Millionaire maker Dan S. Kennedy and local-level marketing specialist Jeff Slutsky empower small business owners to take on big box companies and distant discounters using their best asset—their ability to bond directly with their consumers. Small business entrepreneurs are armed to go “grassroots” given winning strategies to take their marketing to the street level resulting in higher customer retention, greater referrals, and a thriving business for the long-term. About the Book Kennedy and Slutsky dare small business owners to break free of the ingrained tendencies to “advertise when you need more customers” and to copycat what they see big, national companies doing. Local business owners are urged to add some politicking to their business presence, focusing their marketing on directly connecting with their customers, integrating them into their community and even, their daily activities. Kennedy and Slutsky deliver creative, high impact alternatives and supplements to disappointing traditional advertising and new media including strategies for gaining free advertising from local news media, creating events that multiply customers, and effectively using direct mail. Small business owners also uncover surefire tactics that capitalize on their neighborhoods, the four walls of their business, and the internet, reaching their local customers and creating a sense of a personal relationship. Throughout their lesson in going grassroots, Kennedy and Slutsky also reveal the nine inconvenient truths of grassroots marketing, keeping small business owners on track and on their way local business stardom. Features • Presents a marketing approach specifically engineered for small (local) businesses • Reveals 9 No B.S. inconvenient truths and how to implement them • Illustrates concepts with examples from practicing business owners • From Dan Kennedy, author of the popular No B.S. books including No B.S. series, which shipped more than 250,000 copies • Identifies what’s wrong with traditional and new media advertising • Offers methodology to break free from ingrained tendencies and copycat marketing

The food industry is on the verge of a revolution, with smaller, local and regional food brands finding big potential for growth. The increasing influence of millennials on consumer tastes, the desire for products produced locally, and mistrust of big food companies open opportunities to small and medium-sized food companies. An experienced consumer packages goods marketer and his team have created a book to help navigate the looming volatility in the food industry. For instance, the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts that the sales of locally produced foods, which reached $12 billion in 2014, will soar to $20 billion by 2019. A 2015 study by the Food Marketing Institute and the Grocery Manufacturers Association found that smaller and private food brand manufacturers grew 4 percent vs. the 25 biggest U.S. food and beverage manufacturers, who grew 1 percent between 2009 and 2013. Moving Your Brand Up the Food Chain offers practical tips to help local, small and emerging food brands compete against the big brands to grow their market share. Interviews and survey answers from industry professionals provide invaluable information. The book covers the retail buyer’s perspective, marketing, external market factors, brand development, packaging, brand management, strategic product development, and more. Such details are critical if local, smaller or regional food brands hope to grow their businesses and move up the food chain.

This book is a concise, easy-to-use resource for applying marketing strategies to a foodservice facility, addressing issues like: How do I market my restaurant to prospective customers? Do loyalty programs really work in restaurants? How does the design of my restaurant and menu affect the perception of my operation? This text provides the restaurant/foodservice manager with specific tools tying marketing theory to practice. It also includes checklists and examples that can be applied to the day-to-day operation of their business.

The complete guide to marketing for restaurant managers How do I market my restaurant to prospective customers? Do loyalty programs really work? How do I communicate with my local newspaper to get the biggest "bang" for my marketing buck? By providing specific tools and methods tying marketing theory to practice, this concise, easy-to-use book provides restaurant and foodservice managers with answers to these marketing questions and many more. Part of the Restaurant Basics Series, this hands-on resource offers a variety of material that is applicable to the day-to-day operation of a foodservice business, including strategies linking the location and design of a restaurant with its menu and pricing, as well as guidance on how to imple-ment a marketing plan and budget.

This book aims to present a holistic picture of the Chinese immigrants from Fuzhou in New York. It shows how a small village in Southeast China has expanded to New York and has undergone a transformation over the past few decades, from rural Third World peasants to ethnic entrepreneurs in a global city. Validating Marshall Sahlins’s statement that migrants can “organise the irresistible forces of the world system according to their own system of the world,” the book seeks to explain the following aspects: first, how Chinese migrants from Fuzhou built a self-governing community and provided public goods for its members. Second, how they adapted their pre-modern social relations to a market environment, creating interwoven economic networks in an ethnic economy and reshaping local culture-based economies into a distinctive form of capitalism. Third, how they transformed their religious world, adapting Chinese Buddhism and folk religion as a focus for their society and economy. Fourth, the characteristics of the migrants’ cultural identity, examining the continuities in their identity and how it has changed over time. Students and scholars in anthropology, Chinese studies and cultural studies will find this book essential reading.

Here's Your Guide to Thriving in the Post-Pandemic Economy! Today, small local independent restaurants are in crisis. They are completely assaulted on all sides by higher food costs, higher labor costs, an inflationary environment, lower attendance rates and a looming recession. The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting work-from-home movement has had a major impact on consumer preferences, demands, and expectations of restaurants. As a result, small restaurant owners must implement a solid marketing strategy and adapt it to reach remote workers and satisfy the needs, expectations and pain points of today's diners. To put it simply, yesterday's tactics don't work anymore. The days of simply hanging an "Open" sign outside your door are gone. The Ultimate Guide to Restaurant Marketing in a Post-Covid, Work-From-Home World is not another watered-down operations manual. It will teach you exactly how to find and reach customers, communicate what makes your restaurant unique and make serious money even in recessions. You'll learn: - Why recessions can be extremely profitable for restaurant owners - Why our society needs restaurants now more than ever - How to reach remote workers and get them into your restaurant - Why convenience is the focal point of diner preferences - How the government failed small restaurant owners during COVID-19 - How to beat Ghost Kitchens, Meal Prep Services and other competitors - How to find the perfect diners and attract them to your restaurant - Why you should focus on value, not price - Why word-of-mouth advertising doesn't attract remote workers - How to formulate a marketing strategy for the work-from-home crowd - How to skyrocket your profits by making money both on and off the menu . . . and much, much, more. The Ultimate Guide to Restaurant Marketing in a Post-Covid Work-from-Home World is your ultimate companion in the new age of marketing for small restaurants. With expert guidance and practical advice tailored specifically for your industry, you'll learn how to attract and retain customers, optimize your online presence, and ultimately drive the success of your small restaurant. Don't let your small restaurant go unnoticed – grab your copy of "The Ultimate Guide to Restaurant Marketing in a Post-Covid Work-from-Home World" today and revolutionize your marketing strategies! Unlock the true potential of your small restaurant and position yourself for unparalleled success in today's highly competitive market!