What are restaurant marketing plans looking like in 2010? How is your restaurant advertising?

What are restaurant marketing plans looking like in 2010? How is your restaurant advertising?

*Video Marketing = Seeing is believing interactivity.
Video is the hottest form of marketing right now and the ability to bring people from their computer desk into your establishment is unbelievably powerful.

*Email Marketing = Preaching to the choir.
These are the people that already know about your value and are eager to receive more. As you build your business your main goal is to create this relationship with as many customers as possible.

*Blog Marketing = Providing value through interactive information sharing.
A blog also helps you with distribution of your message through links and relative topics.

*Content Share Marketing = It’s all about distribution.
Bookmarking sites help you to place your information in many, many places for people to find.

*Social Interactivity = Customer Retention-
Try to be timely about addressing any concerns as you interact. Customers want to know that you care about their experience in your establishment. Getting results to fix any problems or concerns rectified is the best way to show how much you care.
Getting started on Facebook and Twitter will cost you time and energy, but not money. ( Some services will set you up a social network for a small fee to get you started or do customizations to brand your social platforms to your requirements).Although the use of social media is not a silver bullet in and of itself; you still have to come up with inviting promotions and marketing strategies to maximize their effect. Expect that the benefits you receive will be more than worth the effort.
Social media works great for restaurants because they can create an immediate call to action. We all know in marketing that word-of-mouth advertising is the best there is. Social media is an easy-to-use platform for turbo charging exactly that.”

*Effective Internet Marketing = All of the Above
We here are dedicated to help you with the tools to incorporate all of this into your restaurant marketing strategies and stay with-in your advertising budget.

Tell us of your experiences and how these strategies have or have not worked for you.