Old-school service and new-school tech: A marriage made in food service heaven
3 ways to effectively balance digital tools with the food and service your customers love Until recently, restaurants operated with a simple formula: stock up, serve fast, and keep loyal customers coming back. Fast forward to 2025, and restaurant consumers still...
The ROI Playbook: 3 ways that marketing drives incremental profit
For too many businesses, marketing remains an expense item—a necessary cost of doing business – not a strategic driver of profit. But what if marketing wasn’t just an expense? What if, instead, it operated as a profit center—accountable for delivering measurable,...
P2P Lending: A Competitive Threat or Opportunity for Traditional Banks?
3 Tips to turn a head-on contest with fin-techs to your advantage An announcement from SoLo Funds, a fin-tech company that operates a digital peer-to-peer lending service, could serve as both a warning and an opportunity for traditional banking institutions. SoLo...
Ditch the Budget Merry-Go-Round: 4 Steps to Revenue-Aligned Marketing
If end-of-year sales results against the 2024 marketing budget were lackluster, it may be time to shift thinking on budget planning. For decades, a rule-of-thumb for setting marketing budgets has reliably been a simplistic percentage-of-previous-sales formula. We’re...