Digital Growth Strategy · Resto360 · Long Island, NY · 8 Locations
The reputation is elite. The machine underneath it isn't built yet.
Eight locations, 5,401 Google reviews at a 4.8 average, 22,000 followers, a DoorDash award — and, from what we can see externally, none of it yet backed by always-on paid acquisition, a loyalty program, or unified measurement. Our audit scored The Pizzeria 32/45: elite on product and reputation, mid on the systems that turn them into repeatable revenue. This proposal builds those systems — across all eight, and a ninth on the way.
The Pizzeria started in 2020 as a counter in the Smith Haven Mall food court. Six years later it's eight full-service locations across Suffolk County — an elevated pizzeria and cocktail bar — with a ninth lease being signed. Founded by Cliff Weinstein and brothers Paul and Dan Saccoccio, it has grown at roughly a location a year on the strength of two things almost no multi-unit group gets right at once: the product and the reputation.
The numbers behind that reputation are genuinely rare. 5,401 Google reviews across the eight locations at a ~4.8 blended average, with owner responses that are personally signed — Regan personally answers every review of three stars or below with a direct email and a real service-recovery effort, while an AI handles the four- and five-star replies. On Instagram, 22,000 followers follow a feed that is authentic and unscripted, rarely even about the food. And in 2025 the group earned DoorDash's “Battle of the Slices” recognition — customer-driven, not bought.
This is the context for everything that follows. Our audit scored The Pizzeria 32/45 — High Maturity, and the split inside that score is the whole story: elite on product, reputation and social, mid on the systems that turn all of it into predictable, repeatable revenue. This is an activation conversation, not a fix-it one.
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Locations (9th Being Signed)
Across Suffolk County, Long Island — ~one new unit per year since 2020
5,401
Google Reviews · ~4.8★
Best-in-class reputation at multi-unit scale, with personally-signed owner responses
22K
Instagram Following
Authentic, unscripted content — a genuine organic strength, built without paid support
“You've won the two hardest things in this business — product and reputation. What's missing is the machine that turns that goodwill into revenue you can predict and repeat.”
The core finding of our audit of The Pizzeria — 32/45, High Maturity
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The Opportunity
Executive Summary
Our analysis of The Pizzeria's digital presence produced a maturity score of 32/45 — High Maturity, and the shape of that score is the entire opportunity. On the things that are hardest and slowest to build, you are already elite: reputation scored 5/5, branding and social 4/5 each. On the systems that convert that strength into repeatable revenue, you sit in the middle: paid media 2/5, retention 3/5, analytics 3/5. The gap between those two halves is where the growth lives.
Put plainly: an eight-location group is expanding — a ninth on the way — and from the outside we couldn't confirm an always-on acquisition engine, a loyalty layer, or unified measurement running behind it. New units like Yaphank and Babylon appear to ramp largely on word of mouth, and the 5,401 five-star reviewers and 22,000 followers don't seem to have a structured way back that we could see. None of this is a criticism — some of it may be running in ways we can't detect externally, which is exactly why our first move is to confirm what's actually live behind your capture, then build only the pieces that are genuinely missing.
Three levers, in the priority the audit assigns them:
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Acquisition
Always-on, location-level Meta + Google, plus a grand-opening playbook so unit nine ramps on paid demand, not just word of mouth.
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Retention
A points-per-visit loyalty program + email/SMS lifecycle flows — the highest-margin revenue you have, and the layer we'd confirm and build first.
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Measurement
Unified GA4 + Meta Pixel and a cross-location KPI dashboard, so every dollar is accountable across all eight stores.
The One-Line Thesis
You've already earned the awareness. What you haven't built is the engine that converts it into acquisition and repeat visits you can measure. That engine — not more reputation — is what this proposal is about.
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The Market
Market Opportunity
Suffolk County is a dense, competitive, delivery-heavy Long Island market where pizza is a category with real loyalty and real machinery behind the leaders. And that's the point worth sitting with: your competitors don't out-cook you — they out-system you.
