Showing posts with label Foursquare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foursquare. Show all posts
October 11, 2012
May 3, 2012
Verify your Business at Foursquare for $10
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Until recently, businesses who wanted to verify themselves with location-based discovery service Foursquare had to wait... and wait. The snail mail process takes anywhere from two to four weeks to complete.From there, merchants can verify that they manage the business, and can begin added foursquare specials found on the merchant platform, including Swarm, Friends, Flash, Newbie, Check-in, Loyalty, and Mayor:
Now there is a much quicker
way. For a one-time fee of $10 businesses can complete the verification process
online in just minutes after which they have full access to Foursquare's tools
and stats.Foursquare
is rolling out the new instant verification feature today, and points out that
users can still register by physical mail for free if they’d like, and that
users who are already registered aren’t required to pay anything.
According to
Mashable, "companies will start the process by submitting a phone number.
Foursquare makes an automated call to the number and records the caller's name
and the name of the business. Those who opt for instant verification are then
prompted to enter their credit card information online."
For those businesses that
can't, or don't want, to register online the snail mail option is still
available. The instant verification
option is currently only available in the U.S.
Foursquare, which presently has about 20 million users,
750,000 of which are businesses, recently celebrated it’s 3rd annual “foursquare day” on April 16th.
April 28, 2012
Facebook vs The Rest of Social Networks:
Is Facebook The Only Social Channel That Really Matters? | The Financial Brand: Marketing Insights for Banks & Credit Unions:
Facebook continues to top charts and web traffic domination as other competitors have grown, however have failed to break the Facebook traffic Graph. The above infographic from Financial Brand shows how the top 5 SN stands as of March,31st, 2012 .Alexa, a traffic-ranking site, puts Facebook as the world’s #2 largest website, behind only Google. YouTube ranks #3, with Twitter trailing at #9. Compete, a similar service to Alexa, ranks Facebook 2nd, YouTube 4th, Twitter 20th and LinkedIn 36th.
March 13, 2012
Foursquare Moving Beyond Local To Social Shopping & Discount Recomendation
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This
year, Foursquare is everywhere at SXSW. among the movers & shakers as they
navigate the cacophony of panels and parties that abound. Company founder Dennis
Crowley joined Shira Lazar and Zappo’s Tony Hsieh on stage in Samsung’s
Blogger Lounge yesterday:
Foursquare, claim to fame remains location ,however company known for its geo location-based social app, is exploring a move that will put those roots in the
background as it seeks to instead highlight the trove of data it has collected
about its users’ habits.
“We’re in the process now of
disassembling the app,” said CEO Dennis Crowley at the annual South by
Southwest conference in Austin, Texas.
Foursquare is in the process of moving up its product model from an app used primarily to tell your friends where you are to a
tool that any smartphone owner can use for relevant recommendations and
discounts at restaurants, coffee shops and museums. If done right, that would
mean plenty of revenue-sharing opportunities for Foursquare.
Even though the mobile check-in company is still
struggling to make money, it has not stopped growing. Foursquare has about 100
employees, and Mr Crowley said a big area of focus is hiring data scientists,
who can take the vast amounts of information the company is collecting from its
almost 20 million users and make it useful.
Crowley said the company started
noticing that many of its 15 million users weren’t using the app’s main
function: a check-in feature that lets people broadcast where they are to their
friends. Instead, users are increasingly turning to a feature the company
launched in February last year called Explore, which gives users data about
places around them that their friends have visited and shows them tips that
have been left behind.
“We’re part of the fabric of what goes on here. It’s
our third year here. We now have 100 employees and 20 million users. We’re on a
rocketship course.”
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June 23, 2011
Foursquare Hits 10M Users Grows at 1000%
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The Geolocation social Network Foursquare yesterday announced that they have reached 10 Million members, and . To commemorate this occassion released this infographic for the occasion. Among the important insights from the Infographic
Foursquare's celebrations continued with the release of foursquare 3.2 for the iPhone, touting much faster check-ins, and today will formally announce a partnership with American Express "to offer discounts to cardholders when they check in on their cellphone at certain shops and restaurants." List of Awards Won by Foursquare Awards
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May 14, 2011
7% Mobile Users used Location Services in US
Nearly 1 in 5 Smartphone Owners Access Check-In Services Via their Mobile Device according to comScore Research Study.
comScore reported that 12.6 million users in the U.S. used a check-in service during the 3 months ending March 2011. This is, they say, 7.1% of the U.S. mobile phone population. This is in line with the Pew Internet study published last November that reported 7% of adults who go online with their mobile phone use a location-based service.
The study found that 16.7 million U.S. mobile subscribers used location-based “check-in” services on their phones in March 2011, representing 7.1 percent of the entire mobile population. 12.7 million check-in users did so on a smartphone, representing 17.6 percent of the smartphone population. The study also found that check-in service users showed a high propensity for mobile media usage, including accessing retail sites and shopping guides, and displayed other characteristics of early adopters, including a stronger likelihood of owning a tablet device and accessing tech news, when compared to the average smartphone user.
Who are the Users:The study finds that check-in users tend to be young with 18 to 24 year olds (26%) and 25 to 34 year olds (32.5%) making up more than half of all users. They tend to be students (23.3%) and have full-time jobs (46.4%).
OS Platform Used For Checking In :Android users account for the largest share of check-in users with 36.6% versus iPhone users at 33.7%. BlackBerry came in third at 22% with Palm, Sybmian and Windows all account for less than 5% (see chart). Of total mobile users who check-in (16.7 million), about three out of four do so with a smartphone.
The group shows the classic early adopter warning signs. They access tech news via mobile device (40.3%) and 28.2% own a media tablet, both significantly higher than the average mobile user.
According to Mark Donovan, comScore senior vice president of mobile. “The ability to interact with consumers on this micro-local level through special offers, deals and other incentives provides brands with the real-time opportunity to engage consumers through their mobile device.”
According to ComScore 12.6 million smartphone owners used check-in services like Foursquare, Gowalla or Facebook Places. ComScore says that the check-in fervor is driven primarily by open by early adopters, who have "a high propensity for mobile media usage, including accessing retail sites and shopping guides, and displayed other characteristics of early adopters, including a stronger likelihood of owning a tablet device and accessing tech news, when compared to the average smartphone user."

April 30, 2011
Inside the Mind of Foursquare Users : Infographic
As of January of 2011, Foursquare stated on its blog that the company grew 3,400%. with 7 million users. This infographic is from Austin Williams provides some great insights on which of the elements are most influential to Foursquare users. Foursquare users is best known for its badges, which users get when they check-in to certain places. Users can also gain the title of "Mayor" when they've been to a place more than anyone else using Foursquare. Other elements that play into Foursquare's game dynamics include special offers and tips.