How TKO Lagos Turned Its Guestbook Into a Marketing Team

  • Lagos, Nigeria
  • Restaurant & Event Space
  • Custom Website, Guestbook, Newsletters, Birthday Emails, Reservation Management
The TKO Lagos website at tkolagos.com: the TKO logo over the dining room, with Menu, Reserve a Table and Reserve event space buttons

Problem: Loyal Guests, and No Way to Reach Them

TKO has been on Dinesurf since 2023, first as Eats by TKO and now as TKO Lagos, a restaurant with its own event space.

Its guests came back because they loved it, but reaching them meant posting on Instagram and hoping they saw it.

There was no list to send to, and no website that was TKO’s own.

The Dinesurf Transformation: A Website, a Guestbook and Newsletters

  • Its Own Website tkolagos.com, custom-designed on TKO’s own domain, with the menu, table bookings and event space in one place.

  • A 2,200+ Guest Guestbook Every guest TKO knows in one Guestbook, ready for the next newsletter.

  • Newsletters That Get Opened Newsletters like the “TKO IPO: Initial Plate Offering” go to the whole Guestbook, and more than a third are opened. Birthday emails go out too.

TKO Lagos before and after Dinesurf

Before Dinesurf

Website
No site of its own
Guest List
Instagram followers only
Guest Marketing
Posts and stories
Birthdays
Easy to miss

After Dinesurf

Website
tkolagos.com
Guest List
2,200+ guests in the Guestbook
Guest Marketing
Newsletters, 1 in 3 opened
Birthdays
A birthday email with a treat

Key Takeaways

  • 2,200+ Guests in One Guestbook

    Every guest TKO knows, in one place, and every one of them reachable.

  • 1 in 3 Newsletters Opened

    More than a third of TKO’s newsletters are opened, and the owners share them on Instagram.

  • On Dinesurf Since 2023

    From Eats by TKO to TKO Lagos, with a new website on its own domain.

TKO Lagos’s Instagram story: the “TKO IPO: Initial Plate Offering” newsletter, captioned “My marketing team is working!”
“My marketing team is working!”
TKO Lagos, on Instagram, when its newsletter went out

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