Text Alerts for Your Chicago Customers
If you run a bakery, a barbershop, or a dry cleaner in Chicago, Illinois, and you'd like a plain, direct way to tell your regulars about a new special or an upcoming opening, this is for you.
EnAffaire is a subscription web service — something you use from your phone or your computer, not a shop you visit. It's built for one job: helping you stay in touch with the customers you already have.
Here's what it does, in plain terms: your business gets a promotion board, a page where you post a special, a menu change, or an opening. Every customer subscribed to that board gets an alert sent to their phone the moment you post. The board is also an ordinary web page that search engines can index, so someone in Chicago searching online for a business like yours has a chance to find it too.
The reason a text works differently than a post in a general feed is that your subscribers opted in — they asked to hear from you, so the message doesn't have to fight for attention the way an unprompted post does. And because the board is a page, not a one-time post, it keeps working quietly even on days you don't update it.Setting up is simple. You start at the guide, build your board, and invite the customers you already have to subscribe — at the counter, on a receipt, however you already talk to them day to day. Once a few people have subscribed, posting a new update takes about as long as sending a text message.
It helps to be precise about what an alert is and is not. It is not a marketing email, which lands in a folder most people never open, and it is not a text message you are paying for by the send. It is a notification from a page the customer chose to follow, which puts it in the same category as the alerts they already accept from the handful of things they actually care about. That distinction matters, because it sets the standard for what you should send. A board that only speaks up when there is something genuinely worth knowing keeps its subscribers. One that posts for the sake of posting trains people to ignore it, which is the same mistake every other channel makes and the reason so many of them stopped working.
EnAffaire is $69.99 CAD per month — about US$50 at today's rate; your card issuer sets the final rate.
To see exactly how the board works and to start a free trial, read the guide at enaffaire.com/get-found. It's a straightforward walkthrough for a business owner in Chicago who wants a practical way to keep customers informed, not a sales pitch.
See how it works
EnAffaire gives a business a promotion board customers can subscribe to, and gets that board found on Google. Set it up in an afternoon; tell your customers once; reach them every time you have something on.