07 Aug
Restaurant Social Media Marketing: A Guide to the Basics
Why do restaurants need social media? Social media has become a part of everyday life and has also permeated the business world. Social media, in fact, has become an important marketing channel for a wide range of businesses both online and in-store. In turn, the impact of social media has proven to be massive, and...
07 Aug
Wi-Fi Marketing Strategies and Tactics for Restaurant Chains
One of the main challenges restaurant chains face in our era is customer acquisition and retention. Within an increasingly competitive landscape and high customer standards, it’s proving to be as hard to keep customers than it is to get them in first place. It is for this reason that restaurants are turning to differentiating technology...
07 Aug
6 Benefits of Guest Wi-Fi for Restaurants
Whether you have been working in the restaurant industry for years, or are new to the scene, it’s impossible not to have been confronted by the question of whether to offer guest Wi-Fi in your establishment. With recent statistics reporting that more than three out of four adults own a Smartphone, and further, that most...
07 Aug
Introduction to Managed Wi-Fi for Retail and Restaurants
Brick and mortar retailers and restaurants are facing tremendous competition from online giants while having to adapt to fast-changing customer needs quickly. The rapidly expanding ownership of smartphones and other handheld devices is revolutionizing the retail and restaurant industries, and consumers are increasingly relying on Wi-Fi as part of their digital journey and purchasing decision process....
07 Aug
How Employee Wi-Fi Impacts Your Retail Business
In an increasingly connected world, most retailers have had to compare the pros and cons of offering free Wi-Fi to their customers. While we have covered this question several times in a variety of blogs – and numerous large-scale studies have also outlined the benefits of Wi-Fi deployment – it makes sense to expand our...
07 Aug
The Role of Wi-Fi in 5G
Unlike previous generations, unlicensed spectrum technologies will play a major role in 5G. There are two main definitions of 5G. The first is a narrower one: a set of radio specifications defined by 3GPP, which will form the basis of official 5G standards for the 5G new radio (NR). The second one is broader where...
07 Aug
Why Captive Portals are an Important Tool for Guest Wi-Fi
If you’re like most of us, you welcome free Wi-Fi when you’re out and about. You connect in places like restaurants, airports, retail stores and coffee shops. Owners of establishments like this use Wi-Fi to encourage patronage. They know you have other ways to stay connected, so they need to ensure the Wi-Fi connection they...
14 Reasons to Outsource Wi-Fi Management
There are many benefits to outsourcing the management of your Wi-Fi network to experts, just as there are many advantages of outsourcing services for data storage, security services, software tools, and other services. Let’s explore these benefits in more detail. Considerable cost savings are realized by having a Managed Service Provider (MSP) handle multiple Wi-Fi...
07 Aug
The Origins of Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi is technology available almost anywhere you go in modern society. From your local coffee shop to kilometers up in the sky while you’re travelling abroad, Wi-Fi is so readily available that it’s easy to take it for granted. Professionally, Wi-Fi helps us be productive no matter where we are or what time it is....
07 Aug
Benefits of Managed Wi-Fi for Healthcare
Imagine a hospital in which wireless technology enables visitors, healthcare professionals and patients to roam anywhere throughout the facility, while providing continuous, accurate, and real-time monitoring. This vision can only become reality through the integration of WiFi technology as an integral part of a hospital’s IT systems. Already quite impressive you will say, and yet,...
Datavalet provides high-speed Wi-Fi network management to guest and staff across your business. We can transform Wi-Fi from commodity to business value.