Food Truck Marketing Strategies
Learn how to take your food truck to the next level by learning marketing strategies from old school marketing tactics to the new world of social media.
Marketing
Boost Your Food Truck’s Menu Search Ranking
Food trucks have become some of the most-searched types of businesses across the internet. Because of this, search engines such as Google look for specific types of content for their rankings for mobile food businesses. [...]
November Marketing Tips For Food Truck Vendors
One of the more grueling tasks in running a food truck is marketing and promotion. You are busy operating your truck and many vendors can’t afford to hire a marketing agency to do this work. [...]
October Marketing Tips For Food Truck Vendors
One of the more grueling tasks in running a food truck is marketing and promotion. You are busy operating your truck and many vendors can’t afford to hire a marketing agency to do this work. [...]
Face To Face Food Truck Business Networking
Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin are fantastic social media networking tools that the mobile food industry has learned to use since its inception, however some of the most important business networking takes place in person. The [...]
Green Marketing Tips for Your Food Truck Business
When you own a food truck business, you need to keep up on all the latest trends. Whether it’s new and exciting food products, supplies or unique technology that will better your overall operation, you [...]
September Marketing Tips For Food Truck Vendors
One of the more grueling tasks in running a food truck is marketing and promotion. You are busy operating your truck and many vendors can’t afford to hire a marketing agency to do this work. [...]
Writing A Press Release For Your Food Truck
A press release is all about creating publicity for your food truck business. The more publicity work you do for your truck the more your business will get recognized throughout your local area and may [...]
August Marketing Tips For Food Truck Vendors
One of the more grueling tasks in running a food truck is marketing and promotion. You are busy operating your truck and many vendors can’t afford to hire a marketing agency to do this work. [...]
Create A Marketing Plan For Your Food Truck
For food truck owners, an effective marketing plan is crucial. Culinary entrepreneurs need to determine who's going to buy their product and how to let those customers know that you have what they want. Marketing [...]
How To Use QR Codes To Increase Your Food Truck Brand Recognition
The mobile food industry has quickly become an industry that spends most of its advertising and marketing time as mobile marketers. QR codes are not new, but may be one of the hottest topics in [...]
Branding
Extend Your Brand Through Food Truck Merchandising
Many food truck owners have written to us asking for advice in creating alternative revenue streams for their mobile food businesses. So how do we respond? We tell them that the sale of t-shirts, mugs, [...]
Selecting The Proper Color For Your Food Truck Branding
Have you ever considered the importance of proper color in branding your food truck business? Coke is known for the color red. UPS is brown. IBM is blue. These corporations understand the proper use of [...]
Food Truck Wraps: Eye-Catching Advertising to Set Your Truck Apart
Customizing items for the purpose of marketing can be highly effective. This statement is even more valid when it comes to wrapping a moving vehicle with customized business marketing, especially when that vehicle is a [...]
How To Create A Great Online First Impression For Future Customers
You only get one chance to make a good first impression. And for many food trucks, the initial contact with a customer occurs online. Because of that, it is important to make a great online [...]
Is It Time To Rebrand Your Food Truck?
Maybe your food truck business has been rolling around for years and you think your brand strategy is working. But is it? Are your marketing messages and materials driving the results your mobile food empire [...]
Sharing Your Backstory Is As Important As Your Food Truck Menu
Frequently, I get asked about the top food trucks in the country. For many of them their concepts have a number of things in common. They tend to have a huge social media presence. Or they [...]
Is It Time For Brand Refreshing For Your Food Truck?
Brands have a shelf life. Brand refreshing needs to be done every three to seven years to stay relevant and desirable. Every so often, a vendor recognizes the need to refresh their brand. A brand refresh [...]
Knowing Your Brand Essence Is The Secret To A Great Brand
Your brand is your greatest asset. Whether you are a 3-star Michelin chef, a line cook, or food truck owner, your brand matters. Today we'll discuss the use of brand essence to develop your food [...]
How To Create An Awesome Motto For Your Food Truck
A motto (derived from the Latin muttum, 'mutter', by way of Italian motto, 'word', 'sentence') is a maxim, a phrase meant to formally summarize the general motivation or intention of an individual, family, social group or organization. It’s not [...]
How To Pick The Perfect Food Truck Name For Your Business
What’s in a food truck name? When deciding what to call your mobile food business, the answer is plenty. Your food truck’s name can be too quirky or not memorable enough. The challenge for all prospective [...]
Social Media
Snapchat: Is It Right For Your Food Truck?
