Get Your Restaurant Featured In the most Visible and Professional Restaurant Guide in Dutchess County.
In today's Search Engine's Google accounts for over 60 percent of all searches. The next 10-20 percent is Yahoo. The rest is divided up between several third party search engines. Just search Dutchess County Restaurant Guide or Best Dutchess County Restaurant in Google, you will see that we rank at the top with local restaurant guides.
How can we target words like "best restaurant"? In one word: Content. We are not just a listing service, and by becoming a Featured Member you are becoming much more than a listing. You are becoming part of an exclusive group of high quality dining establishments in Dutchess County.
Most of our visits are from restaurant customers, not restaurant owners looking for advertising.
The problem with most "advertising sites" is that they offer no services to the restaurant customer, they just put a pretty picture on page to try to attract the attention of their potential advertisers. That way when you search for restaurant advertising, they come up.. That only means something to you, the owner. The customer wants to find out information, see pictures of your restaurant, see your menu, etc. We offer them a service, and our site targets your potential customers. How do we know this? Almost every member that has signed up of the thousands that visit this site, registered as a restaurant goer/ reviewer. Dont take our word for it, look at our results:
Although our site is still a month away from it's official advertised public launch, we tested out our pay per click with one advertising partner. Here were the results:
That shows that Falls Diner(used with permission) had 21,333 impressions (views) and 230 actual clicks to their site. That means actual restaurant going members of our site clicked through to their link. That is a true link conversion, and that is only one small ad on the front page. Rather than just throwing out how many visitors our site has, or how many people click on our homepage which can be diluted and exaggerated, why not show you the actual amount of leads you too can generate. How much are 230 unique actual leads worth to you per month? These aren't views, as in a magazine or newspaper ad, but leads as in proof someone took the initiative to consider you further than a glance. It is the web equivalent of a phone call. In addition your brand awareness will be built immensely by the 21,000 views of your ad.
 We also have had over 1000 vistits per month in our beta testing period alone. The amazing part is that our page views are five times that in some cases, meaning almost all of our visitors are navigating around the entire site. This is an important statistic as this eliminates people who accidentally click the site, and leave right away. That means almost all of our 1,000+ visitors are quality visits who spend time viewing at least 5 pages, and all of this at a time when our site is only beta testing with limited advertising partners, and very few pages.
Different Membersip Options:
General Listing:
You don't have to do anything, we regularly search each locality for restaurants, diners, coffee houses, and pizza places. We list them free with their name, address, and phone number. This is our service to the community, and to you for being a member of our community. If you don't see your name, please submit it for consideration.
Featured Listing
Restaurants who meet the criterea for this heading will be listed above all of the general listings
-You will have a 150x125 pixel banner displayed with a link to a review page that will include your name, address, directions, phone number, link to your website, one picture, and an article.
-You can be listed here by submitting your restaurant for consideration or being nominated by the right number of guests. Some restaurants are featured for free automatically for 30 days when we recieve enough nominations.
Beyond this We offer the outstanding price of $10 per month. That is the most innexpensive advertising per visitor in dutchess county!
-You Will have a link to your website and a map it link as well
To have your restaurant listed, or to find out more information, click the submit restaurant for consideration button to the left. We will contact you promptly to personally discuss your options. If you prefer to be contacted by phone, please include your phone number and note your prefrence. We look forward to being working with you.
Benefits, why should I list: -We live in the day of trip advisor, ebay seller ratings, google review, yahoo review, facebook, myspace, and hundreds of other forms of online information. People are carefull about where they spend their time and money, and if they can't justifying spending either on you in a few short minutes on the internet, you often loose them as a client.
My Great Grandfather ran a famous luncheonette in Yonkers, NY for decades; however, many restaurants just like that today saw a drop in business with the advent of the world wide web 2.0 age. You see many people only take the time to write a review when they are angry, thus sites like trip advisor and especially google reviews can be skewed against you unfairly. The fact is a majority of potential customers will search you out online before they decide to dine, and often it can be hard to find anything good out there.
