Friday, July 24, 2009

Eatout-Sydney - New Restaurant Listings

Hi Everyone! Great to be back in the swing of things after a week off down the South Coast. We've had a busy month and I'd like to take the opportunity to introduce you to the new restaurants being showcased on Eatout-Sydney. As always, we're excited to be growing so quickly, and extremely grateful to the restaurant owners who are putting their trust in us to help grow their businesses. It won't be long until Eatout-Sydney reaches the 100 restaurants mark - watch this space!

Demand is high for our services so if you know of restaurants that need more customers in the door, need a great website or just want to become more profitable or save on marketing costs, send me an email with their contact information and I'll give them a call immediately!

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Eatout has also been growing in other Australian cities including Perth, Adelaide, and Brisbane. So if you're ever travelling interstate, then you can rest assured that you'll always be able to make informed decisions with all the information you need to decide where to dine, wherever you are.

Now, onto the list of new restaurants in Sydney. Simply click on the links below to find out all about these amazing restaurants and make sure you try them out! Remember - the sensational food photos you see are of the actual food you'll be served, and if that doesn't excite you I don't know what will! You can also view all their menus, see their specials, and even book online if you like. I don't know about you, but this is all making me feel hungry!

Amata Thai Cuisine in Newtown, Sydney

Saigon Bay Restaurant
in Darlinghurst, Sydney

Pent Thai in Epping

Cibo e Vino in Castle Hill

Luka's Restaurant in Balgowlah


Fusion Cafe and Restaurant in Marsfield


Ranange Thai in Rozelle

Iyara Thai in Gladesville

Kens Charcoal BBQ Restaurant in Carlingford

The above restaurants are all waiting to see you in their restaurants. When you go, make sure you mention that you found their restaurant on Eatout-Sydney - the place where Australian look online for restaurants.

Until my next post - live life like there's no tomorrow!
Fenwick Snowdon
Eatout-Sydney

Saturday, May 23, 2009

The Power of Outstanding Website Photos

Visually powerful hospitality websites are hard to find. I know - I'm always looking for them! Too many websites put photos in as an afterthought, featuring often poor quality images of their food that can actually have a negative effect on business. Additionally, these photos (whether good or bad) are buried in the depths of a website instead of where they should be - on the home page giving potential diners immediate reasons to visit your restaurant. Your website only has a few seconds to convince new diners to pick up the phone to book a table, and these diners have no time to waste searching for information that can help them make a decision. If they don't get it immediately, they'll go elsewhere.

And yet, when done properly, outstanding photos of your food and premises, placed strategically on your website and in other places on the Internet can create such a powerful effect on sales that it really should be an essential part of your online marketing strategy.

Perhaps the biggest hurdle is the perceived expense of getting professional photographs in the first place. But, when considering the amount of diners these 24/7 strategies can generate, the initial costs are soon justified. And professional photographers's rates very considerably, from less than $200 to over $2000, and you don't have to hire the most expensive.

Here are just a handful of uses great quality images can be used for:
  1. own website
  2. Flicker
  3. your blogs
  4. Facebook
  5. front window (in an electronic photo frame or printed copies of your food in a lightbox)
  6. email marketing
  7. other traditional marketing (e.g. flyers)
If you'd like to learn more about our services, including photography services, simply email me with your contact details and I'll get back to you within 24 hours.