It's free advertising for your business, created in your own voice. GeoGraffiti makes your verbal messages available for any mobile phone user to hear while traveling within your store's vicinity, as well as in GeoGraffiti's Google map mashup.

Business owners use GeoGraffiti's advertising platform to communicate with existing customers or attract new patrons in the form of 'Biz Voice Marks'. A Biz Voice Mark (BVM) is a verbal message about your venue that articulates pertinent information that a consumer would find useful to hear on their mobile phone while out-n-about. GeoGraffiti links/geotags a BVM to your specific venue location so it's targeted to patrons searching for information in your area.

Biz Voice Marks provide a quick, easy and free method for the small to medium business to publish information about their offerings. Recording and publishing a BVM only takes a minute...literally!

Biz Voice Marks may be used to publicize really anything, but the most common examples are those things that may not justify more conventional and expensive methods of advertising - maybe a spur of the moment sale, or a special offering to generate traffic on a certain day or time, or maybe just general information you want to convey to local consumers. Since BVMs can be created and published in literally a minute (and they are free!), BVMs enable you to dynamically respond to your specific business drivers and unforeseen influences, in real-time.

Business owners may create/publish BVMs at any time, as often as they'd like. Publish a BVM mid-day and then replace it at close of business. Or publish a BVM late night to target and capture your after-hour demographic of patrons. Or publish a general information BVM that is a long-term posting and serves as your own virtual voice billboard. It's really that easy and flexible, and your use cases for BMVs are only limited to your business's discretion.

Formulate an idea of what you want to say and make sure your venue's telephone is accessible.

Click on the link provided in the GeoGraffiti Business Solutions Welcome email. This initiates the BVM creation process whereby you will receive a phone call from our automated system.

Follow the voice prompts and record your Biz Voice Mark. GeoGraffiti will send you a confirmation email and automatically publish your BVM and make it available to any mobile phone user searching for information in your area.

Note: If the inspiration for a BVM topic occurs to you while away from your computer (i.e. while commuting in your car) call GeoGraffiti Biz Solutions directly at 213-221-3803 and enter your venue location's phone number to identify its location and record a new BVM.

I think we covered that, nothing ... no kidding!  In the future, GeoGraffiti will sell premium services and functionality, but the basic Biz Voice Mark functionality will remain free. Note: If you call GeoGraffiti directly, you will be making a call to the (213) area code of Los Angeles, California, which may incur standard long distance charges for remote callers.

You do, using our automated Voice Marking system. Of course you have the option of using your own voice talent when its appropriate. Although from a consumer point of view, there is often nothing more compelling than hearing the authenticity of a promotional message delivered in the business owner's voice!

Each Biz Voice Mark has a verbal 'title' that briefly introduce the idea and content of the corresponding BVM. The title is also created by you, and recorded directly after BVM creation. Effective titles are phrases or short sentences that quickly summarize the BVM's topic. When consumers search GeoGraffiti, they are presented with a list of Voice Mark titles for review, and the titles enable them to better identify which Voice Mark is of interest and should be listened to in its entirety.

Simply create a new one for your location; the new one replaces the current Biz Voice Mark. If you would like to completely remove the Biz Voice Mark from public display, email the request to . If the request is received during business hours (PST), it will be immediately removed. Otherwise the removal will occur the next morning.

GeoGraffiti's voice platform provides a free telephone-based information exchange. We aggregate, organize, geotag, and publish voice message content for sharing among the entire U.S. mobile phone user base...and of course over the internet.

Individual consumers use GeoGraffiti to gain local insight, share opinions and benefit from the public's collective knowledge ... while on location using any mobile phone or while at a computer using our Google map ‘mashup’.

The business owner uses GeoGraffiti to market and publicize business-specific information like specials, promotions, product details, or really anything. GeoGraffiti offers a dedicated call-in phone number for the business at (213) 221-3803. This dedicated line provides business-specific features not available with our individual consumer call-in phone number at (213) 221-3802.

Yes, you can use a Biz Voice Mark sound message to promote your business in any way you'd like. Simply use the custom URL link provided upon creating a Biz Voice Mark. This link enables any recipient to play/hear the message in any web browser. The BVM playback is displayed in our Google map ‘mashup’ interface, highlighting the location of your store.

No!  Your phone numbers are only used internally for verification. If you want to reveal your biz phone, use the 'tag' feature by opening your Biz Voice Mark on our Google map ‘mashup’ interface. Again, we'll email you a direct link to access your BVM upon its creation.

We support any phone and all carriers. To use GeoGraffiti, there are no software downloads, subscription activation, text-messaging or web access requirements. With any phone, anybody can use GeoGraffiti to Voice Mark the world or search and retieve location-specific information.

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