Salvatore's runs a “Pizza Perks” loyalty program. The Slice Rewards network spans 18,000+ shops. These operators systematically convert casual buyers into members and reinforce it with paid media — and we didn't find a comparable loyalty engine running publicly on The Pizzeria's side. Repeat frequency is the highest-margin revenue in the business, and a systematic program — wherever your current one stands — is the clearest lever we see.
On acquisition, the same asymmetry holds. You open roughly a location a year, and each new unit currently has to rediscover demand largely through word of mouth. A group with your reputation should be launching each new store on top of an always-on, geo-targeted paid engine and a grand-opening playbook — inheriting demand, not rebuilding it from zero every time. With a ninth location being signed, that machine pays for itself on the next opening alone.
The Core Asymmetry
Your product and reputation already beat the market. Your competitors beat you on loyalty systems, paid acquisition, and measurement. Closing that gap doesn't require becoming less authentic — it requires the systems layer built around what you already do well.
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The Gaps
Growth Signals
Seven signals, mapped directly from our audit's findings by service vertical. Each pairs the verified observation with the specific work that answers it — ordered the way the audit prioritizes them.
No Paid Acquisition Engine
Observation: Audit score 2/5 — the lowest in your profile. No structured Meta or Google advertising could be confirmed in the Meta Ads Library at audit time. Eight locations, and expansion runs on word of mouth; new units (Yaphank, Babylon) ramp organically.
Opportunity: Always-on, location-level Meta + Google campaigns, geofenced and funnel-structured, plus a repeatable grand-opening paid playbook so each new unit — starting with number nine — launches on demand instead of discovering it. This is the single highest-leverage channel currently missing.
Loyalty & Retention Opportunity
Observation: Audit score 3/5. SMS and email capture are present on your location pages; what we couldn't confirm from the outside is the depth of activation behind them — we didn't see a loyalty or VIP program or lifecycle campaigns running publicly. The asset exists; what we'd audit on day one is what's actually running behind it, especially with competitors like Salvatore's systematizing member conversion.
Opportunity: Once we've confirmed what's live, build or extend a points-per-visit loyalty program with welcome, win-back and birthday email/SMS flows — run and reported by us, enrolled at POS and in your bio. Repeat frequency is the highest-margin revenue you have, and the clearest place to add a system.
Uneven Local Presence Across the 8
Observation: Audit score 4/5 overall — strong, but inconsistent. Lake Grove, your original 2020 location, sits at only 207 Google reviews after five years, far below newer stores. Babylon, your highest-volume location at 1,335 reviews, carries an erroneous “Temporarily Closed” label on Yelp while fully operational.
Opportunity: Standardize all eight Google Business Profiles, correct the Babylon Yelp error immediately, and deploy a systematic review-generation flow at POS — prioritizing the under-indexed original at Lake Grove. Uniform local presence across the portfolio, not eight separate stories.
Reach Not Converted to Owned Audience
Observation: Audit score 4/5 on social — a genuine strength. 22K followers, consistent Reels, an authentic voice outside partners struggle to match. But that reach is rented on a platform, not owned. The audience isn't being converted into an email/SMS list you control.
Opportunity: We keep your voice exactly as it is — and build the capture and conversion layer around it: bio and in-store CTAs, content-to-list funnels, and the owned database that makes loyalty and retargeting possible. We amplify what you do; we don't replace it.
Takeout-First Website, Premium Occasion Undersold
Observation: Audit score 3/5. The site is clean and functional but built primarily to take Toast online orders — there's no reservation or waitlist path, and the dinner-and-cocktail-bar occasion is under-represented online for a brand positioned as elevated.
Opportunity: A website rebuild that matches the brand: reservation/waitlist for dining, a dedicated catering path, and the premium in-room experience actually shown — while keeping the takeout ordering that works. Built custom and owned outright by you.
No Unified Tracking or Cross-Location KPIs
Observation: Audit score 3/5. The expansion is sophisticated but not instrumented — no verified unified GA4/Meta Pixel and no cross-location KPI system. Marketing decisions across eight stores lack an accountability layer; you can't see which locations, channels or campaigns drive revenue.
