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Where to find food industry entrepreneurs in order to convert them to customers

The idea that helps Food industry entrepreneurs

Food industry entrepreneurs want to scale their specialty food business. However, they can't get it because they struggle to reach new markets and expand distribution channels.

Therefore, they need to use your solution, e.g. MarketMingle.

E-commerce Platform for Specialty Food Producers : MarketMingle is an online marketplace designed for small-scale food producers to showcase and sell their unique products to a wider audience, manage orders, and track sales performance. Of course it is much better than the stuff from Goldbelly, Farm2Table, or Gourmet Food World!

How to find Food industry entrepreneurs

You can get insights about the pain points of food industry entrepreneurs if you listen to them carefully, either in person or online. Listening online is much easier because you need not ask them for a customer interview but you can observe them talking about their problems, out there in their natural habitat. They won’t even notice that you are there, watching and listening to them.

The process, step by step

One process that we can totally recommend is this:

Find out where food industry entrepreneurs hang out (Reddit, Mastodon, etc.)
Read what problems they talk about, and how urgent they are to them. (Did they try any solutions, yet? Did they spend money on anything, yet? Did they even cobble a homegrown solution together?)
Enter the conversation: Help them with tips, ask more about their situation and why they are in pain.
If you find recurring questions or pet peeves of food industry entrepreneurs, create some helpful content for them (e.g. a blog post, a podcast episode, or a video) and share it with them for free, in the same conversations. They will be delighted.
At the end of the blog post, invite them to use your solution: E-commerce Platform for Specialty Food Producers.

I described the process here in my blog post: Identify a hungry audience.

If you do this manually, it may take you hours each day. Automate it, with a little help from the AI in CustomerPing!

Step 1 to find food industry entrepreneurs

To get started, edit the values in the following 3 input fields and click “Search food industry entrepreneurs”.

This is what will happen

An AI will brainstorm 5 good search keyword phrases for you to find food industry entrepreneurs and their pain points in online forums on the internet.
With one click, you can search for each keyword phrase right away.
CustomerPing will present the search results to you.
If you think that one of those results looks like food industry entrepreneurs wrote it, you can create a “customer radar station” on the forum where the post came from.
You describe what makes a post relevant to your business.
CustomerPing will “ping” you 24h a day, whenever food industry entrepreneurs complain about their pet peeve: They struggle to reach new markets and expand distribution channels.
Good for you because this is something that you can solve with e-commerce Platform for Specialty Food Producers, right?

What to do when you get a “customer ping”

When such an alert appears on your mobile phone, you simply tap on it and join the conversation in the online forum.

Help food industry entrepreneurs to reach their goal: To scale their specialty food business.

They will get to know, like and trust you. Eventually, they will buy your solution: E-commerce Platform for Specialty Food Producers.

Get your first customers now!

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