Go See Do: 100 Million Events in Your Pocket

GoSeeDo is a mobile information service for events.  The value is compelling: you or the owner of your organization can add, update and share events direct from you mobile device.  As of this writing (10-4-09) no other service on the planet allows you to ADD an event direct from your mobile web browser.  There are 46 million websites on the Internet. Just imagine 40 million mobile sites with event content for every single category from Chess Tournaments to Motorcycle rallies to business networking luncheons.  At GoSeeDo we offer 34 categories accessible via our mobile optimized direct from your mobile phone browser.

What’s the big deal, when I can just post a link to my event on Twitter or Facebook? That is actually the problem.  People just like you, want structured, accurate data about an event that helps them make a decision on whether or not to attend, purchase a ticket, bring along others or spread the word.

Twitter is the cross your fingers and pray approach to getting out the word, here’s why:

1. Can’t identify event information by date
2. Can’t find location specific information
3. Can’t find information by category
4. Can’t find information by zip code
5. Information is designed to get to your FOLLOWERS and not others
6. Information if often out of date regarding past events shows

Facebook is a hit or miss strategy for getting out the word, here’s why:

1. Information is more often very incomplete and not useful (missing location, address, and sometimes specific date)
2. Content is highly unstructured and not user friendly
3. Inability to EDIT information while on the go. One has “resend” to your so-called friends or update a wall
4. You must have a lot of friends with similar interests to be effective
5. Event content is NOT mobile and accessible in user-friendly way via mobile browser
6. Service of Facebook is more about 1 to 1 communication rather than 1 to many
7. Categories are limited and not nearly granular enough given the varied interests and breadth of the Facebook community

With our service, we believe that people want a way to make a decision and searching for some place to go, a group to see or something to do is half the fun.  So, what we have done is take a basic approach similar to Craigslist (just the data madam) no advertising and given people the power to add events directly from our website or mobile device while on the go.  In addition to data feeds from popular event sites, we have created a platform that you can monetize for your newspaper or give away the content for free.  Choosing to give highly structured data, that is contextually relevant, that helps make a decision about how to spend your time and money and do so via your mobile device has tremendous benefit to individuals and organizations.

Just imagine, you are listening to the radio or read an ad for an event 3 weeks from the date you read it, and it sounds interesting, but you can’t remember where you read or heard.  We want people from every country to say, “visit GoSeeDo, find your city and select your category or keyword direct from your mobile phone”. This takes 3 seconds to say.

Why use GoSeeDo and not use other sites.  You can use other sites, but what we are doing is more useful to a broader audience and designed 100% for mobile user experience.  Our mobile service is not an add-on site like most major websites, but emphasizes the use of best practices to ensure best mobile experience via the mobile browser; this means NO application to download.

We are young (just launched) and want you to grow with us.  From every continent, village, large city, small town or remote location in a jungle.  If you have a mobile device that can access the Internet, you can use our service.

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