Opportunity: Install unified GA4 + Meta Pixel across the portfolio and stand up a cross-location KPI dashboard with per-store keyword rankings and channel attribution. This is the foundation everything else optimizes against — it goes in first, before spend.
Catering & Revenue Expansion Under-Marketed
Observation: Audit score 4/5 on delivery & revenue — you run Toast ordering, earned DoorDash recognition, and manage third-party platforms expertly yourself (the $400K Grubhub deal speaks for itself). The gap the audit flags is that catering is under-marketed digitally and private-event promotion is largely absent.
Opportunity: A catering landing page with its own paid campaign, seasonal gift-card and private-event promotions, and reservation-driven dinner demand — the revenue-expansion layer on top of a delivery operation you already run better than most. We complement your platform strategy, we don't touch what's working.
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The System
The Resto360 Growth Program
Resto Experience was co-founded by the operators of Rreal Tacos — a 13-location Georgia group that is still our live testing ground. Every tool and play in the program was built there first, out of the same frustration you'd recognize: fragmented marketing vendors, misaligned strategies, spend no one could account for. We packaged the fix into one program.
Resto360 is a single integrated system, not a menu of services. Brand and design, a custom website you own outright (never rented), content, social, paid media, email and SMS, loyalty, local SEO, reputation, POS optimization and a live performance dashboard — one team, one strategy, one source of truth across all eight locations. For a multi-unit operator, that unification is the whole value: the audit found your systems fragmented and un-instrumented, and this is what consolidates them.
One thing we want to be explicit about, because you raised it and you're right to protect it: your brand voice is a genuine asset, and we are not here to replace it. Your social is authentic, unscripted, and clearly resonates — the audit scored it 4/5 for a reason. Our job is the systems layer around the content: the paid engine that distributes it, the owned-audience capture that converts its reach, the loyalty and measurement that make it accountable. Where we produce, we produce to your voice, not a generic agency one.
Everything is month-to-month with a 30-day cancellation clause, and every asset we build — website, content, brand book, the loyalty program itself — is owned by you. We don't use contracts, or rented platforms, to keep clients.
Proven Portfolio
57+ restaurants served. $110M+ in revenue generated. 84% client retention. Our portfolio median is +74% in monthly sales growth — documented across real client engagements, not projected. Results vary by market, concept, and starting point. But the pattern holds: operators who run the full system grow.
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What We Do
Scope of Services
Twelve services, one team, run across all eight locations. Each is scoped to what the audit surfaced for The Pizzeria — acquisition, retention, and measurement first, built around the brand voice you already own.
Paid Media — Meta & Google
The missing engine, and the audit's #1 priority. Always-on, location-level campaigns geofenced per store and split by funnel stage, plus a repeatable grand-opening playbook so unit nine launches on paid demand. Meta leads for a content-strong brand; Google captures “pizza near me” intent per location. Instrumented before a dollar is spent.
Email, SMS & Loyalty
Your highest-margin revenue, and the audit's #2 priority. We start by confirming what's already running behind your email/SMS capture, then build or extend a points-per-visit loyalty program (enrolled at POS and in your bio) wrapped in segmented, automated flows — welcome, win-back, birthday, VIP. The goal is the direct answer to Salvatore's Pizza Perks and Slice Rewards: 5,401 reviewers and 22K followers converted into an owned database you control and re-engaged on a schedule.
Local SEO & Digital Presence
Standardize all eight Google Business Profiles into one consistent local footprint, fix the Babylon Yelp “Temporarily Closed” error immediately, and run a systematic review-generation flow at POS — prioritizing the under-indexed original at Lake Grove (207 reviews). Per-location keyword tracking (“pizza near me,” “Italian restaurant”) so you see how each store ranks in its own market.
Website Design & Development
A custom rebuild that finally matches an elevated brand — reservation and waitlist paths for the dinner-and-cocktail occasion, a dedicated catering page, and the premium in-room experience actually shown — while keeping the Toast takeout ordering that already works. Hand-built, SEO-optimized, and owned outright by you.
