Text Alerts for Your Vancouver Customers
If you run a coffee shop, a yoga studio, or a bike shop in Vancouver, British Columbia, and you want a straightforward way to let the people who already come in know about a new special or an upcoming opening, this is for you.
EnAffaire is a subscription web service, used from your phone or your computer rather than from a storefront or a local office. It's built for one purpose: keeping you 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. Everyone who has subscribed to your board gets an alert on their phone the moment you post. That board is also an ordinary web page that search engines can index, so someone in Vancouver searching online for a business like yours has a chance to find it too.
The reason a text lands differently than a post in a general feed is consent — your subscribers asked to hear from you, so the message doesn't have to compete for attention the way an unprompted post does. And because the board stays live as a page rather than disappearing like a single post, it keeps working quietly between the times you update it.Getting started is simple. You begin at the guide, set up your board, and invite the customers you already have to subscribe — on a receipt, at the till, however you already talk to them. Once a few people have subscribed, posting a new update takes about as long as sending a text.
There is a question of tone underneath all of this that is worth naming. A subscriber list is a standing invitation, and people can withdraw it at any time. That constraint is a useful one, because it rules out the approach most advertising takes, which is to interrupt as often as the budget allows and accept that most people are annoyed. Writing to a list you would like to keep means writing the way you would speak to someone standing at the counter: what is on, what changed, what is back. Owners tend to find that easier than the promotional voice they assume is expected of them, and it works better, which is a rare combination.
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 walkthrough written for a business owner in Vancouver 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.