2. Some stuff to talk about
Explicit:
• What is check-in and why do we give a %$@#?
• Location platforms
• 5 things location can do for you
• Setting up goals for location in your content strategy
• Deciding the message to push into social spaces
• Aligning your message with your brand pillars
• Creating opportunities for engagement beyond a checkin
Themes:
• Choosing platforms that will suit your needs
• Choosing variables to test and optimize
• If this is not valuable to you, please inject your thoughts
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4. WHAT IS A CHECK-IN AND WHY
DO WE GIVE A %$@#?
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5. What is a check-in?
• It’s an attachment of a person to a place or thing or idea
at a point in time
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6. Why do people do it?
• Earn rewards / see what happens next
• To get / create recommendations
• Loyalty to a business
• To be the mayor
• To tell people where they are
• #give2get
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8. Semantic
• Making every piece of data useful
• Structuring data so that it is expected
• The way that I capture information around a piece of data
is the same everywhere and therefore can be used
anywhere.
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9. Semantic: unstructured data
• Museum of Science
• Science Museum
• Boston Museum of Science
• The Science Museum
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10. Semantic: A place is more than just a location
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11. Context
• The location of a person (or their intent to be in a location)
provides powerful context.
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12. Unnatural Behavior
• Whip out phone when you get to a place
• Find the application you want to check in on
• Open the app
• Find the place
• Click the place
• Check in
• Look for tips and offers
• Repeat for n apps
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24. 5 things location can do for you
• build brand awareness
• create customer advocacy
• acquire new customers
• retain the ones you have
• enhance audience intelligence
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25. Golden rules of LBS
• Stake your claim to places pages in every system. Do not
be afraid to try more than one.
• Connect with mayors, ambassadors, leaders, duchesses,
chiefs, poobahs and sheriffs.
• Test, learn and optimize – especially while costs are low
with risk low and return potential high.
• Follow the Ben & Jerry’s Rule
• Be creative and build your own thing using an API*
• you might not be able to do this ALWAYS, but don’t start from scratch when you build. That’s insane. Use
foursquare, google places, facebook places, simplegeo or another existing platform
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26. SETTING UP GOALS FOR LOCATION IN
YOUR CONTENT STRATEGY
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27. Setting up goals for location
• We begged for location.
• We got it. Now what?
• You can go direct or indirect (or both)
• Control for location as a variable
• Allow location to provide context
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28. Goals: enhanced brand engagement
• Align your brand with places
• Extend your engagement strategy by being where your
customers and prospects are
• Further pay off your brand strategy
• Measure the impact through
• Follower delta
• Social mentions
• Interactions
• Unlocks
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31. Deciding the message to push into social spaces
• Social Media 101
• Go back to your brand’s roots
• Take a step back from your product
• Act like a person at a party
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32. Mike, you’re talking like a consultant (d-bag)
SORRY ABOUT THAT
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34. Pick Places That Match Your Brand
• Align your brand to places that your audience goes
• Your places
• Public places
• Competitive places
• Analyze your competitor’s audience
• Put content in spots where they’re likely to be.
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35. Pick Messages That Are Contextually Relevant
• Tell people what to do
• Be precise
• Combine variables like place and time
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36. Hugo Boss foursquare campaign
• Left tips at museums to promote artists.
• Users who checked in at Hugo Boss stores in New York City
received a free catalogue and a chance to participate in a
raffle.
• Users also received an art guide with information about art
and other places of cultural interest.
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38. USA Today foursquare Page
• USA launched a branded foursquare page where they
leave tips at various travel hotspots and hidden treasures
across the country.
• They have a 10 Great Places feature and relevant tips on
restaurants, shopping areas, bike trails, historic landmarks,
and nightlife.
• About 300 tips left at various locations across the US.
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39. Engagement beyond the check in
• Content
• Photos
• Tips
• Recommendations
• Activities
• Challenges
• Games
• Rewards
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41. AT&T and Toms Shoes Gowalla Campaign
• Created a unique reward (going to the 1 millionth shoe
drop) for users who checked in at various technology and
apparel stores.
• Offered rewards such as smart phones and netbooks from
AT&T.
• Results
• 5,500+ people entered
• 25% chose to share the news via Facebook and Twitter
• 2,000+ checked into AT&T stores
• 950+ likes related to the Gowalla, Toms Shoes and AT&T program on Facebook
• 522,000+ users reached via more than 700 tweets following their check-ins
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42. Buffalo Wild Wings SCVNGR Campaign
• Users do challenges on SCVNGR for prizes such as free
soda or Buffalo Wild Wings gift cards.
• Challenges include taking a picture with a fan.
• All of the points go toward the grand prize of a trip to see
the NBA finals with Scottie Pippen.
• Results
• Ongoing campaign through March.
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49. Murphy USA Whrrl Campaign
• Designed a location-based loyalty program.
• Made a Murphy USA Whrrl society to
• Reward most loyal customers
• Build a customer community
• Activate customers in the real world
• Promote its brand through social media
• Virtual scratch tickets offer members a chance to win prizes.
• Results:
• 44% of society members had never been to Murphy USA before
• Society members visit Murphy USA on average 4x per month while 50% of
society members visit 6x per month (the industry average is 2x per month)
• The average purchase by society members is $30 (the industry average is
$15)
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50. thank you
#techi
WATCH TECH INTERRUPTION
DEBUTING AT #SXSW.
PRESENTED BY @PEPSICO
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