Posts in Foursquare

By Mary Manzo, Posted in Foursquare

Location-based social network foursquare announced on Tuesday January 18 that they are expanding their capabilities with a new menu feature. Foursquare has teamed up with SinglePlatform to list menu items from almost 250,000 restaurants in major cities across the country. Over 13 million menu items will be available for foursquare users to view. SinglePlatform is a startup that was launched in 2010 to offer businesses a seamless process for sharing their storefronts digitally. "SinglePlatform is focused on... read more.

• January 19, 2012
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By Yfran Garcia, Posted in Foursquare

    With the growing number of consumers now utilizing smart phones, businesses are always looking for new and successful ways to optimize their marketing efforts. Location-Based Marketing offers another way for businesses to attract and maintain new customers by publishing special offers and deals - deals aimed at getting customers to ‘check-in' to their establishments via smart phones (or online). When a customer checks-in to a business, it alerts the customer's network of friends tha... read more.

• November 14, 2011
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By Zack Levine, Posted in Foursquare

If your business hasn't been able to break into the exclusive group of businesses with Foursquare pages, now it can. Only, the group isn't exclusive anymore. From the beginning, Foursquare business pages were developed and designed by Foursquare in house on a case-by-case basis. That limited companies with business pages to those with a great deal of fame and money, such as The New York Times, NASA, and Louis Vitton. That all changed on Tuesday. The booming social network announced that free business pages... read more.

• August 03, 2011
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By Zack Levine, Posted in Foursquare

The rumors are true: according to Mashable, Foursquare and Groupon have decided to strike a partnership. The two popular young companies have reached an agreement that will put Groupon's daily deals in the Explore tab of the Foursqaure application beginning Friday. Groupon becomes Foursquare's sixth and largest daily deals partner. The two companies will split an undisclosed amount of revenue generated by purchases of each deal. The deal, on paper, looks like a win for each side. Groupon, the fastest-gr... read more.

• July 29, 2011
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By Elysa Vreeland, Posted in Foursquare

Here at Hudson Horizons, employees (me included) are always trying to "oust" each other for mayorship of HH on foursquare; this is one of the many features that makes the popular mobile application exciting. Foursquare has come a long way and for the past year, the location-based check-in application has spiraled to the top of the social media totem pole. Foursquare has joined the ranks of online social communities like Facebook and Twitter, where actions performed on foursquare intertwine with the other... read more.

• April 15, 2011
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By Elysa Vreeland, Posted in Foursquare

Facebook isn't the only social site seeing immense growth. Foursquare, a relatively new social, location-based check-in website announced today in their blog titled, "So we grew 3400% last year..." that in addition to their outstanding one-year growth, the site has expanded on various social platforms, reached its 6 millionth member and is giving businesses all over the world a chance to market their brand through interactive check-ins. Highlighted in an infograph, Foursquare displays some interesting f... read more.

• January 24, 2011
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