Stickybits Is Honing Its Object Check-Ins To Be More Brand-Friendly

The next version of stickybits, which is coming out in October, aims to give people more reasons to scan and share their scanned objects by honing the product and making it into more of a platform for unlocking rewards and coupons. Stickybits wants to reposition itself as an app for object check-ins.

The new app, V2, will offer brands and businesses four ways to create object check-ins: coupons, group deals, location, and product combo rewards.

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Not sure what Stickybits is? Go to http://www.Stickybits.com . Basically you buy stickers online (eg from Amazon here http://www.stickybits.com/buystickers/ and then wait a week or two for delivery) then you can stick them on whatever you want. Then you download the stickybits app to your iphone or smartphone, open it up, and point your phone's camera at the barcode on the stickybits sticker. Then you can "attach" an image or message or url or video to that barcode and sticker. You can then stick that sticker onto whatever you want -- something in a public place, or perhaps a product. When others scan that sticker you can receive an email notification letting you know the physical location of the scan, who scanned it (if they're logged in to stickybits) and what, if anything, they attached to the sticker as their digital sticky bit. Looking forward to seeing these new object check in upgrades.

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What is Bizzy - Location-Based Business Marketing - Connecting Consumers with the Businesses they want

Connect

to your favorite businesses

like never before

Bizzy is where the world’s local businesses and customers come together. Finally: an exclusive place where you connect and communicate with only the businesses you really care about,
when and how you want.

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What Bizzy says about themselves: Our Mission

We believe there needs to be a dedicated place where the world’s local businesses and their best customers come together to connect and communicate. At Bizzy, our mission is to be that place: a place free of spam and intrusive marketing messages where customers can stay in touch with the shops, spas and studios they really care about, when and how they want.

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What is Group Tabs - Location Based Marketing - Group Checkin Deals at Bars and Restaurants

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What is GroupTabs? Grouptabs allows merchants to activate deals once enough patrons have checked into their bar or restaurant. Once the target number of checkins has been achieved, all those who have checked in will be elegible to receive the deal.

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What is SCVNGR ? Mobile Social Location Gaming Marketing

SCVNGR is a game.

And playing is easy. Go places. Do challenges. Earn points! That’s the core of it, but there’s a whole lot more. Discover cool new places. Do exciting new things. Share what you’re up to with your friends. Unlock badges (and even real world rewards) by doing quick, fun challenges at your favorite places as you go about your daily life.

SCVNGR is a game platform.

SCVNGR is as much a game as it is a massive experiment in building a mobile game together. We want to build the game layer on top of the world. And that’s only possible if you’ll build it with us.

To make this happen, we’ve designed an incredibly powerful (and easy to use) platform that means that whether you’re an individual player, a local store, a museum, a historic monument, a restaurant or anything in between, you can participate in building SCVNGR with us.

SCVNGR is the game layer on top of the world.

And we want you to build it with us. To date, over 650+ institutions and tons more individuals are building on SCVNGR by adding fun, creative challenges to their favorite locations.

The more people that play (and build) SCVNGR with us, the better it gets. And we’re pretty excited to see where that takes us all.

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Download the mobile SCVNGR app to your smartphone (e.g. on iPhone click on Apps and search for SCVNRG and download free app). Then you can login using Facebook Connect or by creating a new account on your phone or by visiting http://www.scvngr.com

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PlacePunch Launches Location-Based Marketing Platform For Foursquare, Twitter And Facebook - Geo Location Marketing Company

PlacePunch, which received seed funding from Shotput Ventures, allows businesses both big and small to run their own location-based marketing campaigns that integrate with Foursquare, Facebook Places, Twitter, Gowalla and other location-based social networks.

For example, a restaurant can create a loyalty program that counts customer check-in towards rewards and coupons. PlacePunch provides a good amount of the infrastructure, including branded sign-up pages, mobile coupon delivery and analytics, to run these programs.

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Get ready for the wave of location-based marketing campaigns to pop up everywhere in your city in coming months. Want to get your business in as an early adopter while it's still a novelty for your customers? Whether you're a restaurant, hotel, retail business, service provider, car dealeship it doesn't matter - there are ways you can use social media and geo-location based marketing to help achieve your business goals. If you're looking for a trusted social media marketing company specializing in geo location marketing contact us today at http://www.11Marketing.com?s=location-marketing-social-media for a free 30 minute consultation to ask us questions and learn more about using location marketing for business -- or simply shoot us an email or call 604-847-3447 ext 104

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5 Reasons Why Facebook Places Is Kind of a Big Deal - Facebook Places Marketing for Business

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Why It’s a Big Deal for Business

• Facebook is building a suite of advertising tools that will allow you to list, claim and advertise your place on Facebook
• You no longer have to educate your customers – they all know what Facebook is
• People checking in at your business are naturally telling some part of the word about your business
• Offering coupons and special offers for people who check in is a natural way to tap the power of using online tools to drive offline sales.
• Data that you can collect on users and amount of times they checkin will prove extremely valuable in tracking customers and advertising spend

If your business is not already listed on Places you can add it by following these instructions.

