Week 3 Part B: 5 Businesses

  Business One: 

1: The Wonder Bar- Bullhead City, Az

2:      http://www.the-wonderbar.com/ 

3: The Wonder Bar has 3 social media links on their website as well as their yelp page. Their Facebook and yelp page are well fairly used. 

4: When I clicked on their google plus link it showed that the url was not found. As for the Pinterest page, it looks like they started working on it and only added the different albums and the album's cover photo. 

5: The last time they posted on their Facebook page was Super Bowl Sunday on February 4. The Pinterest profile has not added anything since 5 years ago.

6: This business is not using their social media well. They seem to have started using Facebook but abruptly stopped.

Business Two

1. Lazy Harry's Bar and Grill-Bullhead City, Az

2. http://www.lazyharrys.net/

3. Lazy Hary has 2 social media links on their website.They have a link to Facebook and Google plus pages. 

4. When I clicked on their google plus link it showed url was not found. Their Facebook page looks very well used. 

5. The most recent post on their Facebook page was on September 5 of this year. 

6. This business is using their Facebook page well. Every other day they add a drink special or lunch special. They are also posting about events that are coming up.

Business Three

1:The Bearded Gentleman- Bullhead City, Az

2:https://www.facebook.com/beardedgentlemanpubandgrill/

3: The Bearded Gentleman is a little weird because the link to their website just takes you directly to their Facebook page. 

4: There is no other social media link on their page. Their Facebook page looks well used. 

5: The most recent post was on September 4 of this year. 

6:  This business us using their Facebook page as a website. They do seem to post very often on their page. 

Business Four

1: The Hideout- Laughlin, Nv. (across the river from Bullhead)

2: http://www.hideoutlaughlin.com/

3: The Hideout has 2 link on their website. One link is for Facebook and one is for Twitter. 

4: Both links worked properly. Their Facebook and Twitter Page are both used often. 

5:The most recent post for their Facebook page was September 5th of this year. Their last post on their Twitter page was August 14 of this year.

6: This business seems to be fairly active on their social media pages. They are more active on their Facebook Page then Twitter.

Business Five

1: Pirate Cove- Needles, Ca. (across the other side of river)

2: https://www.piratecoveresort.com/

3: The Pirates Cove only has 1 link for social media which is the Facebook Page. 

4: The link did work properly. Their Facebook page is used quite often.

5: The most recent posts was done one September 5th, 2018. 

6: This business is very active on their Facebook page.

7:

    Living in the Tri-State area, there are many bars within a short distance from each other. I chose this 5 because they are the bars with the best reviews, some better then others. Many of them have similarities and what makes them unique. The information that I gathered showed me that all of them do not have a strong social media presence because they all have less then 3 social media pages. Most of the ones with more then one link to their social media url did not work. It was a bit difficult to pick business that actually had a website because most of them went straight to their Facebook page. I decided to add one to the list of 5 so I am able to compare it with the bars that do have a website.

   All of the bar's had a Facebook page. All the bars have posted less then 2 weeks except, the Wonder Bar. I felt like the Wonder Bar was missing the motivation to keep active on their page. I also noticed that all the bar they had some sort of food they sold inside. This is a good piece of information because it shows that food is a hit with alcohol. All the reviews mentioned how tasty the food was in all the bars. 

    Out of all the business's website I visited, I think Pirate's Cove was the best one. They only have two social media page but they do well on being active. Their website has cool pop ups and pictures of all the events they had in the past. On their website they have daily specials which is intriguing for someone who is planning something for a particular day. Their response time for their Facebook messenger said fairly quickly which is a plus. On their Tweeter page they send out tweets to their followers every weekend! 

    I was disappointed  with the Bearded Gentleman's website because it felt like they were to lazy to make a website then add their Facebook page. This is a downside because a website you can make the image of how your business is the way you want it, where on Facebook its more customer ran because the customer reviews show up on the page. The Facebook page does not have a place to have the menu or the drink menu, which is a good thing to have because people want to see what you have to offer. Website give your customer more of an idea of who you are. 

    Overall, I would say they all need help on their social media presence. The Business's that are very active on their Facebook should consider maybe getting another form of social media that is popular with their target market. I notice that none of the business's had Instagram. That should be one that they should consider because of the hashtag.