The location-based service Foursquare offers individual users the chance to share where they are and get recommendations on where to go next. At the same time, businesses can attract new visitors and build customer loyalty. As a small business, you’re probably blown away by the figures: 20 million users worldwide are on Foursquare, and they have racked up 2.5 Here are 5 tips on using Foursquare to promote your small business. This marks you as the manager and allows you to take advantage of Foursquare’s tools to attract users. billion check-ins! MORE >>

Malik names Foursquare and Flipboard as possible candidates. I’ll talk about Foursquare in the next item.) much smaller number ( 5 percent of mobile phone owners, or 4 percent of all adults) use their phones to check in to locations using geosocial services such as Foursquare. How I See it: Foursquare’s hype has always topped its ability to deliver a mass audience to marketers. At the top of my list is the creation of a mobile loyalty club where users willingly share preferences and location information in exchange for deals and information that matter to them. MORE >>

Foursquare has quietly been making moves that will have a major impact on local businesses and local internet marketing. This is important for businesses because Foursquare is promising more accurate ratings than the usual customer review system. They are basing their rankings off of tips, likes, dislikes, popularity, loyalty, and check ins. With the new update, users can check in friends who aren’t Foursquare users. Original article about  Foursquare updates posted on Wikimotive’s blog under the title New Set Of Updates For Foursquare. MORE >>

Dear Foursquare , Whether it's a fad, or a trend, or the next generation of the world's currency, location based services are much-discussed these days, and there is no argument that you are in the driver's seat. But this, in terms of Foursquare, might as well have been 230 miles, because now, the old Safeway, where I had 18 check-ins , has been replaced with one where I've only visited a single time. Well, they're doing this tie-in with loyalty cards, and as far as these "new" venues see it, I've never been there before. It's not that I am a Foursquare addict. MORE >>

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