Social Media Marketing

Engaging Customers on Social Media Sites

So you made a Facebook Page, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, etc. for your business. Now what? Social Media experts have compiled countless etiquette guidelines, content strategies, tips for building a following, as well as tips for keeping them. I’m going to make it easy for you by summing it all up, because there is a lot [...]

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Restaurants Going Mobile

With a large percentage of Americans using smartphones, mobile websites have become a staple in the daily lives of consumers; they are easy and convenient in this fast-paced world we live in. Restaurant owners should be aware of the positive impact a mobile website will have on their restaurant. Apps and mobile websites are the [...]

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Mobile Websites For Restaurants

In this century’s smart phone boom, it is crucial for restaurants to develop “apps”, short for applications, in order to become or to remain a prominent force in the industry.  The phrase “there’s an app for that” that originated in Apple’s 2009 iphone commercial has turned out to be true within these past years. Cell [...]

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SEO For Restaurants

As much as Americans hate to admit the fact, popularity is a fundamental building block to success- especially in the restaurant business. Google, Yahoo, Bing, and countless other online search engines provide consumers with infinite pages after pages of results for any phrase or keyword they search for. When using an online search engine, people [...]

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Creating Restaurant Coupons

With the current state of the economy, coupons have become a staple in the wallets of America’s consumers.  A study conducted by Valassis found that roughly 80 percent of consumers use coupons regularly and, as of 2011, marketers circulated around 305 billion coupons. Coupons are an effective way to attract new or returning diners and [...]

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Instagram: New Restaurant Craze

Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are popular and a lot of customers still use them, but there is another site out there that is gaining popularity.  Instagram is a picture based social media site that is catching everyone’s attention.  According to Fast Casual, Instagram has grown from 5 million users to over 30 [...]

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Twitter for Restaurants

Twitter is one of the lesser used, but secretly effective social media sites available for restaurants.  Most restaurants turn to Facebook in order to engage with their customers and then either repost or just link their Facebook posts to Twitter.  This is not a good way to use one of the best engaging tools available.  [...]

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Basics of Blogging

One of the most important online tools that a restaurant can take advantage of is a blog.  Blogs are a good way to engage and connect with existing customers and give potential customers a reason to look further into a restaurant.  Blogs are not hard to keep updated, but there are a few guidelines that [...]

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Change Leads Into Sales

A little while ago I attended a webinar by Jason Rudland called “Turn Your Website Into a Sales Funnel.”  The main point of Rudland’s webinar was to teach business owners how to change their leads into sales.  He had many good points on little things that a business can do in order to get more [...]

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Increase SEO With Keywords

Customers search millions of things a day on many different search engines. In order to take advantage of these searches, restaurants can use keywords and phrases to increase their SEO ratings and learn more about what their customers are really searching for. The big mistake that restaurants do at the beginning of creating their keyword [...]

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