November 2010
22 posts
Walk In For Your Chance To Win over 31 MILLION...
Starting TODAY until Dec 24, walk in and check in to our partner stores for your chance to win awesome prizes. Visit Best Buy, American Eagle, Target, Wet Seal, Macy’s, Sports Authority, and Simon Malls to get entries each day :)
The grand prize winner will win 4,000,000 kickbucks and will need to rent a truck to carry everything home. What can you get with 4 million kickbucks? We...
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300+ Deals For Your Black Friday!
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Hello Black Friday: Get double and even triple kickbucks for walking into Target, Best Buy, Macy’s, Sports Authority, American Eagle, Wet Seal today! And find 300+ amazing deals in shopkick. :)
A High-Tech Edge on Black Friday
Wall Street Journal, 11/24/2010 By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
Debbie Young has a secret weapon in her quest for Black Friday’s best deals: her iPhone.
Using an app, or program, on her phone as a guide, the grandmother of seven from Counce, Tenn., plans to march into Toys “R” Us, Target and a few other retailers and grab just the gifts she needs on the...
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Wet Seal joins shopkick! :) This weekend we should have enough choices for earning kickbucks with shopkick on the iPhone or on Android phones: at Target, Wet Seal, Best Buy, Macy’s, American Eagle, Sports Authority, and many malls… Enjoy!
Wet Seal, Target ramp up mobile LBS
to drive customer acquisition, loyalty
By Dan Butcher
November 19, 2010
The Wet Seal Inc. and Target are...
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Earn Location-Based Rewards With
Shopkick for Android
Jennifer Van Grove, Mashable
Location-based rewards platform Shopkick is now available for Android users, allowing them to automatically check in at partner retailers to earn points and rewards.
Android users can download the newly released application from the Android Market and join their iPhone-toting pals in the mobile shopping...
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Shopkick Brings In-Store Mobile Coupons To Android Phones
Leena Rao, TechCrunch
11.18.2010
Fresh off a partnership with Target, Shopkick is bringing its geo-coupon system to Android phones with a free app. Now Android users can access in-store coupons from Best Buy, Macy’s, Target, American Eagle, Sports Authority and more.
Instead of checking in, as you would with a geo app like Foursquare...
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Target Rolls Out Shopkick’s Geo-Coupon System To 242 Stores
Leena Rao, TechCrunch 5 hours ago
After announcing a partnership with Best Buy a few months ago, Shopkick is debuting a new implementation of its geo-coupon system at Target today. Users can now unlock coupons via Shopkick’s app in 242 stores in the Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York City, and San...
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Shopkick Is Now Available For Android Phones!
For all those who have been waiting, it’s finally here! Shopkick is now available for Android! We’ve been working long hours and weekends to get it out for you guys to enjoy in time for the holidays. Happy shopping!
Cry for Help: Best Buy Sale this Weekend!
Men, women are calling for your help. What do you want for the holidays? Please, they’re dying to know. What’s the hottest thing this holiday season?
See, women tend to understand bags, shoes, make-up, and clothes much better than what’s the hottest new TV or game. That’s why they always buy a wallet, cologne, clothes, or shoes for men. It’s not because they actually think you men will like...
What’s Hot for This Retail Season
Your Rundown of This Year’s Key Tech Trends
By Natalie Zmuda and Kunur Patel Published: November 08, 2010
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Smart retailers will be layering plenty of digital and social media into this year’s holiday campaigns, as they should. Major retailers now boast hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of likes...
Gearing Up for the Cold: Macy's Sale Ends Today!
This winter season, while we’re anticipating a windy tea party in DC, many of us will also be preparing for below average temperatures in ¾ of the country.
Guys, good luck stuffing long johns underneath those extra skinny jeans. Something tells me you’re either going to have to stay away from Thanksgiving pie or go buy not so skinny ones, a rarity now a days. As for those plunging v-necks,...
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Invoke Live! Social Commerce Report
Very interesting report on Location & Social Commerce - check out slides 8, 28, and 32 :)
Open-Toe Boots…Seriously?
I don’t know about you, but lately I’ve been seeing a lot of open-toe boots in stores. If you’re like me, then you’re wondering what in the world designers are thinking. I have no idea what temperature they keep catwalks at, but I’d like to see those models walking through several inches of snow in furry boots that show off their perfect pedicures. Not that haute couture’s main...
shopkick Get-the-Vote-Out exclusive: Save 20%...
