Author - Brandon Hull

Case Studies

Know of Any Breweries Using Social Media Well? We Do

by Brandon Hull

5 min read

Let’s say you run a single, independent brewery or sports bar. Your experience is inherently a social experience, right? Social media should be a no-brainer. Unfortunately the reality is, we don’t always witness that, and...

This Week In

This Week in Restaurant Technologies #03

by Brandon Hull

1 min read

On this week’s episode of This Week in Restaurant Tech, Nate and I discuss one topic: For several years now, you’ve been able to piggyback Facebook’s free this and free that. Free profiles for people. Free pages...

Industry Marketing News

Restaurant Marketing News and Ideas 3/25/2014

by Brandon Hull

3 min read

This week’s restaurant marketing news and ideas roundup is full of all kinds of  mobile goodness. Not SOLELY mobile goodness, but a great dose of it. Let’s dig right in: No sooner do we forward an update regarding...

Loyalty Marketing

When We Say ‘Restaurant CRM’ What Do We Mean?

by Brandon Hull

6 min read

I’ve been asked a couple times now what we mean when we say “restaurant CRM” here at NextRestaurants. I get that it’s not a term that’s been thrown around much. I was interviewed recently by Eric...

Loyalty Marketing

Live Conversation on Restaurant CRM

by Brandon Hull

1 min read

Hey everybody, we would love to have you participate in our live, ongoing discussion on restaurant CRM. We’re using the Nestivity platform to host our discussion, which allows you to participate via Twitter (use the...

Interviews

Social Restaurant Podcast #033

by Brandon Hull

1 min read

This week on the Social Restaurant Podcast Nate talks to Michael Atkinson, a new friend of NextRestaurants. Michael is a veteran restaurant operator and industry marketing veteran as well. He’s also the founder of FohBoh...

Social Media

Which Social Network Should My Restaurant Use?

by Brandon Hull

2 min read

Which social network should your restaurant use? Are you feeling overwhelmed with the apps, platforms, and social networks you could or should be leveraging? You’re not alone. The challenge affects restaurant marketers of...

This Week In

This Week in Restaurant Technologies #02

by Brandon Hull

1 min read

Yahoo! and Yelp have announced a partnership wherein Yelp’s content will be visible within Yahoo search results. The integration is pretty consistent, but not perfectly so. We break that down in this week’s episode of...

Case Studies

Marketing Lessons from Voodoo Doughnuts

by Brandon Hull

2 min read

Cannot tell you how happy we were to stumble across these lessons from Voodoo Doughnuts. You know if your small, fiercely independent restaurant brand has its own Wikipedia page, you’re on to something. What this post is...

Industry Marketing News

Restaurant Marketing News and Ideas 3/18/2014

by Brandon Hull

4 min read

My NCAA picks are in, are yours? As I’m sure most of you who are filling out brackets have also jotted down: the Kansas Jayhawks will win it all. Not Florida. Not Arizona. Not Michigan State. Kansas will go to their third...