Robin Garr wrote:charles.minter wrote:[Robin - Do you evidence to support that the Courier reviews aren't highly impactful to a restaurant?
Since we opened this roadhouse in 1994, I have tons of anecdotal information, and when you combine HotBytes online with our partnership with LEO Weekly in print and online, I'd say we get at least as many eyeballs...
This retired actuary, to whom numbers are everything, is having trouble following your logic.
The most recent published daily average C-J circulation number that I could find was from 2012. Monday-Friday average was 154,053. LEO's website cites a 2014 audited average circulation of 25,120. I'm pretty certain that C-J has decreased in the intervening four years and LEO may have increased, but still...
The C-J-s Facebook page shows 60,769 "likes" where LEO shows 12,862 and HotBytes 2,025.
Based on this, the logician in me says that the C-J gets about four times the eyeballs as LEO/LHB.
The quality of information provided by LEO/LHB is unquestionably better than what's currently in the C-J (in my mind, at least), but as a numbers guy I'd have to be convinced that the quality overcomes the advantage of numbers as regards influence.