CPG Marketing is Promoting the Sale of Real Consumable Products
YOU CAN HOLD IT IN YOUR HAND!
What is a CPG? It’s a consumer packaged goods product. They are usually branded. Also known as fast moving consumer goods or FMCG, they are distinguished from the less often purchased, slower moving, and higher priced items (like houses, refrigerators, cars, or even...
The CPG Space is the Best Place to be Entrepreneurial
SOLVE THE PROBLEM!
Got an idea for a consumer product? Want to see it at your local store? You’ve got challenges, serious challenges! Challenges that will require all the attributes of entrepreneurship. In fact, you will be problem-solving from the moment you get started. The first...
CPG Packaging is Poised for a Sea-Change!
HERE WE GO LOOP DE LOO!
There’s a lot of talk these days about high tech. We all spent much of our time each day engaging with high-tech devices. These have their own health challenges like “tech neck,” impaired vision, and the loss of social skills. But some of the biggest challenges to our...
The Business Name Change Checklist Gets Longer When Your Products are Involved
ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO CHANGE YOUR NAME?
How to change your business name is relatively simple compared to how to change your product name. Some companies produce products under their business name so when they change their business name they may be changing their product name as well. So, let’s start with...
Be Careful What You Ask For with Performance Marketing
YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR
Try paying your salaries, your vendors, or your overhead with clicks, shares, or time on page. It’s funny how these terms have become measures of performance that brand builders pay for, but none of them will really pay your bills. Bills are hungry for bucks,...
Mass Marketing Tries to Target Anyone and Everyone
THROW A LARGE NET, OR USE THE RIGHT BAIT?
When we built the Barefoot Wine brand, people used to ask us why we didn’t use television commercials and radio ads to get the word out. Aside from the fact that we couldn’t afford that kind of advertising, it really wouldn’t work for a startup CPG in the retail...
5 Tips to Get Your Product on the Retail Shelf …And keep it There!
SUCCESS OR CHALLENGE?
Having actually built a national bestselling brand, we know from painful personal experience what it really takes to get your product on the shelf and, more importantly, keep it there. We didn’t just study the subject, come up with a new word, or debate what works in...
Seasonally Themed Selling Make Your Products More Attractive
IS IT THEN ALREADY?
As retail store customers, we are all used to seeing the decorations and advertising materials in the retail stores changing with the holidays and the seasons. But as CPG branded product producers ourselves, we were surprised at how much effort and forethought...
4 Pillars of Organic Growth
IT TAKES PULL!
Organic growth requires a demand for your products that pulls them through the distribution system. Inorganic growth is fundamentally trying to push your products through the system. Organic growth takes place primarily as a result of word-of-mouth, quality, value,...
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