With social media becoming an essential part of any company’s marketing strategy, every social media content creator should have these best practices (see below) down pat. We’ll assume you’ve seen the numbers. Literally, half the world (~4.89 billion people) uses social media. Of course, that percentage is likely much higher where you’re doing your business….
People are going to talk. That’s why it is crucial to the success of your food brand to have a presence on social media and be responsive and listen to your customers. Good customer service on social media is crucial in growing your food brand into a credible and trusted brand. Whether it’s a crisis…
Your social media marketing strategy has the power to take your food brand far. Instagram is the 21st century key to food brand marketing success. Many respected food brands have taken to Instagram to build a stronger fan base and increase sales. Using Instagram for your business helps to seamlessly integrate your brand messaging into…
Food is one of the most popular subjects on social media. How many times have you been scrolling on Instagram and seen your favorite public figure showcasing a new snack, food brand, or home meal service? You think to yourself, well, it must be good if that is what they’re eating. The use of influencer marketing appears…
Invest in a CPG Creative Brief to Save Time, Money, and Heartburn. “You Only Get Out of the Agency as Good as You Put In.” This is a client quote. A client that champions our insistence on using a CPG creative brief for most projects. This comes from his experience working with a wide variety…
The 3rd step in planning an outline for your CPG brand’s social media calendar for the entire year focuses on promos, coupons and giveaways. Remember that the goal is to have everything already thought out so you’ll just need to create your content when you have more details. After you’ve outlined all relevant holidays and…
There is a perfect social media platform for every food brand marketing plan, but the hard part is finding that perfect match. There are many different social media platforms food brands could choose to use when marketing their business. Though if chosen poorly, your social media marketing plan could fail. For this reason, it is…
Marketing Pros Offer 15 Strategies To Effectively Combine SEO And Social Media Campaigns Once again, I have been invited to an expert marketing panel as a member of the Forbes Agency Council. These panels are a great platform to see different viewpoints and opinions on the same topic from a distinguished expert panel. On this…
How important is ROI for social media? Social media ROI. We’re all obsessed with it. We blog about it constantly. In our last post, we showed you how to calculate real using actual math. But maybe we should be a little less obsessed. Here’s why: First, if you’re treating ROI as a goal, stop it…
How Food Brands Get Found on Pinterest: Step-by-step instructions You’ve gotten this far, so you probably already know that Pinterest can be an important part of your marketing efforts, but just to let you know that you’re most certainly RIGHT, consider the shelf-life of Pinterest pins vs other social media channels. So let’s get started…
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.