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How Free Content Cultivates Sales
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Brand-generated content that educates, entertains, inspires or otherwise engages consumers—and that they don’t have to pay for—can pay off in dividends for a food business long-term.
6 Reasons Why Foodservice and Farms Should Launch Food Brands
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Entrepreneurs who run foodservice businesses and even farms have many built-in advantages when launching food (CPG) brands. Here's why restauranteurs, proprietors and producers should seriously consider it.
How to Make More Money Farming
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Raising livestock or poultry is hard work. Making money at it might be even harder. Along with spending long, grueling hours planting pastures, fixing...
Transform Your Farm Products and Boost Revenue with a VAPG
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All USDA Local Agricultural Marketing Program (LAMP) grants application periods are now open! For those helping to boost sales of local food the FM/LFPP grant is for you and for farmers looking to grow their value-added income stream the VAPG.
Article about Raising Capital for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Is Renting Farmland Smarter Than Buying?
10 minute Free article by Edible-Alpha®
Plenty of people would love to break into farming, but beginners’ number-one barrier is access to land. With so much farmland already claimed—by older farmers but also increasingly by investors, corporations, and developers—desirable acreage is hard to come by. Plus, the price of farmland in the U.S. is sky-high.
Article about Business Models for businesses that are Startups | Pre-Venture | Growing and Scaling
Want to Grow, Scale, Make More Money?
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The FFI Fellows Program is back in 2023! Learn how this impactful, expert-led, FREE program helps food-focused businesses build financial resiliency and maximize profitability. Call for applications coming soon, so get the full scoop now.
Article about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling | Pre-Venture | Startups
New National Brands Drive CPG Innovation, Inspire M&A
5 minute Free read by Edible-Alpha®
Financing food businesses is getting more complicated, with national brands/CPG producers having to raise millions to support their growth. However, large, established food companies are often slow to innovate and this provides an opportunity for those companies to make a strategic investment in up-and coming brands.
Article about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Focused Prioritization Helps Good Food And Farm Businesses Reach Break-Even
10 minute Free read by Edible-Alpha®
Food entrepreneurs will always have lots of goals competing for their attention. Good entrepreneurs know how to prioritize goals and optimize their efforts for the goals they are pursuing as priorities. This allows them to build financially successful companies and, over time, pursue many more big, hairy, audacious goals than they would have otherwise.
Article about Operations for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Execution Matters More Than Your Big, Brilliant Idea
10 minute Free read by Edible-Alpha®
Entrepreneurship and the "Eureka" moment where the entrepreneur has their big, brilliant idea is often glorified in the media and American mythology. What is more difficult is figuring out how to execute on that idea by building the right team/processes and optimizing every aspect of the business for long-term financial success.
Article about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Creativity Is Essential To Food Entrepreneurship
10 minute Free read by Edible-Alpha®
Figuring out the best way to finance food businesses by optimizing their capital structure to reach minimum efficient scale is an undervalued creative exercise. But the myriad of challenges that confront entrepreneurs, from finding the right suppliers, co-packers, distributors, brokers or even the right target customer also demand creativity.
Article about Business Models for businesses that are Pre-Venture | Startups