Category Archives: Mobile Loyalty Apps

Perks with Perka

Posted on August 3, 2012 by brandonopdx

As you may have noticed, there are a ton of companies with a smartphone app for customer loyalty. When I type in the word ‘loyalty’ on the Android app store (Google play), the query returns ‘at least 1000 results’. The … Continue readi...

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50 million Starbucks fans can’t be wrong

Posted on July 23, 2012 by brandonopdx

In the mobile payment arena, nobody has come close to the success of Starbucks. Given that Starbucks had processed 42 million payments as of April, it is probably safe to assume they have now crossed the 50 million mark. A … Continue reading &...

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Oh the Places you’ll Go(ogle)!

Posted on August 30, 2011 by brandonopdx

Today’s Willamette Week (link unavailable) features an article that seeks to vilify Google’s latest product, Google Places. To stoke the flames of fear, they quote Paul Wagner, founder of local deal site Forkfly.com, who claims that Places is “...

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Google announces acquisition of Portland food cart Spaghetti al Ragu

Posted on August 24, 2011 by brandonopdx

Well, not exactly. But the food cart did enter a deal to license the technology of a real life Google acquisition, the mobile loyalty app ‘Punchd.’ Punchd has a noble aim: to create space in our wallets and on merchant … Continue r...

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Groupsquare Fourpon: New Functionality, Same Lack of Intelligence

Posted on August 22, 2011 by brandonopdx

It was announced last month that the location based social networking site Foursquare had decided to join forces with Groupon. Now, I can see why Foursquare would want to partner up here. Groupon’s core competency is the elegance with which &he...

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Getting hip to Foursquare

Posted on July 22, 2011 by brandonopdx

Guess I gotta eat my words. In a previous post I dismissed as frivolous a colleagues announcement that she had unlocked the ’10 hundreds’ badge in foursquare. Then I started playing with the app. I’ve been checking in religiously (t...

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Just sitting here watching the wheel (of awesome) go round and round. . .

Posted on July 18, 2011 by brandonopdx

A few days ago I downloaded the Happy Star Rewards Program app launched earlier this year by Carl’s Jr/ Hardee’s. As mobile apps for the fast food industry go, this one is pretty cool. Like Foursquare, it is a location … Continue r...

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I say Yipit . .Yipit good

Posted on July 8, 2011 by brandonopdx

When I set out to start a blog, I thought the biggest challenge would be in finding topics to write about. In truth, topics are plentiful. The challenge is to whittle down a topic into an easy to digest thought. … Continue reading →...

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