Good Idea, Good Deals
Location-based technology gets your customers to walk through your doors.From Nov 2010 | By Fred Minnick Consumers love a good deal, and that’s exactly what shopkick is trying to deliver.
shopkick, a location-based iPhone shopping application, has taken geo-location technology and combined it with coupon and loyalty strategies.
It’s a location-based shopping app, not a...
October 2010
17 posts
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Halloween Hauuuuunt With shopkick!
Get our 3 special Halloween badges this weekend! How? Everyday till Sunday one little green monster is hiding in one of the stores. You can find them hiding in the offers tab. Slide through to find them :)
Miami Turns Up the Heat: shopkick
Launches Rewards Simply for Walking
in With HP and Best Buy at Miami
HEAT’s Opening Game
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ — shopkick, the location-based shopping app that rewards shoppers simply for visiting stores, arrives today in Miami. The inaugural program, in partnership with Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) and HP (NYSE: HPQ) provides...
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New Bonus Set - Help Prevent Child Abuse!
Collect all 3 bonus pieces to earn a donation to Prevent Child Abuse America- made possible by Citi! Prevent Child Abuse America will work to ensure that all children are raised in caring communities, free from abuse and neglect.
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shopkick Paparazzi Contest Winners!
Last week we asked you to send in your photos for our paparazzi contest and we’re happy to announce our winners!
Tina L. from California! Dane M. from Hawaii!
Darlene D. from Oklahoma Carl B. from Idaho
And Dara L. from Hawaii!
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Instant shopkick Exclusive: 15% off your purchase...
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Solving the Last Inch Problem: A Conversation With Shopkick
By: Mike Boland 21 October 2010
A theme has emerged from many companies we’ve talked to lately; building tools to drive and influence consumer decisions at (or nearer to) the point of purchase. This isn’t terribly new and of course is a function of the portability of the mobile device. But it’s evolving quickly.
Conversations...
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Users of the Week - Denise and David!
This week we feature a mom and son with a great sense of humor that love to compete with each other in shopkick! They are a military family, stationed in Texas at the moment, and like to use shopkick everywhere they go.
When asked about what they like about shopkick, they say
The free items, of course ;) And the new levels, collections and badges. We argue about who drives when we go places...
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Limited Quantity Special: iTunes!
The response for this reward has been overwhelming and we’re bringing back a limited quantity (only 250 are available!) this week! :) Let’s go rock out!
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Newly Rotated Products!
We like to rotate our products from our scan partners every couple of weeks - so we have a great set this week that you may have missed earlier. Scan all of these at your local grocery store to get 140 kickbucks in one visit! Also, stay tuned for new Best Buy products later this week :)
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User of the Week - Deb Maxwell!
This week we feature Deb from Pennsylvania! Deb is one busy lady- she’s a proud mom of four, a loving wife, she works in design in the manufacturing world and also helps do whatever it takes to help her advertising business succeed with her husband.
When asked about shopkick, Deb says
Almost every Saturday my husband and I run errands, go out to eat, shop, etc. So he drives, and...
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New Reward! Get $25 for hotels for just 650...
shopkick just scored you another fabulous deal - for just 650 kickbucks you get $25 for hotel stays.
What are you waiting for? You know you want to go take a vacation with all your earned kickbucks ;)
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5 Check-in Apps to Check Out
By Richard MacManus / October 11, 2010
One of the leading trends this year has been check-in apps. Typically mobile apps, they allow you to announce that you’re at a place or doing something. The excitement started with the location check-in apps: Brightkite, Foursquare, Gowalla, Google Latitude and others. But over the past year the practice of...
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User of the Week - Bridget Allen!
This week we feature Bridget from Missouri. Bridget is 26 years old, has been married to Jameson for 4 years and has an adorable 2 year old son. Her degree in Elementary Education and her career as a substitute teacher allows her to spend as much time as possible with her son and family. Bridget uses shopkick with her son and says
I use shopkick everywhere!!! At home- out shopping- at work!...
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APP of the week - Shopkick
shopkick is the first mobile app that gives you rewards and offers simply for walking into stores. You can collect kickbucks and bonuses at nearly all places around you.
