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This week's special at The Emerald Bar is Irish stew. It's a thick beef stew with potatoes and carrots, and comes with a side of bread and your choice of a draft beer or soft drink for only $4.50. 

 

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dicey eye

In marketing, image carries a lot of weight.

Potential customers always want a deal, especially on "weekly specials". The advertiser has to produce images that are beguiling, enticing. Me thinks the image of your Irish Stew would be more effective with a few minor tweaks - for instance, the image would be more intriguing if the bowl were nearly overflowing with stew. Potential customers would think, "what a great deal, look at all the stew ya get"..Small things like that make a big difference.

attached are 2 examples off the internet:

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jimmyboy

quite right! and it is a powerful marketing tool especially locally.

notice how the red end of the spectrum in the  pics dicey posted is really pumped?

red is good for food shots.

equally - laminated photo menus are really effective across the language divide.

 

 

theres an old saying that people eat with their eyes

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Parrothead

 

 

theres an old saying that people eat with their eyes

 

I would starve to death.

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jimmyboy

need glasses?

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emeraldbar

Thanks for the advice. Will put more effort into photography in future.

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jimmyboy

It is a real quandary, the more you put into the tekno side of things the less time you have for living and work in real life.

 

I am convinced that Facebook is the easiest  platform out there- it has all the geolocation and is optimised for devices.

free too.

 

forums are a great way to hook baseline return custom no doubt.

 

i am bidding on a pentax k on ebay as we speak for product photos.

Richard will laugh at my keeniaw camera choice - he and others on these fora make something of a living from the lens.

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sidestep

All good FREE marketing advice.

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jimmyboy

online sucks but most important now. at least the knowledge is portable

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Parrothead

I don't care what the photos (errr, fotos) look like. I can't eat them. I just go to the places that advertise and eat the food. :D

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