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SUPERIOR PACKAGE

Partnership Fee
Application Process

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BUSINESS LISTINGS

As a Superior Partner, you’ll be listed consistently throughout our site to provide maximum visibility. You’re venue will be listed on the featured business section on our home page, the first listings on your category page, the featured venues section on the all and on our website’s footer to ensure that your business will be there for consideration when any visitors looking for a cuisine or beverage you provide.

All of our partners, regardless of level, are provided with a profile, but our Superior Partners are the only ones that we are willing to recommend within the “you may also like” section within relevant free profiles. After all, you passed our application process, and deserve to be recommended at every opportunity.

Additionally, your profile will not feature a “You may also like” section but instead be replaced with positive customer quotes.

PROFILE

SEO SOLUTION

Finally, an SEO Solution for our Local Food Industry.

As a superior Partner, you’ll enjoy representation on our local keyword and SEO optimized blog post whenever possible. You’ll also receive a display banner ad in the top half of relevant blog posts to help catch the eye of our visitors as they are in the market and trying to find venues like yours. In other words - let us get the keywords, you get the sales.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Every business says the same thing in their advertising “We’re the best”, but how powerful would it be if someone else said it for you?

Exactly.
That’s the key to our Premium Partnership advertising opportunity. Instead of you praising yourself, we at Dine in Duluth, will recommend your flavors through the Facebook and Search Engine ad platforms for a much more impactful approach to digital advertising.

DIGITAL GUIDE

Our Superior Partners are not only listed in our Digital Guide, they are celebrated.

How you ask? As a Superior Partner, you’re given a full-page ad within your relevant category to share your talent and flavors. You’ll reach our readers with a beautiful, mouth-watering ad right as they are planning their Duluth trips and meals.

Increase your social media reach and following among both Duluth locals and travelers with our Superior Partnership program. We’ll introduce you to our thriving and engaged audience of local food lovers to help you grow your brand awareness as we post, share, and cross-promote your venue, and flavors consistently.

DIGITAL ADVERTISING

SUPERIOR VALUE TO MATCH YOUR SUPERIOR SERVICE

Only 3.
We only allow three Superior Partners to represent each drink and dining category.

We do this to keep our audiences from being overwhelmed and to prevent our recommendations from being diluted. To ensure that the correct three venues are selected to spearhead each category, applicants must go through an approval process. Once approved you’ll be welcomed and utilized as a cornerstone in our efforts to grow the Duluth drinking and food industry as a whole.

Once approved, the position is yours until you elect to drop the position. Unfortunately, this means that once the three slots of each category are filled, no other venues within that category may be accepted as a Superior Partner until/if a current Superior Partner elects to step down.

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PARTNER PROGRAM

FAQ

  • The partnership fee is applied to our higher level partnerships that are looking to grow their business with Dine in Duluth. We promote these partners though both paid and owned channels such as digital advertising, our email list, our social media platforms, and our digital guide. The partnership covers the financial and time investment these services require.

  • No, there is an application process and standards that must be met prior to an organization being accepted into our Superior Partner Program and being rewarded with our Superior Host Recommendation. The application process consists of an interview, tasting, and online review benchmarks that must be met. Businesses are evaluated strictly on performance.

    This ensures that every member of our Superior Partner program provides both great food and service to our community that we can proudly stand behind and recommend to our audience.

  • Yes, our start up partnership package is free and ensures that no restaurant, brewery, or local venue is left behind. We want to help promote the incredible flavors within the Duluth Community and feature all of the venues that make Duluth one of the premier dining centers in the United States.

  • We limit the number of Superior Hosts we recommend to only 3 per category to prevent our audiences from being overwhelmed and thus diluting our recommendation. It also keeps us honest in the evaluation process and forces us to be thoughtful and selective with our partnership approvals.

  • Once selected Superior Partners remain in the program until they opt to cancel their partnership or their performance drops below our Superior Host standards.

    This means that if all Superior Partner slots have been filled within your category you may join a wait-list for the next open slot. We can not guarantee that a slot will become available again after all within your category have been filled.