Competitive Strategies to Market a Restaurant

Today in this modern period, where there already exists numerous well-established restaurants, to start a new restaurant and to make is successful is really a tough task. However, once it builds a reputed position in the industry then it becomes the gold mine which enumerates for the endless opportunities and dug a well of bucks for the owner. But this is possible only when you have the strong and hardcore marketing plans with you.

This is the time to dust off your old restaurant marketing plan and get started with new trends emerging in the marketing strategies of other successful businesses. You must have a keen idea on what works and what doesn’t.

Restaurant marketing isn’t the same as it had been. Restaurants generally embrace online marketing tactics and forget about the offline strategies. Yes, there are a lot many things one can do offline to promote one’s business. In this blog, you will get to know the various eminent strategies which one must implement to flourish his restaurant business.

Some of the most prominent marketing strategies are as follows-

Start a Food Truck-

Customers feel delighted if they see their favorite brand near their doorstep. It enables you to dish out your food to the folks you might never come in contact with. It is yet another efficient idea which would help you with your various marketing strategies.

Successful restaurant marketing strategy leads to higher sales scale and ultimately the fame, power of your business. Here I sum up our marketing strategies for a successful restaurant.

Online Marketing-

Starting from having a functional website to the promotion on various social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube etc. through regular updates of all your promotional activities, photos and videos of the special dishes, customers, and events of your restaurant. People generally share the stuff they are involved in. So you must also tag the regular customers and ask them to hit the like and share the posts.

Food Fests-

Don’t ever miss the chance to be the part of the local food fests organizing in the city. These food fests are the place where people come up from far off places and they get to know about the domains in the industry. You must be having a creative and striking hand, which will attract the customers towards you.

Promotional Strategies-

The restaurant can entice the customers through various coupons, discount vouchers, new product launches, free trials, bounce backs and loyalty programs. These tactics rope in the new customers to become the restaurant loyalties.

Affinity Programs-

Affinity programs help the restaurant to tie the knot with the other leading brands for mutual promotions. Tying up with an already successful credit card, for example, will serve the need.

Run Contests-

This is another better strategy which would make your customer happy and excited. Run some relevant yet simple contest and invite your loyalties and fans to participate and give them the chance to win some exciting prizes and this in return will give the reason for your customer to come back.

Menu Designs-

The menu of the restaurant plays a very important role to seek the customers’ interest in it. It is the foremost and genuine thing which attracts the customer towards your restaurant. Advertising through the menu is only possible when it is clear, sophisticated, vulnerable, visually pleasant and definitely credible. It must give the information about the daily offers and promotions.

Apart from these strategies, one can also go for traditional promotions through Newspaper, TV Commercials, Magazine ads, and even through the printed promotional materials like Brochures, Flyers, Business cards, etc. Though expensive, they create awareness among the people.

Infocrest’s marketing department holds an ocean full of new and exciting marketing strategies of which the above was just a small example. We here at Infocrest Finweb LLP provides you with innovative and highly competitive market plans which helps you to grow your business and makes you stand one among the toppers of the industry.

Street Food Business Plan- Money Out Of Streets

In the past few years, Street Food has become the hottest topic, with people thronging from miles around to get the taste of the street spices and develop a palate for the latest foodie craze. Whether it is a food festival or a market stall, it’s evident that people make money from this yummy business.

It’s a low start-up business which yields loads of money. Despite the low start-up costs involved, jumping into this business without any business plan is like preparing surely for a disaster. The market is very competitive and you need to have a clear idea of the steps you plan before taking the plunge.

You will generally be having the idea about what kind of food you are going to serve. If you are planning to serve basic, low-cost fast food, you will be flooding yourself with numerous competitors with similar business wherever you go. It would probably a need for you to become effective. You have to achieve as many customers as you can in a short amount of time, keeping waiting time as short as possible with maximizing profit.

And if you are thinking to start with the unique variety and high-end product, you won’t have to compete with the bulk. All you have to do is to achieve the highest quality of your food to justify higher prices and make yourself stand out among the competitors. You need to understand your audience and meet their expectations in terms of taste, money and quality.

Your business plan should include every key which are required to flourish your business. One such of the various such keys is the Time to make a start- this is not something to be asked but is something you must know. All the big pitches that you want to trade in summer handed out in spring, with appealing for in New Year.

The other important aspect which holds a major space in planning is the place where you trade. Your business plan must have a clear idea for which event, market or festival to target. The pitch fee will vary to a great extent. These are the places you may look at-

• Regular Markets-These are a good regular source of income and provide midweek trade as well as a coveted regular pitch, first amongst the street food trophies. Note that customer-spend will be significantly lower here as people are not there to sip on your delicious food but to nab a bargain.
• Weekend Markets- Weekend markets are probably more suited to street food as they attract the foodies and not the bargain hunters. Here, the potential takings are low as compared to even a small festival. Since they are weekend markets, you have to wait for the whole week to serve.
• Music Festivals-A well-established music festival can attract a fantastic crowd of music lovers. Here, your trade can excel as these fests are long running but again be careful of a bad ratio of traders to customers and be fearful of free food being handed out right next to your pitch.
• Food Festivals- A food festival can attract a fantastic crowd of food lovers keen to try something new. These festivals may be paid one or for free. I would approach paid food festivals with a healthy dose of common sense. Asking people to pay to go and pay for more food is a cunning business plan, and there are people out there who do pay. On the other hand, in the food festivals which are for free, the visitors count will usually be much higher but will also account for a higher number of bargain hunters.

The number of options can seem to be intimidating and it becomes difficult to determine where to begin. Start by validating which kind of event you would expect to see the street food business similar to yours. Attend such events and then analyze the pros and cons of each and every event with respect to customers, your interest and competitors. You must have a clear idea about everything related such as which business is doing well and why?

