
Mobile/Location-Based Marketing Predictions For 2014 From 10 Experts
While I plan to do another “trends” post in early January (see what I had to say for 2013), in this post, I’ve asked several of my...

Putting Facial Recognition Technology To Work For The Consumer: 5 Questions With Facedeals CEO
possible uses; but, one company believes the controversial technology can be a consumer’s best friend, and has an app to prove it....

5 Mobile Trends Marketers Need To Know About
Given that we are a little more than halfway through the year, it feels like it’s the right time to take a step back and look at some of...

Location-Based Listening & Analytics
One of the five predictions in my recent 2013 mobile predictions post was that mobile analytics and measurement would get a seat at the...

10 Tips For Getting The Most Out Of Marketing Via Foursquare
Nearly two years ago, my co-author Mike Schneider and I published a book called Location-Based Marketing for Dummies. At the time,...

The Scoop On Proximity Services Like Sonar
Every year at SXSW Interactive (one of the largest interactive conferences in the world), the question always comes around to which new...

What’s Ahead For Mobile Marketing In 2013
Mobile has started to play a huge role in marketing over the last couple of years, and this year will be no different. In fact, I am...

30 Essential Business Apps For Your Smartphone
Interactive marketing professionals don’t just use mobile to reach their customers — they’re often avid users of the technology...

The Future Of Location-Based Marketing Isn’t Foursquare
Over the last three years, check-in and local search start-up Foursquare has become the face of location-based services. And while the...

Check-In Service Usage Has More Than Doubled In Past 9 Months, Study Says
new Pew Research Center study. Pew’s Internet & American Life Project surveyed more than 2,200 adults earlier this year and found that...

Pinwheel: Flickr Co-Founder’s New Startup Is Part Flickr, Foursquare & Path
Pinwheel is very interesting — but it’s not an original idea. In fact it’s an idea that has been unsuccessfully tried by at least two...

Will Google Latitude Succeed As A Loyalty Platform?
Latitude has millions of users, what the company doesn’t generally talk about is how many of those people are actively engaged with the...

Is The Next Frontier In Social Media Your TV?
Last year, that question was a locational where: a Super Bowl party, at home on the sofa or a local watering hole being the expected...

Google’s Check-In Offers Now Live, At Least On Android Devices
first reported the check-in offers launch earlier today. A Google Places help page explains how the program connects Google Places with...

Google’s Check-in Offers To Be Self-Service Tool
Check-in Offers, the unintentional early product “announcement” and some of the confusion around the news. Check-in Offers are an...

Official: Facebook Grabs Gowalla, Will Deploy Personnel To Timeline
reported this afternoon that Facebook has bought social cityguide and check-in app Gowalla. Gowalla has a presence in roughly 60 cities...





















