New Feature: Share Customer Reviews On Facebook

We noticed a really interesting thing that happened recently – our users Happy Cat Coffee recently received a great review via CandyBar’s customer feedback feature. Many of our users regularly...

/ January 30, 2018
How To Formulate the Best Valentine’s Wellness Spa Packages for Customers

How To Formulate the Best Valentine’s Wellness Spa Packages for Customers

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, many businesses are creating packages that would entice both happily single and loving couples to visit them. What better way to relax with...

/ January 29, 2018
5 Ways to be Your Customers’ Valentine – A Florists Guide to Boosting February Sales

5 Ways to be Your Customers’ Valentine – A Florists Guide to Boosting February Sales

Florists sell hundreds and thousands of flowers every year on Valentine’s Day, but most of them are barely breaking even. That is largely due to the rise of the .com...

/ January 25, 2018
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Organic Expansion vs Franchising: Weighing The Pros And Cons For Growing Your Restaurant

“Sellout.” Unfortunately, that is the common perception when it comes to a well-loved, successful brand that veers into franchising for expansion. The assumption is: since the new shops are going...

/ January 25, 2018

10 Useful Business Tips To Jump-Start Your Fashion Boutique

Let’s assume that you ended up on this page because you have a passion for fashion and would like to build a business out of it. Starting your fashion boutique...

/ January 24, 2018

How Doc Ford’s Rum Bar and Grille Transformed From A Novel To A Successful Restaurant Chain

Sanibel’s cool gulf breezes lured him from a life of danger. Its dark undercurrents threatened to destroy him.  After ten years of living life on the edge, it was hard...

/ January 21, 2018

28 Restaurant Review Sites To Track What Your Customers Are Saying

How do you find out how well your restaurant is doing? Some hands-on owners swear by being on the ground to oversee the day-to-day operations. Others simply have no time...

/ January 18, 2018

The CandyBar Launch Party – How We Got Started

In October of 2017, the ReferralCandy team launched CandyBar, a digital loyalty app for small businesses. Our engineering, product and marketing teams all came together to organize the launch event,...

/ January 16, 2018

Cycle Solutions Uses CandyBar to Grow Sales and Customer Retention

Cycle Solutions Cycle Solutions is a Sao Paulo, Brazil-based marketing agency, experienced in both offline and online marketing solutions. Cycle prides itself on implementing innovative and integrated solutions to solve...

/ January 8, 2018

How Shukuu Izakaya Uses “Educational Selling” To Grow Its Business

Sake, the Japanese rice wine, is Luis’s idea of a great drink. Sake is hugely popular in Japan, but not commonly drunk overseas, as people default to more familiar alcohol...

/ January 3, 2018