3 Lessons from a First-Time CMO
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By Traction
After twelve years as an agency, Traction recently got a taste of the client's life after partnering with the Pacific Fruit & Beverage Company to bring calamansi juice to the mainstream American market.
Suddenly our CEO Adam Kleinberg was a CMO tasked with figuring out a "way to not only build a brand, but get into shopping carts."
In a post for Entrepreneur Magazine , Adam talks about the three big lessons he's learned over the course of this professional transition - maximizing shelf space, including distributors in the marketing plan, and the similarities between consumer and B2B sales. Full of nuanced views on SKUs, visualizing aisle and shelf space, point-of-sale materials, street teams, and QR codes; the post is an important read for anyone involved in food/beverage sales.
"Being part of a small brand requires an entirely different approach. It's all about the five Ps: product, price, placement, promotion and most importantly, people."
Want to learn more about Adam's lessons on being a CEO-turned-CMO? Want to learn more about calamansi, the fruit that's part lime and part mandarin orange? Read the entire post here:
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Everyone loves an app. You get an icon on people's phone. It's all swishy. You get to wear your "I'm an innovator" pin. It's pretty awesome.
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Bob knows how to rock a spreadsheet, an accounting department, and an awards show.
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Traction is proud to announce the launch of our latest integrated campaign for the paint company Kelly-Moore.