Top 3 Clues to Help Hire the Right Food Marketing Firm When you make the decision to hire a food marketing firm, you are on the path to growing your business. Marketing plays a crucial role in your business and can do wonders for your business’ success. A good food marketing agency will inquire about…
Food Marketers’ Favorite CPG Brands on Instagram Here part of the NewPoint team shares which CPG brands on Instagram they follow and why as food marketers, they resonate with each brand’s social media content. Ryan, Lead Web Developer Redbull I follow Redbull mainly because I like their product, but I keep following them for how…
6 Principles to Enhance Your Food Brand’s Website We all know that social media is the gateway to the consumer, but it’s very time consuming and can be very expensive. As an emerging food brand, you need to get in front of the consumer, (check out our blog for more information on social media marketing)…
Marketing Pros Offer 13 Effective Ways Companies Can Cultivate A Strong Brand Voice I have the honor of participating in an expert marketing panel as a member of the Forbes Agency Council. The panels offer a platform for experts to voice varying viewpoints and opinions on the same topic. On this panel, we discuss effective…
Grow your audience and scale your revenue by creating content-rich food videos that captivate your audience. First things first: More time creating does not = better quality video. Period. You can put all the time in the world into creating your 2-minute food videos and making them shine like you’re trying to win the Grammy…
Retail Food Brand Story: The Ups and Downs of Kathleen King’s Baking Brand(s) For an entrepreneur like me, How I Built is one engaging podcast. I look forward to hearing the backstories of famous brands from the perspective of the founder. Kathleen King’s story of how she built not one but two cookie brands in…
The Retail Perspective: The Retail Food Buyer Pitch Meeting Recap: The more we know about what food buyers are looking for in a vendor partner, the better we are at helping our clients. We conducted over 25 in-depth retail food buyer interviews and surveyed several thousand more for my book: Moving Your Brand Up the…
Yes, Stonyfield Yogurt is an Epic Retail Food Brand Growth Story Guy Raz is a podcast king equivalent of Babe Ruth. Guy produces two hit podcasts that consistently deliver new ideas, new perspectives on old ideas and stories that are every bit as gripping as a good novel. In the podcast TED Radio Hour, Guy…
I recently sat in on a presentation by Jay Baer, who gave some really great insight on how to get your customers to willingly tell your story. Organic social content from brands often fails. Facebook is moving away from “broadcasting” and towards social connecting/networking. If your customers aren’t telling it, your story won’t be heard….
Let’s get tactical about connecting with your Instagram audience. In Food Brand Instagram Followers: Quantity, Quality or Both?—Part 1, The topic of conversation was the importance of going deep with your current audience vs. growing wide. In part two, we will continue with some tactical ways to do both. Have you ever felt annoyed with…
To identify and isolate areas for improvement in shopper marketing program strategies and tactics to further your CPG brand growth against set KPIs:
This shopper marketing audit will detail and contrast your CPG brand shopper marketing and messaging versus that of industry standard competitive practices and will include, but not limited to:
Marketing Communication Audit Report
The deliverable will be a white paper with NewPoint Marketing findings and recommendations related to marketing activities in one retail partnership or DMA/market as defined by the client.
Brant brings 20+ years of experience to NewPoint as chief brand communicator and marketing-plan contributor.
Brant’s specialty is bringing an outside, investigative perspective that can feel alternately “rigorous” or “exasperating” depending on your point of view. Yet, he never fails to uncover a business’s unique selling proposition—one which can serve as a brand foundation for marketing that is compelling, creative and “sticky.”
Throughout his career, Brant’s applied his skill set to a broad range of business applications along the food supply-and-service chain. His services have provided vital clarity for all types of operations, from the more conventional food and food equipment manufacturers to the adjacent enterprises that partner with them, such as the Purdue University College of Agriculture.
Food industry marketing expertise—from retail to food-service and food-service equipment— is a natural outcome of having deep knowledge in every facet of a business’ operation. With 10 years in branding and business development, preceded by 15 years in mass media and promotions, Stephanie is an FMI Emerge mentor, holds an executive-level expertise in sales, marketing, media, and production management.
This exceptionally diverse skill set adds value for NewPoint clients by providing a full complement of perspectives on food-industry brand management endeavors.
Wired for a hawkish attention to detail while also maintaining a high-resolution view of the big picture, Stephanie is uniquely able to provide astute branding direction and simultaneously apply the business principles necessary to squeeze more bang out of every marketing buck.
A member of the Forbes Agency Council and quoted in the New York Times, USA Today and Adweek, Patrick Nycz is the author of Moving Your Brand Up the Food Chain: Marketing Strategies to Grow Local and Regional Food Brands. He is an FMI Emerge mentor, an American Advertising Federation’s Silver Medal Award winner, and the Founding President of NewPoint Marketing, a full-service food industry marketing firm focused on food industry brands On a mission to grow.
Patrick’s vision for NewPoint emerged from his team’s success using this proven model for food industry clients and is fueled by NewPoint-funded food buyers and food manufacturers research around tracking consumer, industry, and ongoing food trends.
Since starting her 20-year career in commercial graphic design at one of the foremost catalog retailers in the world, Kristy’s visual branding skills have organically narrowed into the food-industry niche.
In that time, she’s directed graphic identities for snack food and restaurant startups, print materials for multiple agricultural seed companies, display graphics and merchandiser signage for major food-equipment manufacturers and everything in between.
Today, as one of the key brand architects for NewPoint clients, she continues to lead our visual research & development team, always working to find the innovative median between the best practices worth honoring and the accepted rules worth breaking.