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3 Effortless Tips for Restaurants to Profit from Social Media

Many small businesses are wondering how they can participate in social media to help grow their business. The one industry that can easily jump into the mix is the restaurant industry. As many small businesses grapple with having enough staff to manage social media, restaurants can take advantage of buzz that is created by their patrons in a few simple steps. Here are 3 effortless tips for restaurants to capitalize on social media.

Get Buy In For Social Media

While it is true that tracking ROI in social media is not as clear cut as other channels, you can absolutely track ROI. It does require an engaged IT team to connect your social media monitoring tool (I like Radian6) with your CRM. ROI is extremely important; you’ll never hear me say otherwise. However, there are some misnomers that you need to be aware of if you are getting ready to fight this battle.

B2B Marketing| Dynamic Relevant Content will Lead the Way to Web 3.0

As web 2.0 is just starting to take hold I’m envisioning what’s next. We have more information than we ever have about our customers and prospects. How are we going to use it to make each experience unique? What if we could turn those progressive customer profiles we are using marketing automation to create into a tag cloud so that we understood what truly drives THAT customer? What if we could use it to drive the web experience to true one-to-one marketing? What if we could use it to deliver dynamically generated content based on the profile and activities we logged for the customer or prospect. It’s Amazon’s personalized recommendations concept flipped upside down, spun around and thrown at you in a website that changes based on what you say you want, distilled by who you say you are, and refined by the actions you take over time. Get ready for web 3.0, it’s coming faster than you may think!

Is Marketing Integration Just Another Buzz Word?

I truly believe the perception at many companies is that the entire marketing mix does in fact work together because it is the sum of all the inputs that delivers the expected output, right? Sure, but do you want to deliver the sales results you had yesterday for the next 5 years? Or do you want to exceed projections and deliver unprecedented profitability? This blogpost gives you some down and dirty tricks to get you there.

Why Mid-Size Companies with Conservative Cultures will Fail in Today’s Economy

I’ve spent some time looking at what is happening in the economy and how companies are adjusting. In my career I have seen many different corporate cultures. They have ranged from being nimble and quick to respond to market conditions to bureaucratic and unable to adjust in time. Interestingly, the company’s size did not make this determination but rather it is fueled by the culture that is found within the organization. And mainly that culture is derived from the leaders of the organization. That’s really not rocket science. However, in today’s economy it is imperative that companies are able to quickly react to what’s happening and adjust their actions accordingly. In marketing this is truer than ever before.