2 Simple Yet Effective Ways To Gain More Exposure At Your Food Truck

So many food truck owners — especially the ones just breaking into the industry — desire more customers, greater sales and an ever-increasing revenue. That’s what keeps a business afloat (and thriving), and that’s also how you get your mobile kitchen’s name out there.

With that said, if it were easy — which it obviously isn’t — then everyone would turn in their current career for a food truck chef hat.

Everyone wants more customers, and everyone wants to increase their sales, but so many people just say they want those things, and then they back that up by going through the motions/not taking action. We understand, though, because food truck owners literally work 10-plus hours a day, and it’s always go, go, go with them. Breaks and vacations are few and far between.

However, we are about to drop two simple — yet effective — ways to gain more exposure at your food truck. In other words, we are about to give you two ingredients that can help you gain more customers/increase brand awareness, which should lead to your business making more money.

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2 Simple Yet Effective Ways To Gain More Exposure At Your Food Truck

• Change Up Your Locations
• Devise A Better Social Media Plan

Change Up Your Locations

Change up your locations? We know what you are thinking. You can’t just park your truck wherever you want, and whenever you want. That’s Food Truck Knowledge 101. With that said, it’s not impossible to find a better location, one that is filled with more foot traffic than your normal location. Reminder: We aren’t talking about the best spot downtown (although that would be awesome), because that spot is probably already taken.

We are talking about finding a spot like a business district, which is a place that is booming with people during lunchtime. While we aren’t saying to change up all of your locations, if one location is lacking in the customer/sales department, then try to replace it with a new one.

On top of that, you can enter more catering gigs and start going to food truck events (of course, make sure you pick the right events). We can’t stress enough how beneficial catering gigs are, and the same thing goes with events.

With a catering gig, you are cooking at a place in which you know people are going to order food — that’s the point of them … a lot of hungry mouths need to be fed. You are also going to serve customers who have never eaten at your truck before. If you rock this gig, then who knows what will happen to your business, for you never know who you are going to meet at one of these catering gigs. Plus, if you do a really good job, then you might book your next catering gig at your current one.

Remember, the key is exposure, and catering gigs, events and venturing to new locations will help you achieve that feat.

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Devise A Better Social Media Plan

If you are having trouble reaching your audience, gaining new customers or whatever it might be, then you might want to consider devising a better social media plan. If you don’t update your social media networks, then that is a major problem in itself.

With social media, you can literally reach a large amount of people with minimal effort, and at a low cost (you don’t even have to spend a dime if you don’t want to).

Most social media aficionados in the food truck industry stay up to date with their accounts by posting pictures of their food and telling customers where they will be next, and that’s exactly what you should be doing as well.

If you really want to get people to your truck, and gain more attention/exposure in the process, then you can hold giveaways on social media. These giveaways can consist of you giving away gear (shirts, hats, etc.) with your logo and food truck name on them, and they can also consist of you giving away free food, even if it’s just a side or dessert.

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Naturally, people are going to come to your truck since you are ideally in a place with a good amount of foot traffic, but you need to pull out all of the stops, and you can do a lot of work (aka gain more customers and exposure) via social media.

If you need to hire someone to take over these efforts, then that is perfectly fine. The worst thing you can do is not update your Facebook and Twitter accounts (or whatever networks you are on) at all. That’s how you lose followers/fans … and then customers.

Gaining exposure, increasing sales and building a thriving business in the mobile kitchen industry is not easy, but the two methods above are steps that can help you do exactly that, and you can start incorporating them today.

Good luck, FoodTruckrs!

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