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12 Reasons Instagram Engagement is Dropping
Are you noticing a drop in engagement on your Instagram posts? You’re not alone. Many social media marketers are seeing the same thing, and it can be frustrating if you rely heavily on Instagram for business or personal growth. But why is this happening? It could be due to any number of reasons, such as […]

Allevi8 Marketing Has Been Named A Best Marketing Agency in the State
Allevi8 Marketing has been named one of the best marketing agency in the state of Illinois by UpCity. Awards are given based on the UpCity Recommendability Rating, which was developed to determine a B2B service provider’s credibility and trustworthiness, giving UpCity the confidence to recommend them to potential buyers seeking their services. We are proud […]

11 Website Design Trends for 2022
The ability to keep your business on pace with the latest trends is important. Your small business’s marketability is dependent on its ability to connect with each visitor that lands on your website. The easiest way to do this is to have a website that is created with the latest website design trends for 2022. […]

Turbocharge Your Marketing
How will you get clients in 2021? Digital marketing is used to more directly communicate and connect with an increasingly targeted market. Our panelists – experts in collateral, in-person + virtual events, and digital strategy – will discuss innovative ways to target and curate connections. We will discuss: Traditional and digital collateral Traditional, social, and […]

Photo Booth Meets Marketing Automation
Allevi8 Marketing has had the pleasure of working to develop a marketing automation app that uses photo booth technology to improve small businesses, particularly restaurants. First, it was the jukebox, then we have game machines, now the photo booth is the next interactive item lined up to hit the bars! The advantage that the photo […]

Using Emails to get More Customers During COVID-19
The restaurant world was turned on it’s head by COVID-19 and, even though you’re open again, you now have fewer tables and a significantly reduced amount of potential customers passing by your door. It is times like these where the internet can really help a restaurant, and it is also during this time where restaurants […]

Using Social Media to Promote Your Restaurant
Social media and has infiltrated every part of our lives and everyone in our society is active on at least one social media platform; usually 2 or 3. Social media gives people freedom, and it also gives restaurants the freedom to (freely!) promote their business, gain more fans, and keep in touch with their most […]

Photos: The Key to Your Restaurant’s Online Success
A few years ago phone manufacturers introduced a “food mode” function to their cameras. The fact that this came before the recently released “portrait mode”, designed for taking fantastic photos of people, shows us how much photos of food influence people’s dining decisions. But the use of the photos to market restaurants extends much further […]

Why Your Restaurant Needs a Website
In today’s world the internet is as much a marketplace for restaurants as the high street on which they are located. Many people search online for a place to eat their lunch or dinner, even when they’re standing on a street full of restaurants! Review sites are not the only source of customers online, and […]

3 Factors of Successful Restaurant Promotion
Restaurants can no longer rely on just their regulars to keep their business afloat. Margins are getting thinner, and goods and staffing are becoming more expensive. It is therefore crucial that each promotional campaign run for your location delivers a return that far exceeds the original outlay. There’re three factors which contribute heavily to the […]