Author - Brandon Hull

SEO

Google Displays Full Restaurant Menus

by Brandon Hull

1 min read

Stop me if you’ve read this news already, but Google is now displaying full menus in search results. This has huge implications for restaurants. Sadly, it suggests that Google doesn’t want to just LINK consumers to...

Email Marketing

5 Ideas for Better Email Marketing Templates for Restaurants

by Brandon Hull

6 min read

This is the third post in our series comprising The Beginner’s Guide to Restaurant Email Marketing. View our first post on getting started here, and our second post on selecting a vendor here.  We’ve talked about your email...

Interviews

Social Restaurant Podcast #030

by Brandon Hull

1 min read

On this week’s episode of the Social Restaurant Podcast, Nate talks to Shannon Payette Seip, founder of Bean Sprouts, an innovative new restaurant concept based in Seattle, Washington (with locations in Sausalito, CA, and...

Industry Marketing News

Restaurant Marketing News and Ideas 2/25/2014

by Brandon Hull

3 min read

We’re a day late in getting our weekly restaurant marketing news and ideas post out, but not a dollar short. In fact, you get a little video bonus for your willingness to wait that one extra day, in the form of this little...

Tools

6.5 Awesome Waitlist Management Services for Restaurants

by Brandon Hull

4 min read

While some restaurants wait for Apple to unleash its reservations/waitlist service to the world, there are a host of companies doing a rock-solid job for restaurants in this area already. If you’ve got a line to manage, and...

Interviews

Social Restaurant Podcast #029

by Brandon Hull

1 min read

Have you heard of “content marketing”? Of course you have! But just in case, my definition of content marketing is the marketing strategy of using valuable, informative, helpful, or entertaining content (i.e...

Loyalty Marketing

Restaurant Loyalty Programs: There is No Better Time Than Now

by Brandon Hull

2 min read

The folks at loyalty marketing leader BigDoor have launched a free eBook that is worth your attention. Titled “7 Myths About Customer Loyalty,” the eBook shares several misguided ideas that have existed in the...

Industry Marketing News

Restaurant Marketing News and Ideas 2/18/2014

by Brandon Hull

3 min read

When was the last time you Googled the name of your restaurant? And then your restaurant + city name? You should do that. You might be surprised at what comes up and in what order. Your website better be number one. You’ll...

Interviews

Social Restaurant Podcast #028

by Brandon Hull

1 min read

Hey everybody, huge announcement today. We’re excited to let you know that we’ll be publishing Nate Riggs’s outstanding weekly broadcast of the Social Restaurant Podcast right here at NextRestaurants. Each week...

Mobile Marketing

Jack in the Box Nails Mobile Marketing

by Brandon Hull

1 min read

Jack In The Box is killing it with mobile marketing. So says Mobile Mixed’s Greg Hickman. And I believe him. He’s an established expert in mobile marketing. It starts with Jack In The Box’s mobile site, which...