Don’t Disappear Now: Why Meat Brands Must Keep Marketing Through the Chaos If you’re a CEO, CMO or VP of Marketing in the meat industry, you’re probably feeling the heat right now. Supply issues, market volatility, economic whispers of a slowdown, tariffs, fluctuating...
Consumers might be tightening their grocery budgets, but there's one trend bucking this cautious approach: affordable indulgence. Meat industry professionals, particularly packers and processors, need to tune into this trend, as premium brands are experiencing...
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...
How to Impact the Sustainability Conversation in the Social Space If you have been reading my blog posts for any length of time, you know I am passionate about the subject of sustainability and how consumers perceive it, especially when it comes to eating meat. To...
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...
(This is Part 2 of a two-part blog series. You can find Part 1 here.) In Part 1 of this blog I shared a headline exercise we did to show how AI can assist with marketing efforts. Below is the continuation of this theme, this time focused on art generation and the...
(This is Part 1 of a two-part blog series. You can find Part 2 here.) December is always a great time to reflect on the past 12 months and how things have changed. I like to take a moment to look back on the trends from the year and consider what will move us into the...
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...