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Sports Sponsorships For Your Food Brand
The Benefits of a Sports Sponsorship for Your Food Brand Like any non-football fan, I tune into the Super Bowl for two things; ads and the halftime show. Instead of diving deep into who lip-syncs and who doesn’t, let’s explore the ad side of things; sports sponsorships. Obviously, the brands that advertise during the Super […]
Food Packaging: 6 Rules to Get Shelf-Ready
How do you make your food packaging great? The average supermarket in the U.S. holds roughly 40,000 different items (FMI Food Marketing Institute). That’s 40,000 different food packaging designs. This stands the reason that great design—among other key things—is a necessity when you want to ‘raise your hand’ in the crowd of 40K and say […]
Busch Light Sales: What is Their Brand Growth Secret?
Busch Light Sales: What can we learn about brand growth from Busch Light? Let’s take a deep dive into all their marketing secrets. I think we are all familiar with Bud Light at this point. As the leader in U.S. beer sales for the past several years, we are inundated with their advertising. If you […]
The Wright Way to Redesign Your Brand Packaging
We can all take some inspiration from the beautiful job the folks at Wright® did when redesigning the brand packaging for their 1.5lb bacon stack pack. This is brand packaging redesign done right. Subtle upgrades that elevate the brand into the modern era—but not too drastic of a change that they lose their audience. You […]
How to Conduct a Survey for Your Food Brand’s Loyalty Club
So, you’ve built a good base of loyalty club followers. Now what? Just by having a loyalty club, you’re increasing revenue by retaining current customers, but how can you take that a step further and make it work even harder for you? You can conduct a survey for your food brand’s loyalty club. Think of […]
Flying Bacon & CPG E-Commerce: Forbes Agency Council
Is A Cold-Chain CPG E-Commerce Breakthrough Coming For Food Brands? While CPG e-commerce continues to explode across many sectors, one category holds full-scale food delivery back: cold-chain delivery of consumer packaged goods food brands. What will it take to get this “off the ground?” Up until March, ordering groceries online was mainly a growth segment driven […]
How to build a loyalty club for your food brand
Let’s back up—WHY build a loyalty club for your food brand? Here are a few quick reasons: Loyalty clubs help to keep customers engaged with your brand, which in turn keeps your brand top-of-mind in that buying category. Customers who subscribe to your loyalty club may interact and/or share referrals on social media, or recommend […]
Shopper Journey – Consumer Advocacy Stage
Shopper Journey – Consumer Advocacy Stage If you succeeded at creating an exceptional experience that consumers love, the consumer advocacy stage will lead them to share about it. These consumers become brand advocates and brand loyalists. The Fifth Shopper Journey Stage Consumers loved your product and your customer service team! You’ve succeeded in going beyond […]
Shopper Journey – Consumer Experience Stage
Shopper Journey – Consumer Experience Stage So our shopper has decided to buy the product, but now they will actually use the product, hence the consumer experience stage in our shopper marketing journey. Food brands can help ensure a consumer has a positive experience with their products. Doing so means helping consumers have a positive experience […]
Shopper Journey- Consumer Purchase Stage
Shopper Journey – Consumer Purchase We have now followed our shopper on the shopper marketing journey through 2 phases thus far. We have reached a critical stage in the journey, the consumer purchase stage. As we mentioned in the introduction blog, there are two stages; Point of Purchase and Point of Sale. For marketers to […]