Flambé - Fired Up Food Marketing

21/09/2026

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU HAD A MARKETING DEPARTMENT?

Would you finally get your socials working properly?

Send regular emails to your customers? Keep your website up to date? Promote events before the last minute? Get better photos? Refresh the menus? Build campaigns around the quiet nights? Actually have a marketing plan instead of squeezing it in between everything else?

Most hospitality businesses know exactly what they should be doing.

The problem is having someone to actually do it.

Hiring a marketing manager, designer, photographer, copywriter, web developer and social media person isn’t particularly realistic for most venues.

So don’t.

Have Flambé instead.

We are your outsourced hospitality marketing department, bringing the people, skills and systems together to keep your marketing moving and business coming in.

You run the business. We get you more customers.

Want to see growth not just activity? You know where we are!

We get the marketing done.

Flambé. Done.

31/08/2026

IT'S BEEN 10 YEARS SINCE "CONTENT WAS KING."

If you want more business, read on.

Successful marketing today isn't about pumping out more content.

It's about consistency, branding and promoting in the right channels.

Granted, those things don't sound particularly fun.

Mainly because they're not.

But they work.

No need to spend your life battling algorithms.

No dress-ups or dancing for the camera.

And you definitely don't need to produce progressively more alarming Reels just to stay "relevant."

You need people to:

Find you.
Recognise you.
Remember you.
Choose you.

That's marketing, even ten years ago.

If you'd rather spend your time running your business than trying to keep an algorithm happy...

You know where we are.

02/08/2026

10X YOUR BUSINESS?

Yeah… nah.

The internet is full of promises.

“10X your business.”

“500% more reach.”

“Double your sales in 30 days.”

Sounds amazing.

So does losing 20 kg by next Tuesday.

The truth?

There are no shortcuts.

No miracle website upgrades.

No secret AI prompt hacks.

No viral video that’s going to make loads of new business.

Real marketing is usually pretty boring.

Know your customer.

Be easy to find.

Have something worth talking about.

Keep showing up.

Measure what works.

Repeat.

That’s how real businesses grow.

Not overnight.

One customer at a time.

Want to know what marketing works for F&B businesses in FNQ?

You know where we are!

29/07/2026

HELLO!

Ever get tired of explaining your business to your marketing agency?

Every.

Single.

Time.

They don’t know the difference between table covers and tablecloths.

They’ve never run a lunch special.

They’ve never worried about wet season trade.

Their remote designer thinks we wear jumpers in the winter.

So you spend the first three months…

Teaching them your business.

While paying them to learn.

At Flambé, we do things differently.

We only work with food and beverage businesses in Far North Queensland.

We know the region.

We know the customers.

We know what works here.

No recycled strategies from Sydney.

No trying new marketing hacks from YouTube Gurus.

No learning on your dollar.

Just proven local hospitality marketing from people who speak your language.

If you’re ready for a marketing agency that already gets it…

You know where we are!

19/07/2026

STOP CHASING VIRAL. START CHASING RESULTS.

Here’s a number worth thinking about.

A well-maintained email newsletter will often achieve an open rate of 30% or more. That means nearly one in three people you send it to will actually open it and read what you have to say.

Now compare that with social media.

How many of your followers actually see your posts? How many stop scrolling? How many engage in a meaningful way?

If 30% of your Instagram followers genuinely consumed every post you published, you’d probably be negotiating sponsorship deals and shopping for a new house.

Instead, many businesses spend hours creating beautiful posts, hoping the algorithm smiles on them or that something might go viral.

Hope isn’t a marketing strategy.

Build an email list. Own your audience. Speak directly to people who have already asked to hear from you.

The prettiest post in the world is still less valuable than a message that actually gets read.

Flambé Tip: Don’t measure likes. Measure attention.

Need help setting this up?

You know where we are!

18/06/2026

POSTED ONCE.
NO SALES.
SHOCKED.

You wouldn’t go to the gym once and expect abs.

Why do people expect one Facebook post to fill a restaurant?

If you want to know how to leverage social media to get customers, you know where we are!

06/06/2026

Think email marketing is dead?

Funny.

Because every time social media changes the rules, everyone suddenly remembers they have an email list.

Or wishes they did.

Your followers belong to Meta.

Your email list belongs to you.

No algorithms.
No boosting.
No hoping people see your post.

Just a direct line to customers who already know who you are.

Start simple:

• Collect emails every chance you get
• Give people a reason to sign up
• Send something useful, not just sales pitches
• Keep it regular, even once a month is better than never
• Treat your email list like an asset, because it is

The businesses winning in 2025 aren't just building followers.

They're building databases.

One algorithm update can't take that away.

Want help with email marketing? You know where we are!

17/05/2026

17/05/2026

At some point it’s just about the food. Need quality images? You know where we are!

22/04/2026

Social media?
You don’t own your reach.
You don’t even rent it.
Algorithms do.

And they change…
All the time.
One tweak… One update... One bad post…

And suddenly- - - You’re invisible.

That’s the risk of building your business on someone else’s land.
Because when the platform decides…
You feel it.
Fast.

The smart businesses?
They don’t rely on it.
They build 'owned assets'.

Email lists.
Customer data.
Direct relationships.
Things no algorithm can take away.

Because attention is great…
But ownership is better.
Own your customers.

Or risk losing them—Especially to someone doing it right.

Need help building something you actually own?
Email. SMS. Database.
You know where we are!