Bakery Marketing · Metro Vancouver

Marketing built for the most shareable menu in food.

Bakeries win on visuals and word of mouth more than almost any other food category. We build the content, local SEO and custom-order promotion that turn scroll-stopping photos into daily traffic and special-order revenue, across Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby and beyond.

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Industry Overview

Two revenue lines, one storefront.

Bakeries and dessert shops typically run two businesses at once: daily walk-in traffic for coffee-and-pastry visits, and a separate, often more profitable custom order business for cakes, celebration desserts and catering trays. The daily side depends on consistent local visibility and irresistible visuals; the custom side depends on a clear, easy ordering process and content that shows off the full range of what's possible. Most shops market only the first and leave real revenue in the second untapped.

The Challenges

What's limiting most bakeries' growth.

Beautiful products photographed poorly, or not consistently, undermining an otherwise strong visual product.
No dedicated content or clear process for custom cake and celebration orders, the shop's highest-margin work.
Weak local SEO, losing "bakery near me" and dessert-specific searches to bigger competitors.
Seasonal opportunities (holidays, celebrations) approached reactively instead of with a planned campaign.
No loyalty system to turn occasional visitors into weekly regulars.

The Opportunity

Custom orders are the margin most shops leave behind.

A consistent stream of professional product photography drives both daily traffic and, more importantly, custom order enquiries — because a beautifully shot celebration cake is the best advertisement for the next one. Pairing that with a clear online ordering process and seasonal campaign planning turns an occasional custom order into a predictable, higher-margin revenue stream alongside the daily counter business.

Our Approach

Daily traffic and custom orders, both covered.

Food Photography

Professional, consistent product photography that showcases both everyday items and custom creations.

Local SEO & Google Business Profile

Own "bakery near me" and dessert-category searches with an actively managed listing.

Website Strategy

A clear online ordering path for custom cakes and celebration desserts, not a buried contact form.

Paid Advertising Strategy

Seasonal and holiday campaigns timed to your busiest custom-order windows.

Social Media Strategy

A steady content calendar built around new products, seasonal menus and custom order showcases.

AI Search Visibility

Structured content so AI assistants can recommend your shop for "best bakery" or "custom cakes near me" queries.

Example scenario

How we would approach it.

This is an example scenario that shows how we plan this kind of work. It is not a client result and it claims no outcome. For real, dated client work, see our Work page.

Example scenario · Bakery, Metro Vancouver

Turning Instagram followers into a real custom-order pipeline

The Challenge

A bakery with strong daily traffic and a loyal following but almost no structured custom order business.

Our Strategy

Build a dedicated custom order content series and a clear online enquiry-to-booking process.

What We Did

Weekly custom creation showcases, a streamlined online order form, and seasonal campaign promotion.

What we would measure

We set a baseline in week one, then track calls, direction requests, bookings, review count and map-pack position every month. No outcome is promised.

Questions

Bakery marketing questions.

Yes — custom orders are often a bakery's highest-margin revenue, and we build dedicated content and a clear online ordering path to grow that side of the business.

Yes — see our dedicated dessert shop marketing page for cake studios, ice cream parlors, donut shops and dessert bars, which have different marketing needs from a daily bakery counter.

Very — bakeries are one of the most visually shareable food categories, and consistent, well-shot content is often the single highest-leverage marketing investment.

Yes — seasonal menus and holiday pre-orders are core to bakery revenue, and we build campaign calendars around your key seasonal windows.

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Our content

Reels we made for restaurant clients.

Short-form video planned, shot and edited in-house, and posted on each client’s own account. Tap a reel to play it here.

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The whole ecosystem

This is one part of a connected system.

Third Eye builds the ecosystem that puts a business where customers already look: Google Search and Maps, AI answers, reviews, social, your website and ads, built together by one in-house team. Restaurants are our deepest specialty, and the same system works for any local business.

AI visibility (AEO and GEO)Be easy for ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI to find, understand and recommend.Websites that get foundFast, search- and AI-ready sites with tracking and a live control center.What a marketing ecosystem isThe map of places customers look, and how the pieces feed each other.Free visibility checkScan your website for the signals AI and Google use. Usually under a minute. It checks website readiness; it is not a live AI answer test.

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