In the last Senatorial election cycle, I ended up talking with Jim Bender quite a bit on the trail. A gentleman and a hard worker, his line from the Seacoast Republican Womens’ debate as stayed with me (the best line of the campaign, in my opinion) in his description of the chuckleheads in DC; "self-assured incompetence".
Well, while he may not have grabbed and held the brass in the political sphere, he has been a successful serial entrepreneur in the past – he may well be a success again with his latest venture: Ping4Deals (where social media meets GPS meets targeted discounts):
Install Ping4Deals on your smartphone and let the deals come to you. However your phone is connected, over 2G, 3G or Wi-Fi, Ping4Deals can deliver the local deals you want, right to your phone.
You choose the Deal radius from where you are, from 300 feet to 5 miles, and you choose the types of Deals you are interested in receiving from Ping4Deals Merchants. And this isn’t just a Deal of the Day, this is real time messaging for the deals of the Moment so you save money at the stores where you are!
When you are close by a Deal, your smartphone will automatically wake up and give you the details.
Ping4Deals is also a magnificent Store Search tool. Ping4Deals can tell you about all the nearby stores based on their retail category or you can search for any term you choose.
You immediately receive your custom list with stores ranked by distance from where you are and directions to get there, either walking inside a Mall or driving somewhere else. If you only have a browser on your phone, just join any public Wi-Fi network in a store or a mall, open your browser and type "X.ping4.com".
A brief intro via NECN (a few seconds in):
I’m intrigued – not that GraniteGrok can use it at the present time (we have not started selling Grokgear yet….yet!) but I wonder if it could be a way to let people in a specific area that we are covering an event??
OK, Jim – how can Ping4Deals work for the ‘Grok?
