Giving the Industry Guidance.

Blogger’s note: While I love to eat all the time, I only like to shop when I have time. Since the pandemic, my loyalty has become more and more aligned with retailers that make shopping easy and convenient for me.  A recent trip inside the actual store I am most often...

A common conversation I find myself engaged in lately revolves around where a brand’s marketing strategy should focus: awareness or conversion. Understanding the balance between them and when to focus on which one can have a significant impact on your bottom line. ...

With age comes wisdom. That is the proverbial saying, right? I'd like to believe it now that I am um... well, now that I have more experience! Perhaps the saying should be With experience, comes wisdom. This month Midan Marketing turns 20! Since we consider ourselves...

I love the Summer Olympics. I love hearing the background stories about the athletes, learning of the sacrifice their families make for them to become the best at their sport. I love the suspense of the medal battle that happens when the world’s best congregate in one...

Beef by the numbers, and good beef sustainability – my top takeaways from CattleCon 2024 Given my background, my passion and my personal “why,” few things make me happier than arriving at a conference filled with cowboy hats, jeans and boots – worn by the “real...

Lessons from our family’s farm playbook — passed down by the generations before me Every summer, I leave my day job as managing principal of a full-service marketing agency to help with wheat harvest on my family’s farm in Kansas. As the sixth-generation farmer to be...

Omnichannel marketing: There’s a reason why you’re hearing more and more about it – it’s a smart strategy that can lead to big payoffs. The goal of omnichannel marketing is to provide customers with a consistent and seamless experience with your brand, no matter where...

Over the last decade we’ve all had a front row seat to the evolution of social media from essentially a digital toy for teenagers into a tool that is integral for business success. It has been interesting to watch how much more open the meat industry, particularly...

Have you ever watched an ad or a short video and been perplexed, or even said out loud, “I don’t get it.” Happens to me a lot, especially during live sporting events. The reason I don’t get it is that I am not the target for what is being advertised. Frequent readers...

In March, I had the honor of hosting a panel at the Annual Meat Conference highlighting how brands and retailers can use influencer marketing to create loyalty and drive sales. The panel included Jess Pryles, meat influencer and owner of Hardcore Carnivore; Melissa...

Influencer marketing. If you hang out at all on social media you have swiped through posts where someone is confidently sharing a product or service they believe in. Some of you are utilizing this marketing tactic in your marketing plans. Influencer marketing is...

In late August I had the privilege of tagging along with my daughter and her roommate as they went grocery shopping, preparing to start another semester at NYU. I was happy to come along as mom, but also excited to watch the process unfold as a marketer eager to see...

Most of us have heard the adage that you have to repeat something seven times before it really sticks. From a marketing lens, that’s old news. In today’s landscape where ads, emails and content, content, content seep into every part of our lives, researchers say that...

Inflation. Supply chain issues. Labor shortages. Drought. War. Soaring fuel and food prices. Interest rate hikes.  And now worries about a recession on the horizon. Unfortunately, we have been here before. But many of us were too young to understand previous economic...

These days you can’t talk about meat without mentioning inflation — and many of those conversations center around consumers cutting back on meat. So, what’s the cost to packer/processors who don’t maintain their share of consumers’ stomachs, hearts and wallets? The...

Stop me if you’ve heard this — and I know you have, because I say it all the time to anyone listening: As a meat processor, your biggest concern is NOT other meat producers. In fact, they could be your best allies in a shared struggle to combat the biggest threats...

Our brains are wired to create real connections with the help of storytelling. And telling your brand’s story is critical to future success. It is that big of a deal. (I’m so passionate about this topic that I find myself blogging about it often here on Meatingplace.)...

College recruiting is an interesting genre of marketing. I am not talking about the recruitment of athletes but of scholars. For the past year I have been on the parent side of this, fascinated by the marketing efforts that went into capturing my daughter’s attention....

Sustainability. Ask 10 consumers to define sustainability for the meat they buy and you will get 10 different answers. Yet, all major processors and most retailers and foodservice operators have set goals for it, establishing future finish lines where they can proudly...

For most of the country an in-person sales call is a faint memory. We all went into lockdown in March assuming it was going to last only a few weeks. Now, here we are getting ready to flip the calendar to a new year and we’re still waiting to resume in-person...

“So, how did that work out?” This is a question my grandmother used to ask me with her hands on her hips and one eyebrow raised. You can guess the “I-told-you-so” tone. It was always after I had failed miserably at something I claimed I knew how to do. Nanny — as all...