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Now displaying: July, 2015
Jul 31, 2015

Sean Brauser Founder of PizzaFire

In today's episode I talk with Sean Brasuer who is the founder of Romeo's Pizza as well as Pizza Fire in based out of Ohio. 

Sean is the definition of a pizza entrepreneuer who doesn't look at his busines as a job but looks at is a a business.

He knows that in order to grow the company he has to find ans train great people and give them an oportunity. We talk about how he does this and how he went from being burnt out in his first attempt at pizza entrepreneurship to where he is today.

What to Listen For:

  • How Sean got started in this business
  • Why his first attempt was a success but he wasn't happy with it
  • Why Sean decided to be in this business
  • His strategy for future growth
  • His surprising fact on how he finds his team
  • His marketing strategy for his new concept
  • Why his marketing strategy is different for PizzaFire
  • How he targets specific demographics for his adds
  • How he got invited to Facebook to learn about marketing
  • His #1 tip for anyone looking to grow their business

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Thanks For Listening

Thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode. I hope that you have found it to be valuable. If you have a question or comment you can email at Bruce@smartpizzamarketing.com  A Big Thank You to Sean of Pizzafire for coming on the show!

It was great totalk with a true pizza entrepreneur. Sean gave us some great tips to turn our business into a reall business and start to grow.

If you did find this information valuable it would be awesome if you could share it using the social media buttons on the side of the post. Also, please leave a quick review on Itunes or Stitcher   … would really help grow the show and get more guests on to help you grow your business and marketing efforts.

Jul 20, 2015

Eric Shepherd Otto Pizza Portland

Great talk today with Eric Shepherd of Otto Pizza. Eric is the director of marketing and communications and has been with the company for the last 3 years.

Eric met Mike (The co-owner) at a writing class and became friends and stayed in touch over the years. With the growth of Otto they needed to find someone with a marketing and digital background to help organize and communicate with their customers. Eric helped them organize all their social and marketing efforts and their online reputation into one brand. 

Believe it or not before he started Otto had 5 locations and none of them were linked with any email or P.O.S. system amazing to think about that with today's tech. 

What to Listen For:

  • How Eric got started with Otto
  • How Eric organized Otto's marketing strategy 
  • What role was Eric filling when he started and why
  • What system they use to stay organized
  • How involved are Anthony & Mike at this point in the business
  • What P.O.S system do they use
  • What email service they use and how
  • Where Eric thinks the future of marketing is going

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Thanks For Listening

Thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode. I hope that you have found it to be valuable. If you have a question or comment you can email at Bruce@smartpizzamarketing.com 

A Big Thank You to Eric of Otto Pizza Portland for coming on the show! It was great to talk with a marketing director of a growing pizza company. Eric gave us some great insight to what its' like to organize and market a fast growing company.

If you did find this information valuable it would be awesome if you could share it using the social media buttons on the side of the post.

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Jul 17, 2015

Sameer Shah of Smart Flour Foods and a look at Pizza Consumers

Today I have Sameer Shah from Smart Flour Foods, and they just conducted and interesting study with Jason Dorsey and the Center for Generational Kenetics. If your not familiar with smart flour foods we had Sameer on a few months ago to talk about what they do.

In this research report they studied consumer attitudes and purchasing behavior relative to pizza. I know what your thinking, sounds confusing, but Sameer does a great job of explaining it in this podcast. Sameer explains what they uncovered this report and also some interesting facts that will surprise you about the pizza consumer. 

What to Listen For:

  • Who is a real pizza lover
  • What is a millennials 
  • Why they conducted this study
  • What was the most surprising finding about this study
  • How do millennials shop and consume data
  • Why millennials are not purchasing like the baby boomers
  • Why you should focus on being personal  

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Thanks For Listening

Thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode. I hope that you have found it to be valuable, if you have a question or comment you can email at Bruce@smartpizzamarketing.com 

A Big Thank You to Sameer of Smart Flour Foods for coming on the show was great going over this report and was interesting to find out some of those details.

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Jul 8, 2015

Mary Brown of Spicy Pie Pizza

In this episode I got a chance to talk with Mary Brown the marketing director for Spicy Pie Pizza. Mary started as the marketing director in 2012 and has run all of there marketing with a small team for the last 3 years. Spicy Pie Pizza is a fast growing company in North Dakota and currently has 6 locations with more scheduled to open in the near future.

They use a variety of new marketing ideas as well as tried and true ones to keep there customers engaged and informed of what's new with there business. Lot's of great information shared by Mary in this episode, so I hope you enjoy and get some great ideas that you can use in your business.

What to listen for:

  • How the company grew to 6 locations with more coming
  • How they grew there facebook page to over 21k fans
  • Why they decided to consolidate their marketing
  • How they gather emails
  • When is the best time to send e-mail
  • What is a facebook pixel
  • How they run re-targeting ads 
  • What is a look-a-like audience
  • What is there #1 marketing strategy 

 Links From the Show

Thanks For Listening

Thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode. I hope that you have found it to be valuable, if you have a question or comment you can email at Bruce@smartpizzamarketing.com 

A Big Thank You to Mary from Spicy Pie Pizza for coming on the show it was great to talk with a marketing director of a growing pizza company. She gave us some great info we can use in our business to grow and engage our audience.

If you did find this information valuable it would be awesome if you could share it using the social media buttons on the side of the post.

Also Please leave a quick review on Itunes or Stitcher that would really help grow the show and get more guests on to help you grow your business and marketing efforts.

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