FourSquare Has My Attention For Fun And Promoting Local Businesses

For the last few days I have been playiing around with and learning about Four Square and I can see a huge boost for small to med size local businesses with this Social Media Application.

People use foursquare to “check-in”, which is a way of telling friends your whereabouts. When you check-in someplace, we’ll tell your friends where they can find you and recommend places to go & things to do nearby. People check-in at all kind of places – cafes, gyms, restaurants, parks, homes, offices, businesses of every type

You’ll find that as your friends use foursquare to check-in, you’ll start learning more about the places they frequent. Not only is it a great way to meet up with nearby friends, but you’ll also start to learn about their favorite spots and the new places they discover.

Every foursquare checkin earns you points. Find a new place in your neighborhood? +5 points. Making multiple stops in a night? +2 points. Dragging friends along with you? +1.

And as you start checking-in to more interesting places with different people, you’ll start unlocking badges. There are badges for discovering new places and for traveling to far away places. Spending too much time singing karaoke or been hitting the gym consistently? Yes, there are badges for those too

We all have our local hangouts and foursquare keeps tabs on who’s the most loyal of all the regulars. If you’ve been to a place more than anyone else, you’ll become “the mayor”… until someone else comes along and steals your title.

It may sound a little silly until you see the list of places that are offering freebies to our mayors – free coffees, free ice-cream, free hotel stays – it pays to be a foursquare loyalist and check-in whenever you go!

Now from what I have stated above it is easy to see how local businesses can benefit by offering something nice in exchange for visits and business wins too with promotion on social network sites like twitter and facebook.

I found whle using it that for instances I can add venues aka: businesses if they are not already listed and in my little town of Jay, Florida there was none listed so I have listed my Gym Jeremiah’s Gym, Endless Delights Cafe and Catering, and Kooter Browns Sports Grill. When I visit there I will get points just by checking in via my cell phone.

You can bet as I add a business I will tell them about it and ask for a free soda .. so Hey Jeremiah you owe me a free month.. LOL and Andrea how about a Free Lunch Special LOL

Easy to use and fun for the users like me and can be a boom for local businesses which I am dedicated to showing local businesses how to use the web in an effective and affordable manner.

Thanks For Reading
Jim Reynolds
My Four Square Profile