Restaurants: Stop Giving Away Free Lunches to Charity + Make a Bigger Impact

Restaurants: Stop Giving Away Free Lunches to Charity + Make a Bigger Impact

I’ve just finished reading Angel Postell’s op ed in the Charleston City Paper, 

urging nonprofits to ease up on the amount of freebies they ask of our local restaurant community, and immediately felt compelled to contribute. First of all, she’s right. The sheer amount that’s being asked of local restaurants is absurd, yes. In my own past experience as a marketer for a restaurant chain whose roots are here in the Lowcountry, I was hit up for donations daily, sometimes multiple times a day, and that doesn’t include those who walked into our restaurants and asked staff onsite.

Which Social Media Platform Is Right For Your Small Business?

Which Social Media Platform Is Right For Your Small Business?

You’re on Facebook. You’ve heard your kid talk about Instagram, but mixed into sentences with other words you’re quite certain she made up.

The other day, you saw the President tweeted again about something or another, and last week you read the news and like many others, found Snapchat’s IPO valuation to be pure insanity. You’re not sure exactly what Snapchat does, but it sure as hell isn’t worth $30 billion dollars. In your spare time (haha!), since it seems to be ubiquitous, you Google how to leverage social media for your business and then the phone rings so you’ll get back to that later. To be honest, it’s hard to keep up with it all so maybe you won’t, but you take comfort in thinking you can’t possibly be the only one who hasn’t jumped into the conversation on behalf of your company.

2 Things Small Businesses Can Learn from Super Bowl 51 Ads

2 Things Small Businesses Can Learn from Super Bowl 51 Ads

Super Bowl commercials are always entertaining, but year after year only a few get it right.

While the internet’s abuzz today with the good, the bad and the ugly from last night’s ads, two brands were able to stand out from the noise and deliver something meaningful. No, we’re not talking about Audi and 84 Lumber’s ads, two of the more anticipated ones that each took a stance and affected us emotionally (and that’s as far as we’ll go about that…). Last night’s winners were Tide and Google.