Text Alerts for Your Toronto Customers
If you run a café, a nail salon, or a bookstore in Toronto, Ontario, and you want a simple way to tell the people who already come in about a new special or an upcoming opening, this is worth reading.
EnAffaire is a subscription web service. You use it from your phone or your computer, not from a shop or a local office — it exists to help you stay in touch with customers you already have.
In plain terms, here's what it does: your business gets a promotion board — a page where you post a special, a menu change, or an opening. Every customer who has subscribed to that board gets an alert sent to their phone the moment you post it. That same board is a real, indexable web page, so someone in Toronto searching online for a business like yours has a chance to come across it as well.
What makes a text different from a post in a general feed is that your subscribers chose to hear from you, so the message doesn't need to compete for attention the way an unprompted post does. And because the board is a standing page rather than a single post, it keeps doing work for you between the times you update it.Getting set up is simple: start at the guide, build your board, and invite the customers you already have to subscribe — on a receipt, at the register, in conversation, however you already reach them. From there, posting a new update takes about as long as sending a text.
The timing is the part that tends to surprise owners. Most of what a business has to say is only useful inside a narrow window: the soup is on today, the shop closes early tonight, the thing that sold out last week is back this morning. Reaching someone with that news an hour later is worth a great deal. Reaching them a day later is usually worth nothing at all. Channels that put a delay between publishing and arriving quietly destroy most of the value of the message before it lands, which is why so much business communication feels like effort with nothing to show for it. An alert removes the delay, and that single change is often what makes the difference.
EnAffaire is $69.99 CAD per month plus applicable tax.
To see exactly how it works and to start a free trial, read the guide at enaffaire.com/get-found. It's a plain, step-by-step page written for a business owner in Toronto who wants a practical way to keep customers in the loop.
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.