Archive for the ‘Marketing’ Category

1. Execution. You have to walk the talk. Every part of the guest experience has to be executed or no amount of external marketing will help your business grow. 2. Effective positioning. Who are you to your guests? Are you offering any differentiated value or are you just another commodity business in your market? 3. [...]

Q: Shouldn’t you use social platforms like TripAdvisor to market your business? A: No. You shouldn’t use a consumer platform (which is what social media sites are) for commercial messaging. Social platforms are not a multi-purpose business tool and any attempt to push messaging to them will be met with negative friction. FUQ: But can’t […]

Too many operators are focused on the media and not the social. The most effective way of communicating with Guests is at the point of experience by informed, engaging and empowered employees who share your values. Everything else is blatant advertising

A colleague asked this question in one of our forums recently and it has been haunting me ever since. So I must get this out. Is Restaurant marketing broken? – Yes What exactly is it that’s broken? The understanding of what works and what doesn’t work for businesss. Retail strategies do not work. Most of […]