Category: Tools

  • Book Review: The Now Revolution

    I was chosen to read and review the Now Revolution by Jay Baer and Amber Naslund… and this is the review. I decided that instead of focusing a short blog review on the entire 200 page book, I would instead highlight one of the most inspiring ‘Shifts’ (as they call them) that it is time…

  • Quiet Facebook Change to Notice

    If you are friends with me on facebook (HERE) you may have seen me post the following: HAVE YOU NOTICED LATELY THAT YOU ARE ONLY SEEING UPDATES OR GETTING COMMENTS FROM THE SAME PEOPLE LATELY? Facebook made a change.You only see posts from people you interact with “regularly!” To change this, Scroll down to the…

  • How To Use Video to Market Your Restaurant

    I have written about video before, but this time I wanted to share some examples of ways that video can be used to market your restaurant. Here you will see three short videos that aim to do three different things. One will focus on food, one will focus on a particular day/event, and the other…

  • Last Minute Restaurant Valentine’s Day Marketing

    Its one of the biggest weekends of the year for restaurants, and it is only days away. Are you doing what you can to make it the best it can be? At GuestFeed we are working overtime to help our clients capitalize. Here are four things you can do yourself starting today to make this…

  • Must Have Facebook Tool

    If you are true to your commitment to monitor your social media presence you will soon learn you need help. Social media is 24/7 and comments regarding your restaurant, brand, or personal name are being made all the time. Google alerts sifts through most of the web, twitter searches can automatically fill a feed and…

  • Three Key Shifts to Your Email Marketing Strategy

    I have a few questions for you. If it is so old school why is email still the most effective way for you to reach your customers today? Why are people writing a thousand articles a week about foursquare when it can hardly be shown to work in more than a handful of cities? I…

  • When Calamity Strikes: Use your Connections

    It’s the seventh big snowstorm of the winter, and another is bearing down on the east coast. Businesses of all types are open/closed and in limbo. Customers are wondering if they are open, so: Are you being proactive about it and answering them? Make sure you use your connections. Quickly: A) You should not take…

  • Simple Twitter Tip to expand your marketing reach.

    The Hello Bar is a simple web toolbar that engages users and communicates a call to action. You post pictures, dinner specials, links to your site, and more with your twitter account to spread the message about what you have going on. Your message reaches your followers and the followers of everyone that Re-tweets your…