133. Which Learning Style Fits You Best? (Plus, 2 Quick Updates!)
Food Business Marketing - Brand Strategy Tips to Build a Business You Love
Release Date: 05/23/2025
165. Choosing Your Word of the Year: Lean Into Who You’re Becoming as a Leader
Food Business Marketing - Brand Strategy Tips to Build a Business You Love
How choosing your Word of the Year can help you lean into who you were meant to be....a benefit to your brand, your business, and beyond!
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164. Curating Holiday Traditions & Year-Round Food Rituals
Food Business Marketing - Brand Strategy Tips to Build a Business You Love
In this fun episode, Katie & Clint swap stories about holiday traditions—and close with a simple idea about how brands become part of year-round rituals.
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163. Brand Pillars: The Backbone of Your Brand That Makes a Major Impact
Food Business Marketing - Brand Strategy Tips to Build a Business You Love
A simple framework to help you review where you’ve been, regroup your resources, and refocus your next 12 months anytime you want more clarity and alignment. Great for year-end, or any time of year to reset!
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162. Your Next 12 Months: Review, Regroup & Refocus to Align With Your BHAG
Food Business Marketing - Brand Strategy Tips to Build a Business You Love
A simple framework to help you review where you’ve been, regroup your resources, and refocus your next 12 months anytime you want more clarity and alignment. Great for year-end, or any time of year to reset!
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161. Should You Go? Choosing Events & Shows That Will Move Your Food Brand Forward
Food Business Marketing - Brand Strategy Tips to Build a Business You Love
If your message feels messy, it’s likely not that you’re bad at writing...it’s because your brand strategy needs more structure. In ep 159, Katie shows how a strong foundation makes your messaging clearer + more consistent everywhere.
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160. Smart Growth for Food Brands: Are You Using “Expedited Cautiousness”?
Food Business Marketing - Brand Strategy Tips to Build a Business You Love
If your message feels messy, it’s likely not that you’re bad at writing...it’s because your brand strategy needs more structure. In ep 159, Katie shows how a strong foundation makes your messaging clearer + more consistent everywhere.
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159. Does Your Message Feel Messy? Start With Strategy Before You Start Writing
Food Business Marketing - Brand Strategy Tips to Build a Business You Love
If your message feels messy, it’s likely not that you’re bad at writing...it’s because your brand strategy needs more structure. In ep 159, Katie shows how a strong foundation makes your messaging clearer + more consistent everywhere.
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158. Using Grants to Grow Your Brand: VAPG and Beyond
Food Business Marketing - Brand Strategy Tips to Build a Business You Love
Learn how food and farm businesses can use grants, including the USDA’s Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG), to fund growth, strengthen brand strategy, and scale with intention.
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157. PERSIST: After the Sales Pitch...How to Turn a Yes or No into Next Steps (4Ps Sales Process Step 5 of 5)
Food Business Marketing - Brand Strategy Tips to Build a Business You Love
In Ep 157, we share what to do after the pitch — how to follow up, build buyer relationships, and turn every yes or no into forward motion for your food brand.
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156. PITCH: How to Present Your Food Business Like a Pro (4Ps Sales Series Part 4 of 5)
Food Business Marketing - Brand Strategy Tips to Build a Business You Love
Struggling with sales? Katie and Clint introduce a simple 4-P Framework — Plan, Prep, Pitch, and Persist — and a powerful mindset shift to help food business owners turn sales conversations into confident, authentic connections.
info_outlineToday’s episode is a little less strategy teaching and more self-reflection about how you learn best. In part, this is to help you maximize investment of your time and money when you want to learn something for your business, but also because I want to get your feedback about the content I create as well!
I will walk you through common learning styles to help you think about how you best absorb new ideas and take action in your food business. You'll find the link below to the short survey to help shape future content and support, whether that’s workshops, templates, videos, or something else.
In Ep 133 you’ll hear:
- 4 common learning styles to help you become more self-aware about how you learn best.
- Why this podcast is now called The Food Business Marketing Podcast.
- What’s new on the updated RealFoodBrands.com website
- Where to download Katie’s free guide: 4 Big Mistakes Food Business Owners Make with Their Brand Strategy—And How to Flip Them Into Opportunities
👉 Take the brief listener survey here
👉 Explore the new website + download your free guide: www.realfoodbrands.com
Ready to Define, Align & Activate your brand strategy and add structure to your business to bring your vision to life? Visit www.realfoodbrands.com to learn more about how we can work together 1:1 through a Brand Review Workshop or the more comprehensive Brand Success System.
Let's go shake up shopping carts!
Katie Mleziva
Real Food Brands
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