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Do I Foursquare or Gowalla?

May 10, 2010 4 comments

Location based social networking is on the rise.  Though you may not have heard of Foursquare or Gowalla their growth has exploded across the US and some of Canada.  Combining gaming elements and using the location provided by the GPS in your smart phones, these applications allow you to “checkin” to places to earn points.  Just this past weekend Foursquare exceeded 40 million checkins.

Why should you care?

When visiting a new city or wanting to eat at a different restaurant, you can see where people have been checking in to and what they have recommended to eat.  Venues have a feature where you can add a tip for others to see when they checkin. Example: On Foursquare, if you checkin at Wasabi in the Normanview Crossing (in Regina), you will see my “tips” which notify you that the Bonnie and Rose roll is my favorite roll and the Roll-Bento is my favorite Bento box.

Now anywhere I go that I experience something amazing (like the Bonnie and Rose Roll at Wasabi) I can leave a note for the next person who checks in.

For business:

It doesn’t take a business strategy jedi to see how a business could benefit
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Wasabi

March 03, 2010 3 comments

I love sushi.  My favorite place is Wasabi at the Normanview crossing.  The other day I wasn’t sure what time they closed so I decided to Google them.  I couldn’t find anything, not a phone number, address, nothing.  Now all I want is the basics; hours open, location, menu (with prices), God forbid a testimonial or two!  Go ahead, try find them on the internet.

I know they can get all this done with minimal to no work at all on their behalf for $1,000-$1,500.  So what’s stopping them? Probably the cost.  But if the average person spends a minimum $10 it would take 100 people who found their site online and convinced them to come thru the door to achieve the site’s break even point. What would you do?

They could take it one step further and have pictures of everything on the menu (their menu is HUGE) or have a Sushi tutorial, teach me about it, give me something more than I’d expect to find on their site. But first things first get a site.

The amazing thing about this Wasabi is that it has a beautiful interior and is the most inexpensive in town (unverified) but a bento
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