Inbound and Outbound Marketing First, you’ll need to understand the difference between inbound and outbound marketing. In a nutshell, outbound marketing is when you advertise to consumers without knowing if they are a qualified lead, or if they are interested in your product or service. Inbound marketing is a strategy that focuses on creating content…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
When the pandemic hit the United States back in March, consumers immediately shifted how they regularly shopped for food and beverage items. With such a dramatic shift in behaviors, food brands should pay particularly close attention to these actions and act accordingly. Check out 4 ways COVID-19 has impacted the food industry. 1. Consumers are…
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…
To survive in today’s society, a food marketing business needs to have a presence on social media platforms. In today’s society, almost every food marketing business is present on social media platforms. If a food marketing business wants to be seen, they need to stay relevant and visible. There is so much happening in the…
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…
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.