Archives for "June, 2010"

Posted by TwitterForRestaurants on 24th June 2010
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Social Media Day June 30

Have you heard? Mashable (the consummate all-things-social-media website) has taken upon itself to announce a worldwide Social Media Day on June 30. If you’ll recall our musings of putting something together for Burlington, VT, well we did. And boy is it a doozy! Together with a number of key, connected friends and contacts, the #BTV [...]

Posted by TwitterForRestaurants on 22nd June 2010
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Customer Service: Twitter saves day, mayor

This is a story about customer service. Via Twitter. About Foursquare. It all started a couple of weeks ago. I was creating a business account (my own) on Foursquare.com. Playing with options and specials and updating some personal information. I also decided to change my email address for logging in, and that is where a [...]

Posted by TwitterForRestaurants on 17th June 2010
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Mastering Social Media for…Tourism?

Does your restaurant, bar, wine shop or other food & beverage venue depend on tourism dollars? Chances are it does, even though you don’t know it. You might want to take a serious look into these online classes put together by Tourism Currents. The curriculum is solid and profound, and the hosts have a slew [...]

Posted by TwitterForRestaurants on 16th June 2010
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Social Media Day

One of our favorite blogs on all things social media, Mashable, has organized a National Social Media Day, coming Wednesday, June 30. I’m collaborating with a number of social hot shots around Burlington, VT to put together a knock-down drag-out good time for local folks that are active participants on Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare. Like [...]

Posted by TwitterForRestaurants on 15th June 2010
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Why Twitter isn’t working

A recent article reflecting on the Nation’s Restaurant News report on restaurants’ social media effectiveness. The big question is does this stuff work?. Consider the following poll results from NRN*: Although 61% of restaurants said they were actively on Facebook, only 8% of consumers said they ever follow restaurants via Facebook 78% of restaurants planned [...]

Posted by TwitterForRestaurants on 13th June 2010
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Review: #Twitterworks: Restaurant 2.0 Edition

Want to read about how Twitter really WORKS for a restaurant and food truck? I did, and boy does it work for @AJBombers and @StreetzaPizza in Milwaukee. The new book by Phil Gerbyshak (@Philgerb), Joe Sorge and Scott Baitinger, #Twitterworks Restaurant 2.0 Edition, is the story of how using social media tools helped build their [...]

Posted by TwitterForRestaurants on 11th June 2010
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Follow Friday Favorite 6/11/10

Inspired by @chrisbrogan‘s Follow Friday post, I’m posting some must-follow tweeps that @twit4restos encounters during our Twitter travels. More than just a twitter link, I’ll offer a blurb on why I think they are an important contribution to the efforts of Twitter for Restaurants and social marketing in general. You’ll find a permanent listing of [...]

Posted by TwitterForRestaurants on 9th June 2010
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Social tools for the Restaurant Do-It-Yourselfer

If you missed my tweets about this OneForty.com “Essential tools for the Restaurant Do-It-Yourselfer”, I’ve corralled them all here. Add these social marketing and analyzing applications to your Twitter toolbox. Use any number of these tools to help track, schedule, share and analyze your social efforts. Twitter Grader “FREE! A snapshot of your (or anyone’s) [...]

Posted by TwitterForRestaurants on 8th June 2010
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Get rid of that Flash Website

This post steps outside our usual topics hovering social media, but since we often use Twitter and Facebook to point our fans, followers and customers to our own websites, its relevance is warranted. This previous post reflects on the the things that irk some restaurant website visitors. I often am called upon to revamp restaurant [...]

Posted by TwitterForRestaurants on 7th June 2010
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Everything Old is New Again

Whenever you find yourself in a dry spell for sharing interesting tweets, articles on Facebook, blog posts or even YouTube videos, there’s help right at your fingertips. Why not dig back into your archives to reflect upon and bring new relevance to? Not simply a copy/paste into a new post – and you don’t want [...]