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Restaurant Marketing Tips - Online Advertising Free! Part 3

Welcome to the third and final article in this series. I had a hard time deciding which of the many free advertising options to fill. Finally I went to search engines and published a series of searches and pizza restaurants. Of these, I selected two issues that typically occur in the first ten search results.

The Public Open Directory Project

Public Open Directory Project is a group of volunteers who strive hard, without compensation or reward, to find the best websites and include in your directory. These volunteers have high standards. He ruled ruthlessly websites with questionable content or redundant. Only the highest quality sites, or those with original content that are the primary source of information on a subject to enter the OPD.

As part of the OPD, volunteers maintain a separate space just for restaurants. This restaurant is located directory in www.chefmoz.org. Contains the names of restaurants, addresses, telephone numbers, style of cooking, web and truly comprehensive descriptions of dining facilities.

Every owner of a unique restaurant in the world should visit www.chefmoz.org and add your information. You can even include reviews and links to other Internet sites that contain reviews of your restaurant.

Since each listing is reviewed by an editor, search engines, as Google, Yahoo! and MSN ChefMoz use the directory as one of the highest quality resources. The directory is logically organized by country, state and city. In many cases, when someone searches for restaurants in a particular city, Chefmoz.org directory listing for that city is one of the top 10 search items. Tan is a good idea to have represented his restaurant, have your website is available online and its menu.

To add your restaurant, go to the correct www.chefmoz.com local directory, and click "Add a restaurant." You will be guided through a series of pages that can provide all your information and present the information to be reviewed by an editor. If your city is not already included, you can click on "Add Restaurant" statewide, and its list, if accepted, will create the new directory for your town.

Yellow Pages

One of the most popular places where consumers look for companies is the local yellow pages online sites. There are several, such as www.superpages.com and www.switchboard.com. They attempt to have at least the minimum information for every business in a particular city. Some even will let its website the list of companies for free. Www.superpages.com The site allows a business to create a free business profile that includes a link to your website. Enjoy this and create your free business profile superpages.com. Superpages.com lists are often among the top 10 articles returned for local searches for restaurants or pizza. You want to be there when people are looking for.

Offline Marketing Online

Unless found in a rest stop of a major interstate highway, all customers will live within a few miles from his shop.

Fact: 80% of its customers to use computers. And that percentage is growing.

Fact: most people find Web sites offline. They are listening on radios, read in magazines and newspapers, see on business cards, brochures and newsletters and read them in the window, the vehicle and signals the sidewalk.

These forms are excellent ways to get your web address and online ordering message before their customers. His message and online web request must be included as a matter course in each of your advertising pieces, whether the menu of your takeaway, your window sign, pizza box, the sign of the delivery vehicle, or advertisements of newspaper.

Your Internet address is easier to remember than your phone number. Enjoy this activity with their local customers where can see.

By providing your web address, which is inviting people to visit and check in a completely comfortable. The visitor does not feel uncomfortable checking on your menu line. They do not have to participate in a telephone conversation uncomfortable when trying to decide whether to give their food a try. They're comfortable and relaxed and when they see their online ordering menu, these comfortable and relaxed people can only put your first order with you there and then.

One of my clients increased their online orders of $ 100 per month to over $ 1,000 per month, with more than half their online customers identifying flyers, newspaper advertisements and the sign in the window as the source of where the restaurant's website.

You want everyone in a couple of miles his shop to find your web address. So do not make the mistake of limiting their Internet advertising Internet only.

So how is this advertising free internet? Because these are marketing strategies that are, or should be using anyway. It costs almost nothing to add the words "Order online at our website - www.yourpizzeria.com "to the next set of menus and flyers. And do not forget that the window sign.

One of our customers use a sign in the window to advertise your website and online introductory offer and have a steady stream of new customers to register online orders.

Low Cost Internet Advertising

In addition to the free market strategies, consider using some low cost Internet marketing paid.

One of the least expensive Internet strategies advertising is called pay per click. As expected, this means that the advertiser pays for every person who clicks on your ad online.

Search engines and Yahoo! and Google offer this service advertising and display ads to people entering specific search terms in the browser. The advertiser can choose exactly what search terms you want to go in and make his announcement.

For example, a restaurant can use search terms like " Jersey City pizza delivery "or" pizza Jersey City "and its Internet ad appear only when someone enters the search term.

If the person performing the search for clicks on your ad, the advertiser pays. The cost per click is usually very low. Typically 25 cents or less, depending competition. A tender system is used for advertisers to set their limits and daily and weekly budgets allow the advertiser to manage and control advertising expenditures.

One reason the cost is so low is because competition for local keyword is still very small. The owner of a restaurant Pittsburgh is not going to select "Pizza Bangor Maine" as your keyword. At the same time, it is a mistake to use a keyword is too general, for example using just "pizza" not only costs much more per click, but it will be seen by people who are hundreds and thousands of miles from his store. So, using the keyword very localized, not only reduces the cost of paying per click, also pre-qualifies the people who see more to add.

It's a good bet that someone searched for "pizza delivery Jersey City" lives in Jersey City, wants to order pizza and prefers to be delivered.

Sources of Pay Per Click advertising are Google Adwords, adwords.google.com, Yahoo, www.overture.com, and City Search, www.citysearch.com.

Concluding remarks

I hope you found this and my previous articles useful. We have barely scratched the surface of Internet Marketing. There are many, many techniques and strategies ranging links from local exchange banner ads, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and many, many other weird and wonderful items that can help attract visitors your website and customers to your meal.

After all, their online business will thrive, because you choose to take advantage of the power of the Internet and run it for you. Like any other part of your business has to be done as part of a whole. Their website and order online you will only income when their customers learn about it and are encouraged to use it.

Spread the word and view online takeout and delivery orders grow!

About the Author

Rudy Vener has helped many independent restaurants increase their takeout and delivery sales with online ordering. To learn how he can help your restaurant, call (800) 260-0588 or visit http://www.pizzagalaxy.com.

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