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How to Engage Event Attendees with Pokemon Go

Ignite Social Media

However, one of the most fascinating topics for me has been the conversation around how to incorporate Pokémon GO into event marketing. Meaning, how can conference and event planners incorporate the game into their meetings to keep attendees engaged? Have you already incorporated Pokémon GO into an event? Offer Rewards.

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4 Ways To Tap Into Local Markets

Harp Interactive

Geotagging: Allows businesses to embed geographical location information within websites, images, videos and other digital media. Coordinates on the page boost your visibility and enhance usefulness as people are able to copy them directly into their GPS devices and get them on mobile phones via Apps.

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Case Study and Lessons Learned: App Product Launch and Awareness

Akamai Marketing

At a City of Honolulu sponsored hackathon, a citizen developed a mobile app, DaBus, which adds functionality to the bus system with GPS tracking and to the minute updates on bus schedules and locations. Think: In order to encourage app usage, a mobile “Geeks on the Bus” tweetup/kick-off event was planned. Sell-out event.

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Car Rental Business: Advantages And Disadvantages

The Realtime Report

These services are often used by those who need a car for a special event, such as a wedding, vacation, or business trip. In addition, create profiles on social media to reach another segment of the target audience. Advertising in local media such as newspapers, radio stations, and even television is also highly effective.

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI?

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Apple Debuts iBeacon Location Technology in U.S. Stores

The Realtime Report

Visitors with Bluetooth on and iOS7 on their mobile device receive messages about products, events and other info — provided they’ve downloaded the Apple Store app and allow it to send notices based on location, reports the San Diego Union-Tribune. How is iBeacon different than using GPS for geo-location?

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Tweet to Translate: Free Twitter Hub at Sochi Games

The Realtime Report

The service will come in handy for tourists and athletes attending the games, whether they need a translation of directions, events, news stories, or a way to communicate in the local language. Million Twitter Sweepstakes Animals in the Wild ‘Tweet’ Via GPS Trackers Cinime Lets Moviegoers Connect Little Screen To Big Screen.

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