“Some teenager just called me lame for not being on foursquare. As I choked him, I wondered what foursquare even is.” 8:03 AM Jun 10th @Mickey__Rourke
To answer Mickey’s curiosity – Foursquare is a new social media network, and if you want to find out the full details, please visit my post – Is Foursquare a New Social Media Phenomenon?
The interest in Foursquare is growing around the world, and from a marketing point-on-view, the opportunities for small business to reward loyal customers is huge. This is especially relevant for businesses in hospitality (restaurants, fast food, bars, night clubs, cafes and coffee shops) but also attractions and hotels.
There is no suprise that Foursquare is encouraging developers to take their concept, and expand on it, to take it to the next level as fast as possible. This is occuring along the same lines as Facebook Applications, and also Twitter Applications, that boomed after the release of these social media networks.
So let’s have a look at 10 new Foursquare Website Applications that you can try today to use with your new Foursquare account. These are so new I’m yet to test them all, so I can only provide details on what they say about themselves. If you’ve tried any of these, and you love them or hate them, or are just curious, feel free to comment below:
“Sprout Social was created to help business harness the power of the social web and turn social connections into loyal customers. Your customers are on the social web, and more and more they turn to their browser to make informed decisions. Sprout Social helps keep you involved in the conversation, engage and grow your audience and drive real revenue for your business with easy to use tools and baked-in best practices.”
2. Snoop
Are you out and around in Greece? You want to find the best clubs or restaurants or even a shop around your place at 50 or even 500 meters? Then come and check-in and find what you looking for!
3. Top 3 Places
Select your top 3 places among your recent checkin venues.
4. Soovox
Measure Your Social Influence – Become A Brand Ambassador – Get Rewarded. Soovox offers you – social media users – a “Social Influence Fulfillment Hub” where you can measure and reap the benefits of your social influence, which you have established in Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, personal blogs…
Intuit is letting communities vote to decide who deserves some love – in the form of small business grants. Anyone, including business owners, can vote by sharing a brief comment about why they love a local business.
Search and Find the special offers,deals near any place. With 4squareoffers, you can easily find the Foursquare offers in particular location in map along with their address,special offers and other details.
7. Lunchwalla
Lunchwalla allows people to invite their friends to vote on which restaurants, bars, movies, or events to attend. Users earn points that go toward earning rewards like gift cards and movie tickets. Foursquare users get additional points for checking in at a scheduled event.
8. Hootsuite
Share favorite hot-spots with friends on Foursquare from HootSuite’s Social Media Dashboard.
9. Osnapz
Osnapz is a social media recognition and rewards platform which integrates with foursquare to display your foursquare badges, along with badges from your other social media sites. Osnapz also runs the foursquare user list, which displays the top 300 foursquare users in the world based on number of mayorships, badges, friends, checkins, checkin days and venues visited.
10. Social Great
People vote with their feet. Socialgreat tells you which hot spots are great according to a near real-time feed of location data. Use this app to check which spots are the most popular this hour, day,week, month or year.
Twitter: melaniekissell
June 13, 2010 at 6:58 am | Permalink
So, what do you think, Fiona?
I’m not familiar with Foursquare at all ( although I’ve certainly been hearing all the Buzz!). Do you think Foursquare will ever become more popular than than the “Big 3″ social networking sites?
Foursquare seems to be gathering some steam versus moss!
Melanie
#blog30
Twitter: fionamceachran
June 14, 2010 at 12:28 am | Permalink
@Melanie Kissell, Hi Melanie, I think Foursquare has great potential, I have used it a little, and I think it’s pretty good. But in these times, social media can come and go, and needs to be really special to be considered to have the potential of the “Big 3″. The big brands jumping on board is a good indication that it does have some value, and whether the current huge social networks join forces or develop their own version…. well, we will just have to wait and see…
Still this geo-location/ mobile technology is only going to become more popular.
I really like this blogpost. These are some new social sites that I have not used. Which one do you like the best? Keep us posted. I am going to check out Foursquare now thanks to you.
Twitter: fionamceachran
June 14, 2010 at 12:31 am | Permalink
@Cynthia Charleen, Hi Cynthia, I like the Lunchwalla concept, and Sprout Social looks cool too. It will be interesting to watch and see the feedback of all users of these sites. Let me know how you get along with Foursquare, and thanks for your comment
Twitter: SheilaAtwood
June 13, 2010 at 3:44 pm | Permalink
Now you have really peaked my curiosity. My local tweet buds are into this. Now I have to go see what it is all about. I could use some fun Social Media.
Twitter: fionamceachran
June 14, 2010 at 12:33 am | Permalink
@Sheila Atwood, Hi Sheila, glad to hear I tapped into your curious side
Once you give Foursquare a try, let me know what you think… 
10 Amazing New Foursquare Website Applications http://www.abnormalmarketing.com/2010/06… #blog30
@abnormalmarket Just read your #Foursquare article, from an online only business owner point of view … it’s useless to me right?
@piotrkrzyzek Hi Piotr, Maybe, maybe not – but is #foursquare useful to your clients?
@abnormalmarket Good question, haven’t thought of it that way. Though probably not. 99% are either at home biz or online only #foursquare
RT @abnormalmarket: 10 Amazing New Foursquare Website Applications http://www.abnormalmarketing.com/2010/06… Thanks for the RTs
@plewis021 @icebluebanana …
Twitter: sharisax
June 18, 2010 at 6:33 pm | Permalink
Just stumbledupon your site through this post.
(1) Great site . . . content and clean style.
(2) Regarding Foursquare, however, I downloaded before my trip to Manhattan and had LOTS of problems. Initially I could check in, but lately it hasn’t really worked, i.e., “no authorization” or something like that.
Maybe one of your readers can offer me a tutorial
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Twitter: fionamceachran
June 20, 2010 at 8:30 am | Permalink
@Shari Weiss, Hi Shari, Thank you for your feedback on my website, I really appreciate it
Strange that you had issues with Foursquare on your recent trip. I hope your mobile was compatible, or maybe the application you uploaded on your mobile had a problem?
I think there are a few levels of authorisation… for extra security… but I’ll keep my ears open to hear if anyone else has troubles…
this is another great article and really useful for blogging promotions, these social websites are really doing great help in getting traffic and public approach.
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