A friend of mine is hiring for a project called MenuMinder, a new and revolutionary restaurant portal that he’s launching initially just for the Chicago market. This sounds so wicked cool that I hope he invites me into the beta launch!
Whereas most restaurant portals just list restaurants, give out basic information and maybe a blurb from a staff writer (metromix.com, citysearch.com etc.), MenuMinder lets people search for exactly what they’re in the mood to eat or drink. You can enter a particular food as a search and MenuMinder will show you anyplace that serves it, as well as the restaurant’s complete menu, right there on menuminder.com.
Restaurants can include all sorts of other information as well, such as news updates, events (like wine dinners), photo galleries, bios for their chefs, recipes and more. All of this is presented as a sort of mini web site for each restaurant on MenuMinder.com so that savvy diners can get a much better feel for each restaurant than any other single location online.
Of course visitors can save restaurants to their favorite restaurants lists, rate them, write reviews, leave comments on reviews, see what restaurants their friends like and so on.
At the highest subscription level, restaurants can have us host their web site and the same information that powers menuminder.com also powers their own site. This is great for them since it allows them a single location where they manage their online content, and it appears both on their own site and on menuminder.com. This was actually the origin of MenuMinder: As a complete Content Management System (CMS) for restaurants…something that a number of Chicago restaurants have / continue to use to power their own web sites.
My friend is looking to hire somebody who’s tech savvy enough to “get” social media, who’s extremely comfortable using the web & e-mail, who’s energetic and friendly (I’m not at all looking for an old-school, pushy sales person) who can see all of the benefits that MenuMinder has to offer and who can be passionate about selling the upgraded subscriptions to restaurants.
He’s more interested in finding the right person at this time than at pre-deciding that this “has to be commission only” or “has to be base + commission”… He wants to talk to some people and see who seems to fit the best and then work out a scenario that works well for all parties. Ideally, this person would eventually transition into more of a sales manager, with area-specific sales people working under them both in/around Chicago and then other markets as they grow.
If you’re interested contact Lou Zucaro and reference Marketing Job Wire / Sima Dahl as your source:
Lou Zucaro
CEO, Genusus
lou@genusus.com
http://www.genusus.com
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