How to add a link to your Foursquare tips
Foursquare is a great social media platform that allows people to virtually “check-in” to physical locations using geo based capabilities on their smart phones. Over time, if you check-in enough you can become Mayor, which gives you little more than bragging rights, unless the owner of that venue has setup some sort of “offer” through Foursquare. So, for example, you might visit a coffee chop every morning, click a button on your iPhone to check-in and then become Mayor, which earns you a free cup of coffee.
Most Foursquare users only access the Foursquare on their smart phone and never actually visit foursquare.com. There are a number of features only available on the website, one of which is the ability to add a link to any tips you post to Foursquare.
Why would you want to leave a link? Well, you can probably imagine a number of reasons both personal and professional, but at least it offers the chance to share more than just a couples sentences and provide further value to your tip. From a marketing perspective this is a great opportunity, if handled with care.
To add a link to your FourSquare tips, simply:
- login to foursquare.com
- pick a venue either through search, history or other method
- write your tip in the box provided
- click on the “add link” button and add your link
- click Share and you’re done
Here’s how it looks on Foursquare.com
Here’s how it looks after the fact on the Foursquare iPhone app
What do you think? Have you tried to add a link to your Foursquare tips? Do you see any value?
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I got the iPhone 4 this week. Here’s one of my first videos and some early impressions. After 5 days I still absolutely love it versus my old iPhone 3G.
Some of the key features I like are:
- speed – the new processor is much faster than that used in the 3G, so apps load and run noticeably faster
- Retina Display – the new display is very crisp and images pop off the screen
- camera lens – this phone features a 5MB camera and images are beautiful
- video – never had video on the 3G so I’m really getting a kick out of this
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- multitasking – this is a cool feature and potential time saver but I’m not quite used to it yet
- folder – again, this is cool in theory but since I don’t really have tons of apps I haven’t taken full advantage of this yet
If you have an iPhone 4 – what’s you experience been like so far?
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Mentions in Facebook Page Updates
Mentioning others in your Facebook Page updates is a great way to gain significant exposure for your page. If the other Page’s setting include “Others” then your update will appear on their Page. Why is this so special? Because most folks don’t know this is possible and simply put comments on other Pages’ Walls using their personal profile – not good if your running a business Facebook Page marketing campaign.
1. Become a Fan or Like another page in which you would like to get some exposure
2. In your Facebook Page update use the “@” symbol and pick the name of that Page (or individual) from the dropdown menu that appears
3. Write something flattering or worthy of sharing. You do not want to spam the other Page. If you write something nice that their followers find valuable then it’s a win-win situation.
4. Depending on the setup used by the target Page, your update will either appear directly on their Wall or in a hidden portion of their Wall. To see posts by “others” click on the “filter” link at the top of the Wall.
Geo-targeting in Facebook Page Updates
Geo-targeting is great if you have a broad audience but would only like to speak to a specific portion. For example, you may have a shipping offer only good in the US or a discount only for Chicago residents. Facebook lets you specify who will see you update based on location and language. Very powerful stuff!
To do this simply select the “Custom” link in the lower right hand corner of the update field next to the Share button. Input your Location and/or Language criteria and that’s it. Enjoy!
Any other tips you have for targeting specific users with Facebook Pages? Would love to hear your thoughts!
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Here are 3 WordPress Plugins to Customize Your Blog’s Navigation:
- PageMash: This is one of my all time favorites. It allows to drag and drop Pages into the order you need for navigation. You can also drag and drop child Pages in, out and among Parent pages. This is a real life saver if you several nested Pages and want to change things around a bit.
- Exclude Pages from Navigation: This plugin provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. This is useful if you want to have a page “hidden” from everyday visitors or if you really only want people to find it through a link on another Page.
- WP-PageNavi: If you have a lot of Posts you’ll like this plugin, which adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog. For example, instead “previous” and “next” at the bottom, this plugin will help create a numbered index of Posts, such as Prev, 1,2,3, Next, Last. It may require some custom CSS depending on your theme, but the end result is quote nice.
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