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14 ProTips To Maximize Your Foursquare Experience
Since you’re reading this you are probably a fan of foursquare. How can you maximize your experience to make the most out of this geo-social application? That’s what we asked the participants on #4SqChat to share on Monday night.
Here are 14 ProTips that will make foursquare more fun:
- If you find a foursquare tip you like, Mark it as done. The best tips (most done) rise to the top!
- Good tips at Airports & Stadiums are likely be marked done much more than any other venue.
- Share your good tips on other social networks when you create them.
- Add a comment or question when checking in at a venue to get more engagement from friends!
- Engage with others – comment on check-ins! (Easy to do from the web on foursquare.com)
- Post photos with your check-ins to encourage conversation!
- Notice when a friend checks in nearby
- Out with a group? Be the first check in and get tagged every time they tweet their check-in OR be the last to at mention them.
- Create a list of venues to curate the foursquare experience
- Use the Explore feature to find venues you’ve never checked into before.
- Follow brand pages to get those sponsored badges.
- Business owners – claim your venues. Great data provided in foursquare’s insights
- Be careful who you friend. Please don’t send out requests to everyone you follow on Twitter.
- Get the latest foursquare knowledge: foursquare’s blog, aboutfoursquare.com, 4sqDay.com and here!
What are some of your favorite ProTips for using foursquare?
PS – Thanks to these people for the great ideas listed above!
@aboutfoursquare @4sqINDY @airthom @dwaynekilbourne @eric_andersen @colinbrauns @EMcCutchan @akaCarioca @RobinsonAndy @hust0058 @TBlessedStanley @TSBandito @UZMPhantom @MayhemStudios @superben @VouxCroux @Stevious @_MadGasser @McGarty15 @adivari@ntalukdar3 @Plattonian
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From Check-in to Check-out: Video with Foursquare Founder
Posted by Hust0058 in 4SqTIPS, Businesses on July 14, 2011
We just came across this YouTube video Q&A with Dennis Crowley, foursquare’s founder. Dennis adds some good, recent insights into the foursquare platform, foursquare’s growth, foursquare content and how brands are using foursquare.
What questions would you ask if you had 3 minutes and 24 seconds with foursquare’s team?
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10 Ways Organizations Can Maximize Foursquare Tips
Posted by Hust0058 in 4SqTIPS, Businesses on July 12, 2011
This post originally appeared on Andy’s blog: Social Media for Social Organizations.
Foursquare is my favorite social network because it intersects with location. Nonprofits, associations, and social organizations can extend the reach of their organization by using foursquare’s tips that are left at venues. When a user checks in to a venue, a tip from that venue will appear in the app. Tips are a growing component of foursquare - accentuated by the new “Explore” tab.
Tips can be created online at foursquare.com or in the mobile app.
Organizations can maximize their presence on foursquare with these tips about tips:
- Blend information about the venue and your organization (Stay relevant!)
- Share something insightful or interesting or amusing… [NWF Example]
- Be “evergreen” – a tip that won’t have an expiration date
- Think “do-able” to inspire users to mark “I’ve done this”
- Leave tips at venues that relate to your target audience
- Add a link back to a related blog post on your site [DigIN Example]
- Include a picture with your tip
- Embed foursquare tips on your website [VisitPA example]
- Promote your tips on Facebook / Twitter
- Thank users for completing your tip (new notifications in the app or by email)
- Bonus: Run a campaign to drive users to complete your tips during a certain time period.
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Linking foursquare with Facebook Profile
Posted by dwaynekilbourne in 4SqTIPS, Foursquare Help on May 30, 2011
As many know, foursquare allows its users to link their Twitter and Facebook profiles. For many, this feature is great; these users like the option to share check-ins on these two major networks. Personally, I have both (Twitter and Facebook) linked to my foursquare profile, but I have heard a number of people experience an issue with their Facebook link. Some users have had their Facebook profile connected for some time, and the share functionality was working very well since the day they linked the two profiles together, but many have found that the link somehow became broken. In these cases, a foursquare user would check-in somewhere with the Facebook share option engaged and think he or she was successfully pushing that check-in to his/her Facebook profile. Later, he or she would look back at the Facebook profile to find nothing posted. Many savvy foursquare users would then check their settings to make sure that everything looked right, and many of them would notice that the connection seemed to be working. So, why wasn’t it posting correctly? Well, I am not sure if it was an issue with the Facebook profile, with the foursquare profile, or a combination of the two, but I have a simple way to fix this issue. To resolve this issue, I have found the following steps to be successful:
1. Using your desktop browser of choice, log into your Facebook profile
2. Using a new browser tab, log into your foursquare profile
3. Click on the Settings link (located in the upper right side of foursquare profile page)
4. Once on the setting page, scroll down to the Linked Accounts section
5. Click on the “change” link that appears under the Linked To [your Facebook Profile name] area
6. Click the “UNLINK YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT” link
7. Finally, reconnect your Facebook profile in the same way you did long ago (accepting all Facebook sharing permission requests)
Essentially, this refreshes your connection, and your next check-in share should work just fine. Of course, I highly recommend that you give it a try as soon as you can so you know that it is working. For example, if you check-in at your home, go ahead and share it on Facebook. If the check-in works, you can always go back and delete that Facebook update in your newsfeed. Well, I hope that helps. As always, keep those foursquare questions coming; let us at Foursquare Help know if this solution worked for you!
