http://shadowbox.com/2006/03/17/blog-ideas-for-restaurants-using-rss-to-deliver-branded-coupons/ Helping business get its blog on. Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:07:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://shadowbox.com/2006/03/17/blog-ideas-for-restaurants-using-rss-to-deliver-branded-coupons/comment-page-1/#comment-1304 Restaurant Websites Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:00:23 +0000 http://corpblog.shadowbox.com/2006/03/17/blog-ideas-for-restaurants-using-rss-to-deliver-branded-coupons/#comment-1304 This is a great idea! We provide a turn-key system for restaurant owners who need websites. They have a content management system as you're describing as well as a built in e-mail newsletter capability. What we hadn't thought about is suggesting to our customers that if they don't want to use the e-mail newsletter function (or in addition to the newsletter) they could use the blog/RSS capability included in our package to distribute coupons. This is a great idea! We provide a turn-key system for restaurant owners who need websites. They have a content management system as you’re describing as well as a built in e-mail newsletter capability. What we hadn’t thought about is suggesting to our customers that if they don’t want to use the e-mail newsletter function (or in addition to the newsletter) they could use the blog/RSS capability included in our package to distribute coupons.

]]> http://shadowbox.com/2006/03/17/blog-ideas-for-restaurants-using-rss-to-deliver-branded-coupons/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Corporate Blogging 101 » Blog Archive » Coffee Shop Blogs Tue, 23 May 2006 09:35:17 +0000 http://corpblog.shadowbox.com/2006/03/17/blog-ideas-for-restaurants-using-rss-to-deliver-branded-coupons/#comment-175 [...] Aldo Coffee is a great example of a coffee shop blog. The Aldo blog/website lists their menus, event schedules and other interesting tidbits without making the site cluttered or busy, but most importantly the blog tells a story that draws people to the coffee shop. The only thing that I would do differently is insert coupons with every post that readers could print out and redeem at the coffee shop.¬? Adding coupons to newsletters/blogs worked amazingly well for me back when I was in the business. I talked about this back in March and you can find the post here. The following is an example of a branded coupon. Please excuse the fact that it doesn?Äôt look that great - I?Äôm no designer and I was in a hurry [...] [...] Aldo Coffee is a great example of a coffee shop blog. The Aldo blog/website lists their menus, event schedules and other interesting tidbits without making the site cluttered or busy, but most importantly the blog tells a story that draws people to the coffee shop. The only thing that I would do differently is insert coupons with every post that readers could print out and redeem at the coffee shop.¬? Adding coupons to newsletters/blogs worked amazingly well for me back when I was in the business. I talked about this back in March and you can find the post here. The following is an example of a branded coupon. Please excuse the fact that it doesn?Äôt look that great – I?Äôm no designer and I was in a hurry [...]

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