Who wouldn’t love the New York Fancy Food Show? Walking around eating in the name of specialty food marketing is something I look forward to every year. The other treat? Trendwatching. There was the year of mustards, the year of salsas, the year of artisanal chocolates, the year of tea. This year? Quick high-impact bites. Brownie Brittle delivers just the
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Budgeting for Small Brand Marketers needs Marketing Effectiveness
2015 is coming. Time for ambitious brands with limited budgets to make really tough choices. We’ve just won our second award for Marketing Effectiveness, for a project that came in under $350,000. So we hope you’ll find this helpful: Two things to know about changes in Social Media Be aware that an algorithmic change will drastically reduce your Facebook exposure: Facebook
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Specialty Food Brands – David versus Goliath battles
We worked with Rena through the creative food company she founded in 2000 with Tom Eckerle, Soup to Nuts. Together they created and photographed over 200 recipes for our agency client, Arla Foods. Rena’s expertise in every aspect of food, from recipe creation for the home cook to food service design to the taste preferences of individual markets, was
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Pinterest Marketing Matures for CPGs
Boris is the keeper of the data around here and he called me over the other day all excited. I looked over his shoulder at the client’s website analytics and he pointed to where Pinterest had surpassed Google as the number one driver to their website. This is huge, people. With 70 million users – 80% of them female, Pinterest
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Food Marketers for CPGs Seeking the Secret Weapon – News from the Food Aisle
Part of our job (the fun part) as food marketers is to keep up with digital and mobile innovations. Some clever solutions are in beta with major brands, and if they can train consumers to use them, they’ll do magic: enhance the shopping experience and help brands make noise at point of purchase. Overcoming Point Of Purchase Block Point of
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When Shopper Marketing Backfires…Or Does it?
Brands spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on in-store promotions, often with results that are hard to measure. The provocative title of a new study out of Columbia University suggests that those efforts may not only be ineffective, but actually have a dampening effect on sales. In the study, titled When Shopper Marketing Backfires, the team coined their findings the
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