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Mo’s Restaurants and their Facebook Success Story

A few months ago we lanched a new site for Mo’s Restaurants (I know you’ve eaten at at least one of their restaurants — I sure have).   Check out the new site here:  www.moschowder.com.

Mo's Restaurants, Home of Mo's World Famous Clam Chowder

Mo's Restaurants, Home of Mo's World Famous Clam Chowder

They use their website to promote upcoming events, news, things they are doing to give back to the community, and you can even buy Mo’s products including their famous chowder base online.  Plus the site is just fun!

Oh, and they can update everything themselves, including menus, news, products, text….everything.

But what I wanted to point out today is their use of facebook to engage with their customers.  First notice that in the footer of their site is a facebook like box, so site visitors can see their facebook feed right on the site, and can click to like them without even leaving the website.

Second, notice that they have almost 6000 fans on facebook!  http://www.facebook.com/mosrestaurants.

When we first started working together about six months ago, they had 1000 fans on facebook.  We started an ad campaign that asked facebook users to post their favorite Mo’s Restaurants story.  They jumped to 5000 fans in six weeks.  

From there, its just been gravy.

We’re keeping the facebook page fun and useful.  You can get their menus, watch fun Mo’s videos, and keep up on what’s happening at Mo’s.

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Websites for Musicians and Artists

Do musicians and artists need websites too?  Heck yes!  Websites and facebook are excellent marketing tools to get the word out about the quality of focus of your artistry.

Newport fused glass artist Karel Murphy of Windy Sea Designs launched this brand new site recently:

Windy Sea Designs by Karel Murphy

Windy Sea Designs by Karel Murphy

Karel uses her site to both showcase her work and to sell online.  She has a custom shopping cart that she updates herself.  And she is using facebook to keep in touch with her fans.  Visit her site at www.windyseadesigns.com.

Portland mandolinist Brian Oberlin has launched his ultra-cool eye-catching website at www.mandoberlin.com.

 

Portland Mandolinist Brian Oberlin of Mandoberlin

Portland Mandolinist Brian Oberlin of Mandoberlin

He uses his site to feature upcoming performances, and upcoming classes and workshops that he is teaching.  He also uses his site to provide musical clips of his work to whet the appetite.  And once you’ve heard some clips, you can find out where to buy his music.

He manages his own website, adding his events, clips and teaching tools himself using a custom-designed admin that we made for him.

Plus he’s using facebook to keep in touch with his fans.

And speaking of mandolin music, check out the new and improved Oregon Mandolin Orchestra website at www.oregonmandolinorchestra.org.

Oregon Mandolin Orchestra

Oregon Mandolin Orchestra

These folks also update their own website, including upcoming events, musical clips, photo gallery, news, and more!

And they are using facebook to connect with their fans.