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5 Tips: How Brands Can Use Foursquare to Grow

Mindjumpers

Tweet More and more people are using Foursquare to check in and share their location. If you wish to use foursquare as a marketing channel for your brand, here is a list of things you can do when starting on Foursquare: 1. Claim you place on foursquare. Grow your business with foursquare “Specials!”

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Social Media Success is About the Wizard, Not the Wand

Convince & Convert

Thoughtful research genius Tom Webster wrote an interesting post a couple weeks ago about where the location-based business could head , moving beyond the momentary check-in toward more nuanced and relevant customer interactions, using location data as the raw materials. And he’s absolutely right. But you know why they aren’t?

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7 Mobile Marketing Stats That Will Blow Your Mind

Convince & Convert

Mobile users are shoppers, and we’ve got data to prove it. Smart retailers (like Target) are recognizing this trend and incentivizing the use of mobile phones within the store with discounts and coupons targeted at mobile users. By 2014 mobile is predicted to overtake desktop Internet usage.

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Facebook ditches Deals and Places; location isn’t a walk in the park

Danny WhatMough

Places was the Foursquare-like product that allowed users to ‘check-in’ to locations and was launched with a great fanfare last year. It always had a slightly uncomfortable position on the site and, as with Foursquare, seemed to lack a clear raison d’etre. But it too has now been dissolved.

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Social Media Is Growing Up: You Can Stop Copying the Cool Kids Now

Bare Feet Studios

My partner @Shane sent me a link today “ Why They Stopped Using Foursquare &# by David Berkowitz. I was never a fan of FourSquare, as the mayorship and the discounts hold no attraction for me personally. I love talking about podcasting because the consumer data on it is so telling. But enough about Groupon!

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How to Fix a “Broken Brand” with Social

Convince & Convert

From Janrain , a free guide to improve your conversion rates and your data quality. The tags give the wearer a discount on merchandise and refreshments, plus it puts a whole lot of blue back in the stands. ” A promotion on Valentine’s Day last year gave a Lightning cupcake to anyone who checked in on Foursquare or Facebook.

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The Growth of Demand Discovery

Justin Levy

How consumers digest advertising and make buying decisions has forever been altered by the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and LinkedIn. 250 discount if you use "JUST25" when registering! Marketing has changed dramatically since the adoption of social media. I lead the Demand Generation team at my organization.

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