Get the MOST out of the Kiva Logic software

This is a list of things that you should be enabling or doing to help grow your business while using the Kiva Logic software. This list is actively maintained and will be updated whenever new features come out.

updated May 10, 2018- added Marketing Focus, Local Citations, Misc Advice, and #25-26
updated March 9, 2018- added item #24
updated December 6, 2017- added items #20-23

The List

Use the promotion bar
Set up the exit intent popup
Create a drip email campaign for missed signups
Create a drip email campaign for cancellations
Create a drip email campaign for the exit intent popup
Follow our SEO guide
Get an iOS and Android app for your business
Make sure your referral program is set up
Use pop up messages to promote weekly sales
Set up the referral leaderboard and run a promotion
Use printed messages to talk with your customers
Send an email or a push message to promote weekly sales
Use magic links in your weekly email to make it easy for customers to log in
Set up your holiday weeks for the upcoming year
Enable gift boxes and get yourself featured in local gift guide publications!
Use order count events to reward and thank loyal customers
Enable Brinks the SMS messaging bot to open another channel of communication with your customers
Review all of your system emails to ensure they are up to date
Review all content pages to ensure they are up to date
Update your blog WEEKLY. Even if you only copy and paste the weekly email, keep your blog updated.
Use our long-tail keyword page tool to get more customers, rank higher in search engines
Update your customer testimonials
Update your media mentions
With our re-launch of the Recipes Feature, add more recipes and encourage customer participation
Enable the '24 hours until cutoff' emails (available starting May 21, 2018)
Enable the 'Contact Form Received' email

Marketing Focus

Disclaimer: we're not marketing experts, but if we were to make recommendations on what channels to focus on, this is it.

Facebook organic + ads
Google AdWords (also lumping in organic web searches here)
Instagram (easier once you're running)
Local marketing (flyers, booths, street festivals, bulk-mail, gyms, daycares, local government & medium sized businesses with 'wellness' programs, schools, pta meetings)
Press can beat all others if it's the right medium with a large audience- local tv news, bloggers, paper, npr
Referrals (once you're running)
Local Chamber of Commerce events/membership
Twitter

If you get on TV, that can give you a nice little jump in numbers. More importantly, you can then use that TV appearance on FaceBook as a promoted video ad, and I've seen great results for that.

Local Citations

A local citation is simply an online listing containing your business information. Keep your information up-to-date and consistent across all citations for maximum impact.

Get local citations on Google my business(!!!!), bingplaces.com, yelp, YP, MapQuest, Superpages, MerchantCircle, LinkedIn, Yellowbook, localharvest.org, Apple Maps, citysearch, superpages, yahoo local, Manta, DexKnows, hotfrog.com.

You could also use a service like https://moz.com/products/local/smb or https://whitespark.ca.

Misc Advice

use buffer.com to consistently post on all social media channels
do not buy listings or links, Google will know
do not use fiverr or any other service to buy likes, follows, link-building, etc
avoid Groupon at the start (different these days..). The traffic isn't there anymore like it was 5 years ago, and once you're on Groupon, everyone will want 50% off their first box.
if you have a BLOG, at the bare minimum, post your weekly email newsletter on it so that potential customers see current activity. There's nothing worse than a blog that hasn't been updated in over a year! Not a good sign for potential customers.
write guest posts for other blogs, or invite guests to post on your blog
post at least one video a week on your YouTube channel about your product, news, packing boxes, etc etc
respond to customer service emails STUPIDLY FAST. Fast enough that they go 'wow, thanks for the quick reply'

Whew! You've got your work cut out for you now. Good luck and we're [here for you](mailto:hello@kivalogic.com?Subject=Little help please!) if you need it.