Food and Beverage Content Marketing Case Studies

Food and Beverage Content Marketing Case Studies explained by professional Forex trading experts the “ForexSQ” FX trading team.

Food and Beverage Content Marketing Case Studies

When creating a marketing plan for a new product launch, you have the following tools at your disposal:

Blog posts
Guest blog posts on other’s blogs where your potential customers are reading/visiting and searching for information.
Reviews of your products on blogs that appeal to your customer persona
E-Newsletters
Social media content such as posts to your business’s Facebook page, Pinterest boards, Twitter or Google+ accounts

Recipes and how-tos posted on your (DC – Kraft Foods created their iPhone Assistantthat delivers recipes and how to videos to time starved consumers)
Videos. Demonstrating the appeal of your company’s food products during tasting events like Slatherin’ Sauce can help your prospective customers understand all the uses for your sauce.
Presentations. Post on Slide Share or in a virtual media room such as the ones at the Fancy Food Show.
Photographs of your products. Distribute photos of your products across the web with enticing descriptions and links back to your website.

Let’s take a look two case studies of food entrepreneurs launching and growing their brands in the food and beverage market. These case studies illustrate that new product launches for local and small food brands can be successful through great content marketing programs.

Case Study: Three Tarts Increased Facebook Followers Using Visual Content

What: Three Tarts digital marketing campaign in 2011

Goal: to augment awareness of Three Tarts’s marshmallows by increasing interaction and activity across all the brand’s social media platforms.

How: Simple conversations, deals, offers, and new products

Activity: offered, shared and talked about with the brand’s core customers.

Tools and Tactics:

QR codes in-store and at outside events to drive new customers to our website

Facebook in conjunction with sneakpeeq used for getting conversations started for Three Tarts using visual posts. Posts sharing dazzling images of the confectioner’s luscious, colorful food got immediate attention.
Twitter to talk to the individual customer. Highly effective when used for chatting back and forth in a very easy-going tone with a happy customer or sharing content to increase someone’s interest so that they go from curious to customer.
FourSquare for event location information
Yelp for getting customers to post reviews

Results: Three Tarts gained hundreds of new fans/followers/customers in less than 36 hours of being live on sneakpeeq.

Case Study: Good Greens Bars Local Blogger Relationship Development

What: Good Greens Bars hyper-local (Cleveland, OH) guest blogging campaign to increase impressions, traffic and Google rankings.

How: Approached bloggers in the Cleveland area and asked them to consider writing about Good Greens protein bars.

Tactics: Developing relationships with local bloggers to increase the number of mentions, reviews, and search engine results pages for Good Greens.

Results: Good Greens Bars said “We’ve had over 30 local bloggers “plug” us, covering just about every relevant blog in the Cleveland area.

This has increased our traffic coming from these blog and simultaneously helped us with our Google optimization.

“We went from a PR0 (Google Page Rank) to a PR3. Our Alexa ranking is about 1.7 million and we are driving 2000+ visitors per month. A large chunk of our traffic is actually local and probably driven by many of these local blogs. This is really good considering we are available to them in stores and online.

“We watched our sales average jump over 50% over the last 4 months from the previous 4-month period! We are now doing consistently over $50,000.00 in sales per month compared to $30,000/month just a few months ago.”

The 9 Step Content Marketing Plan

Know your customer.
Understand what needs your product fulfills for your buyer.
Know where and how your customer seeks information on the web about these issues.

Develop a plan to author/distribute or share content across the social Web that fits your buyer.
Calendar your monthly focus and weekly content distribution.
Create content to address each buyer issue/need that is related to your product in a way that helps them, without blasting them.
Share the content.
Monitor and respond to customers.
Tweak tactics and continue.