Your cash mob is a precious resource. Why not turn it into a photo mob and leverage it to bring lasting benefit to ALL the stores in your town, not just one? Just ask your volunteers to bring their smartphones and digital cameras along to snap, caption and check in photos of storefronts and favorite merchandise as they go.
To leverage the precious resource of your cash mob to double as a photo mob, proceed as follows:
If you are an organizer of the photo mob:
- Notify your merchant members in advance that on such-and-such a morning, a cash mob doubling as a photo mob will be coming around to "put your town online in a day."
- Explain that Main and Me is free and there is nothing to lose and everything to gain by allowing respectful volunteers to snap photos of storefronts and approximately 20 photos of merchandise in each business
- Have a coffee, beer or wine meeting with your volunteers, have them download the Main&Me app in advance, and review the in-app camera feature that allows them to upload business info and product photos directly from the app
- at the end of the day, invite merchants to visit and claim the FREE store pages you and your fellow mobsters have just made for them. (Better yet, throw a town-wide party, show off your newly-minted Community Page and Store Pages, and explain how online shoppers can now window shop and wishlist your town from the app.
If you are a merchant:
- follow the link to your page (provided by the cashmob/photomob organizer) then claim your newly-minted page to edit, describe and tag photos or add more of your own. Its the perfect job for that high school employee of yours looking for more to do in the afternoons :)
- share links to your page with your customer email list so customers can begin liking, commenting on, following and adding things from your store to their seasonal wish lists and registries.
Well that's about it for the lasting power of cash mobs that double as photo mobs. Call us 24/7 at 413-250-8800 if you'd like to learn more and we'll personally walk you through it. We're passionate about making this happen.
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