Category: SMB Tips & Tricks

How To Use The Customer Lifecycle In Your Marketing Plan (w/ Examples!)
You’ve spent countless hours setting up your business, from the very product that you sell to the site that you sell it on. Now it’s time to come up with...

How To Run A Successful Restaurant (With Over 60+ Links and Resources!) – Candybar’s Guide to Restaurant Management
Restaurant management is not easy, and it is tough to find the formula for how to run a successful restaurant. Managing a restaurant, bar, or cafe is tough – and it involves a broad...

Here’s Every Restaurant Marketing Idea You Need To Survive In Today’s Economy
Restaurants – and in particular, dining chains – are slowly but surely dying off. According to restaurant industry tracker TDn2K, 2016 was “the worst year for the restaurant industry since...

Every Question You Have About Restaurant Financing, Answered
Starting your own small restaurant or cafe can be a dream – but you’ll need help along the way, along with some starting capital. Our friends at Fundera offer some...

Five Ways Your Restaurant POS Can Create Happy Customers and Drive Repeat Sales
This post was shared by our friends at Upserve POS – a restaurant management platform built by restauranteurs. Many new restaurant owners make the mistake of focusing too much on...

Checklist: 6 Ways to Use Online Engagement to Deliver A Great Customer Experience for F&B
Your customers are online – you should be too Just like F&B businesses can take on many different forms and styles, there is no single solution to online engagement for...

When Loyalty Programs Fail: 6 Pitfalls For You To Avoid (With Examples and Lessons)
Avoid the banana peel of common loyalty program pitfalls Harvard Business Review says that businesses find it 5 to 25 times harder to get a new customer than to keep an existing one....

The Anatomy of a Review: What F&B Customers Focus On
Reviews reveal what your customers see; often, the little details you’ve missed Word of mouth marketing has gone digital.These days, online customer reviews work the same way as in-person word...