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Drilling Down: Small Businesses and Location-Based Marketing ...

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A weekly roundup of small-business developments.

In this week?s Dashboard roundup of small-business news, we quoted from a blog post in which Brian Honigman, a digital marketing manager for Marc Ecko Enterprises, offers advice on using location-based networks. We went back to Mr. Honigman to dig deeper into how small businesses can use these services. A condensed version of the conversation follows.

Q.

Please explain what a location-based network does.

A.

A location-based network is a social media platform that allows you to share your location with your friends and the public in a variety of ways. Facebook and Twitter allow you to share your location associated with a status or a tweet, while a more heavily location-focused platform like Foursquare or Scvngr allows users to perform a few different tasks with their location, like earn rewards for check-ins or leave tips about their location.

Q.

Can you give us your favorite example of a business using location-based networks creatively?

A.

One creative use of location-based networks would have to be Marc Ecko?s Unlimited Justice campaign against corporal punishment in American schools. Leveraging a custom mobile phone app alongside Foursquare, the initiative aims to draw attention to and ban the use of paddling on schoolchildren. Foursquare tips were used to share facts and figures about paddling at different schools where the practice is still legal. When someone checks in on Foursquare at a school where a tip was left, or nearby that location, the tip pops up in the application sharing something like this: ?Corporal punishment was used 27 times during the 2009-10 school year and 13 times this year. The district honors requests from parents who don?t want their child paddled.? This use of Foursquare serves as a way to draw awareness, give bad press to the school and hopefully someday will help end this form of child abuse across the country.

Q.

Which businesses are best suited for this type of marketing?

A.

I think all businesses are suited for location-based marketing. Many business owners often think these platforms mostly suit business-to-consumer-oriented companies and not those focused on business-to-business, but this simply isn?t the case. Think about using these marketing tools on a more basic level, as a tool for companies focusing on people to people.

Q.

Is having a loyalty-based program the most important reason for a small business to consider location-based marketing?

A.

It?s about building stronger relationships with your customers that?s most important. Loyalty-based programs are more of a means of encouraging the use of Foursquare and other networks by your users, but it?s important to keep in mind that this channel is meant to help take your relationships with customers to new levels.

Q.

Which location-based applications do you use?

A.

I most frequently use Foursquare and Instagram on my smartphone. Both networks are extremely engaging in terms of the content you can interact with and the amount of users active on each network. I use Foursquare daily because it lets me share with my friends where I am and what I?m doing. Most importantly, it lets me see where my friends are, which helps me learn about new bars, restaurants and other locations I should consider checking out. Instagram is also a location-based application I use often because it?s a simple way to share images with my friends about what I?m doing.

Q.

How do these services make money?

A.

Instagram was never able to monetize its service before it was acquired by Facebook. However, Foursquare and other networks are slowly working their way toward monetizing their platforms for merchants. When partners, like American Express for instance, offer deals through Foursquare for users to take advantage of, Foursquare grabs a cut. It?s extremely important for these networks to remain free for users, but also keep in mind the operating costs of such applications can be extremely high and require a steady flow of capital.

Gene Marks owns the Marks Group, a Bala Cynwyd, Pa., consulting firm that helps clients with customer relationship management. You can follow him on Twitter.

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Social Media Marketing for Real Estate (Infographic) | Daily SEO Tip

If you?re a real estate professional, you know that keeping up with the competition means inserting yourself into every possible niche and utilizing every available soapbox in order to get your name, brand and offerings out to potential buyers and sellers. With the rapidly changing face of media and marketing in today?s technologically savvy world, this means making an advertising jump from bus stop benches to far-reaching social media platforms.

Social Media Marketing for Real Estate

Whether you?re an old hand when it comes to social marketing or you?re looking to get started leveraging these goldmines of people for your business, it helps to know what the competition has been up to. Following the included social media infographic, here are some pre-crunched numbers concerning the use of social media by real estate professionals to help keep you in the loop!

Agents Online: Real Estate and Social Media Usage

Real Estate and Social Media Usage

In combining an old profession with a new media platform, real estate agents have lead the way in adopting new technology with a full 84% of agents polled revealing that they are utilizing social media in an effort to further their business and increase their sales. Of the major popular social networks, Facebook takes the cake among among those in the real estate industry, an unsurprising fact given its wild popularity and slew of features for businesses; Twitter runs a distant second.

