CityWaboo is a Community-Built City Guide to help you share your opinions about the businesses and services you’ve tried. Just go to the business you want to rate and click the “Write a review” link. Here we will give you tips on writing great reviews of local businesses. You’ll find guidelines along with examples of well-written reviews to rouse the writer in you.

Be objective and truthful. Tell us how you really feel and why. Useful reviews are detailed and specific, and give the reader a feel for your experience. Think about what kind of information you want when you ask a friend or coworker to recommend a restaurant, service, activity, or business. Here are some of the kinds of questions you might want to answer in your review:

• Did the experience meet or exceed your expectations? Are you planning to go back soon?
• How did this store compare to other, similar businesses in your area? Do you feel like you got what you paid for?
• What did you like or dislike? If you had to wait in line, was it worth it?
• Would you recommend this to your friends? Your parents? Your boss?

Stay “on topic”.Present facts, not fluff. Did the cashier smile and say thank you? Were the towels in the gym clean? Was the salesperson well-informed and helpful? Did the contractor finish ahead of schedule? Was your soup lukewarm? Did the roof really stop leaking? Did the delivery arrive on time? Did the performance knock your socks off?

Please: Don’t spoil it for others. Don’t abuse the service. Reviews should not harass, abuse, or threaten another’s personal safety or property, make false statements, defame, impersonate someone else, contain profanity, sexually explicit, illegal or otherwise objectionable content, as determined by CityWaboo. Don’t post personal information. Never assume that you are completely anonymous and cannot be identified by your posts. Reviews should not include personal information, such as email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers or credit card numbers belonging to you or others. Don’t post multiple or commercial reviews. Reviews should not include multiple posts by the same user or posts that have spam, commercial or advertising content or links, otherwise it will be reported by other CityWaboo members. Don’t copy or otherwise infringe others’ material, trademarks or other intellectual property. Reviews should include your own, original thoughts. We want to hear from you! Don’t upload HTML, viruses, or other malicious code. Reviews are for text only comments. Please help to protect the CityWaboo Community-Built City Guide. Reviews are for CityWaboo users only. Our rating system is for CityWaboo users to help other CityWaboo users. Businesses listed in CityWaboo are not allowed to post reviews about themselves or other listed businesses. For additional information or questions please feel free to email us feedback@citywaboo.com