Five great ways bars and restaurants are using Foursquare

Many bars and restaurants are taking advantage of Foursquare, a location-based mobile platform. Foursquare allows users to “check in” and share their location with friends while earning virtual badges and discovering nearby deals and discounts.

Foursquare boasts over 5 million user since its 2009 launch. Tens of thousands of venues are currently implementing special offers through Foursquare.

There are endless opportunities for unique deals on Foursquare that will keep your customers coming back and bring in new faces as well.

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Are you preventing your customers from promoting your Facebook page?

Encouraging customers to tag themselves in photos on your Fan Page is one of the easiest ways to encourage interaction and engagement.

Tagging is a way for users to identify themselves in photos. Once someone has been tagged in your photo, it will appear on their profile as well. More tagged users means more people are likely to see your photos.

There’s just one problem: Facebook automatically restricts fans from tagging photos on a Fan Page.

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The biggest mistake you can make when running a Promotion

Running Promotions isn’t easy, but there is a formula as you have seen from the last couple of videos in the promotional series. In this video I will show you to avoid the biggest promotion mistakes.
By the way, 180+ promotional Strategies and some AMAZING bonuses are now on sale and you’ll find details of the Bar Promotion Toolkit by clicking the image below:

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Download: Bar Promotion Planner

As promised last week, I am bring you a great free tool today: A Bar Promotion Planner that makes use of the “Fill Your Bar Formula” detailed in the last video.

This great Planner will help you plan, promote and build traction with each and every promotion.
In addition to the Bar Promotion Planner, you’ll also find my second video below with instructions on how to use the formula to build your community and gain traction in your business starting today.


Video: “The Fill Your Bar” Formula

Over the past four months, I’ve been researching the strategies used by the most successful bars to keep their bar full. I wanted to know what promotions or tactics were being used by these businesses to remain profitable and full despite the downturn in the economy.

The results surprised me. Mainly because virtually ALL successful bars that I researched were using the same formula to fill their bar every night.

The formula is simple, yet highly effective and can be used by ANY bar, in any market anywhere.

I’ve put together this video to explain the formula in more detail. I hope you enjoy it.

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