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By: Bowman

Bowman — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:07:45 +0000

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By: Prasant

Prasant — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:51:57 +0000

Hi,
Nice post and great pointers. I am working with a restaurant in Pune,India and i am suppose to prepare an outline road map for the restaurant. You post is real handy for me.

keep rocking,
PN

By: @MPGreco

@MPGreco — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:00:10 +0000

That's a great article with a lot of suggestions. I'm interested in hearing more about using places like Yelp and UrbanSpoon, (namely review sites).

Should restaurants incentivize these reviews, or just make a suggestion to their guests.

By: John

John — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:01:27 +0000

I completely aggee on yur article. Like it or not Social Media Marketing is here to stay. Why not use it to your business advantage?

Twitter gives the business the ability to reach broad consumer base on the internet, and it costs nothing to directly market to them!

We at Sterizon, provide a Wi-Fi device for restaurants tto get customers to follow your business on Twitter instantly using Sterizon wiZit device.

By: Social Networking is NOT Chat | GROWMAP.COM

Social Networking is NOT Chat | GROWMAP.COM — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:08:32 +0000

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By: javier haro

javier haro — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:42:08 +0000

I agree on your article 100%.As a prior restauranteur, restaurants could really benefit from social media because all restaurants are social establishments and it’s more cost effective to increase sales during tough economic times. However, I think restaurants still need to some traditional marketing initiatives encourage guests to sign on twitter! For example, table tents saying”follow us twitter” or mentioning it on the menu. You will be surprise how many restaurant don’t do the little things.

One other question: I notice you didn’t mention facebook? Also what do you think about weekly e-campaigns?

By: Mike Fruchter

Mike Fruchter — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:14:33 +0000

Andy,

My first advice for clients, mainly restaurants is to have an optimized mobile version of their site. Beyond that, second priority most definitely is to be listed and found on all the major review sites, Yelp, UrbanSpoon and Trip Advisor. iPhone app would be third, but as both know financially it's not for every restaurant. For the major brands it's is a necessity though. Mobile Marketing via SMS text messaging is another method, but it's not something I personally recommend.

You nailed with it Google Maps/Local search. I think that takes more precedent than anything else. I was not even thinking in SEO terms, but that's a great point, and one that I should of included in this post!

Thanks,

Mike

By: food photographers

food photographers — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:26:46 +0000

great advice!

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Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:34:59 +0000

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