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A free specials board for your spot. You write it. We pay for it.

We install a clean specials board in your restaurant, café, or shop at no cost. The top is yours to write on. Six local businesses sponsor the panels below — and you approve every one of them.

Coming to Hampton Roads venues — first locations are being reserved now.

Mike B Marketing specials board standing in a coastal Virginia restaurant with the host's handwritten daily specials on top and six local sponsor panels below The top is yours to write
A real Mike B Marketing board: your specials up top, six local sponsor panels below. We provide it free and set it up to suit your space.

How the board works

Four steps. No contracts to decode, no ad-tech jargon.

  1. 1

    We provide a board — free

    You get a clean, framed specials board set up the way that suits your space — mounted, hung, or freestanding — so it goes with the flow of your place. No cost to you, ever.

  2. 2

    You write your own specials

    The top of the board is yours. Change it daily, hourly, whenever. Every board comes with a free gift of markers, and we drop off a fresh set every six months.

  3. 3

    You approve the panels below

    We sell the six panels to local businesses — one per category. Every single one comes to you for approval before it goes up.

  4. 4

    Everyone gets seen, all year

    Same board, same regulars, twelve months. Your specials and their names, right where people are already standing.

For host venues

A free board on your wall, and you stay in charge of it.

Restaurants, cafés, bars, laundromats, barbershops — anywhere people stand around and read. Here's exactly what you're agreeing to.

  • $0. Not a trial, not a fee later.

    The board, the printing, the setup — all on us. You never get an invoice.

  • Free markers with every board

    Your board comes with a free gift of markers, and we bring you a fresh set every six months. On the house.

  • You approve every panel

    We send you each business before it's printed. You have three business days to object, no reason needed.

  • Your specials stay yours

    The whole top section is yours to write, wipe, and rewrite. We never post on it.

  • No long lock-in

    A 12-month initial term so sponsors get the year they paid for. After that, you decide.

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A small group of neighbors standing together reading a specials board inside a local diner

The people already standing there are the whole point.

Nobody scrolls past a specials board. They read it while they wait for a table, a haircut, or a load of laundry. That's the moment your name is in front of them — not buried in a feed, not blocked by an ad blocker.

We're honest about what that is: repeat visibility with the regulars of one neighborhood spot, every day for a year. We don't promise a number of calls, and anyone who does is guessing.

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Request a free board

Tell us where you are and we'll come look at the space. Five minutes, no pitch deck. After you send this, you'll get your host agreement to read over — or you can book a call and ask questions first.

No cost, no obligation. We'll confirm details before anything goes on your wall.

Advertising your own business instead?

The fine print, in plain English

  • This is an opportunity to be seen — not a guaranteed number of views, scans, calls, or customers. We don't sell results we can't control.
  • No automatic renewal. Your 12-month term ends when it ends, and we'll reach out before it does.
  • Direct competitors of a host business never share a board without the host's written OK.
  • Hosts approve every sponsor before printing, with three business days to object.
  • No boards are installed yet. Everything on this page is a reservation for our first Hampton Roads locations.