Foursquare has attracted more than 400,000 users in less than a year. It’s time for your business to jump on this bandwagon.
Foursquare can help your business promote deals, get new customers and increase loyalty and patronage among your existing customers.
Foursquare lets users check in at retail stores, restaurants, bars and other places when they arrive, then find recommendations for what to do while there and the surrounding neighborhood. When a user checks in at a nearby business, they will be alerted to your special offer, too.
Foursquare users publicly share recommendations of the businesses they visit. Foursquare uses this data to recommend local businesses based on targeted geolocation.
Businesses can link a discount to a check-in listing and reward users who check in repeatedly by giving points and titles such as ‘mayor’ and ‘deputy mayor.’
Your “mayor” is a regular customer whose loyalty you’ll want to keep. You can see who that person is on the Foursquare site. Businesses often offer VIP perks to their mayor, from a discount to a free beer.
Other businesses promote mayor’s specials. Anything goes – show your mayor that he or she matters to you in a way that reflects the personality of your business.
Read more in the informative article, How to Make Money on Foursquare from inc.com
See a list of businesses currently offering promotions on Foursquare’s webpage for businesses
Foursquare is available in these cities:
North America: US: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Charlotte, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City (MO), Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, Miami, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Nashville, New Haven, New York City, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Orlando, Park City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, Raleigh-Durham, Richmond, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, Tucson, Washington D.C. Canada: Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver. Mexico: Mexico City
Europe: Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Birmingham (UK), Bristol, Brighton, Brussels, Cologne, Copenhagen, Dublin, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Helsinki, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Munich, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Reykjavik, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna, Zurich
South America: Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo
Africa: Johannesburg
Middle East: Dubai, Tel Aviv
Asia: Beijing, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo
Australia: Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney
New Zealand: Wellington
A link for updates on Foursquare’s city list or to request that your city is added.
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Foursquare is also being used by Google as a citation source meaning that it also helps a business come up on Google Local searches. Bing has also intergrated Foursquare notes into their maps recently meaning that there’s another potential traffic source