Location based softeware works really well for travellers and business people. Brand You is an idea from Tom Peters. Here are 56 ways to promote your brand or business using Social Media.. This in conjuction with other softeware not just Foursquare. This will make YOU or your business very TALKABLE.

1. Check in, 56 ways to be famous or your
make you are your business famous on
Foursquare and Gowalla and other
social networks
1) Register on Google businesses.
Mention your FS and Gowalla
presence. Google is God.
2)Google Adwords. Spend on your
business could be thrown out. Some
spend could be thrown out.
3)List in Google Business where you
can. It is free and gets crawled.
4) Crowd Mountain Searches top SEO
sites. “Be” in these spaces to chat
about YOU. Your award winning pizza
or your lastest “thing”.
5)SEO link building with top linked
these sites and cool offerings.
6) Set up a Facebook page for your
Customers, “call the customer king.”

2. Declare raise independence!! Make
them feel good!!
7)Engage with people and build
community, around a blog.
8)Do some Foursquare mentions on the
page. Do some on social media sites.
9) ---Book a day with you or get an award
winning pizza with you. Synch
Gowalla with your FB Page. Get a
badge and put around “your social
media empire”.
10) Brand your Twitter and Friend Feed
pages. Check if this all speaks to who
you are!! Serious!!
11) Branding social media logo is not
always the best idea. Think about
showing your employees.
12)Upload video and pictures to both
pages. Brand the video a bit with
Viddler.
13) Brand all social media pages with your
some logos but it may serve you better
in the longrun to have a picture of you
on these pages. “Especially if you

3. work in large organization” Remember
sell you first!!
14) Jpegs and other documents add to your
“charm”.
15)Embed video. Show in your
thoughtful leader pose and be a
thoughtleader. Show your award
winning pizza.
16)Hire a photographer for the profile
pics.
17) Write about you what you like and
especially “who you are”. Do that
some more. But if you cannot say it in
8 words forget about it.
18) Gowalla recommendations, there is a
note feature, if you have many events.
Put a “badge” into your website
especially if you travel a lot, “do not
do that so much it sucks for the planet”
19) Think virality. Create a “link between
Website” the ecosystem of YOU. Web
Badges. ----Create Virality.
20)List yourself on Google Businesses, I
said that before, list on blog catalogues

4. and directories. It works much better
than you would think.
21) Clarify status and define USP or UPV
-“unique promise of value” to people
buying your award winning pizza or
you.
22) Take charge of the strategy. But have
fun post“being social”- make that
artful and worthy of attention.
23)“Listen”, “Listen”, “Listen” oh yeah
yeah and “Listen”.
24)No selling just information, even if
your in sales.
25)Work on Google rankings a little FS
and Gowalla will help.
26) List in online tourist spots and make
FS and Gowalla posters. Again
“Google is God” but “marketing” is
queen to many pawns.
27)Linkbuilding and friend up.
28)Leave Comments and links on blogs.
Do that again! And Again!
29) Create a link between Websites,
Web Badges. ----Create Virality--

5. 30)Gowalla and Foursquare mentions
include the two other venues you
might own.
31) “Promote” other people or things i.e
Heading to the The Jolly Rancher.”,
“tequila tanker” or whomever.
32)Create a specials list for regulars and
Mayors if you want that pizza selling.
33) Gowalla and Foursquare people, (they
have to be become a Facebook fan).
“Make an Ask”.
34) Have a 1000 Fans goal for this year or
other. Have a goal, go!
35) Show the people that cook your pizza,
write your speeches, polish your shoes.
You are nothing without “your
entourage”.
36) Make Foursquare posters for clients
if you are “marketing”. We all are!!!
37)Put these in Youth hostels, train
stations on coffee shops for on the fly-
business people.
38) “Listen” to customers comments
39) Use Social Media sites to generate a
ZZZ“buzz” ZZZ around you.

6. 40)Respond to customer comments.
Starbucks early blogs had only
negative comments and no responses.
41)“Customer Service is King”.
42)Recommend YOU but better yet get
others to do it.
43)“Recommendations”
44) Call some famous friends, we all
know someone!
45)Make and continue promotions and
recommendations.
46) Ask people to link to the website.
47)Think some more
48)Use Foursquare, Gowalla as much as
you can. Use it!!.
49)Use camera and film or photo on all
sites including FS and Gowalla. Chat
about the pics!! Serious!! Do this!!
50)Find out what the competition are
doing and do something that is better
and more original. Using more social
media, be edgier and be more you..

7. 51)“Think Authenticity” live it, breath it,
feel it and be it!!
52) Update the websites. Create some
more virality for the sites, use back-
links, link to news stories about your
thing. “Have a thing.”.