Specialty Food Startup Roadmap

Starting a specialty food business and not sure where to begin? Have enough business savvy or determination to "go for it", but don’t know the specifics of the specialty food business? Are you able to put in the time and effort, but just need some guidance and the encouragement from industry professionals?

The Specialty Food Startup Roadmap gives food entrepreneurs, startups, and small food businesses the guidance, tools, and resources to successfully get their businesses off the ground quickly, cost-effectively, and without the headache. Here is what is included:

1. Guidance. Outline of action steps which includes instructions, advice, whitepapers, and insights for each aspect of launching your new food product: Pre-launch strategy and considerations, product viability, market research, manufacturing/production, co-packers, commercial kitchens, Naming, Branding, and Design, Business structure and filing (i.e. sole proprietorship, LLC, S-Corp, C-Corp, etc), Packaging/Labeling, including labeling compliance and UPC coding, Product Pricing and margins, Website Development/Online business, Sales Materials, and Rollout Marketing Strategy

2. Budgeting expectations – estimations and considerations for startup costs specific to your product type

3. Professional Documents and templates – do-it-yourself templates for creating your pricing strategy, competition analysis, co-packer interview, business plan, financial projections and break-even document, initial press release

4. Resources and networking – access to a proprietary network of co-packers and commercial kitchens*, packaging/labeling companies, nutritional consultants and food technologists, fulfillment centers, brokers, and distributors.

5. Glossary – learn the industry lingo, acronyms, and jargon that you will need to know.

6. Project Journal – A shared, online project journal will be created so that Ryan can view current week’s checklist as well as previous weekly progress and comment/respond to questions and needs.

7. Discounts - 20% off all other services offered by Ryan if/as needed (logo design, packaging design, website development, consulting, marketing, business plan writing, PR, etc) as well as discounts from Ryan’s partner-network.

Instead of taking the journey without a map or compass, so-to-speak, take advantage of existing knowledge, resources, and experience from countless hours of building specialty food businesses!

Those who follow the Specialty Food Startup Roadmap can save tens of thousands of dollars in tangible costs as well as opportunity costs. Contact Ryan for more information today!