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Posted on September 2, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Infographic: Why do you follow companies on Twitter?

As the infographic boom continues, here’s an interesting infographic showing why people follow companies on Twitter. The infographic comes from the results of a survey by ExactTarget in which more than 1,500 consumers list their top motivations for following brands on Twitter. Take a look.

Why do we follow companies on Twitter
Via: Social Media Graphics

The infographic was created by Gerardo Obieta, G_Obieta

Why do you follow companies on Twitter? Let me know in the comments

Posted on August 27, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

16 SXSW 2011 Panels to Vote For! The NC + friends edition

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! The SXSW Panel Picker closes today and there are thousands of panels to choose from. I’m sure by now you’re tired of all the “please vote for my panels” tweets, Facebook messages and Twitter direct messages but don’t worry it’s almost over. There tons of SXSW panels from friends across the [...]

Posted on August 26, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

7 Awesome Foursquare infographics showing how users are collecting badges and checking in.

Earlier this week I posted 9 location-based infographics showing how and why the mobile world is checking in, not including a series of Foursquare infographics I’ve seen around the web. Foursquare data and how people are using the platform ranges from how many checkins are created by various communities to what if President Obama used [...]

Posted on August 26, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Facebook Places: What are Facebook users saying about Places one week later

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! It has been one week since Mark Zuckerberg along with the Facebook Location team stood on stage, told us scary stories about sharing life experiences around locations and announced Facebook Places. The announcement sent ripples through the location space as Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp and MyTown each had a moment to share [...]

Posted on August 25, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

What location-based services, brands and marketers need to know from 11 tweets of #GEOChat one

Original graphic by Jess3! Yesterday kicked off the first #GEOChat about all things location on Twitter. It started at 2:00 P.M. EST and lasted to 3:00 P.M. During #GEOChat I asked four different questions and received a lot of great feedback from location-based fanboys/ladies and a few from existing location platforms such as Pegshot and [...]

Posted on August 25, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

5 recent location-based check-in specials from businesses using TriOut

TriOut For Business (TFB) is a location-based check-in analytics dashboard for businesses who would like to communicate with their customers. TriOut for business also works as a GEO customer relationship management (CRM) platform that allows businesses to set up first time check-in specials, loyalty programs and coupons. I like to call it “Google Analytics” for [...]

#GEOChat Starts today on Twitter at 2:00 P.M. EST, Discussing all things location
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9 location-based infographics showing how and why the mobile world is checking in
Three FaceTime calls in one day due to more friends with the iPhone 4

10 iPhone QR Code Reader Applications to get you ready for the QR marketing madness

Photo via: QR Anywhere It seems that major brands are jumping on the QR Code bandwagon. Earlier this year it was Calvin Klein, now FOX Network has announced that viewers can gain instant access to content for FOX shows via FOX CODES (custom QR codes for Fox). Just last week I saw Gap use QR [...]

Raleigh SEO discusses Content Strategy FTW

Last night I attended a SEO meetup in Raleigh, NC led by Phil Buckley (@1918). Some of Phil’s notes were from Kristina Halvorson‘s book and presentations on content strategy. As the session was wrapping up I mentioned how I have live video stream Kristian’s SXSW talk, so I decided to repost it. It’s a great [...]

Facebook Places: What are Facebook users saying about Places one week later

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! It has been one week since Mark Zuckerberg along with the Facebook Location team stood on stage, told us scary stories about sharing life experiences around locations and announced Facebook Places. The announcement sent ripples through the location space as Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp and MyTown each had a moment to share [...]

Raleigh SEO discusses Content Strategy FTW

Last night I attended a SEO meetup in Raleigh, NC led by Phil Buckley (@1918). Some of Phil’s notes were from Kristina Halvorson‘s book and presentations on content strategy. As the session was wrapping up I mentioned how I have live video stream Kristian’s SXSW talk, so I decided to repost it. It’s a great [...]

Facebook Places Poll results: Will users check-in with Facebook Places?

Facebook places was announced yesterday and I created a poll to see if my social graph would use it. I asked the following question:”Will you check-in with Facebook Places?” with the options of: No, I’m going to stick with my current location-based app? Yes, I’m going to use Foursquare, Yelp or Gowalla to check-in & [...]

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