by Jeff Slater | Jul 16, 2020 | Foodpreneurs, Marketing Advice
One of my new food clients was struggling. He had made it through the first three years with his business but was still unprofitable. “If I could sell more, I’d be profitable.” Nope. He needed to take off the blindfold. Financial Makeover As we reviewed his financial...
by Jeff Slater | Jul 9, 2020 | Foodpreneurs, Marketing Advice, Marketing Start Ups
How do you over-deliver value? If you are doing what you promised, you are average—meeting expectations. Doing what you said you would do isn’t enough – it is getting by. Gliding. You are taking the easy path. Moreover, when you do more than you promised, you get...
by Jeff Slater | Jul 2, 2020 | Foodpreneurs, Marketing Advice, Marketing People
How would someone outside of your industry market their products? How might Disney, Starbucks, or Mcdonalds enter your category with their type of unique approach to marketing? What does it mean to think like a disruptive marketing professional? For example, how would...
by Jeff Slater | Jun 28, 2020 | Foodpreneurs, Marketing Advice, Marketing Books, Marketing Start Ups
I’m strange. I like to study business that brings value to customers through unique marketing approaches. What I’m particularly curious about is their business model. Thrive Market is an online retailer whose mission is to make healthy living easy for everybody....
by Jeff Slater | Jun 16, 2020 | Foodpreneurs, Marketing Advice
When I was a young boy, I remember going to a little Alderney Dairy silver box on our backstep where quarts of milk would get delivered every few days by our milkman. My mom would ask me to bring it inside the house so she could put it in the refrigerator. The milkman...
by Jeff Slater | Jun 14, 2020 | Foodpreneurs, Marketing Advice, Marketing People
The 6000 Project – A Sparkling Marketing Idea My friend Reka, who lives north of Venice, Italy, had a Prosecco problem. 6000 bottles without a home. She and her husband Pier, who own Sfriso Winery, had a 6,000 bottle order of Prosecco canceled just as Italy started to...
