FAQs Frequently Asked Questions

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Q. What is BarBIO.com?

A. BarBIO.com is an Internet search site where restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and clubs can post information about themselves, including descriptions, pictures, menus, specials, coupons, and events calendars.  BarBIO.com also provides affordable real time marketing tools to businesses, such as Broadcast Email and Referral Programs, which use the speed, power, and flexibility of the Internet.

 

Q. Why is BarBIO.com better than its competitors?
A. Here are just 2 things that set us apart from our competition. And by the way - we consider our competitors to be traditional advertising media like newspapers, direct mailers, and radio in addition to other websites that offer business listing and web design services.

1. BarBIO.com administration pages give you control of your BarBIO.com business listing. Make changes yourself when you need to. Present the marketing message you want to present without space or time restrictions. You describe your business, not some critic.
2. BarBIO.com gives you tools to market your business in real-time. With Broadcast Email and Referral Programs you can reach out to customers at any time of the day. No rushing to meet press deadlines then waiting for your advertisement to be distributed. Create a coupon or promotion NOW and broadcast it to your customers IMMEDIATELY.

Q. I have a very limited marketing budget for my business. I pretty much rely on word-of-mouth advertising. Why spend anything on BarBIO.com?
A. BarBIO.com is designed to be an affordable and effective way to enhance word-of-mouth advertising by putting you on the minds of customers and giving them incentives to tell their friends about you. Using Broadcast Email, Referral Programs, and the ability to create targeted coupons helps you foster loyalty with existing customers and entice new ones. Traditional marketing tools don't let you influence what your customers are saying about you after they have left your establishment or invite them to come back.

 

Q. Is Internet access required to participate in BarBIO.com?
A. BarBIO.com offers a variety of services to help you get the most out of your subscription to BarBIO.com even if you aren't “connected”. We can either help you get set up with access to the Internet, or manage your listing and marketing campaigns for you.

Q. I don't have much time and I'm not a computer expert. How much time and expertise is required to use BarBIO.com?
A. BarBIO.com was designed to be used by people without special computer skills. Creating information about your business on BarBIO.com is as easy as filling out forms. Initial setup of your listing and menus should take about 2 hours.  Spend as much or as little time as you need after that maintaining your menus, calendars, coupons, promotions, and customer contact database.  Alternatively, BarBIO.com offers Managed Services to manage your listing and marketing campaigns for you.

Q. My business already has a website. Why should I be listed on BarBIO.com?
A. People use BarBIO.com as a search site to find information about restaurants, bars, coffee shops, clubs, events, menus, coupons, and special offers and may not even have a specific business in mind. If your business meets their search criteria, they will find you.  People must already be familiar with your business before they look for your stand alone website.  

Maintaining your own website can be costly.  If you are interested in reducing maintenance costs on your existing site by having us connect it to our self-maintenance listing administration tools, let us know by emailing info@BarBIO.com.

Q. Will anyone else have access to my customer contact database?
A. As the person responsible for a subscription, you have control over who has access to your Broadcast Email and Referral Program email lists. BarBIO.com will not use, sell, or otherwise distribute your customer contact lists without your express written consent. In addition, Email sent using BarBIO.com Broadcast Email and Referral Programs do not contain distribution lists, preventing any of the recipients from copying your contacts list.

Q. I already have a customer contact list with email addresses. Do I have to enter them all again into BarBIO.com?
A. If you have an extensive customer contact list in electronic form we have methods of loading them into your account that will save you a lot of time. Please contact us at info@barbio.com.

Q. Aren’t Broadcast Email and Referral Programs SPAM?
A. SPAM is generally defined as unwanted and unsolicited email.  Customers should be giving you their email addresses (on business cards or filling out a form) thereby implying a willingness to receive advertising messages from you by email. While we can't guarantee that individual recipients or systems won't try to block your messages as SPAM, we provide guidelines for our subscribers that will decrease the likelihood of messages being blocked.  In addition, BarBIO.com provides ways to disable individual customer email addresses should they request to be removed from your distribution lists.