That is where we come in. We are not unfair or dishonest, we just believe that any quality restaurant has many positive qualities that just need to be matched to the right customers. If you specialize in family dining, its unfair for someone to review your restaurant as chaotic and loud, rather than family friendly and laid back. We want to get your names out there for what you are good at with professionally penned reviews and one of a kind brand awareness.
We consisistently come at the top of google searches for terms such as best dutchess county restaurant, dutchess county restaurant review and dutchess county restaurant guide, because that is what people search for. They don't search the same terms you do as the owner, they are only looking for guides reviews, and the best restaurants. We will put you in their search, and give your online reputation a boost in what you are famous for. We also don't stop there. Anyone who tells you that just putting your picture up earns you customers is telling a half truth. We will also follow up by posting our positive reviews, on google reviews, yahoo reviews, trip advisor, ezine, press releases etc. We run a positive pr campaign for you at the low cost of $10. All you have to do is meet our quality criteria and sign up for your featured membership today. To see how we can afford to offer these time consuming and costly services for such a low price, read that heading below.
Premium Featured Listing
-You will have everything included in the featured listing plus:
-A 150-125 banner on the Front page of our website. That means no clicking, no navigating whatsoever to get to your listing. It is right there on the front page.
-Menu Review, instead of just reviewing your restaurant as a whole you can let us know what your specialties are, and our marketing partners will develope a great and exciting look at the best items from your menu.
-Branding and Marketing, We will award you the DCRG wineglass logo that tells Patrons that this menu item is a DCRG recommended item. It will be emailed to you, and mailed on cd once you elect to become a premium listing. The cd will also include Dutchess County Restaurant Guide Featured Listing badging and logos for your unlimted use in your restaurant. We are confident that this brand will not become diluted because we only allow quality restaurants to become featured in the first place, this means that you can rest assured if you Display our logo, it will be respected.
-Upgraded PR campaign including marketing materiels co branded with our Featured Restaurant Logo and Your Restaurant Logo, radio ads, street advertising, or lawn signs given out, We will offer a variety of upgraded options and you can select which ones you feel will work best for you and your restaurant..
-Included:our team of designers will design basic logos, menu's, and brochures. For a reduced price we will design more intricate logos, menu's, and brochures.
All of this for absolute low price of $30.
How can we afford to have our marketing company offer you a service at $30 that normally costs 300 dollars a piece.
Because we generate ad revenue on our site to help cut your costs. That is why we ask you to go to our site and click our google ads and complete affiliate offers to help keep our prices lower than anyone else in Dutchess County.
Add-Ons
Other Options
-Advertise on our Homepage at the affordable rate of 15 cents per click. Budget as many clicks as you can afford in a month, as low as 5 dollars. This means you only pay for advertising when someone actually visits your site. You don't pay for any advertising that doesn't generate a lead.
Get your own private microsite on our server
If you don't have a website, or don't want to share a review page with other restaurants this is a great option. It also increases your chances of being found in a search engine search. For example your page would be dutchesscountyrestaurantguide.com/yourrestaurantname.html We would preserve our template and look, but within the boundaries of our page you can submit pictures, menus, specials, etc.
Price ranges from $2-$5 per month depending on your membership agreement.
This is a page different from your review page. It is a completely custom micro site within dutchesscountyrestaurantguide.com/yourrestaurantname.html
But this is your webpage to put up what you want. Our review page is seperate from this. You can have a free consulatation with our Marketing Partners, and they will help you with the verbage to increase your ROI. You can have your own page complete with up to 5 internal links, menus, and just about anything relating to your restaurant. It's your page. Plus again you get the added benefit of it being maintained by a Marketing Professional
Want to completely customize your site to your specifications?
To give you an idea a basic 5-10 complete website on our server would cost $25-$30 per month, including monthly maintenance, search engine optimization, and a basic marketing package.
Dutchess County Restaurant Guide print edition
This magazine currently is slated for release early summer of 2010. It will be a hybrid between a magazine and dining guide. It will have content for readers to relate to, and read, but will also primarily consist of an intensive guide of our featured restaurants. That's right. If you are featured with our online guide you will automatically be included in our print edition. You can also purchase additional advertising or upgraded listing status in our Registered Owners section of the site. Advertising rates will be released near the end of march. |