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Have you tried Facebook Places yet? Looking forward to it showing up here in Vancouver and across Canada soon. Happy checking in. Need help integrating your business with facebook places? Contact us today at http://www.11marketing.com?s=facebook-places-marketing

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Location Based Advertising: Game-Changing Opportunities for Internet Marketing with Foursquare, Facebook Pages, Gowalla, Yelp

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

We are at the beginning of an exciting new era of location based advertising that integrates geo-location with advertising and apps. Foursquare, Facebook Places, Gowalla, Yelp, BrightKite, Loopt. These are just a few of the geo location based applications that are going to change everything in advertising & marketing.  Location based advertising allows anyone to target potential customers when they are within a certain distance from a select location such as a store, event or meeting place. Start thinking now how your business can integrate its goals, offerings, services and products with location based advertising opportunities.

Have you claimed your business location in Foursquare or Facebook Pages? Do it today. We can help with all of your social media marketing needs. Take control of your social media presence so your existing and potential future clients and customers can accurately find, check in and post about your business.

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Urban Outfitters Makes Facebook Likes Featured Items - Facebook Like Button Marketing

Retailer Urban Outfitters has made the Facebook Like button central to the way the company is marketing its products online. Visitors to the Urban Outfitters web site are now greeting by a large thumbs up asking them to “See our most Liked items.”

The company had installed the Like button by its products on the company web site and this new feature is essentially a grouping of the most Liked items into one place.

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What's not to like with the Facebook Like button. It's great to see creative new uses of the Like button. Soon, I'd guess, smartphones will be able to sense other smartphones around them and you'll be able to click "Like" regarding that person who's in the same physical space as you. For now, however, we're stuck liking web pages and and sweaters.

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Brent Purves : Flavors.me

Most of the attention paid to Facebook Places, the new location feature that the social network launched on Thursday, has focused either on the privacy implications of the service or on the impact it could have on location-based startups such as Foursquare (which some have said they expect to be “crushed” by the new feature). Facebook’s real focus with this launch, however, isn’t individual users or even Foursquare: Instead, it sees Places as a way into the local business and local advertising markets, and the company with the target painted on its back is Yelp.

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Google Places, Facebook Places, Foursquare Location Layers & Mayors. Having trouble keeping up? Will Yelp have to partner with Gowalla or another smaller check-in startup to stay ahead of the million-business-pages-strong Facebook checkin tsunami? What is your business doing to get listed in all of the social network places? Why should you even consider spending your valuable time or marketing dollars on something like this Facebook Places or Yelp or Foursquare advertising or promotion? Drop me a note at brent[at]stirgroup.com and I’d be happy to answer your questions or setp a time for a free phone consultation to discuss your business and whether getting on the Facebook / Yelp / Foursquare / Gowalla check-in marketing train is right for your business, products or services.

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IKEA introduces social media to its marketing catalogue - Next campaign: "Swede Yourself" in-store ? :)

IKEA Canada has launched an advertising campaign and contest that encourage consumers to share their favourite images from the home furnishing retailer's latest catalogue.

The campaign includes television, print, online and out-of-home creative touting the arrival of IKEA's 2011 catalogue. Each execution also alerts readers to IKEA's "Capture the Page" contest, an online initiative that invites consumers to upload pictures of their favourite images from the catalogue to a microsite,

via marketingmag.ca

So when you're reading through the Ikea catalogue and it asks you to take a picture of a page and then email it to win 10k will you take the time to do it? Maybe they should encourage the same thing in their Ikea stores -- take a picture of yourself with the thing you see that you like in the store and email it to enter to win that item. Instead of "Capture the Page" maybe Ikea can get permission to use "Swede Yourself" from Be Kind Rewind fame. Do you think a whole Sweded version of the Ikea website would draw any viral or grassroots attention? I'd visit it and watch submitted videos of people swede'ing non-ikea-purchased furniture or things in their life (whatever that might mean).

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Reinvigorate - real-time web analytics and heatmaps - Internet Marketing Tools

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Reinvigorate provides real-time web analytics and heatmaps. The features include Snoop, a desktop stats application that alerts you every time you have a new user signup or visitor; and NameTags, a feature that allows you to identify your registered users and gives you insight into their habits and usage. The company, founded by Sean McNamara, launched in August 2010.

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Google Launches Blog Finder for Any Topic - Does your blog show up?

Google has quietly launched a new feature: search for blogs on any topic. The company announced the new type of search in a weekly round-up of search updates last week, and respected SEO blogger Bill Slawski argues that the launch may be related to a new Google patent.

This has the potential to be a wildly useful service. How many of you have had professional or personal reasons to seek a list of the top blogs on a new topic? I know I, and many people I talk to, find themselves in such need frequently. How do you access the new search? How well does it work? Read on.

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Does your blog show up in Google's new blog search? If not drop us a note, we can help!

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Yahoo Search Advertisers Can Now Begin To Migrate Accounts To Microsoft adCenter

Yahoo announced their Yahoo Search Marketing advertisers can now begin the transition process from Yahoo Search Marketing to Microsoft adCenter. This is the first step of the paid search transition from Yahoo Search ads to Microsoft Bing search ads.

Last week, Yahoo’s organic transition to Microsoft Bing was complete. This week, Yahoo and Microsoft are starting the paid search transition. That means it is very likely that paid search at Yahoo in the US and Canada will be fully powered by Microsoft adCenter by the end of October.

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