Restaurant Marketing
In order to grow your restaurant sales you need to come up with unique restaurant marketing ideas to make your restaurant stand above the rest. These unique marketing ideas need to cover a range of marketing distribution channels, these channels are how you as the restaurant or cafe owner will attract your customer to dine with you. In your restaurant marketing idea efforts you will need to ensure that you have multiple customers coming from multiple marketing ideas and strategies and in effect you will then not rely on one income or customer source. Here is what I am talking about;
Say you want
to implement some restaurant marketing in your venue to attract more
customers, you should in effect target those customer through different
mediums such as, email, direct mail, web site, joint venture marketing,
database marketing and radio just to name a few. By attacking your
market and bombarding your market through many mediums will enable you
to find out which restaurant marketing medium is the best for your
restaurant.
Marketing covers many customer generation channels these channels include:
Print advertising
This medium include magazines, newspapers, books, trade books, telephone directories and brochures.
Broadcast/electronic advertising
This marketing medium include radio, television, facsimile and internet/email
Display Advertising
Display advertising include outside billboards, bumper stickers, signage, posters and vehicle advertising.
Direct Response
This medium include marketing direct mail as well as telemarketing
Events and promotions
This marketing medium include trade shows, fairs, exhibits, conventions and promotion novelty items such as key rings etc
Publicity and Public Relations (PR)
This include press releases, feature articles, internal newsletters, speeches, seminars and sponsorships.
Word of mouth
This medium includes spontaneous word of mouth and restaurant customer testimonials.
Although
this list of restaurant marketing mediums is not exhaustive it will
however provide you with a list to start from when marketing your
restaurant or café. What is important when you start or rejuvenate your
restaurant marketing it is to ensure that you target your market, don't
try and be everything to every one. Here is an example, lets just say
you were a fine dining restaurant and you wanted to market your
restaurant, you certainly would not market your restaurant on a shopper
docket (know those ads that appear on the back of your shopping docket
receipt). This would be foolish as this is not the market you may be
wanting to attract to your fine dining restaurant. You could however
advertise in the business section of the Wall Street Journal or
Financial Review.
Marketing your restaurant
does not have to be a daunting exercise, if you are going to increase
your sales you need to do some marketing. Oh.... One last thing if you
are marketing your restaurant then make sure you test and then measure
the effectiveness of the marketing. There is no use to throwing away
your money on marketing that is not working.
Remember marketing is the engine of your restaurant so remember to put some gas in it.
Restaurant Marketing