Reputation & Review Management
You already run the best reputation program we've audited at this scale — personally-signed owner responses on every review under four stars. We protect and systematize it: keep your voice on the responses that matter, automate the routine ones, and drive review velocity where it's thin (Lake Grove, Yaphank) so the 4.8 average holds as you keep opening.
Performance Tracking & Analytics
The foundation the audit says goes in first. Unified GA4 + Meta Pixel across all eight locations and a live cross-location KPI dashboard — filterable by store, channel and campaign, with per-location keyword rankings — so marketing across the portfolio finally has an accountability layer. A self-serve login portal is on the near-term roadmap.
Social Media Management
Your voice stays yours. Where you want support, we handle the systems around the content — cadence, distribution, repurposing winning organic into paid creative, and the capture funnels that turn reach into an owned list. Our benchmark for produced video is 20,000+ views as a floor for meaningful reach, layered onto the authentic feed that already works.
Content Creation & Production
Monthly on-site production across the locations, in your unscripted register — not a polished agency reskin. Enough volume to feed paid creative, email, the website and eight Google profiles. Because you're outside our home market, per location we either send our team (travel at cost) or source and direct a vetted local shooter paid at cost — briefed and edited by us, owned by you.
Influencer Marketing
Our in-house team brokers Long Island and NYC creators vetted for local audience match — a 400K-follower account in the wrong market is worthless; a right-sized local one fills a room. Every partnership is contracted so you own the content for paid and cross-platform use.
Graphic Design Services
A consolidated brand book — palette, typography, logo system, photographic direction — so all eight locations, the new website, the loyalty program and every campaign read as one brand. Then ongoing design across menus, catering and event collateral, social and paid creative.
POS Optimization
Toast configured across the portfolio for what marketing depends on — clean per-location and daypart reporting, loyalty enrollment at the point of sale, guest-data capture, menu and modifier structure that supports campaigns and catering, and the online-ordering flow tuned for conversion.
Hospitality Consulting & Talent
We're operators, and that comes with the engagement — from a new-unit launch checklist to staffing for a paid-driven demand bump to the guest-experience details that keep a 4.8 average intact across nine locations. Where marketing pressure meets the floor, we work it with you rather than sending traffic at an unresolved problem.
Optional Add-On · RestoHost AI
RestoHost AI — 24/7 Guest Engagement
Our AI phone host (we run it as “Nacho” at Rreal Tacos) answers inbound calls for reservations, wait times, ordering and catering — and logs missed-call volume against recovered revenue. Phone logs typically show ~40% of calls missed after hours or during a rush. Across eight busy locations with catering and private-event demand, that's a measurable revenue gap this closes, priced per location.
Optional Add-On · Delivery Growth
Third-Party Delivery Optimization
Deep optimization of Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub — payout percentages, menu mix, promo efficiency and order volume. Candidly, you already run this better than most operators we meet (the $400K Grubhub deal and your no-exclusivity leverage make that clear), so we'd scope this narrowly: catering-channel growth and per-location promo efficiency where it helps, and stay out of the platform relationships you manage expertly yourself.
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The Evidence
Proven Results
Three engagements chosen because each maps onto a specific part of The Pizzeria's situation: running one system across many locations, driving a multi-market group's revenue, and turning strong-but-under-marketed into measurable growth.
Rreal Tacos — Multi-Location
Our own group · 1 → 13 locations · operator-owned proof
Most Comparable
Situation. Our own group scaled from one location to thirteen — the exact challenge of running coordinated, instrumented marketing across many units that each open into a different local market. It's where every play in Resto360 was built.
Strategy. Location-level local SEO and GBP, geofenced paid per store, a grand-opening playbook for each new unit, owned-channel retention, and one cross-location dashboard — the same architecture this proposal puts under your eight.
Result. Sustained multi-location growth: the flagship Midtown store now runs around $700K/month (up from ~$300K), with individual units posting peaks like +120% in a month.