Your business plan must have a strong branding and marketing approach. A strong brand will help you stand out from the crowd, which is not just important for attracting customers but also securing spots at venues. Especially in the more established street markets, securing a pitch is more about who you know, and a strong social media presence or positive press coverage can help raise your profile.

Social media should be the centre of your branding policies. Posts on Twitter and Facebook would convey your message to a larger audience. These would create an army of online followers of your brand.

Infocrest Finweb LLP gives you a very unique, strong, competitive and creative business plan like the above. It is just one of the various innovative business plans which we provide to our clients. We target to guide our believers in achieving their most ambitious business planning and maintaining the paramount levels of professionalism and experience.

Better Vision induces Better Business

Pre-eminent companies are built upon strong and timeless vision. Let’s have a look at some-

•  “To organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” — Google
• “To be the pulse of the planet” — Twitter
• “To be earth’s most customer-centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.” — Amazon

These statements may sound abstruse and pompous, but when you begin to think upon this, you realize why a plan like,” Having The Best Photo Editing App For Sharing Them On Instagram”, just won’t cut it.

Vision

It is an aspirational description of what an organization would like to achieve or accomplish in the mid-term or long-term future. It is intended to serve as a clear guide for choosing current and future courses of action. 

Need For Vision

Without a vision, a business is like a ship without a rudder, in danger of drifting aimlessly.  Many small businesses lack clear and concise vision, so they tend to hop from tasks to tasks without understanding the value created by individual actions.

When you see all activities are being useful, no activity is useful. The problem with a plan like, ”Keep adding good features ”, is that it’s hard for the people to understand what’s useful thing, to spend time on. If you don’t know where to go then every path seems good.

Marketing, Operations, and Skills required differs from business to business, and here comes the need for a clear vision. A clear vision will specify what you will do and ultimately what you will not do. Thus, it clearly will give you the idea of the key factors for a successful business plan.

Strategy versus Vision

We develop various strategies for our business to excel in the industry. But without a clear vision, these all are not of use. Vision and Strategies both are important. But there is a priority to them. Vision is always ahead of strategies. If you have a clear vision, you will likely choose the right strategy; but if there isn’t a clear vision, no strategy will save you.

Features of an Efficacious Vision

A gnarly vision must be-

• Concise and give purpose to your business.
• Capable of motivating you and others in the business.
• Providing the cornerstone for your business.

The vision for a company must also be robust for years at a time. Technologies, social networks, trends, all come and go, and a company must stay relevant regardless. Notice how Google doesn’t mention search, Amazon doesn’t mention books, and Twitter says nothing about apps or tweets. This is long term thinking. You can’t base your company around current technologies, trends, or other companies. It’s about what you are doing for your customers.

Summary

For a business to expand or succeed, its vision plays very important role. It not only guides you to take which path to proceed but also determines the plan of action to be taken for your business to flourish. It guides your employees with clear directions and provides them with a mission to achieve. 

At Infocrest Finweb LLP, we enhance your vision which helps you to develop a better business. We also provide you with competitive and creative solutions to meet your promising vision.

Sponsored Social Media- An Emerging And Best Marketing Methodology

I was going through my facebook when I found posts from a certain page which I didn’t like it; yes, these were the sponsored posts. The posts which manage to come in front of as many eyes as possible. And this is what exactly a marketer wants that his product/content should reach as many people as it can.

Since the social media as if is over-crowded with lots of stuff, marketing here becomes like a drop of water in the entire ocean. Here comes sponsored social media to stand out above the clamor of Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter crowds and train the right eyes onto your product/content.

Digital Marketing is everywhere, but according to new researchers, sponsored social posts are actually getting noticed explaining their growing popularity. According to a recent report by sponsored social agency IZEA, consumers are noticing sponsored posts more than ever, about three per day. As a result, they’re considered among the most effective marketing tactics.

As a society and as consumers, we’ve become blind to traditional forms of advertising. Being able to involve advertising as part of the content is as old of an idea as the dawn of soap operas. Now, that same concept is being applied at scale through sponsored social.

According to a survey, 54% of 511 marketers utilized sponsored social in 2015, the same amount that used display ads. However, the use of latter declined by 4%. On a scale of 1-10, sponsored social marketing acquire 7.29, in terms of effectiveness, only content marketing ranked higher in this area. By contrast, marketers have soured on the old-school channels in the last year. TV, radio, magazine and especially newspaper ads have declined in sentiment.

Tony Longo, co-founder and chief executive (CEO) of Ground Signal, points out that sponsored social's rise in popularity makes sense because its native properties make the posts less susceptible to ad blindness. “Sponsored posts are in the concentration stream, not off to the side where we have been trained over the years to ignore,” says Longo.

Nearly a quarter of the marketers surveyed have sponsored photos. That's slightly less than videos, despite the video being seen as the most valuable form of sponsored social. 

Marketers expect to pay $475 for a video. A blog is valued at $411 and a sponsored email is estimated to cost $283. On the less expensive side of the spectrum, likes, Twitter followers and Pins are all expected to be less than $200. Only 11 percent of marketers opted not do any sponsored social.

Sponsored social posts are one of the up-and-comers in digital marketing. The tactic is steadily growing in popularity, especially as the ban on like-gating has forced brands to focus more on the quality of their posts. And as brands become savvier and target better, sponsored social media is likely to get even bigger in the future.

Infocrest’s marketing department holds an ocean full of new and exciting marketing strategies of which the above was just a small example. We here at Infocrest Finweb LLP provides you with innovative and highly competitive markets plans which helps you to grow your business and makes you stand one among the toppers of the industry.