JeradHill's Blog

The other day I posted an audio blog about using social location sharing apps to promote your business. I decided to walk through the apps on my iPhone to give you an example of how to do this. The apps I suggest using in the video are Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp and Brightkite.
The great thing about [...]

Everybody is on Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Yelp, so where are you? These are great tools to spread the word about your business and help promote it.
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Mentioned Links:
http://Foursquare.com
http://Gowalla.com
http://Brightkite.com
http://Yelp.com
Jerad’s Foursquare Profile: http://foursquare.com/user/jeradhill
Jerad’s Gowalla Profile: http://gowalla.com/users/jeradhill
Jerad’s Brightkite Profile: http://brightkite.com/people/jeradhill
Jerad’s Yelp Profile: http://jeradhill.yelp.com
iPhone App Downloads:
Foursquare for iPhone
Gowalla for iPhone
Brightkite [...]

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Backup
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