{"id":17913,"date":"2012-11-25T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17913"},"modified":"2013-06-04T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T20:06:09","slug":"it-pays-to-advertise-or-at-least-set-up-a-website-for-your-new-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/25\/it-pays-to-advertise-or-at-least-set-up-a-website-for-your-new-business\/","title":{"rendered":"It pays to advertise &#8230; or at least set up a website for your new business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming back from running a few errands yesterday, Elizabeth noticed what looked like a new restaurant setting up shop in downtown Brooklin: The Pour House. We&#8217;ve been waiting for Brooklin to get a proper pub or wine bar for a long time, so this seemed like good news. As soon as we got home, she ran a few Google searches to see what was on offer. <em>The googles, they do nothing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I tried again this morning, searching for &#8220;Brooklin Pour House&#8221;, and got one link: a parked domain at GoDaddy.com. Perhaps they&#8217;re listed under a different name, but it boggles the imagination to see a new business today that doesn&#8217;t already have a web presence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Update, 13 January, 2013<\/b>: Good news! The owners have created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Brooklin-Pour-House-Wine-Bar-and-Restaurant\/405224239553945\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Facebook<\/em> page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi Everyone&#8230;<br \/>\nThanks for visiting our Facebook Page! We&#8217;re excited to have our Grand Opening in the New Year and hope you will join us for some Wine and incredible Cuisine.<br \/>\nCheck back for updates and thank you again for stopping by!<br \/>\nSincerely,<br \/>\nBrooklin Pour House<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Update, 4 June, 2013<\/b>: There&#8217;s now a bare-bones website at <a href=\"http:\/\/brooklinpourhouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/brooklinpourhouse.com<\/a>. In the Brooklin tradition, where no business seems to open without at least one direct competitor opening at the same time, here&#8217;s another bare-bones website for the <a href=\"http:\/\/1847bistro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">1847 Wine &#038; Beer Bistro<\/a>, which is also supposed to open soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming back from running a few errands yesterday, Elizabeth noticed what looked like a new restaurant setting up shop in downtown Brooklin: The Pour House. We&#8217;ve been waiting for Brooklin to get a proper pub or wine bar for a long time, so this seemed like good news. As soon as we got home, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,74],"tags":[97,104,328,453],"class_list":["post-17913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-food","tag-advertising","tag-booze","tag-google","tag-whitby"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4EV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17913"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18546,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17913\/revisions\/18546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}