How to Keep Co-packers From Stealing Your Manufacturing Ideas

Time of Reading: 4 minutesEmily Page with Start to Sold shows how to protect your ideas As a brand owner who is sourcing co-packers and pitching vendors, it is perfectly understandable to be apprehensive about releasing your carefully crafted and tested ideas out into the universe. The consumer goods game can be cutthroat – the struggle is real, and … Read more

Beverage Industry Trends Trends – What Is Selling?

Time of Reading: 4 minutesAre you wondering what trends are taking off this year? These trends are hot, as in right off the production line, because it’s all the first hand experience seen by my friend Pete Grego of Nor-Cal Beverage Co., Inc. Pete is a black belt master manufacturer of emerging brand beverages and a vendor partner of … Read more

How To Launch Your Own Blended Dry Tea Brand – Case Study: Jocko White Tea (dry)

Time of Reading: < 1 minuteThis video is a case study of how I worked with Jocko Willink, creator and voice of the “JOCKO PODCAST” to create his delicious custom blend of pomegranate white tea from Start To Sold. Through this story, I will go over the 5 steps to creating your own blended dry tea brand: CLICK TO WATCH: … Read more

One LinkedIn Connection= Millions in Business

Time of Reading: 5 minutesOriginally posted on ECRM’s BLOG on 4/22/19 and written by Joe Tarnowski If you’re not in the LinkedIn game, you’re missing out on a TON of opportunities. Pearl Resources CEO Emily Page and Joseph Tarnowski connect via LinkedIn Long gone are the days of the platform merely being a repository of resumes. Over the past … Read more

Evolution of Packaging for Natural Food Industries

Time of Reading: 5 minutesNatural food bands are leading the trend packaging and branding. What can you learn? This article was also published on ECRM’s Blog on 5/6/2020. Packaging in the old days of natural foods was what we would call… “scrappy.” Emerging brand owners didn’t have a lot of visibility, demand or capital so their packaging reflected it. … Read more