The other night I got a reminder of how old I am and the speed in which smart phone applications have hit the market and become successful with certain age groups. I was speaking with [...]
Facebook Etiquette for Your Personal and Food Truck Pages
Some food trucks have mastered the art of Facebook marketing; others, not so much. As with any social media platform, there are rules by which you should follow. On Facebook, there's one protocol for your food [...]
Jump Start Your Food Truck Facebook Marketing In 3 Steps
We’ve all heard of Facebook and that as a food truck owner you should be using to help your mobile business. You may love it, you may hate it, but let’s face it, if you [...]
Utilizing Twitter Hashtags On Your Food Truck
It is no secret that Twitter is one of the most popular social media sites in the mobile food industry. Food truck businesses found out early that by utilizing it was a free and quick [...]
Schedule 15 Minutes On Facebook Every Day
Facebook can be an incredibly powerful marketing tool for your food truck. Best of all, it’s free. It only takes a few hours to set up an effective Facebook Page for your mobile business – [...]
Is Social Media Automation Hurting Your Food Truck Brand?
Food truck owners often often argue about social media automation. Unfortunately, it isn't clear cut, and neither side is completely right or completely wrong. Keeping up and consistently updating social media accounts is imperative to building [...]
Twitter Etiquette For Your Food Truck Account
Twitter has fast become a platform for members of the mobile food industry to share information, promote their brands, and inform their followers of their locations. But with 200 million tweets being sent out into the [...]
Is Your Food Truck Twitter Account Spinning It’s Wheels?
If your food truck has a Twitter account that’s isn't growing, there are a number of reasons this may be happening. In many ways, Twitter is like a living, breathing thing that can’t be ignored or [...]
Mobile Cuisine Launches E Learning Center For Food Truck Vendors
The food truck industry is constantly changing. Continuing education is required for vendors to stay current with the latest developments, skills, and new technologies required for continued success. As a food truck owner's life [...]
TripAdvisor Tips For Food Truck Vendors Considering This Review Site
One of the leading resources that consumers use to help guide their dining decisions is TripAdvisor. TripAdvisor offers a suite of marketing tools for food truck vendors. Many are free but a few premium features are [...]
Cause Marketing
How Food Truck Vendors Should Handle Charity Requests
If your food truck has garnered a lot of public and press discussion in your area, there is a good chance you will be called upon to contribute to charity requests by donating gift certificates [...]
Meatless Mondays And Your Food Truck
Each week new Meatless Monday participating restaurants and food trucks are popping up worldwide. To do our part in supporting Meatless Mondays we believe that sharing information, recipes, and news about vegetarianism and leading a [...]
Giving Tuesday And The GiveNetwork
The Thanksgiving weekend is the official kick-off of the winter holidays and gift buying. We’ve all overdosed on a combo of family, turkey, potatoes and desserts. Before the dishes had even been cleared, the conversation [...]
The Grilled Cheese Truck: Fighting Hunger & Getting Vets Work
We’ve all heard of THE Grilled Cheese Truck of Los Angeles. It’s been everywhere in the media over the years. It’s one of those success stories that America loves to hear – “Local guy makes [...]
Join The Fight And Celebrate National Senior Citizens Day
“For all they have achieved throughout life and for all they continue to accomplish, we owe older citizens our thanks and a heartfelt salute. We can best demonstrate our gratitude and esteem by making sure [...]
Get To Know Your Customers – Win a $500 Gas Card
It’s Get To Know Your Customers Day tomorrow. This official day is occurs on the third Thursday at the beginning of every quarter. Rather than “celebrating” an official day, we have a feeling that this is more [...]
Food Trucks And Shark Awareness Day
July has a lot of fun “awareness” days. In fact, today is “International Nude Day” and “Shark Awareness Day.” International Nude Day may not necessarily apply to any food trucks unless you get a random [...]
How Does Your Food Truck Cheer Up The Lonely?
Today is Cheer Up The Lonely Day! You may wonder why we’d cover a “holiday” like this? Well, that’s an easy response. Mobile Cuisine, along with the GiveNetwork and GiveMobi, has been promoting Fighting Hunger [...]
Win A $500 Gas Card While Fighting Hunger In America
Even though you didn’t win the $500 gas card this time, we’re giving you another chance! Register your truck to Fight Hunger In America by August 30 and you will be entered for the drawing [...]
BONMi Food Truck Wins $500 For Fighting Hunger
Congratulations to BONMi! They have won the $500 gas card from the GiveNetwork/Mobile Cuisine food truck initiative - Fighting Hunger In America! They are one of the many food trucks that have signed up to [...]