Tuesday, December 27, 2011

10 Low cost restaurant marketing ideas for the Holiday season

 With the end of the year just around the corner, many restaurants have to be extra imaginative with their marketing efforts especially if they want to stay on top of their customers minds this Holiday season. To help you increase your restaurant sales and referrals, we have listed this ten proven low cost marketing ideas that can help any restaurant succeed this Holiday season.
1. Customize Holiday cards with your restaurant logo or pictures of your restaurant and your employees
2. Personalize envelopes or stamps with your restaurant image or logo
3. Personalize cookies or chocolate with your logo and serve or give out as a gift to your customers
4. Create a video e-card, incorporate a subtle use of your restaurant's products, and publish the e-card on your website, blog, twitter account, Facebook fan page, or your newsletter.
5. Create "31 days of your restaurant food specials" and feature a Holiday inspired dish each day
6. Make a real life or digital Christmas tree and decorate it with goodwill messages posted on snowflakes from your customers and stuff, make presents from your restaurant's products or merchandise, create edible ornaments, and if you have pictures of your customers taken through out the year hang them on the tree to remind your customers why they choose your restaurant
7. Make your own restaurant calendars and give them out to your customers as holiday gifts
8. Let your customers submit their favorite holiday recipes which you can publish on your website along side your own restaurant recipes.
9. Publish free downloadable "Restaurant Survival Guide" for your customers
10. Organize end of the year food donation drive for your community

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