The Importance of Video: Time to Visit YouTube

Time to Visit YouTube

In a poll of homeowners considering selling their property, 73% stated that they would be more likely to list their property with an agent who offered to create a video tour of their home, proving that the effect of video and popularity of sites like YouTube is not lost on the populace. Despite this revealing statistic, however, only about 12% of real estate agents have a YouTube account attached to their professional efforts. These wildly varying numbers outline an obvious hole in the tactics used by many agents and an area of huge potential for early adopters.

The Realtor.com App: A Game Changer

The Realtor.com App

Apps for smartphones, tablets and other connected mobile devices are all the rage, helping to push the sales of millions of iPhones, iPads and Android smartphones each year. Realtor.com, a popular online listing service, took note and launched its Realtor.com app, a piece of mobile software intended to allow potential buyers to view listings while on the go. The app?s success is undeniable: users spend an average of 16 minutes using it, more than four times the average of other apps, with more than 20,000 property listings viewed per hour.

The Results: Actions Taken Following an Online Search

Actions Taken Following an Online Search

Proving that potential property buyers are highly active once their search begins, results from the same poll reveal that nearly 50% of internet searchers completing their quest with an online tour of a home that interested them; this also stresses the importance of video tours as we mentioned above. With 29% of searchers locating a local agent and a full 21% visiting the property in person, the potential benefits of a strong online presence for real estate agents are made very clear.

Real Estate and Social Media: An Industry Comparison

Real Estate and Social Media: An Industry Comparison

Given the statistics we?ve discussed above, it should come as no surprise that the real estate industry leads in small business usage of almost all popular networks, holding comfortable leads on Facebook, YouTube and email use while making gains on Twitter, WordPress.com and Flickr.

Conclusion

There is no question that real estate agents and their associates are faced with a gold mine of leads where social media platforms are concerned and it?s obvious that this is a recognized fact in the industry. Ask yourself what efforts you?ve made to leverage social media into more business and, whether you?re neck-deep in social accounts or are only considering getting started, make a plan to get online and spread the word about your expertise and what you have to offer to potential property buyers and sellers.

Kate is the social media strategies and professional blogger for VIP Reality Info, the Dallas real estate covering the large range of areas including Fort Worth real estate.

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'Skyfall' Stunt Gone Wrong Leaves Historic Istanbul Shop In Ruins

FROM NEXT MOVIE: Accidents happen, even when the world's greatest spy is involved. James Bond returns to the big screen later this year with "Skyfall," the 23rd movie in the storied franchise, and when it lands, it'll have left a whole lot of destruction in its wake... and not just the fictional blow-up-the-bad-guys kind. Agent [...]

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Sutra? Asks the Experts ? Gender Based Violence | articleshub4.in

Author: SUTRA MAGAZINE

SUTRA? believes that the South African Indian community has for far too long, neglected to acknowledge the reality of Gender Based Violence. We believe that this is an issue that we as a community need to address with the highest priority. South Africa?s women and children need to be sheltered from all forms of harm, and we need to work together to ensure that this is a certainty.
SUTRA? Magazine consults with Lifeline Southern Africa on gender based violence.

How does a woman know when she is in a violent relationship?

When people talk about ?domestic violence?, they usually see it as violence in the home. But, it is more than this. The definition of a ?domestic relationship? includes relationships wherein two people are dating, are separated or divorced, and includes same-sex relationships.
Most people also believe that domestic violence is physical violence. However, there are other types of abuse. Physical abuse includes things like slapping, hitting, shoving, stabbing, burning. There is emotional abuse, which includes things like swearing at her, threats, isolating her from family and friends. Sexual abuse includes rape, indecent assault, making her wear clothes or do sexual acts that make her feel uncomfortable.

When is it too late to get out of a violent relationship?

It is never too late to get out of an abusive relationship. The minute you start feeling uncomfortable in the relationship or feel that your partner?s treatment of you has changed (in a negative way e.g. He has become very possessive); this is the time to take a hard look at your relationship, and try and identify what is different. This may be the time to seek help or decide to end the relationship.

Is it a wifes duty to provide her husband with his conjugal rights?

