Hey, I am over here. No, wait I am over here. Just go to my Twitter page and you will soon know where I am and what I am the Mayor.

What you did not know I am the Mayor of several Indiana Towns and Cities, not to mention a few eateries and even my church. Who wants to be the pastor when you can be the Mayor of your church. Do you think they will give me a funny hat like the Pope? No, I didn’t think so either.

So, what the heck am I talking about FourSquare. You know the game you played as a kid with a ball and 4 squares in the school lot or gym. No, FourSquare, the hot new geo game on the internet that connects to Twitter and Facebook. 

Plus, you get to play for points, which is great for many of you that are hung up on the points system.

But, what can it do for me and my business. I have a few simple ideas for that.

Restaurants

- offer the Mayor something of value…like a free coffee, appetizer or something along those lines. 
- have a foursquare meetup (very must like a tweetup) for a great example go NWITweetup.com
- I don’t own a restaurant so go with it and be creative. I would love to hear what you do

Real Estate…

- as Agent, I would check-in everywhere I could @ the print shop, coffee shop and the office
- Check-in at every Broker open house you go to, give office name and let people know how to contact you.


Here is my coup de grace

Check-in when you go out and check on your listings, this can be a great way to get your listings out there for everyone to see on Twitter and see the activity that you have on each of your listings. In 4Sq, name each listing Company Name, your listing # and give a brief description of it. Then every time you show it, check in again. Do it for every listing you show. Bang away at it.  Remember, when you sell it - Close it.

I think we are really at the tip of the iceberg  of what you can do.

Join my ActiveRain Group for FourSquare to share how you use it to market your listings or mortgage services

Dave

For more Information go to DaveWoodson.com

 

 
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9 Comments on FourSquare

FEB
02
2010

Ok Help!!! So when I check in I put where I am or it tells me where i am? I would love to use this correctly
Valarie
8:45pm • #1
247,058 Points Outside Blog

If you have a gps enabled phone it may tell you where you are, but you may have to put it in.  I have a blackberry storm and I ahve to tell it where I am sometime or I may have to add a "venue".  Be gald when you do that, more points.

I think I will do a video on how to check in etc etc

 

Dave
9:06pm • #2
713,700 Points 2 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Dave you are on the edge here, always on the edge!
9:30pm • #3
713,700 Points 2 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

I just signed up, but I am having trouble on my phone ap.
9:55pm • #4
FEB
03
2010
1,007,418 Points 13 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

The concept in interesting but I still do not see the "true" value in FourSquare beyond I am here, I am there, I have points, I am the new mayor.  I may be missing something here but the connections created using Facebook and Twitter seem like they would be more valuable per time invested.  
10:00am • #5
FEB
10
2010

Great idea to check in at your own listings when you visit! So far i'm loving foursquare!
9:24am • #6
FEB
11
2010
122,525 Points Hit Router

Dave- Im with you on this. Foursquare does have awesome potential to a marketer. I'd like to see a few tweeks to make it more user friendly for real estate. Id love to add my listings as venues..then be able to add a link to a mobile web page the users could see on on their cell. I think as Foursquare goes more mainstream- you'll see other third party API's that will make this stuff feasible.
9:40pm • #7
FEB
15
2010
1,007,418 Points 13 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Dave - I decided to jump in and give FourSquare a try.  I am amazed that very few people in my market are using it yet and I now see this as a potential advantage.
4:24pm • #8
AUG
23
2010
713,700 Points 2 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

What's with all the scaming comments above? They see this as an opportunity for free advertising?
9:06pm • #9


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