Checking in: You can collect kickbucks for checking in to many places around you!
Walking in: Collect kickbucks just forWALKING INTO Best Buy, Macy’s, American Eagle, Sports Authority and...
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Check-in apps offer smart phone users rewards
Benny Evangelista, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, October 4, 2010
These days, James Crenshaw enjoys walking into a store, launching his favorite check-in app and scanning product barcodes with his iPhone.
And it’s not just because he can earn some intangible mayoral title or bragging rights with his friends - Crenshaw’s...
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New Products Available To Scan!
We know you love to scan products- check out the latest bunch at your local grocery store! You could rack up to 450 kickbucks in just ONE visit :)
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The King is Alive - 1000 Kickbuck Reward!
Happy Sunday! We’re awarding 1000 kickbucks to 20 shopkick users who find our green Elvis. He’s located in our app somewhere and is waiting for you to find him! The first 20 people to comment on our blog, Facebook page or that email us with his location and a screenshot to prove they found him will each win 1000 kickbucks!
:)
Where is he?
September 2010
11 posts
Rock out with shopkick: iTunes gift cards now...
The most emailed-for reward is now available for you on shopkick! For just 2500 kickbucks, you can get a $10 iTunes gift card :) Happy jamming!
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User of the Week: James Crenshaw
Every week we like to feature a shopkick user- this week we feature James from Pennsylvania!
James is 25 years old and a recent college graduate, working as a Crisis Intervention Specialist with autistic and emotional support children (5-22 years old) He’s a social media enthusiast with his own website where he provides various web services and loves the idea of Location Based Services...
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CTIA 2010 Hot For The Holidays- Vote for shopkick!
We’ve made it as a finalist in the Globetrotter category for the CTIA Hot For The Holidays awards.
Vote for @shopkick to win!
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App developers can dip into iFund’s $200 million pool
9.16.2010 By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Silicon Valley investor Matt Murphy is out to find the next great opportunity in mobile consumer technology. And he has $200 million at his disposal to pay for it.
Murphy is the managing partner of the iFund, an investment capital fund devoted to apps for the Apple (AAPL) iPhone,...
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Help Us Name Our Friends!
They’re fun… They’re hip… They’re talented…
And they need a name!
You’ve seen them hanging out in the app and around our sites for a while now, and now we want you to help us name our little green friends :)
What do you think they should be called?
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THIS IS CRAZY: 4 walk-ins or 8 scans for a $25...
Shopkick got you a ridiculous deal :)
Collect 250 kickbucks and get a $25 dinner gift certificate for a restaurant near you! You only need 250 points - which is the same as walking into our partner stores 4 times, or scanning as few as 8 items at your local grocery store! Powered by restaurant.com
So what do you guys think of this new reward?
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Mobile App Rewards Shoppers for Entering a Store
Internet Retailer 9.9.2010
Shopkick has made quite a name for itself in recent months. The location-based iPhone app recognizes when users are near a retail store, then offers them rewards for coming closer to it and bigger rewards for stepping inside.
Shopkick first made a splash when it received $15 million in funding this summer—before it had even rolled out its retail rewards app. Then, a...
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Badges, Badges Everywhere!
You have discerning taste. You don’t just become a fan of every location, no you, missy, only become a fan of places that you truly like. Maybe it’s the coffee house you stop by religiously every afternoon, maybe it’s that restaurant with the really good chicken wings, or maybe it’s the club you were at till 5 am last night. But in any case, we have a badge for you.
...
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User of the Week: Elizabeth Aley
Elizabeth was recently featured in a New York Times article about location based apps. Elizabeth is both a shopkick and CauseWorld user and loves to use the scanning feature. She uses the app the most at Walmart and is planning on saving up her kickbucks for a Best Buy certificate.
Elizabeth is the proud mother of 3 and likes to use CauseWorld as a teaching tool for her children. Her favorite...
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Mall Owners Work Hard To Keep Pace With Latest Marketing Techniques
Retail Traffic Magazine 9.8.2010
The decision by the largest regional mall owner in the country to embrace a smartphone application marked a new stage in the rapidly unfolding evolution of mall marketing.
In mid August, Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group joined retailers Macy’s, Best Buy, American Eagle Outfitters and...