FREE Conference Call - Export to Mexico

FREE Conference Call

How to Export your products to Mexico

Join us for a FREE Conference Call tomorrow, Wednesday July 16 to talk about how to export your products to Mexico.

As you know we’ve exported more than 1,000 truckloads of food, beverage and other products to Mexico selling it to convenience stores, supermarkets, distributors, restaurants and hotels.

We also created the Mexico Sales Alliance to help companies sell in Mexico.

Now you can learn what it takes to export your products to Mexico. The Number One trade partner with the USA.

Date: Wednesday July 16, 2008
Time: 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST

Conference Dial-in Number: (712) 451-6000
Participant Access Code: 685210#



Thanks,


Jorge



Jorge Olson

Future of Energy Dinks

What is the future of Energy Drinks? Is there room for the small player to compete with Rockstar, Redbull, Monster, Coca Cola and Pepsi Energy Drinks?

Energy Drinks are still going strong. Growing up to 50% every year and going after new countries like Mexico. The problem is that most of that growth is in the large companies listed above. The small players or start-ups are not growing like the big companies. It is now harder for the small companies to compete in traditional markets like convenience stores or supermarkets.

What can you do? Find a niche. Maybe MLM sales, or natural stores, think of something different instead of pounding your head against the big boys with millions in their budget.

More to come…


Jorge Olson

Your New Energy Drink makes you a target

Once everyone in your town finds out you have an Energy Drink you’ll be the most popular game in town. You’ll get calls from newspapers, magazines, and especially radio stations, all looking for advertising. Not to mention all the requests for sponsorship you’ll get. What to do? Nothing, don’t do a thing until you know how much you’ll get for your investment in promotions. Don’t spend anything without distribution; don’t spend a dime without knowing your Return On Investment.

Don’t fall into the Energy Drink Promotion Trap. Remember my rule “No promotion without distribution”. You do promotion to get the product on the shelves or because you already have product on the shelves. Use promotions as “The Deal”; giving sampling or other events to your distributors or retailers when they buy into your drink.

Thank You


Jorge Olson

www.JorgeOlson.com

300 Energy Drinks hit the market.. How to sell your own

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The Energy Drink Business is still a great business to get into; more than 300 new Energy Drinks hit the US market last year. If you plan on going into this business do your research first. Focus your research on sales, marketing and distribution. Yes, positioning is a lot of fun, promotion and formulation are fun also, but getting money in the bank from sales is even more fun. You are not getting any money unless you make a lot of calls and sell a lot of product. So focus your research on sales and distribution.

Promotions are a large part of Energy Drinks and it makes them very exciting. You have parties, club events, games, sponsorships, fun, fun and more fun. Now, the real question here is How much will you get for your promotions? Notice I don’t ask how much you’ll spend in promotions but how much you’ll get back. Please, please don’t spend a dime without a plan to get it back in sales.

more to come...

Thanks,


Jorge Olson

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What’s happening with Energy Drink Sales?

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The beverage bottling companies and ingredient suppliers are getting tougher; they require higher production minimums and sometimes even a retainer to get started. Production prices are a bit higher now and distributors; well they are saturated with calls from people trying to sell them energy drinks.

What can you do to compete? What can you do to get more energy drink sales? Easy, the answer is support. If you have better support you’ll have more sales.

So what kind of support do you need to get the best distributors and the best retailers to carry your product? You need two basic things, you need Bodies and you need Deals.

Your Bodies are people on the ground, opening accounts for your distributors and helping retailers sell products. Your bodies will visit accounts, open accounts, merchandise, place racks, point of sale material and sell. Your deals are what you give your retailers on the spot for taking your product. It can be a special price, it can be a refrigerator, sampling event, something. Just remember this, nobody cars if you have the best looking best tasting product. They care how much you’ll sell for them.

Thanks,

Jorge Olson

www.JorgeOlson.com

More to come

Are Energy Drinks Sales Still Growing?

Are Energy Drinks Growing at the same rate as they did 5 years ago or 3 years ago? No, they are not. They are still growing fantastically but not as much as they did back then. The stakes are now high, more companies are acquired, and more entrepreneurs are getting the funding and then the big pay day of an acquisition. So sales are vicious at the convenience store level. More Energy Drinks are competing for the same space on the shelve or refrigerator, and the big boys like Coca Cola, Pepsi, Rockstar, Monster and Redbul are fighting back and getting for shelf space of their own.

I still get more calls about Energy Drinks than all beverages put together. I get calls from distributors looking for them from manufacturers trying to sell them and from entrepreneurs looking to start their own brand.

More to come...

Are Energy Drink Sales Still Growing?

Are Energy Drinks Growing at the same rate as they did 5 years ago or 3 years ago? No, they are not. They are still growing fantastically but not as much as they did back then. The stakes are now high, more companies are acquired, and more entrepreneurs are getting the funding and then the big pay day of an acquisition. So sales are vicious at the convenience store level. More Energy Drinks are competing for the same space on the shelve or refrigerator, and the big boys like Coca Cola, Pepsi, Rockstar, Monster and Redbul are fighting back and getting for shelf space of their own.

I still get more calls about Energy Drinks than all beverages put together. I get calls from distributors looking for them from manufacturers trying to sell them and from entrepreneurs looking to start their own brand.

More comming...