Comments on: Social media tips for restaurants, bars and nightclubs

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:55:31 +0000

Your business lends itself perfectly to photos, and even video. Yes, signed releases are important if you’re photographing or videotaping children.

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:54:32 +0000

A word of caution: If you’re using video, it’s probably best to shoot it in a quiet place. If you’re shooting it inside a bar or restaurant, use a video camera that has a microphone. The Flip video camera with its built-in mike won’t be as effective.

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:52:53 +0000

I haven’t heard of Local.com. I’ll add it to the list of others I’ve compiled. See “50+ Places Online to Promote Your Live or Virtual Events to Reach Your Target Market & Pull Sell-out Crowds” at http://www.publicityhound.com/events.htm.

Thanks for mentioning this one, Dominique.

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:50:09 +0000

You’re right, Holly. The more niched your audience, the easier it is to target customers using both traditional and social media because you don’t have to spread your efforts over large media landscape.

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:48:47 +0000

Freddie, these are all fabulous ideas. It’s very difficult to get an entry about a local business into Wikipedia, but I know it’s been done. Thanks for sharing.

By: Freddie Avila

Freddie Avila — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:05:48 +0000

Here are a few other marketing oulets.
1. Craigslist – Add your co. name & contact info. in your title. Even if it expires, your info. will index.
2. Create backlinks with high traffic directories.
3. Hire a writer that will write a 3rd person wikipedia of your business.
4. Take advantage of merchant circle. Yelp, yellow pages, white pages, backpage, oodle, and freddyslist. (all free) to create a basic account. Google bots will index quickly
5. Start a blog on blogger. Its owned by Google so it will be crawled by search engines quickly.
6. Add a “LIKE” button your site and or blog.
7. If you are a NEW business about to have a GRAND OPENING have it on a Saturday. Tell all your friend and family members to show their support by stopping by 30 minutes prior to opening, and if they wait in line for the 30 minutes. You will give them a free meal.

Good luck everyone…

Freddie A

By: Holly Martin

Holly Martin — Sun, 02 May 2010 17:31:41 +0000

i have tried social media marketing for getting our new products to be known on the market. it seems to work well specially if the audience is targeted .

By: Dominique Pryor-Anderson

Dominique Pryor-Anderson — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:21:51 +0000

Local.com is also an invaluable tool. They can place their restaurant on there and people can search for it by city, leave reveiews and ratings of the venues. Great for restaurants, bars, clubs, and more. No, I don’t work for them, just use them in my practice. Great piece, Joan.

By: Al Black

Al Black — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:24:09 +0000

That’s some very helpful stuff there Joan. I’m helping a friend who owns a bar here in Melbourne with his social media. I particularly like what you said about asking customers on video what they like about the food & drink.

Cheers,

By: Rekaya

Rekaya — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:35:15 +0000

Great article Joan. I like the concept. I am going to try it. Thanks for sharing.

Rekaya