What is this?

The Seed to Scale Blueprint is a clear, data-driven and experience-based roadmap for launching a beverage brand in the US in today’s ever-changing landscape.  It answers the three most critical questions for the success of an emerging brand:

•        WHO is your ideal customer?

•        WHERE does our ideal customer live, shop, eat and drink?

•        HOW do we gain access, both via sales and distribution, to these key accounts for our brands?

 This is the foundation for building meaningful, repeatable sales that drive velocity for your brand.  Most brands answer these questions with guesswork, borrowed distributor relationships, or fragmented advice from multiple vendors. The S2S Blueprint replaces that with a single, affordable, sequenced plan — built around your brand, and based on real demographic data and twenty years of direct industry experience and knowledge.

How this works?

The Blueprint is built in stages. Each stage depends on the analysis completed in the one before it — a Market Selection Report cannot be produced without a defined Ideal Customer Profile, an Account Target List requires a confirmed Market Selection, and Route to Market recommendations (including wholesale recommendations) depend on all of the above.  

*Brands with existing, documented strategic work may be eligible to enter at a later phase, at S2S's discretion, based on an initial consultation.

Menu of Strategic Services:

IDEAL CUSTOMER PROFILE ANALYSIS:

  • Discovery call to review brand story, pricing, target  if available.
  • Data analysis to identify the Ideal Customer Profile based on brand characteristics outlined during the discovery call
  • PowerPoint deliverable identifying the brand's Target Consumer

IDEAL CUSTOMER PROFILE ANALYSIS AND MARKET SELECTION REPORT:

•   Includes ICP Audit
•    In-depth data analysis identifying highest-potential markets for the Brand’s ICP using demographic data including; age,    gender, median income, education, occupation, race, full-service restaurant density, and other factors. Delivered down to the zip code.

ICP + Market Selection + Account Target List

  • Includes ICP Audit and Market Selection Report
  • Target account list by Market, identifying ideal accounts for your brand based on WHERE your ICP spends time and money. 
  •  This is based on market data, as well as proprietary Seed to Scale data gathered through our own Sales CRM based on many 1,000s of data records logged by our team.

Consulting Services

  • What This Is

    A clear, data-driven and experience-based roadmap for launching a beverage brand in the US.

  • Strategic Services

    We offer customizable add-ons to fit your needs at any stage of growth. Learn more about our pricing structure.

  • Inside the Blueprint

    Inside our full scale option for brands ready to hit the ground running.

  • Execution Services

    The Blueprint builds your plan and budget.