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Here are some creative marketing strategies to help establishments increase sales without promoting the over-service of alcohol.

Turn the cards below to see ideas for responsible marketing policies:

SALES

SALES

  • Develop unique, seasonal food and drink menus.

  • Promote high profit, premium drinks.

  • Create specialty menus for low-alcohol or non-alcoholic drinks

  • Efficiently use space to increase seating.

  • Offer employees incentives for high-volume sales of food or low-alcohol drinks.

EVENTS

EVENTS

  • Host live music to create buzz.

  • Initiate a trivia night and ask a local business to sponsor it.

  • Support a local charity by hosting a fundraising event.

  • Host a locally, well-known “Guest Bartender” to help introduce new cocktails and clientele.

  • Team up with a local brewery for a “Tap Takeover.”

  • Invite a local, craft beer, wine or spirit distributor to offer an educational discourse to customers regarding the purview of their products and how products are made.”

SOCIAL MEDIA

SOCIAL MEDIA

  • Create a business page on Facebook and Instagram.

  • Schedule targeted ads on different social media platforms to attract new customers

  • Regularly post interesting photos and videos of your products and staff.

  • Engage followers by sharing valuable content, including posts from the community.

  • Use keywords in your posts to help improve your Google search ranking.

  • Run a gift card drawing for customers that “check-in” to your business during a certain time period.