Hospitality

guides for growing a venue.

There are 105 of them, written for pubs, bars and restaurants, and tested at The Anchor before any of it went out.

The tactics are hospitality, because that is the sector we know best: we run one. The thinking underneath is the same commercial thinking we bring to any ambitious small business. Find what is actually holding growth back, then act on it.

Not running a venue? The same thinking, applied to every other sector, is over at Insights.

Pub marketing Why revenue is falling The eight growth problems

+828%Google Search visibilitySearch Console clicks and impressions, against the baseline before any work started.

+403%Table bookingsBookings taken at The Anchor, against the previous run rate.

89%Fewer booking no-showsNo-show rate fell from around 20% to around 2%.

Every figure is from The Anchor, our own venue, measured against a baseline taken before any work started. It is one business, and it is ours, so the risk of getting it wrong was ours too.

browse by topic.

Every guide is filed under one of eight topics. Start with the one closest to whatever you are working on this week.

Events (32)Operations (23)Marketing (20)Turnaround (14)Revenue & Growth (12)People (2)Food & Drink (1)Property (1)

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every guide.

Newest first. All of them, on one page.

105 guides across 8 topics.

pick one and run it this week.

Reading is the cheap part. If you would rather work out which change matters most for your venue first, an hour on the phone gets further than another article. It's free, and it isn't a pitch.

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