Pulling in the punters through websites has been the thorn in the side of the pub industry. Smarter Pub joins forces with Pub Rooms to provide British Pubs and Inns with good advice for marketing their pub offers and services through the internet. For the last 10 years the penny has been slowly dropping that customers no longer wait for pub doors to open, with the possible exception of Wetherpoon pubs. Real life customers research pubs on the internet before visiting in person or meeting up in groups. Men no longer go out on their own and pubs are much more family ...
The British online Pub & Inn guide Pub Rooms, has reached another milestone since it was restructured in 2007. Founded in 2002, the 10 year anniversary has plenty of surprises in store. Introducing the pub food chalk board menu and new look venue finder are just two planned up-dates for 2012. The new look Pub Rooms website will take on a new design early in 2012 and will have an integrated update system for pub owners. The British pub and inn guide previously listed venues with basic contact details images and telephone numbers the internet has changed dramatcially in the last 3 years, contact ...
How to promote your pub for 2011 and beyond will be a challenge. Make it simple and sign up with Smarter Pub today. Internet searches and social media all playing a vital role in promoting your business (whether it's a local pub or country inn it's a business you need to tell everyone about). London pubs and city pubs and bars in general can be comforted by large numbers of footfall. Increasing footfall for a rural country pub is not easy and a challenge for the most ardent pub marketing expert. Talking of pub marketing experts, in ...
It's not every pub that can claim to be named with a name to be proud of, but here we have just that pub.
The City Pride in the heart of Farringdon, London has the name to match the feeling of it's customers and the support of London's most famous Brewery 'Fullers'. Although we're not sure whether taking the pride out of Fullers would make any difference as they produce so ...More
During the last 10 year there has been an unprecedented number of pub closures. However, there are still over 30,000 pubs open and serving locals whether in cities or rural countryside. Country pubs are a little trickier to commute to daily so the concept of popping down to your local is different.
The closure of so many pubs obviously is no shock then, that finding a pub that is open near ...More
It's always easy to drift into a trance when enjoying a pint of London Pride. The Fullers Brewery's flag ship pint. Last year during the UK recession (the worst since the 1930's) Fullers turned misery into profit, the question is how did they do this?
Some would argue location, location, location. London after all is a busy place with over 6 million people flowing through it's network of roads and train ...More
Shepherds Bush of all places hosts a number of proper pubs that make you feel like you're in a cool bar but none the less a real pub.
Walking into The Defectors in London's Shepherds Bush you will find a pleasant long bar home to several real ales including the famous Tribute by the equally famous St Austell brewery.
It's not that St Austell is exclusive to Cornwall but to find it ...More
Help me find a decent London pub, please.
Pub after pub in London delivers the same experience, what has happened to my local pub, my local pub used to be full of faces we knew and now it's just a tourist attraction.
After visiting a few more pubs local to us we discovered that there was a pattern emerging.
What was once a traditional London pub is now a themed tourist attraction in ...More
