Foursquare Day

Win a #VisitUS foursquare Badge for your Favorite City

Nicole — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:26:39 +0000

As you’ve likely heard by now, foursquare is teaming up with the White House’s tourism initiative and awarding THREE cities in the United States with a foursquare badge. It’s a great cross-promotion with foursquare’s list feature – we now have a burst of crowd-sourced lists from sea to shining sea! This contest is a smart way for foursquare to encourage list-making (and following) behavior as well as a reminder that foursquare is an extremely useful tourism tool. Quite the methodical list maker myself, I jumped at the chance to make lists for cities I love. As a former city brand marketer, it warms my heart to see official tourism bureaus promote their #visitUS lists too! Kudos! And if you’re outside the USA, don’t be jealous, your contest is coming. Some unapologetic self-pimpage:

Funsquare and Porra Foursquare!

Fernanda — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:47:29 +0000

Hi guys!

Foursquare has been the topic of many online conversations. Now we have memes foursquare-based and blogs talking about news, apps, how people are using it along with how to to make Specials. But now we have some news here from Brazil – blogs making fun with 4sq!

Sync Foursquare Brand Page and Claimed Venue

Dwayne Kilbourne — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:05:02 +0000

A long while ago, many people were wondering how a business without a physical (venue) presence could connect with its target market. A short while later, foursquare created the brand page. In its latest iteration, foursquare allows brands to check-in and broadcast that onto their Facebook Page and Twitter profile; however, brand pages are not allowed to gain mayorships or badges. Along the way, big brands with physical presences also created brand pages in order to connect with their customers. Up until just recently, however, there was a gap in the experience between the claimed business venue on foursquare and its potential related brand page. However, now that has all changed, and this is for the better. So, physical brands on foursquare can connect their foursquare brand pages to each of their claimed venues, allowing more streamlined interaction with customers. No longer do brands have to resort to leaving tips on their claimed venue pages to inform customers about their brand page presence. No longer do they have to create two channels of communication or give out two different links within two different messages. As of the end of last week, brands can now connect the two, providing their foursquare customer with the additional link to their foursquare brand page.

HOW TO: Get Businesses In Your Community Involved With Foursquare

Sarah Lee — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:43:04 +0000

This upcoming Foursquare Day meetup in Kalamazoo is going to be bigger and better than last year, especially with the growing number of businesses that have grown their participation with Foursquare and the growing number of users locally. Last year we went to several businesses to campaign to business owners that they should participate in Foursquare and why it is a benefit to their overall business. We ended up encouraging 25 businesses to sign up for Foursquare and 14 of those offered specials on Foursquare Day itself (check out our recap here).

Foursquare Tracks the Travel of It’s Users

Juice — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:52:23 +0000

Foursquare is a data mining machine. They’ve always been great at keeping good, clean statistics about venues and check-ins. And this year is no different. This graph is from 2010′s holiday travel season. They haven’t released this years stats yet (probably want to make it pretty/readable).

Foursquare Ryan Gosling

Nicole — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:43:57 +0000

I’ve resisted long enough. It had to be done. Google+’s new meme generator made it way too easy for me.

I could do this all day. What’s your best foursquare Ryan Gosling?

The Changing Perceptive on Foursquare

Kimberly — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:00:55 +0000

We know what the nay-sayers have to say about foursquare: “you’re letting everyone know you’re out of your house, and you’re going to be robbed,” “why would anyone care that you’ve gone grocery shopping,” and “I just don’t get it.”

4/4×4 is coming

Victor — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:30:34 +0000

April 16th is coming and the preparation for the biggest day of the year is starting. Yahoooo!!!

But what can we do to organize an unforgettable day? This is a problem for everyone who try to manage a big or even a small event.

Some ideas to celebrate the date: go to a restaurant or a place that can host some people, for example, a place with a Special! You can talk to the owner of the venue to exchange ideas about 4sqday in order to get a win-win celebration: customers could have some discount (a nice Special) and the owner can promote his/her venue with this social media marketing event.

Bet Leads to Removal of Mayor

Juice — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:43:18 +0000

This past Sunday, my Baltimore Ravens took on the Houston Texans in the AFC Divisional round in the National Football League. I was quickly reminded by fellow writer Nicole (@googleismybf), that she the Community Manager of @foursquareHOU. With a little smack talk during the week I decided to step it up and incorperate foursquare into a bet.

Foursquare Releases More City Badges

Juice — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:41:24 +0000

With foursquare reaching double digits on City badges, we decided to list them out for easy reading. Don’t forget you can submit a request to get your city a badge too! Simply fill out this form and … wait.