HotSchedules was the pioneer of online employee scheduling for restaurants in 2000, and is today considered the best-of-breed provider of comprehensive web-based restaurant labor management and scheduling. Ketner Group has been working with HotSchedules since 2008, when we competed for and won their business as the company’s first PR and marketing partner. We helped take HotSchedules from a virtual unknown among the trade press to a recognized brand, and were the driving force behind building HotSchedules’ successful social media program focusing both on building industry thought leadership and leveraging end-user evangelists.

In 2010, Ketner Group developed and managed several social media campaigns for HotSchedules, including one Facebook contest that increased HotSchedules' enthusiastic Facebook fan base from under 400 to over 4,000 fans by the end of the contest. We have also helped HotSchedules with its big push into mobile over the past year, and its iPhone app is currently ranked #8 among the App Store’s Top Paid Business Apps. The Ketner Group team regularly works directly with HotSchedules’ customers (national and regional restaurants) to develop press releases, case studies, and pitch for media placements.