1→13
Locations Scaled
Built to run many units at once, each launched on demand
$700K
Flagship Monthly Sales
Up from ~$300K in the early stores
30%
Revenue via Delivery
Delivery optimized as a real channel, not an afterthought
Why This One Matters for The Pizzeria
Your ninth location is being signed now. This is the case for launching a new unit on top of a demand engine instead of word of mouth — run across a whole portfolio, from operators who do it on their own P&L.
Baires Grill — Multi-Location
Established multi-market group · NYC + Doral + Coral Gables
Multi-Market ROI
Situation. An established multi-location group with strong rooms across distinct markets, looking to drive revenue with a coordinated system rather than location-by-location guesswork.
Strategy. Full Resto360 across all locations — segmented paid, content, owned channels and reputation — run centrally with per-location reporting.
Result. NYC averaged +47% in sales YoY, Doral reached $668K in a single month, Coral Gables grew up to +34% — a combined +$500K in additional monthly sales on a disciplined ~2%-of-sales spend.
+47%
NYC Sales YoY
Average across the measured months
+$500K
Added Monthly Sales
Combined across locations vs prior year
989%
Combined ROI
$9.89 back for every $1, on ~2%-of-sales spend
The relevance is direct: a multi-market group where the product was already strong, and a coordinated system turned that strength into attributable, per-location revenue growth — the exact 2%-of-sales structure this proposal recommends.
Zócalo
Strong concept, under-activated digital · demand rebuilt
Activation
Situation. A strong concept whose digital demand-capture was barely built — great in person, under-activated online. The closest analogue to a brand whose reputation outpaces its systems.
Strategy. The full system pointed at capture and retention: paid, local search, owned channels, with tracking on every path from impression to visit.
Result. Ten consecutive months of triple-digit year-over-year sales growth, and repeat/booking volume up by an order of magnitude.
+96–161%
Net Sales YoY
Every month across a 10-month window
6,423
Peak Monthly Covers
Up from ~400 the prior year
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Consecutive Growth Months
No month of contraction
The pattern we'd expect at The Pizzeria: the brand is already loved; the growth comes from building the acquisition and retention layer that isn't there yet.
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The Roadmap
90-Day Launch Plan
The sequence follows the audit's own 30/60/90 roadmap, run across all eight locations. It starts with measurement and the free quick wins, then activates acquisition and retention, then optimizes and scales.
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Fix & Foundation
Days 1–30 · Instrument + Quick Wins
Install unified Meta Pixel + GA4 across all eight locations; live dashboard stood up and handed over
Correct the Babylon Yelp “Temporarily Closed” error (week one, free) and audit + standardize all eight Google Business Profiles
Deploy review-generation flow at POS, prioritizing the under-indexed Lake Grove and Yaphank
Quick wins from the audit: “Join for exclusive offers” link in the IG bio, GBP post across all eight, pin top Reels
Map the loyalty architecture and retention flows; brand book kickoff
Access handover across Toast, Meta, Google, Search Console and the social accounts
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Build & Activate
Days 31–60 · Turn On Acquisition + Retention
Launch always-on Meta + Google campaigns per location, geofenced and funnel-structured
Activate the loyalty program with email/SMS lifecycle flows — welcome, win-back, birthday, VIP
Build the catering landing page + dedicated paid campaign
Begin the website rebuild for the elevated brand — reservation/waitlist path + catering
Content production in your voice begins feeding paid, email and the eight Google profiles
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Optimize & Scale
Days 61–90 · Measure + Compound
Optimize paid by location lifecycle stage (mature stores vs. newly opened)
Scale loyalty enrollment and measure the repeat-visit lift per location
Launch the cross-location KPI dashboard with per-store keyword rankings and channel attribution
Website launches with reservation, waitlist and catering paths live
First full portfolio performance review, per location
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The Grand-Opening Playbook
Ongoing · For Location Nine and Beyond
A repeatable, geo-targeted grand-opening paid playbook so each new unit launches on demand, not word of mouth
New-location GBP, review-generation and loyalty enrollment live from day one
Budget reallocated across the portfolio on actual cost-per-result
Quarterly roadmap reviewed with you against the KPI dashboard
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The Trajectory
Projected Growth Scenario
What follows is a scenario, not a forecast or a guarantee. Growth depends on sustained investment, execution on the floor, seasonality and market conditions none of us control. What we commit to is the sequence, the discipline and the measurement — so across all eight locations you can always see what the work is doing.
