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5 Tips to Create a Local Hot Destination Using Foursquare

Small businesses can now create their own hot destination!!

During the past several months I’ve been exploring Foursquare, the popular location based social network that incorporates gaming elements.  Foursquare encourages people to explore their neighborhoods and then rewards them for doing so.  Users share their locations with friends by soliciting a location based “check in” and whoever has the most “check-ins” at each venue becomes Mayor until someone else tops that number of check-ins and then they become Mayor.  Points are earned and badges are unlocked for various accomplishments from trying new places to revisiting old favorites to checking in at multiple venues the same day. As the points and badges add up our competitive nature kicks in. Read More »