One of the things I love to do is find the newest ways for people to connect with Auction Direct online. Here’s two ways that will become increasingly popular.
Everyone on the Internet is looking for Information. What’s the best information we can find? Information from trusted sources such as [...]
Location Based Marketing Is Helping Drive Repeat Customers
Repeat customers. Everyone wants them yet few want to take the steps necessary to get them. The location based marketing continues to pick up momentum, and it’s primarily due to the 10 million+ users within Foursquare who are driving the influence. (Young, active males who influence their [...]
Everyone knows how powerful Word of Mouth marketing is. It’s about to get an incredible shot in the arm thanks to the new social graph features within the upcoming Timeline profile.
Facebook’s goal is to let you share every facet of your life with anyone and everyone you care to. Sure, on a personal level [...]
Yelp is the second major platform this week (after Facebook) to announce a change of direction with regards to their stance on daily deals. Only one year old and Yelp plans on scaling back their deals staff by 50%. The trend seems so be in place with daily deals revenue dropping 7% [...]
The location based marketing services landscape just shifted. Heavily.
Facebook Places, their answer to the check-in game, is shutting down. Not a major shocker. Sure, there was activity, relegated mostly to larger metropolitan areas. I used it two times – once at a restaurant to show my friends how it worked and once [...]
Attract new customers, create loyalty and track foot traffic
Foursquare and other Location-Based Services are increasingly helping dealerships attract new customers, create loyalty, and track ever-elusive showroom foot traffic. Fun and free, these tools are growing rapidly in popularity among individuals and businesses: Overall awareness of location-based services has reached 56% of US-based cell phone [...]
Brewski Me is now available in iTunes and a much deserved congratulations is in order for it’s developers and founders: Adam Weeks & Brian Knowles from AppsVersusRobots LLC.
They used a simple formula that’s become popular around specific activities and interests. Their tag line says it all: Don’t drink alone. Drink with friends.
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So, the latest “time-waster” to show up in the social spaces is Empire Avenue. Here’s a quick breakdown: You buy & sell “shares” of people; a virtual, wanna-be version of a stock market of social media personalities.
I do like the creativity, the site usability (considering the intricate nature of the platform) and [...]
So Groupon stepped up to the plate and took out Whrrl in one fell swoop.
Goodbye Whrrl checkins. fun while it lasted. (I really like the app) Hello location based services consolidation.
Whrrl’s latest round of updates were significant – I liked how they notified you, via push notifications, of the items you had [...]
People still debate the issue whether or not twitter is a channel that should be utilized for any purpose other than sharing nonsensical information.
Still have your doubts? Check out this great infographic from Olgilvy PR Wordwide. This outlines six strategic approaches by sharing the basic principles with regards to who you follow, what you [...]
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