As a restaurant owner, you’re probably wearing more than one hat. From managing inventory to coordinating staff, a restaurant owner’s work is never finished.
In the hustle and bustle of your normal work week, it's easy to pass over the marketing items that are on your to-do list.
Then that mid-week slump hits.
Now all of a sudden those marketing to-do’s that you didn't have time for are back at the front of your list. Are you attracting the right kind of customers? And if so, how do you get them to come back in more frequently and bring their friends and family?
To help, we have compiled some of our top attention-grabbing tips into one list to help you get started strong in 2019.Read more
When it comes to home shopping, buyers are turning to the internet more than ever before. In fact, prospective home buyers spend valuable time researching the home’s history, amenities, and price point before contacting the real estate agent.
This new way of shopping means that you need to make a shift in your marketing strategy. Establishing your online presence and leveraging digital marketing is no longer optional for real estate professionals.
You have to upgrade your playbook if you want to compete. In this article, learn more about the latest real estate digital marketing hacks you can use to attract more customers and sell more homes.Read more
What are home buyers and sellers looking for in a real estate agent in 2019? They're looking for professionals who are responsive, objective, detail-oriented, helpful, innovative, and knowledgeable.
As a real estate agent, the challenge is to convey these traits to prospects. What do these traits look like in action? How will they know that you're the right agent to assist them in their home transition journey?
We'll show you how to master the disciplines of real estate marketing to make 2019 your best year yet.
Master Real Estate Marketing with These 6 Disciplines in 2019
Real estate marketing is unique in that it combines both service (yours) and product (the home) marketing. You have to both make homes look great and show buyers and sellers that you have the local home market expertise, dedication to service, and attention to detail that will help them make their dreams come true.Read more
Is it possible to boost restaurant business on-demand?
Restaurants experience lulls during certain times of day or periods of the year. Chron contributor Laura Woods points out that the timing of these slow seasons may vary for individual restaurants.
A restaurant may experience a slow season for a number of reasons, including holidays and seasonal changes, most commonly determined by its location. For example, the summer season is often slow for many New York City restaurants, as many residents spend a great deal of time out of town. Restaurants in some areas experience heavy traffic during holidays such as Christmas, while others receive a significant drop in business.
If it was possible to get more people in the door during those down periods, would it benefit you?
It is, in fact, possible, and it's not that hard.
Take advantage of these five restaurant marketing tips to fill your tables when you want and grow your business.Read more
Opening a new restaurant has its unique challenges and opportunities. You don't have an existing customer base, so there's no guarantee of success. Before long, your window to capitalize on "the new restaurant in town" effect will have closed.
Getting off to a strong start could make or break your business. Depending on the depth of your cash reserve, you only have a few days or weeks to get to a self-sustaining profit level.
So you need to get as much mileage out of your first few marketing campaigns as you can to keep your dream alive. We've helped a lot of new restaurants launch well with text marketing. We'll cover mobile marketing and a lot more to help you put together a marketing strategy for a new restaurant.
7 Growth Hacks to Develop a Marketing Strategy for a New Restaurant
Follow these seven tips to nail your new restaurant marketing strategy, and you'll be off to the races.Read more
When the economy is good (it is), businesses invest more in marketing. So, if you don't invest wisely, you'll lose ground to competitors.
You need to get the most from your marketing investment to make sure you gain market share in a robust economy, not give it up. There's no room for mistakes.
Restaurant owners and managers have a lot of marketing options to choose from, but which strategies actually work? Should you invest in mobile marketing, live events, loyalty programs, or contests? We'll show you how to do marketing for restaurants with some proven strategies that resonate with customers in 2019.
How to Do Marketing for Restaurants in 2019: 6 Proven Strategies
Consumer habits change over time. The marketing strategies which helped restaurants build a customer base in the early 2000s may not be the strategies that work today. With consumer habits and market shifts in mind, here are six proven strategies for restaurant marketing.Read more
With interest rates climbing and the market cooling a bit in 2019, you need to nail real estate marketing activities to make sure your sales stay high.
Of course, in marketing, it's always better to work smarter, not harder. Many smart real estate agents have already taken the initiative to connect with prospects and clients through mobile marketing Short Message Service (SMS) texts. If you haven't yet taken advantage of mass text marketing, you're probably behind.
But don't worry. We're here to help you catch up quickly.
We'll show you how to get moving with real estate mobile marketing SMS campaigns in three easy steps.Read more
Business text messaging software has come a long way in the last decade. Because of its effectiveness, text message marketing has boomed and there are a lot of new software providers on the market.
While some companies are simply looking for the absolute lowest cost software or are lured by slick packaging, smart businesses are on the hunt for the full package. Business text messaging is a mature marketing channel with lots of software providers. Therefore, companies should be picky about their software decisions because there is a wide range of options on the table.
We've been around for over 10 years, have served over 50,000 organizations and our customers have sent billions of texts. During that time, we've come to a solid understanding of what makes a text messaging software for business outstanding.
The best text messaging software will make your life easier and better by providing powerful tools and service at an exceptional value. Selecting the best software will help you deliver real results and make you look like a genius in the process.Read more
Did you know that text messages have a response rate over 7 times higher than email (45% to 6%)?
By now, most marketers have heard of the impressive text message marketing statistics, and they've jumped on board. If you're not doing text marketing yet, you're behind.
So how do you catch up? The best way to accelerate your results from this powerful channel is by getting the most from your efforts without trial and error.
To help you out, our text marketing experts have compiled the most thorough list of text marketing best practices on the web so you can catch the competition and leave them in the dust.Read more
As marketers, we’re tasked with difficult challenges every day. Our job has one primary purpose — to drive new business for the companies that put their trust in our skills. SMS marketing is growing, and we can expect even more to happen over the next several years.
If you want to be an effective marketer, then you have to constantly stay on top of the latest developments and advancements. You need to know what’s happening across a wide variety of different marketing channels and technologies.
SMS marketing is well-known by many of the most successful companies for its astonishing reach, jaw-dropping engagement, and powerful conversion rates:
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Marketing texts have amazing response rates around 45%. This is better than the 34.36% clickthrough rate of a first-place Google search result ranking.
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SMS produces engagement rates six to eight times higher than retailers normally achieve via email marketing.
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90% of all text messages are read within 3 minutes of being received.
A well-planned SMS marketing campaign needs to be a part of your marketing plan if you want to stay ahead...Read more
