Pinterest for Restaurants

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU1f3df1DTX7WMpPdrUFkmlh44n__aM_cIdIcka71X_TJvynicG78vhqJc0r-teZaDC3q6WHQTdv2_p-Sl4u20Gfylcf-JcbZieHI1V2AbxHPhgiUYAXpXG145FAA-TXpriJMTXrsyeCI/s1600/pinning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU1f3df1DTX7WMpPdrUFkmlh44n__aM_cIdIcka71X_TJvynicG78vhqJc0r-teZaDC3q6WHQTdv2_p-Sl4u20Gfylcf-JcbZieHI1V2AbxHPhgiUYAXpXG145FAA-TXpriJMTXrsyeCI/s200/pinning.jpg" width="140" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">As one of the “fastest growing social services in the world</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Pinterest</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> cannot be ignored as a great source of marketing for your restaurant.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Pinterest</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">is a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinboard" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial;" title="Pinboard"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">pinboard</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">-style<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial;" title="Social networking service"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">social</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_sharing" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial;" title="Photo sharing"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">photo sharing</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, hobbies and more. Users can browse other pinboards for inspiration, 're-pin' images to their own collections and or 'like' photos.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Pinterest requires a bit of creativity to get your restaurant noticed and your pins being shared or commented on.  </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Here are some ideas as well as a great YouTube Video we did showing you how to set it up.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iMz5OIgJaio?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><ul><li>Publish pictures of people in your restaurant.</li></ul><ul><li>Tell the story of your restaurant and put up pictures of say the design process of your restaurant, family, renovations, special events like St Patty's Day.</li></ul><ul><li>Post videos of your chef cooking up a signature dish, or a bartender making a special drink.</li></ul><ul><li>Post some resources like a map to your restaurant, recipes, or something your customers may be interested in.</li></ul><ul><li>Show some behind the scene pictures of your staff in the kitchen or at charity events.</li></ul><ul><li>Plan a contest with people who follow you.  Offer a free dinner or night out.</li></ul><ul><li>And of course always go off topic a bit.  You can pin about your city's sport team, or the news.</li></ul><ul><li>Pin about milestones for your restaurant like years in business or even other milestones like guest’s anniversaries or birthdays.</li></ul><ul><li>Show of your family roots and why you started in the restaurant industry.</li></ul><br />

Pinterest for Restaurants

As one of the “fastest growing social services in the world  Pinterest  cannot be ignored as a great source of marketing for your restaurant...

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How important is video marketing to your restaurant?

<br /><div style="background: white; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 18pt;">How important is video marketing to your restaurant?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 18pt;">  </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 18pt;">Well, YouTube has now become the second largest search engine after Google. What does that mean for your restaurant? It means that people are going to YouTube not only to find answers to their problems but to</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 18pt;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 18pt;">see</em><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 18pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 18pt;">them. Instead of reading the information, they would rather watch it.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 18pt;"> </span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;">Can you imagine searching for a restaurant in this day and age and not coming across anything online about them?  Even better think of a customer who may or may not have been to your location and he searches for a restaurant. He comes across 2 different restaurants online.  Your competitor’s page with great content, clear descriptions, YouTube videos of what they offer, great music, and smiling faces.  Then they come across your restaurant and it has a very limited online presence.  No wow factor.  You may have better food, better ambiance and better service but in the eyes of this future guest they have decided to go with your competitor.  In this powerful day and age of social media it is imperative to not ignore the power of having an online presence. </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FejfHFs4SH4?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="line-height: 18pt;">Here is a short little promotional video we did for </span><a href="http://reservationbooks.com/"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Reservationbooks</span><span style="line-height: 18pt;">.com </span></a> Very inexpensive to make and assists with our online presence.  </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;">Get started today marketing your restaurant on YouTube! </span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div>

How important is video marketing to your restaurant?

How important is video marketing to your restaurant?   Well, YouTube has now become the second largest search engine after Google. What does...

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