list of nominees and compared their Lookaly star rating to see who would win if we were going by your reviews.
Here are our predictions.
Please note these are only predictions based on Lookaly reviews and not the actual winners. Winners will be announced 15th April 2011.
Best classic bar
Winner: The Empire Music Hall
Best gastro pub
Winner: Cafe Vaudeville
Best style bar
Winner: Apartment
Best regional bar
Winner: The Rabbit Rooms
Best restaurant (critic’s choice)
Winner: No. 27 Talbot Street
Best restaurant
Winner: Made In Belfast
Best newcomer
Winner: Hooligan
Best hotel
Winner: The Merchant Hotel
Best regional restaurant
Winner: Balloo House
Best regional club
Winner: Betty Blacks
Best live venue
Winner: Empire Music Hall
Best gay venue
Winner: Dubarry’s Bar
Would you agree?
Who do you think this year’s winners will be and what do you think of the shortlist?
Posted in events by Lee | 3 comments | Tags: awards, fate awards
Two years and 6,000 reviews later, we’re pleased to announce that Google has recognised Lookaly.com as a reliable review source and have added star ratings to our search result listings.
How does this affect things?
For users
If you’re searching for somewhere on Google keep an eye out for our star ratings so you get an overview of how good a place is before you click through.
For businesses
It’s now more important than ever to make sure your business receives good reviews on Lookaly.
When people are searching for your service on Google, they’ll be scanning down the results to see what sort of star rating you receive from Lookaly and other review sites before clicking through to read those reviews.
Thanks!
Thanks for all your useful reviews that have brought us this far and keep them coming.
Posted in Business by Lee | 4 comments | Tags: google, rating, search
To celebrate the launch of our latest iPhone app release, we’re running a competition for one lucky person to win a £200 home photo shoot.
What you win
Darron Mark of DM Foto (one of Northern Ireland’s top photographers) has generously sponsored the prize that will include the following:
- Professional home photography session (lasting approx 1hr)
- Free 12×16 acrylic wall mountable print
- Opportunity to purchase further prints/digital images from website
- Available to shoot anywhere in Northern Ireland
- Package worth in excess of £200
Perfect for a photoshoot at home with your family, loved ones, or even a very generous gift.
How to enter
Add a photo to Lookaly between now and 1st March 2011 to be entered into the draw.
You can add a photo via the website or iPhone app – all photos will count.
One lucky winner will be selected at random on Wednesday 2nd March.
We’ll announce the winner via Facebook and Twitter, so keep an eye out.
Terms
The following terms apply:
- Northern Ireland entrants only
- This prize cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer with DM Foto
- DM Foto reserves the rights to use photographs taken for further advertising purposes
- Photos uploaded must be of or be associated with the business listing they are uploaded to
Good luck!
Posted in Competitions by Lee | 1 comment | Tags: competition, dmfoto, photography, photos