Hey guys,
Just wanted to share my grand opening experience.
This whole month of January has been extremely slow. Every-single day so far, even Fri’s and Sat’s. Well, about a month ago, we decided its time for the grand opening. Since we wanted the have the mayor of our town come by and cut the ribbon, we had to book it early. Literally a week ago, we all started flipping out cause its go time. The pressure is on, the time is ticking. Around the same time, my sister contacted a lady with the Daily Herald for a LOCAL press release AND also for an advertising spot for the grand opening day (Thursday, in which we were to have an open house with Free Taste Testing from 5 pm-8 pm). The proof came out really nice and it was for Weds and Thurs paper. She called me Tuesday to let me know she was going to send a photographer over and then scheduled a phone interview for Wednesday at 1 o’clock.
Little did I know (within 24 hours mind you) I would wake up this morning to a HALF page in the BUSINESS SECTION on the FRONT PAGE! MY PHONES WERE BLOWING OFF THE HOOK! All day too. The mayor came by and cut the ribbon and took pictures that will be published for the town newsletter. We had the busiest day I’ve had since I’ve been open. It was just awesome. My whole family was there to help, we all did a great job. We made about 20 14" pizzas for the free samples and we still were getting tons of orders from the ad on the front page. Yeah it got really crazy, but it was well worth it. I’m hoping this really got the word out. We had a lot of good feedback from it.
Just wanted to share my grand opening experience.
This whole month of January has been extremely slow. Every-single day so far, even Fri’s and Sat’s. Well, about a month ago, we decided its time for the grand opening. Since we wanted the have the mayor of our town come by and cut the ribbon, we had to book it early. Literally a week ago, we all started flipping out cause its go time. The pressure is on, the time is ticking. Around the same time, my sister contacted a lady with the Daily Herald for a LOCAL press release AND also for an advertising spot for the grand opening day (Thursday, in which we were to have an open house with Free Taste Testing from 5 pm-8 pm). The proof came out really nice and it was for Weds and Thurs paper. She called me Tuesday to let me know she was going to send a photographer over and then scheduled a phone interview for Wednesday at 1 o’clock.
Little did I know (within 24 hours mind you) I would wake up this morning to a HALF page in the BUSINESS SECTION on the FRONT PAGE! MY PHONES WERE BLOWING OFF THE HOOK! All day too. The mayor came by and cut the ribbon and took pictures that will be published for the town newsletter. We had the busiest day I’ve had since I’ve been open. It was just awesome. My whole family was there to help, we all did a great job. We made about 20 14" pizzas for the free samples and we still were getting tons of orders from the ad on the front page. Yeah it got really crazy, but it was well worth it. I’m hoping this really got the word out. We had a lot of good feedback from it.
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