Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Food start-up? Ideas to market your business & How to make your press release stand out..


Food start-up?  Ideas to market your business
Some innovative marketing here from two food start-ups – “Hello Fresh” and “Capsicana” in the UK - both typical start-ups i.e. with little or no money!  “Hello Fresh” delivers ingredients and recipes to 60,000 homes monthly while “Capsicana” is a chilli business. One of the initiatives from the “Hello Fresh” team saw them dressed up as carrots, handing out root vegetables at tube stations - the veg had a tag with a URL which was a video of their chef making carrot soup!  “Capsicana” reach out to food bloggers and look for meaningful followers rather than just numbers.  They host Twitter cook-offs and developed a Chilli sausage for national sausage week!  Oh, and they also came upon a PR guy who’s advising them free of charge!  http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2013/nov/05/winning-new-business-small-business-how-to-market-a-food-business

How to make your press release stand out
5x questions to ask yourself before you start writing, the importance of knowing your audience and remember – we live in a visual age…

What I wish I knew b4 I started
Dylan Collins of SuperAwesome is a guy who sits on both sides of the fence i.e. runs his own business and is also a venture capitalist – gives advice on hiring, being scalable and solving tomorrow or next year’s problems – not today’s. http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/what-i-wish-id-known-before-i-started-30200711.html

The Lego Movie – content marketing at its finest?
Having not seen the movie, I can’t comment on this – but those of you who have may agree or disagree with the headline proposition?



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