A clean measurement baseline across all eight stores, the free quick wins already landing, and review velocity climbing at the under-indexed locations.
Days 31–60
Always-on paid live per location, loyalty + lifecycle flows activated, catering campaign, website rebuild underway
First attributable paid traffic per store, loyalty enrollment beginning to compound, and catering leads arriving through a channel that didn't exist before.
Repeat-visit lift measurable per location, cost-per-acquisition falling as retention compounds, and unit nine ready to open onto a demand engine.
An Honest Note on Timing
Loyalty and local SEO compound — the first 30–60 days build enrollment and authority you can't fully see in a sales report yet. Paid moves faster. Judge us on paid and the measurement baseline inside 60 days, and on retention lift and local rankings at day 90.
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The Investment
Investment & The Path to Partnership
Recommended
Performance Partnership
1%
of net sales (management) + a separate 1% we deploy as media · all 8 locations · month-to-month
What's included
All 12 services across all eight locations — add-ons (loyalty, AI host, delivery) included in the percentage model
We carry the downside with you — a soft month across the group and the fee moves down with it
We only earn more once you have — our fee rises only because your sales did first
A matching 1% marketing budget we're tasked to fully deploy each month against a plan
Scales cleanly as you open location nine and beyond
Month-to-month · 30-day notice
We recommend the 1% performance model for a group your size, and the reason is alignment, not price: our fee moves with your net sales, so in a soft month we absorb the downside with you, and the only way we earn more is by first growing your revenue across the portfolio. It folds the add-ons — the loyalty build, the AI host, delivery — into the percentage rather than pricing them line by line, and it scales without renegotiation as location nine (and ten) come online.
Prefer a fixed monthly fee? We can absolutely structure a flat retainer instead — we'd just build the number around your actual revenue across the eight locations so it's fair to both sides. That's a quick conversation, not a sticker price; tell us what works and we'll shape it with you.
Media is separate and never marked up. On the performance model it's a matching ~1% of net sales that we're tasked to fully deploy every month against a documented plan; on the flat model it's a budget you set. Either way it's billed directly, allocated across Meta, Google and loyalty/lifecycle tooling based on what the tracking shows.
On à la carte: we build Resto360 as one system because unified control across acquisition, retention and measurement is exactly what your audit found missing — running one piece in isolation reproduces the fragmentation instead of fixing it. That said, we've made exceptions; if you want a different scope, send a counter and we'll build to it.
ROI Perspective
Baires Grill — a multi-market group like yours — returned 989% on a ~2%-of-sales spend: $9.89 back for every $1. We're not promising that number. We're pointing out that with a reputation as strong as yours and — from what we can see externally — little to no acquisition or retention engine running yet, the gap between what you've earned and what you're capturing looks unusually wide, and the 1% model ties our fee directly to closing it.
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What Happens Next
Next Steps
If this reads right, here's how we start. Nothing below is a long commitment — month-to-month, 30 days' notice, and you own every asset from day one.
01
Explore the Dashboard
Open the sample interactive report I'm sending alongside this — it's the exact KPI and per-location keyword view you'd get across all eight stores. Poke at it independently before we talk.
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Review the Audit + Proposal
Read both with whoever else weighs in. Push back on anything that doesn't match how you run the group — the audit is our read, but you know the floor.
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Strategy Call
A 30-minute call to prioritize levers by location lifecycle — mature stores vs. newly opened — and settle the pricing model (we'd steer to 1%).
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Confirm & Onboard
1% of net sales or the flat retainer — same scope — plus the media budget. Service agreement and ACH over, access handover across the eight locations.
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Instrument Week
Pixel + GA4 installed across all eight, dashboard handed over, and the free quick wins (Babylon Yelp fix, GBP posts, bio CTA) shipped in the first days.
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Activate
Always-on paid and the loyalty program go live — the two levers the audit ranks highest — with the website rebuild underway behind them.