Eco D2C

Episode Description

Nampi Foods is a Peru based vertically integrated agricultural company that produces and markets healthy specialty products and organic superfoods. Join us for a conversation with Patrick Vasquez de Velasco, the CEO at Nampi Foods and COO of parent company Shared-X Farms. We touch on the importance of connecting the farmer with the customer, the unique challenges Nampi has navigated as a vertically integrated company, how Nampi broke into the US market from Latin America, and much more.

More about Honey Stinger: http://https://nampifoods.com/

More about us: https://www.ecod2c.com/

Bob Burke is the principal of Natural Products Consulting and is one of the leading experts in the natural products market. Named one of the "Top 25 Business Builders of the Natural Products Industry for the last 25 years” by Natural Foods Merchandiser Magazine, Bob has been leading strategy for brands in your kitchen for three decades and counting.

In this episode, Bob gives us valuable insight on positioning, expansion, and how the paths to market have flipped in recent years. We touch one leveraging online success to get into into top retailers, what investors look for, and other opportunities as the natural product market grows.

More about Bob: https://www.naturalconsulting.com/

More about us: https://www.ecod2c.com/

Fast business growth can cause a lot of hurdles, especially when transitioning from being a small company to a multi-million dollar enterprise. In this episode, we'll learn first-hand from Denise Woodard, Partake Foods' Founder and CEO, on how she and her team was able to successfully transition, what lessons can start-up companies learn from their story, and how Denise went from demos outside local specialty shops in her neighborhood to investment from big names like Rihanna and Jay-Z.

To browse and shop Partake Foods' products, you can visit their website here: https://partakefoods.com/

To learn more about what we do in Eco D2C, you can visit our website: https://www.ecod2c.com/

In this episode, we will take a deep dive with Melina Fleming on SunShare's pioneer beginnings as the first community solar garden in the nation, as well as the strategies behind their growth, and staying power in quickly growing industry. Also, learn how SunShare inadvertently kept our host Luke from accidentally burning his house down. 

Melina Fleming is SunShare’s Executive Vice President of Strategy & Customer Experience and she has been in the company since its conception. And in this interview, she has provided a lot of insights into all the marketing strategies that they have tried and what proved to be the most successful approach.

To learn how to subscribe to Sunshare, visit their website: https://mysunshare.com/

To learn more about what we do in Eco D2C, visit our website here: https://www.ecod2c.com/

Betsy and I take a dive into what it takes to be successful on Amazon in 2021, including pricing strategy, how to position your brand, and how to navigate a marketplace that is growing in both opportunity and challenges. 

Betsy is the co-author of The Amazon Roadmap: How Innovative Brands are Reinventing the Path to Market, the quintessential start-to-finish guide for brands who want to launch, recalibrate, or optimize their Amazon business and ensure continued growth on this powerful platform.

As Seventh Generation’s first eCommerce channel director, Betsy pioneered the company’s innovative eComm strategy and created a thriving multimillion-dollar partnership with Amazon and other key online retailers.

Since founding McGinn eComm in 2014, Betsy has worked with hundreds of natural and specialty brands to establish and strengthen their strategic direction on Amazon and their own Direct-to-Consumer eCommerce. From product development and profitability analysis to guiding organizational change, McGinn eComm leads clients through every step of this complex channel, helping to ensure successful and profitable online businesses.

With more than a decade of eCommerce experience, Betsy is a thought-leader and regular speaker at workshops and conferences globally.

Bená is CEO and founder of Maggie's Organics, the oldest living organic apparel company in the United States. Listen to how a robust network, and no small amount of ingenuity, helped turn company rocking setbacks into their most innovative moments time after time. 

Robb takes a deep dive on the Walden Hyde Formula, researching which of your values resonates most with your customer base,  and how Walden Hyde helps purpose driven brands use their mission to drive business forward. 

We take a deep dive into the process of how TJ and the Bobo's team are smashing growth goals and assumed "rules" in retail, and how they are scaling Bobo's to compete with the largest brands in their category. 

We take a deep dive with one of the godfathers of organic on the early days and how Silk Soy Milk grew to hold 86% of its market, innovating to get to the top of a competitive categories small and large, and most of all maintaining a fanatical commitment to your core mission, and connecting it to decisions throughout your business.

Matt McLaughlin, CEO Elustra Consulting, goes deep on brand development, product validation, and using organic social and email to grow your brand.