5. Industries Making It Work
Most industries can make use of social location marketing as an effective communications channel; certainly, none should dismiss it without first clearly exploring the idea. Some industries in particular have made an early start and have blazed a trail that others in similar or associated fields can follow.
It is important to note that for some industries social location marketing is a difficult option, and for some it is simply not an option. This is true of social media marketing in general. If the industry has a customer base that is unlikely to want to share their purchases, their considerations or their locations, trying to force the use of social technologies on them is unlikely to work.
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