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13 Key Elements of a Marketing Piece Makeover

13 Key Elements of a Marketing Piece Makeover

You can hardly change a cable channel and not find a makeover show. From homes to fashion, everyone is looking for help. My members send me in ads, sales letters and marketing pieces for critique that are missing one or … [......]

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New Customers Are Searching. Will They Find Your Restaurant?

New Customers Are Searching. Will They Find Your Restaurant?

By Cherylin Blitch as published on http://www.restaurantreport.com

If you moved into a new area and wanted to find a nearby Italian, Mexican, or any other style of restaurant, what would you do? I mean other than taking detailed notes on [......]

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When Do You Shut It Down? Restaurant Marketing and Hurricane Sandy

When Do You Shut It Down? Restaurant Marketing and Hurricane Sandy

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The New York Observer reported yesterday morning that while most of Manhattan’s restaurants are staying open, despite the weather. 

Kim Velsey reports: 

Restaurants in hotels, backed up by generators and with a captive clientele, are the most reliable bets for [......]

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Pizza Chain Finds New Ways to Build Restaurant Marketing Email Database

Pizza Chain Finds New Ways to Build Restaurant Marketing Email Database

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As the director of marketing at Stone Hearth Pizza, a restaurant chain with multiple locations in the Boston area, Alex Chamberlain is always on the lookout for ways to grow her restaurant marketing email database. She’s found that the [......]

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The Zen Guide to Restaurant Email List Building

The Zen Guide to Restaurant Email List Building

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Restaurant email list building is essential Look, I understand. You’re a restaurateur and the last thing you have time for is to send out email marketing messages to your customers. You’ve got an entire restaurant to run. In fact, [......]

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What Consumers Are Saying About Social Media and Restaurant Marketing

What Consumers Are Saying About Social Media and Restaurant Marketing

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Social media and restaurant marketing research is giving brand leaders insight into what consumers are talking about when they’re hungry – and it’s McDonald’s and Taco Bell.

According to research from Jason Falls, founder and CEO of Social Media Explorer, [......]

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Restaurant Marketing Case Study: Restaurant Uses Customer Data to Measure Marketing Success

Restaurant Marketing Case Study: Restaurant Uses Customer Data to Measure Marketing Success

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At Ping Pong Dim Sum in Washington, D.C., Myca Ferrer works hard to make sure every dollar spent on marketing is measured and tracked. By tying Venga‘s loyalty platform into his restaurant’s POS system and email marketing database, Ferrer [......]

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Restaurant Marketing and Responsive Web Design Examples

Restaurant Marketing and Responsive Web Design Examples

Recently Google released its Panda update that includes a lot of perks for websites including better SEO and lower bounce rates. One of the updates includes websites being designed responsively over others in its search listings. Your customers may or [......]

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Restaurant Marketing Ideas For Your Small Business

Restaurant Marketing Ideas For Your Small Business

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Recently a client asked me to put together a few strategic restaurant marketing ideas for their restaurant business that was aligned to their growth goals.  So this week I thought it might be interesting to share with you some of [......]

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Using Social Media and Restaurant Marketing Intelligence to Enhance Customer Service Experience

Using Social Media and Restaurant Marketing Intelligence to Enhance Customer Service Experience

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Chances are your restaurant marketing plan incorporates a rewards program into your customer loyalty initiatives. With the average person having 14 loyalty cards in her wallet, it seems to reason that rewards are an effective way to retain customers. Unfortunately, [......]

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Restaurant Marketing: Cracker Barrel Profit Almost Doubles

Restaurant Marketing: Cracker Barrel Profit Almost Doubles

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Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc.’s CBRL +5.80% fiscal fourth-quarter earnings nearly doubled as the restaurant chain saw customer traffic and same-restaurant sales continue to grow.

The company forecast fiscal first-quarter income of $1 to $1.05 a share, trailing estimates of [......]

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Restaurant Marketing Industry Conference to Educate Attendees on Social Media Best Practices

Restaurant Marketing Industry Conference to Educate Attendees on Social Media Best Practices

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Chicago, IL  (RestaurantNews.com)  Social media strategists from several major restaurants chains — including McDonald’s, Red Mango, Moe’s Southwest Grill and Firehouse Subs — will share their secrets with attendees at the 2nd annual Foodservice Social Media Universe(#FSMU) … [......]

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Gumballs Encourage Social Media Marketing for Restaurants

Gumballs Encourage Social Media Marketing for Restaurants

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If you were rewarded with a gumball every time you checked-in to a restaurant on Foursquare, would you check-in more? 

Well, that’s what Tyler DeAngelo, creative director of advertising agency DeVito/Verdi, hopes would happen. DeAngelo moonlights as an author and [......]

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4 Secrets to Highly Effective Restaurant Marketing Strategies

4 Secrets to Highly Effective Restaurant Marketing Strategies

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As a restaurant owner, your main objective in creating restaurant marketing strategies and spending advertising dollars is to simply bring in new customers, and create loyal patrons who will make their way to your dining room time after time, however [......]

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3Seventy Releases Whitepaper: “Critical Mobile Ingredients: A Strategic Approach To Mobile Marketing For Restaurants”

3Seventy Releases Whitepaper: “Critical Mobile Ingredients: A Strategic Approach To Mobile Marketing For Restaurants”

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3Seventy, a leading provider of mobile engagement solutions, recently released a whitepaper entitled “Critical Mobile Ingredients: A Strategic Approach to Mobile Marketing for Restaurants.” To be used as a guideline for restaurants to understand the critical ingredients of what constructs [......]

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NoWait using $2M infusion for restaurant marketing and development

NoWait using $2M infusion for restaurant marketing and development

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Since graduating from the South Side start-up accelerator AlphaLab, the team at NoWait has begun to hit its stride.

Just this week, the company, which has developed a restaurant marketing tool for iPads, iPod touches and iPhones that allows [......]

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Restaurant Marketing Newsletter Tips

Restaurant Marketing Newsletter Tips

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Coming up with something your restaurant’s newsletter subscribers will definitely want to read, can be hard at times. These restaurant newsletter tips can get you going.

9 Restaurant Marketing Newsletter Tips:

1. Share a recipe: if they like to [......]

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Chipotle’s Restaurant Marketing Low-Tech Initiatives

Chipotle’s Restaurant Marketing Low-Tech Initiatives

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DENVER – Mark Crumpacker would love to find technology that helps speed the line at Chipotle Mexican Grill, where he serves as chief restaurant marketing officer.

Like others in similar positions, he’s got a wide palette of gee-whiz technologies [......]

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