Grow Your Reach
Win Trust and Entice new customers
The food industry has traditionally relied on word-of-mouth and in-person relationships to build trust with customers but with social distancing limiting in-person contact, building trust online with those unfamiliar with your brand is becoming increasingly important.
According to industry leader Hubspot, using authentic images is the number way to build trust online but how do viewers know the photos are authentic and how do restaurants fit photos and website investments into their budget in these challenging times?
If the photos are too good people become skeptical as to their authenticity.
If they’re not good enough people are not motivated to try the dish.
If investing in quality photos how do you minimize cost and maximize reach beyond your current audience?
Our clear True Food photo policy spells it out for potential new customers while still offering high-quality, high-resolution, drool-worthy photos, designed to entice the viewer.
And by focusing on the dish rather than styling an entire table, we are not only giving greater clarity, and increasing the drool factor, but we also reducing the cost of styling a table so we can offer more efficient shoots that fit your budget.
Photos can be used for your own digital and print marketing, and our parent company SustainableMrk offers one-on-one social media and website workshops, as well as print partnerships.
Find the customers looking to find you
“SEO-generated traffic is more likely to convert at a higher rate than ad-generated traffic, since the person doing the search is actively seeking out information and has a specific want and need.” - CMASolutions.com
We are more than a photography service, listing with the Ultimate Food Guide can improve your search ranking when people search for specific:
Cuisines
Dishes
Locations
Dietary Restrictions
Special Offerings
While many restaurants offer vegan and gluten-free options, a search on google will unlikely display those dishes and instead focus on vegan or gluten-free only restaurants or rankings.
The Ultimate Food Guide benefits users and businesses by creating a food and drink specific search engine.
Regular updates, setting up keywords, location tags, backlinks, and relevant content, all improve search rankings for our site and yours on search engines such as google, bing. Something that is difficult to maintain for individual businesses without updating your website weekly.
As SEO experts, we manage all the SEO on our site, all our clients benefit from regular updates, proper tags, and relevant content while all linking back to individual businesses once a viewer clicks on the dishes they’re interested in.
Learn more about SEO on our parent company Sustainablemrk, custom SEO workshops also available.
ONE Search Resource for food & Drink
When searching for NEW things to try, people often want to look at one resource, Google, Yelp, Blogs even Yellow Pages are often the first resource when people do not have a specific business in mind.
“Top…”, “Best of…”, “The Ultimate…” are popular online searches not just for the ranking, but for offering a list of options all in one place.
For popular food items like Fried Chicken, and Italian, this might be easy enough, but often more specific searches return poor results.
The Ultimate Food Guide provides a food & drink specific search engine on multiple criteria without rankings.
While “Top…” and “Best of…” imply ranking “The Ultimate…” is a regular searched term that can imply ranking or in our case, the extensive range, one-stop shop ambitions of the site.
Rather than ranking businesses, which can be highly subjective, we provided the benefit of one resource for easy browsing on a variety of criteria, with the potential to constantly be adding to the search results without having to recreate a list.