As a local business, getting your product and/or service in front of customers is extremely difficult but crucial to the success of your business.
Shtream is an innovative platform providing local businesses with instant exposure to potential customers using a tag-based matching approach. Some people have referred to it as the equivalent of a ‘dating’ app but for connecting businesses and consumers!
There are two apps: Shtream Business App and Shtream Consumer App.
As a local business simply install this free Shtream Business App:
1. Follow the quick and easy sign up and email verification process
2. Create your profile and select your local business town/city from the dropdown E.g. Stockton-On-Tees, UK
3. Create unlimited posts promoting your product/s or service/s. The key is to add relevant case-insensitive tags (key phrases) that best describe your product/s or service/s for each post. E.g. redshoes, DogGrooming, lasereyetreatment, discoDJ, capuccino etc.
4. That’s it!
Consumers on the other hand install the free Shtream Consumer App. Once logged in they:
1. Select their town of choice from dropdown list E.g. Stockton-On-Tees, UK. They can change town/city anytime to get offers in another location.
2. Save comma separated case-insensitive tags representing product/s or service/s they are interested in. E.g. redshoes, DogGrooming, lasereyetreatment, discoDJ, capuccino etc.
3. That’s it!
When a consumer saves same town/city as your local business as well as any of the tags used in your post, Bingo! You guessed right, we have a match. Shtream Consumer App instantly displays those business posts to the consumer.
Immediate Advantages
1. Instant exposure to potential customers at no costs compared to costly traditional methods of advertising, marketing and lead generation.
2. No longer necessary for intrusive online marketing techniques.
3. Equal opportunity promotions. Irrespective of how small your local businesses is, you get the same exposure and opportunities to turn leads into sales.
4. Limited competition - Regardless of how many businesses register, your local business isn’t exposed to any national or global competition as the Shtream Consumer App filters tags based on your local business town/city.
Key App Features
1. 100% ad free.
2. No user tracking or profiling needed because consumers tell Shtream platform what they want via the tags.
3. Ability to create unlimited posts with automated image filtering to prevent inappropriate or offensive images from being displayed.
4. Ability to deactivate and reactivate posts.
One big catch - there is no buy or sell option in both apps! One of Shtream’s objective is to help revive our high streets by encouraging face to face interactions with local businesses. We would like consumers to use the platform to discover wonderful local businesses and support them by physically shopping directly from them. It’s a forward thinking backward step. However we understand there are many local businesses with e-commerce websites. For this reason we also have an optional field under business profile to add your website address. We keep 0% commission on any sales generated following customer acquisition.
TIP
Tag your business name as well in your posts and promote the tag on social media platforms, shop window and everywhere else E.g. If your local business is called Events 4 Fun, add #events4fun tag to all your posts and encourage consumers to find you via the Shtream Consumer App with the #events4fun tag. Now anytime you create an offer in your local town, the consumers with the same local town filter and #events4fun in their tag list, immediately see your deal :)
CAUTION
Ensure your posts are relevant to your business. Consumers have the ability to block you and your posts will no longer be visible to them. Your loss.
Shtream Business App is fully functional and currently free.
Terms of Use
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/