Obtaining Free Venues

Dealing with the Venue Owner

The challenge is, in helping restaurant owners understand both the immediate and long term benefits of having a mixer held at their place of business. These immediate benefits would be the obvious: the guests and members that the live mixers would bring, contributing additional business to the restaurant. When speaking to the restaurants owners and managers, be sure and direct them to the video testimonials.

Part of a restaurant owner’s willingness and commitment to have a mixer held at his or her business would be to provide food service, the type dependent on the time of day, There is the long term benefit of members bringing additional business to the restaurant, referring others or even bringing additional guests to the restaurant on a regular basis.  All of these benefits are directly connected to a restaurant owner for being willing to open his doors and allow STN to hold a mixer at his or her place of business.

With all of this, comes the opportunity for the Lead Ambassador to create relationships for future business. Other opportunities for the Lead Ambassador include the increased confidence and boost in credibility that comes with holding the title of Lead Ambassador as well as the respect and honor established with local business owners.

Lead Ambassadors should endeavor to negotiate an acceptable arrangement with the restaurant owner that is mutually advantageous for everyone involved.  However, if the Lead Ambassador is not comfortable in the negotiating aspect, they are welcome to delegate this to someone in the group who is more adept in the art of negotiating.

Ideas to help convince the local restaurant owner to participate

• - You will be amazed at how simple it is to get a restaurant to work with you in almost every case it is as simple as just asking what days are their slow days and you would like to help them out by bringing new business then explaining who and what we are.
• - Send them to testimonial videos so they can see firsthand how real we are and how blessed the establishments have been by working with us.
• - Have them start coming to the events, offer their restaurant as a location for free or offer a special incentive for members to come and frequent his or her restaurant.
• - You can hand out flyers at the local mixers.  Any advertisement should be appreciated especially because they are helping the community and our goal is to show our appreciation for those that work in harmony to give back to the local community.
• - Guests and members at the live mixers would bring additional business to the restaurant.
• - Part of a restaurant owner’s willingness and commitment to have a mixer held at his or her business would be to provide food service, the type, being dependant on the time of day.
• - There is the long term benefit of members bringing additional business to the restaurant, referring others or even bringing additional guests to the restaurant on a regular basis.  All of these benefits are directly connected to a restaurant owner for being willing to open his doors and allow STN to hold a mixer at his or her place of business.