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Tips to improve online sales of your food or drink products
Whether you are selling purely online or whether that is just one of your sales routes, we are sure you will find the tips below helpful in increasing the sales you make online. Facebook and Twitter are great tools in increase your online sales. Build the following first and engage with them on these platforms…
The A-Z of Marketing and Retail Lingo
One of the first things we said when we were getting Relish off the ground was that we would make sure we don’t get caught in the trap of using too much jargon! Starting and running a food business is hard enough without having to spend ages deciphering jargon! However, we do recognise that there…
Meet the Selfridges Buyers
Selfridges Foodhalls are giving local producers the opportunity to stock and showcase the very best of their food and drink products in Birmingham, Trafford and London. Successful applicants will launch their products in store in July during the summer food celebration, when Selfridges Foodhalls and Wineshops will take centre stage. To apply for a place…
Starting a Food Business – our Top Ten Tips to Success
In the last couple of months we have been inundated with people looking for advice about starting up their food businesses; so we thought it would be a great idea to share our top tips on how to have a successful first year in your food business . For all of you out there who…
What makes a “winning” product?
With the exciting news this week that Relish member, Mos Cookie Dough has reached the final 5 of the Ocado Top Supplier 2014 competition, we thought we’d take a look at what is it that makes a winning product and makes buyer’s want to stock it in their stores? Clearly there are many components that make…
Open for Entry – Food Awards
There’s seems to be a mass of food industry awards open for entry at the moment. Ocado are looking for ‘Britain’s Next Top Supplier’ and they are searching the nation for the next big thing in food and drink. The award is being backed by retail legend Sir Stuart Rose and chef Tom Kerridge…
School of Artisan Food Courses
The School of Artisan Food is a world-class, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to teaching skills in artisan food production. Located on the beautiful Welbeck Estate in North Nottinghamshire in the heart of Sherwood Forest, the School offers fully equipped, spacious training facilities, providing the ideal environment to learn, develop and master artisan skills. A wide range…
The Joys of being a Food Producer
In our recent competition to win a day’s course at the School of Artisan Food we asked you to let us know what you enjoyed most about being a food producer. We were inundated with entries and it was heart-warming to read them all, so we thought we’d share the 5 most popular ones with…
How to engage with customers to achieve online success
More and more people are turning to social networks to discover and learn more about the brands they are buying or are potentially interested in buying. Having a presence on line is crucial if you want to attract customer’s attention and sell more. It’s not just about having lots of different content online, the ultimate…
Keep Things Simple…..
This Month I thought it would be good to keep things simple and look at some ingredients shots. I regularly photograph ingredients for the ‘In season’ feature for Asda Magazine. It is also become a more common feature for a few of my other clients, as they want to show their consumers exactly what goes…
Win a One-Day Course at the School of Artisan Food
We are delighted to be teaming up with The School of Artisan Food this month and offering you the chance to win: A ONE-DAY COURSE at their beautiful school in the East Midlands. You can choose from a number of courses including: – Ice-cream making– Introduction to Artisan Baking– French Baking– Introduction to Cheese Making–…
FREE e-Book on “Getting into Supermarkets”
To celebrate Relish Marketing’s 2nd Birthday, we are giving away 50 FREE copies of our new e-book: ‘Getting into Supermarkets’ Packed full of useful information to help you gain your first supermarket listing including: packaging legality checklists which supermarkets to target promotions costings preparing your pitch how to support your brands Plus, useful advice and…
Festival of female entrepreneurship
With only a few weeks to go until Women Outside the Box host their annual festival of female entrepreneurship, here at Relish we are putting the finishing touches to our workshop: “How to get your food product into the supermarket”. We are excited to be presenting this workshop at the festival on Monday October 7th…
Barenaked Backed By the Dragons
It was great to see another budding entrepreneur get his lucky break last week on Dragons Den. The founder, Ross Mendham, gave a very emotional pitch which secured him £60k in funding from Dragon, Peter Jones. The low-carb brand is set to take the diet food market by storm as there continues to be…