Social Media Strategy and Training - specializing in restaurants and entrepreneurs
A game of chance becomes a morality test – or – who will become Seattle’s “Charlie Bucket”? You might have thought Canlis Restaurant in Seattle had already torpedoed themselves to the top of Marketing Mountain with their brilliant scavenger hunt/clue contest. And if you have to ask what I’m talking about, catch up quick by [...]
Most of you are well aware that November is Dine Around Seattle month – but did you know it’s also National Pomegranate Month? And in a fun little twist to the 8th annual D.A.S. event, there’s a pomegranate theme running through most of the restaurant menus – along with a chance to win a trip [...]
You’d have to be living in a cave to have missed all the excitement and chatter surrounding Canlis Restaurant over the past 10 days. The iconic Seattle restaurant is celebrating its 60th birthday by hiding replicas of its 1950 menus at various historic spots all over the city, and issuing daily clues via social media as [...]
The last thing I imagined I would be doing on a football-packed Sunday in October was helping judge a lamb cooking contest. And yet there I was, at the 2nd annual Lamb Jam Seattle at Bell Harbor International Conference Center last Sunday, sitting with eight experienced judges in a secluded room about to be teeming [...]
Canlis is One Smart Cookie – particularly when it comes to their latest promotion which celebrates their upcoming 60th birthday. The highly-regarded fine dining restaurant has outdone itself with the “Canlis Menu” contest and I especially love their tactic of running it entirely via social media! Here’s the scoop: Brothers Mark and Brian Canlis have [...]
Welcome! I am a social media strategist and trainer, and have helped hundreds of restaurants, food companies, and entrepreneurs increase their customer base and gain visibility through Twitter, Facebook, blogging and other social media tools.
As an entrepreneur who operated my own successful personal chef business (The Incredible Chef) for 6 years and also enjoyed 15 years in corporate and sports marketing/PR, I create powerful strategies to blend online and offline marketing activities for businesses. I have a particular passion and expertise in working with restaurants and food-related businesses, and have married my two primary loves – food and marketing – into one very smart business!