Comments on: Restaurants Are Obvious Choice To Engage In Social Media

By: Maddie Weber

Maddie Weber — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:18:59 +0000

A local bakery that I frequent had a ‘musical extravaganza’ performance for everyone in the store – then they posted it on youtube. Every time I go in there I hear someone ask when they’re doing another. People really enjoyed it.
Here’s the video of the performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xtur2pulHs
Maddie
@maddieweber

By: Paul Chaney

Paul Chaney — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:31:30 +0000

Thanks everyone for your input, examples and excellent advice. Seems we’re all in agreement: Restaurants, bars and the like can benefit from a social media impetus.

By: smith

smith — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:23:42 +0000

The popular comment layout is common, so it is easily recognized when scanning to post a comment. If the comment section is in a different format, then I am going to spend more time trying to decipher what everything means.
money and profit

By: smith

smith — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:22:09 +0000

This is a great post. I just had one of the ?Doh!’ moments and ran back to correct my own site before publishing my comment. You see my own comment form did not match what I’m about to advice. I get less comment than you, so never noticed any problem. I’ve changed it now anyway so here goes.
money and profit

By: paul mclaughlin

paul mclaughlin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:25:52 +0000

Hi Paul,
Yes, a good point. But I’m turning it on its head and going to tweet cetain recipe info from my ebook.
Yes.. clear, naked Internet marketing – but, hey ho! If it’s a successful campaign I’ll send you a copy!
Happy New year!
@paulmcls

By: Harry Hallman

Harry Hallman — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:31:48 +0000

Paul, one of my clients is a free wifi provider who has created a network in Atlanta, soon in other cities. Their clients get to provide Free wifi and also are exposed through ads to all connections in the network. That is one channel. The other is social media, which I handle for them. Every client can submit information to be posted across the social media network. It is very successful and many of the clients are restaurants. It a new retail marketing approach that is getting a lot of traction.

By: Mary McKnight

Mary McKnight — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:34:10 +0000

Thanks for the nod Paul. What I love most about social media and bars, restaurants and clubs is the ability to create messageable fan bases on Facebook, Twitter and the like. It’s like creating the “Cheers” regulars bar stools online where you can allow the community to interact with each other and your brand. Secondly, with tools like GiveReal, you can directly integrate sales tools that can show immediate ROI. This combination tends to really help consultants show restaurants, bars and clubs not only how to use social media in an effective way that does not take much of their valuable time but also give them the satisfaction of ROI metrics from day 1.

By: Brian Hayashi

Brian Hayashi — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:14:08 +0000

Great points, Paul.
We just launched Twavl.com – a directory of restaurants and hotels, organized by city. We have about 8,000 Twitter profiles in our database, but are focusing on 60 cities first.
Select the city you’re interested in, and then select the ‘Places’ tab.