Crowdfunding for Food Businesses and the Club Sandwich Index!

Why Crowdfunding for entrepreneurial food businesses? Starting a food business has it's ups and downs and the most challenging is raising capital to establish the business or growing it to the next level. Crowdfunding from Circleup is a way for many foodpreneurs to raise capital to grow their business. If you have not heard of crowdfunding, this is a web enabled way for smaller companies to get funding vs. traditional angel or venture funding. Read more

Foodservice Brands Implementing Migration Marketing - Launching products at the supermarket Olive Garden launched a line of salad dressings at SAM's club, IHOP launched a new line of syrup in supermarkets. I remembered a conversation with Julie Hall our new product... Read more See More About:  new product launch

Pinterest - A Better Social Platform to drive revenue Boticca, an online jeweler found that Pinterest users spend 2x as much as Facebook users on their site. Food and jewelry are similar... both are visual. so should food brands move over to Pinterest? Read more

Club Sandwich Trends Worldwide? The CSU is the universal measure of affordability in the Hotel Industry. The Hotels.com® Club Sandwich Index (CSI) Examines the Cost of a Club Sandwich in the 10 Most Popular U.S. Cities. Paris, often thought of as the world's most romantic city, has... Read more See More About:  food & beverage news  food trends  digital marketing

Peapod Transforms Chicago's State And Lake Tunnel Into Virtual Grocery Store While many a grocery list has been scribbled during a train commute, now, for Chicago's more than one million weekly train passengers, groceries can be scanned, ordered and scheduled for... Read more See More About:  food & beverage news  food trends  digital marketing

 

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Pinterest Drives More Revenue in Study by Boticca

Pinterest Drives More Revenue in Study by Boticca

Pinterest Drives More Revenue For Boticca

In an article from PRNewsOnline Pinterest vs. Facebook, Boticca Jewelers found that Pinterest users drove more revenue for the company vs. Facebook... approximately 50% more!

So why do you care about what the jewelry industry says about Pinterest? Because food is visual, exactly like jewelry. So if you don't have a Pinterest page for you food brand, consider implimenting one. Just remember that great pictures should be coupled with great content marketing?

Don't know what contenting marketing is. Read about Contenting Marketing on Food & Beverage. It is an article written by the Connection Maven, who gives great examples of 2 small food brands successfully driving sales with great content.

 

The FoodPreneur Food Entrepreneurship Tips

Tips for helping the entrepreneur with new product launch and ideas in how to start a food business.

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The FoodPreneur Food Entrepreneurship Tips

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Retail Food Trends - Grocery Stores Go Virtual with Shopping Walls from Peapod

Peapod is First in the U.S. to Pilot Virtual Rail Program; Commuters Shop, Scan and Schedule Grocery Deliveries From Their Smartphones

Peapod, the nation's leading Internet grocer, has placed a virtual grocery store in Chicago's highly traveled State and Lake Station Tunnel. Not only is Peapod the first in the nation to pilot this on-the-go, virtual store concept, but it's also the first company to mount a "tunnel takeover" ad campaign of this magnitude in Chicago. 

More on Shopping Walls and Virtual Stores...

 

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Food & Beverage News Plus Our First Webinar

From Domenick Celentano, your Guide to Food & Beverage Attend this Webinar Friday May 11 at 9AM EDT Are you wondering how to get your products on the retail shelf and get your products in distribution? Would you like to learn some key "MUST KNOWS', what motivates the retail buyer, prior to pitching to a retailer, distributor, broker or foodservice operator to improve your chance of success? Of course you would. I invite you to this first in a series of webinars Read more

Virtual Stores Continue to Pop Up in Korea, Australia and the USA Tesco HomePlus Virtual Store in Seoul Korea A while back I posted about the Tesco HomePlus Subway Virtual Store in Seoul Korea, which was really a small shopping wall in a South Korean subway station.  Tesco must have liked the... Read more See More About:  food & beverage news

Crowdfunding for Consumer Products Entrepreneurs? I teach at several universities and enjoy performing university service mentoring business students. Recently I received an email from a student doing a project about venture capital involvement in the... Read more See More About:  food 101

Dollar Stores to be new Small Format Grocery Would you buy frozen pizza at a dollar store? Well, Family Dollar wants you to think of them as your convenient grocery store. They say that their new stores "will enable us to offer customers more options for breakfast, lunch and dinner." That statement indicates a move beyond snacks and beverages and Read more See More About:  food & beverage news  consumer trends

Food Trends - Umami and Sour for the Brave Foodies Adventurous eaters move beyond sweet and salty While sweet and salty flavors ranked highest in a survey by Culinary Visions Panel, people who say they are adventurous eaters prefer... Read more   See More About:  food trends

The FoodPreneur Food Entrepreneurship Tips

Tips for helping the entrepreneur with new product launch and ideas in how to start a food business.