On the Stop Gender Violence Helpline, the counselors get this comment a lot. We use this as an opportunity to educate these callers on their rights. Nobody has the right to abuse another. However, an abusive partner will often use this statement as an excuse for his behaviour. In actual fact, he is committing sexual abuse when he forces his partner to have sex with him, when she does not feel like it or does not consent.

Does ?marital rape? exist?

Yes, this is a legal term and recognized as a crime in South Africa ? she can lay a charge of marital rape against him if he forces her to have sex without her consent.
No man may force his wife to have sex with him against her will.

What do I do if I am in an abusive relationship and have children?

An abused woman with children needs to know what sort of effect abuse, or even just witnessing the abuse between parents, may have on the child. These parents are setting an example for their children, and are teaching these children how to treat other people. If a boy sees his father abusing his mother, he will learn that this is the way a woman should be treated. This then creates a cycle of violence that regenerates from one generation to another. The only way to ensure this doesn?t happen is to break this cycle.

So, Parents who say that they never fight in front of their children could also be traumatizing their children?

Yes, children are perceptive. They may not be seeing the abuse because they are in another room, but they can hear what is going on, see the physical signs (e.g. their mother?s bruised face) and they can sense the tension and anger in the air. Some signs that the child is traumatized could be: acting out the behaviour that he/she has seen his/her parents exhibiting; bedwetting and nightmares; shouting at the mother; fear and anxiety; social isolation.

For more information, and assistance contact Lifeline Southern Africa on 0800-150-150.

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Mila Kunis Rep Shoots Down Ashton Kutcher Dating Rumor


Thank goodness.

Following troubling chatter that Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher were a lot more than mere former co-stars, the actress' rep has come out and made it very clear: the rumor is not true.

"They're so not dating. They've been friends for years," this Kunis insider told Us Weekly, pointing out that three other people Mila and Ashton for dinner on Sunday, a fact not reported by original source, X17. "Definitely nothing going on there."

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The talk picked up yesterday because Kunis and Kutcher dined together and reportedly shopped for furniture together over the weekend, with a source saying they concluded the day at the actor's mansion.

But it is true they appeared on That 70s Show many years ago and could easily be nothing more than friends as a result of that connection.

Which comes as a relief. Kutcher is a pretty big douchebag. No way he deserves to see more of this body than we do.

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Dashlane Speeds Up The Web With Instant Logins, Automatic Checkout And More

dashlane-logoThe stealthy consumer Internet startup Dashlane, which had raised a $5 million Series A back in September, is today coming out of hiding with the launch of its public release. The company is offering a personal data assistant that aims to speed up access to websites through password-saving and online form-filling features, but, as hinted earlier, there's more to it than that. There are two key features Dashlane offers which put it above the everyday password manager: instant logins and support for automatic checkout on e-commerce sites.

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Sprint tries the subsidized netbook thing again with WiMAX-infused IdeaPad S205s

lenovo ideapad s205s netbook sprintNote to everyone: subsidized netbooks aren't a relic. Not quite yet, anyway. In what has to be one of the more bizarre launches of the year, Sprint has seemingly decided it wise to launch a $199.99 netbook with a mandatory two-year data contract, and better still, the 4G module within favors WiMAX. Just weeks after Sprint affirmed that it was over WiMAX phones, in flies a WiMAX netbook. Brilliant. For those unfazed, the IdeaPad S205s offers up an 11.6-inch panel (1366 x 768), a 1.33GHz dual-core Intel U5600 processor, 2GB of DDR3 memory, a 250GB hard drive, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi module and a six-cell (4400mAh) battery good for around five hours of life. And just so we're clear: it's a netbook, supporting WiMAX (read: not LTE), and it costs $200 with a two-year data contract. And now, you know.

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Surviving The Scramble For San Francisco Office Space

getaroundThe residential real estate bubble isn?t the only real estate challenge facing startups in Silicon Valley. Office space within the city limits is becoming more scarce by the day as tech companies continue their aggressive growth. Relief is on the way, but it isn?t an instant solution. The San Francisco Giants announced a $1.6 billion plan last week that would add 1000 rental units and 1.7 million feet of office space in the 27 acres that is currently being used as their parking lot. That?s wonderful, but construction won?t begin until 2015 and the estimated completion date is 2021.

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