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©Socially Yours by Piyush Aggarwal under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License based on work at www.piyushaggarwal.com Geo-fencing Vs Geo Aware Vs Geo location Geo-fencing A Geo-fence is a layer of intelligence that allows you to make decisions or take some action based on a geographical area. It can circle anything/ any area you like – a retail store, a stadium, a neighbourhood. Understood and used correctly it can double the ROI on your marketing campaigns, increase the loyalty of your customers, and reduce operational expenses. A Geo-fence is a highly effective way to send locally-targeted, relevant content to your customers at times that most benefit your business. Run a happy-hour? You only need to look up the location of your customers and send them a promotional message once a day to drive traffic. Sales slow between 10-11am? Look up the location of all customers in the area at 9.30am and send them a coupon to redeem when they buy something in (what used to be) that slow hour. App Based Geo-fencing You can build an App-based Geo-fence that, as the name suggests, requires you have an app to access GPS data. The most common misconception about App-based Geo-fencing is that once you build your app you will be automatically notified anytime one of your customers enters or exits a Geo-fenced area. The truth is your customers not only have to find your app in the app store or android market, but that app actually has to be running (and killing your customers’ battery) to know if a geo-fence has been crossed. Network Based Geo-fencing With Network-based Geo-fencing you don’t need an app to run a Geo-fence campaign. As I stated earlier, building and maintaining an app is expensive. And even if your customers download it, if they don’t open it and run it when they’re in your Geo-fence it’s irrelevant. Not to mention apps only run on smartphones. Yes, smartphone adoption may be on the rise but over 40% of the US population are still using feature phones. That’s a lot of people you can’t target with an App-based Geo-fence campaign. Network-based Geo-fence campaigns can target any mobile user connected to a cellular network. And the more people you can target the more effective your campaign will be. There are also no upfront costs involved. Cost is determined on a per-location lookup basis and can be dialed up or down as required. To summarize the comparison and help you decide if App-based Geo-fencing or Network-based Geo- fencing is the right choice for your business, Loc-aid, the world’s largest LaaS (Location-as-a-Service) company, has created the following comparison chart.

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Geo-fencing Vs Geo Aware Vs Geo location

Geo-fencing A Geo-fence is a layer of intelligence that allows you to make decisions or take some action based on

a geographical area. It can circle anything/ any area you like – a retail store, a stadium, a

neighbourhood.

Understood and used correctly it can double the ROI on your marketing campaigns, increase the

loyalty of your customers, and reduce operational expenses. A Geo-fence is a highly effective way to

send locally-targeted, relevant content to your customers at times that most benefit your business.

Run a happy-hour? You only need to look up the location of your customers and send them a

promotional message once a day to drive traffic. Sales slow between 10-11am? Look up the location

of all customers in the area at 9.30am and send them a coupon to redeem when they buy something

in (what used to be) that slow hour.

App Based Geo-fencing You can build an App-based Geo-fence that, as the name suggests, requires you have an app to

access GPS data. The most common misconception about App-based Geo-fencing is that once you

build your app you will be automatically notified anytime one of your customers enters or exits a

Geo-fenced area. The truth is your customers not only have to find your app in the app store or

android market, but that app actually has to be running (and killing your customers’ battery) to know

if a geo-fence has been crossed.

Network Based Geo-fencing With Network-based Geo-fencing you don’t need an app to run a Geo-fence campaign. As I stated

earlier, building and maintaining an app is expensive. And even if your customers download it, if they

don’t open it and run it when they’re in your Geo-fence it’s irrelevant. Not to mention apps only run

on smartphones. Yes, smartphone adoption may be on the rise but over 40% of the US population

are still using feature phones. That’s a lot of people you can’t target with an App-based Geo-fence

campaign.

Network-based Geo-fence campaigns can target any mobile user connected to a cellular network.

And the more people you can target the more effective your campaign will be.

There are also no upfront costs involved. Cost is determined on a per-location lookup basis and can

be dialed up or down as required.

To summarize the comparison and help you decide if App-based Geo-fencing or Network-based Geo-

fencing is the right choice for your business, Loc-aid, the world’s largest LaaS (Location-as-a-Service)

company, has created the following comparison chart.

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Geo Aware Geo-Aware targeting lets you serve different content to different visitors who are all accessing the

same URL. Automatically detect that a visitor is coming from America and display pricing information

in USD, or Euros for European traffic. Get as granular as you want.

Being able to convert international users into buyers or repeat visitors can make a big difference,

and by splitting your traffic people visiting your site are more likely to find what they came for.

Geo-target visitors by their native language and offer translated versions of your mobile site to those

audiences. The marketing customization possibilities from localization are endless. Simply create

your custom pages and set your traffic rules.

Geo Location Geo-location is the identification of the real-world geographic location of an object, such as radar,

mobile phone or an Internet-connected computer terminal. Geo-location may refer to the practice

of assessing the location, or to the actual assessed location. Geo-location is closely related to the use

of positioning systems but can be distinguished from it by a greater emphasis on determining a

meaningful location (e.g. a street address) rather than just a set of geographic coordinates.

Internet and computer geo-location can be performed by associating a geographic location with the

Internet Protocol (IP) address, MAC address, RFID, hardware embedded article/production number,

embedded software number (such as UUID, Exif/IPTC/XMP or modern steganography), invoice, Wi-Fi

positioning system, or device GPS coordinates, or other, perhaps self-disclosed information. Geo-

location usually works by automatically looking up an IP address on a WHOIS service and retrieving

the registrant's physical address.

IP address location data can include information such as country, region, city, postal/zip code,

latitude, longitude and time zone. Deeper data sets can determine other parameters such as domain

name, connection speed, ISP, language, proxies, company name, US DMA/MSA, NAICS codes, and

home/business.

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Geo-location software is used to display data that can be linked to a geographic region or area. It can

be used to:

Recommend nearby social events.

Determine where the customers are (on country, city, street or user level).

Determine who the customer is (on organisation or user level), or make a guess on it based

on earlier encounters by tracking IP address,[4] credit card information, VOIP address, etc.

Visualize any data in a geographic context by linking it to a digital map.

Locate a web client's computer on a digital map.

Calculate summary information for specific areas.

Select customers within specific areas.

Select customers with a certain radius of a point.

Using micro-geographic segmentation select customers similar to a specific type in the rest

of the country.

Appendix

1. Chief Location Officer - http://www.chieflocationofficer.com

2. Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolocation

3. Loc-aid - http://www.loc-aid.com/