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Restaurant Budgeting: How to Create A Restaurant Budget

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While it might seem tempting to overspend on your marketing and advertising efforts, the cash you'd use to pay to run your ads could only lead to waste, especially if you don't know much about running an ad campaign effectively. For instance, you might be running your ads on Facebook incorrectly by targeting the wrong audience.

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The 10 Best Bits of Advice We Heard on Season 1 of the Restaurant Growth Podcast

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About a year and more than a dozen episodes later, we had the privilege to interview a wide range of folks with advice on everything from hiring staff , to creating content, to providing benefits, and increasing profits. Storytelling is an essential part of the hiring process. Hire for fit rather than skill.

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How to Write a Restaurant Business Plan [with Sample]

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This unique approach puts our employees first because we believe that attracting, hiring, and nurturing the right people is what sets our businesses apart. Detail your plans for using social media, local advertising, promotions, and how you're going to reach your target audience. Manager Log Books. Marketing plan and channels.

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Five Benefits of Outsourcing Your Restaurant’s Digital Marketing Efforts

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Creating and deliver engaging content, maintaining customer communications, establishing an online presence, reviewing data-driven analytics, setting up paid advertising initiatives…all of these important steps take time. This often means marketing and advertising efforts are done on-the-fly or simply 86’d.

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Creating a restaurant website: Why it matters and how to nail it

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Additionally, a website allows you to reach a wider audience through social media sharing, linked press coverage, or online advertising. Hire a designer or choose a website builder Professional designers can create custom websites for your brand or you can utilize a website builder that comes with easy-to-use templates.

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29 Proven Grand Opening Ideas For Small Businesses

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This is a great advertising point and a unique draw for your business that is sure to bring in plenty of observers (and maybe even participants). Online social media is a powerful resource for advertising your grand opening, but don’t neglect traditional media outlets along the way. 8) Advertise On Custom Paper Cups.

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Simple Restaurant Marketing Plan for 2020 [PDF Template]

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So far, 2020 has thrown marketing plans, advertising budgets, and restaurant growth out of the window. To help, we’ve created the ultimate restaurant marketing guide, covering strategy, creative, branding, marketing channels, paid and unpaid advertising, and so much more.

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