With iconic location-based services like Foursquare scrambling to stay relevant, and social media giants, such as Facebook jumping in the location game, there’s been a renewed push for small businesses to use these platforms in their marketing initiatives. But most of the buzz is baseless hype.
Why Your Small Business Should Avoid Location-Based Social Media Marketing
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For platforms such as Foursquare, for every business where this kind of service works, I guarantee you I can find at least ten to twenty businesses where it doesn't. It appeals to a very specific crowd, and thus, a very specific business. The payback just isn't there for most businesses. They'd have more to gain by focusing their resources in other areas.
On a different note...Even services such as Yelp are going to start running into problems. Why? Because there are just way too many reviews, too much information, etc, etc. The model has to change... and it will. If we put the user experience of Amazon, Google, Facebook (and maybe a bit of Apple) into a blender- that is where the Internet is heading. People are going to be increasingly sent select information (and experiences) based on their unique profiles (a combo of their demographics, online connections, online activities, off-line activities, location, and we can ad a few other variables in there just for kicks). This is already starting to happen...
I still hold that there's going to a backlash to all of this- whether actively by people trying to avoid these kinds of services (though it may get harder to do so) or passively, by tuning out all.