Location-Based Services Not Yet Providing ROI For Marketers

Think twice about setting up a Foursquare campaign for your next client: location-based services don’t provide more than a “minimal” impact on the bottom line, according to data obtained by Fast Company.

In fact, a successful promotion from Yelp, Foursquare, Facebook Places or Opentable Spotlight usually provides about a 2% increase in revenue.

The company that provided the data, Applied Predictive Technologies, is a software firm that uses analytics to conduct studies of the effectiveness of social media campaigns.

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