by Jeff Slater | Jun 3, 2021 | Foodpreneurs, Marketing Advice
This is a guest post by Robert Joseph, the noted wine writer, speaker, producer and provacateur. He has been thinking wholistically about wine for decades. Just imagine for a moment that you and your family have just settled down to something you want to see on...
by Jeff Slater | May 18, 2021 | Branding Issues, Foodpreneurs
This is a guest post by Pat Merrill who has more than 30 years of experience doing wine package evaluation and market research in the wine industry. He and I worked together on both domestic and international wine packaging projects when I worked at Nomacorc. What...
by Jeff Slater | Apr 13, 2021 | Foodpreneurs, Interesting Brands
I never heard of MrBeast. How about you? I learned about him listening to one of my favorite podcasts – After Hours with Youngme Moon and her colleagues who teach at Harvard. Youngme wrote one of my favorite marketing books, Different. MrBeast has created a...
by Jeff Slater | Jan 26, 2021 | Branding Issues, Foodpreneurs
One of my favorite marketing books is by Mark Barden, and Adam Morgan is called Beautiful Constraints. Mark is a partner at a marketing agency called Eat Big Fish, and they focus on challenger brands. This year, they have published a list of brands to watch in 2021....
by Jeff Slater | Jan 10, 2021 | Foodpreneurs
Now is time to seed the tahini moment. Amy Zitelman and her two sisters, Shelby, and Jackie are co-owners of Philadelphia-based Soom Foods, AKA the “Soom Sisters.” They all knew what tahini was growing up eating hummus in Philadelphia. But who would have...
by Jeff Slater | Jan 3, 2021 | Foodpreneurs, Interesting Brands
Warm maple syrup on pancakes is like a bear hug from your kind and loving grandma. It fills you with the sweetness of life and the happiness and possibilities of a new morning. The scent and sight of maple syrup oozing onto a homemade pancake remind me of a cold, New...
