Want to know how to build a product brand from scratch? In my humble opinion, not enough business owners put enough effort into building a strong, healthy brand. Fortunately, today’s guest isn’t one of them. From scratch, she’s conceived, created and built a premium pet food brand that in just two years has achieved some significant growth. It’s a fancy pants episode 519 of The (11 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast.
Big Episode Today
- Cubicle escapee Arianne Sackville takes us behind-the-scenes of how she’s built a premium dog food brand … from scratch.
- This week’s motivated listener is a marketing idea implementing machine.
- And I let you in on next week’s episode which you are going to find ridiculously helpful!
A Little More About Bell & Bone’s Arianne Sackville
Arianne Sackville has brought her two passions in life together – dogs and nutritious food – to create a premium dog food brand she lovingly calls Bell & Bone. Following her escape from the corporate cubicle in her late 20s, Arrianne launched Bell & Bone as a result of her frustrations with the commercial pet food products on the market.
Two years, and three product lines later, Bell & Bone is available in 250 stores nationally, and she’s exporting to Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Thailand and her online sales are doubling every single month.
There’s a lot to love and learn from how Arianne has created this brand from scratch including lessons in great design, making personal connections with key opinion leaders, brand collaborations and building a community of raving fans.
I started off by asking Arianne the obvious question … does she taste her own product!
Timbo’s Top 3 Attention Grabbers
- I loved the way she interviewed 10 graphic designers before choosing the one she went with. Plus she looked beyond their work, and got a sense as to whether they’d be great to work with.
- I love her Parties in the Park idea – not very COVID-19 friendly, however, it does beg the question … What can you do to bring your community together and give them a sense of belonging? If you crack that nut, then let me know 🙂
- And I love her view around face-to-face connection – flying up to Brisbane to meet that prospect was a genius move.
Last Week’s Episode of The Small Business Big Marketing Podcast
Running a $200M heart-centered business with Rashay’s Rami Ykmour
Monster Prize Draw Winner
Louisa Logue of Owlete Active.
Thanks for tuning in. May your marketing be the best marketing.
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