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I Want That Badge: Super Duper Swarm and Epic Swarm
It’s that time of year again! We’re all headed to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) to see the greatest spectacle in racing, the Indianapolis 500. While most of you have your Swarm Badge, and some of you even have your Super Swarm badge, with a few key steps and a careful check-in, we can be the proud owner of a Super Duper Swarm Badge.
The key thing about these badges is which venue to check in to. There are countless venues in and around IMS. I have everything from the venue itself to sections in the grandstand. When you first get to IMS, you may check in to those subvenues if you want to, but remember you can only check in three times for every fifteen minutes. About a half an hour before the race starts, pull out your phone and check into “Indianapolis Motor Speedway” on foursquare. If you’re lucky enough to be able to find it on your cell phone app, it’s the only venue that the History Channel has the top tip in the area. If you have to check in from the mobile site (I had to last year) https://foursquare.com/mobile/ it’s the venue with the following info:
4790 W 16th St
Hulman Bl at 5th St
Speedway, IN 46222
(317) 484-6572
Another way you can check in is clicking on our venue (that we’ll be checked in to) and check in with us. Remember with group check in, badges like the swarm badge are only one check in for the day, but you have to be checked in when it reaches the various swarm sizes (50, 250, 500, and 1000) or after it reaches the various swarm sizes (50, 250, 500, and 1000). Also, your check in will only last three hours, so check into the main IMS venue right before the race and enjoy.
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ChatRecap: Making the Most of Tips on Foursquare
We’ve been very pleased with the participation and engagement during #4SQCHAT that takes place on Twitter every Monday at 9p ET. In an effort to make these hour chats more meaningful, we’re going to start recapping the chat on our blog – featuring some favorite participants their comments.
Monday, May 16th: Foursquare Tips
What makes a good foursquare tip?
- Sharing the best nuggets of your favorite spots
- Unexpected, unusual, little-known suggestions and ideas!
- Lasting, relevant information
- Fun facts
- For restaurants, something off the menu
How do you use tips for personal use?
- Leave tips that reflect your personality (or your personal brand)
- Be human
- Share things that your friends would like
How can businesses & brands use foursquare tips?
- Businesses/Brands should show that they are human
- Leave insider tips at relevant venues
- Link tips back to the business blog/website if you can give more detail
What can you do to promote your tips?
- Cross promote with your social sites – share on Twitter and Facebook
- Link or embed tips onto your website
What would you like to improve about tips?
- It would be nice to know when someone has done your tip
- The ability to comment on tips
- Potentially renaming the “mark tip as done” button: Thanks/Like
- A way to edit older tips
- A better way to flag inappropriate tips
Four #4sqChat All-Stars: @eric_andersen, @ELFENIX3000, @toby_metcalf, & @dwaynekilbourne
What additional thoughts/comments do you have on the subject? Other suggestions for improving future ChatRecap posts?
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How Businesses Can Create Foursquare Marketing Campaigns
Posted by Hust0058 in 4Sq Info, 4SqTIPS, Businesses on March 17, 2011
Businesses can create savvy social media campaigns with the new foursquare 3.0 specials. Any business that has claimed their venue(s) can create their campaign(s). That’s right! You can offer more than one special at a given venue. Simply log in and click “Manager Tools” to start.
What are the opportunities and how can use them? Read the rest of this entry »
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What Businesses Can Do With The New Foursquare Analytics
Posted by CBanks in 4Sq Info, 4SqTIPS, Businesses on March 15, 2011
Earlier this year, foursquare unveiled more information for businesses looking to partner with the location-based service. Now, the company has announced that it is offering a whole new analytics dashboard to internet marketers.
The new analytics dashboard lets internet marketers and business owners have easier access to information from all of their venues. This new management system makes it simple to offering multiple Specials at multiple venues. Plus, marketers will be able to see statistics about their campaigns as those special launch.
This data can easily be downloaded as a .csv file that shows the following information by day: Read the rest of this entry »
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Pictures Now Show On Facebook When You Check In On Foursquare
It has been fun to add pictures while checking in on foursquare. Here’s a new change that we recently noticed on Facebook. (Some of you may have noticed before us!) Instead of having to click the link to foursquare.com to see the picture, now the image seamlessly appear the status update replacing the map that would normally appear.
I’m really happy that this has happened. I’d sometimes click on links showing [PIC] but this now removes that extra step. Hopefully this starts to work on Twitter soon!
Here’s a recent example that caught our attention.
Are you more likely to share your check ins with pictures on Facebook?
UPDATE – Thanks Brian, for letting us know this has been around for a while.
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#4SqTIPS: Indianapolis #Foursquare Ambassadors
Foursquare has started shipping the Ambassador Cards in the mail, and at 4SqINDY we want to make sure that our local Foursquare Ambassadors have the tools to tell local businesses what Foursquare has to offer. Justin Kadis has designed a simple deck to walkthrough with local businesses to help them get a better understanding of what Foursquare is and how they can use it. You can browse through the deck below or you can download it here (PowerPoint) if you’d like to modify and use it.
Also to our local Ambassadors we would like to open our Indianapolis Special Offers page to you! We want to use that page to continue to show how Foursquare is being used right hear in our backyard. We’ve also set up a Twitter list so you can get in contact with other Foursquare Ambassadors more easily. If you want to be added to this list please comment on this post or at reply to us on Twitter at @4SqINDY. We’ve also started a Facebook Group for you, the Foursquare Ambassadors, to share tips with each other.
What other resources can we provide to help you make Foursquare more awesome in Indy?
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