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Food & Beverage Marketing That Drives Consumer Demand.

iExcel partners with food and beverage brands to build demand gen systems that drive DTC sales, retail distribution, and consumer trial across channels.

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FOOD & BEVERAGE● LIVE
Brands We've Operated On
Cuisine SolutionsMarketMan / MealTicketThirstieTockBlossom Beverages
THE TERRAIN

What makes Food & Beverage hard.

Food & Beverage growth lives at the intersection of DTC, retail, and brand. We understand the consumer-packaged-goods marketing playbook, the retail distribution dynamics, and the DTC conversion tactics that drive trial AND repeat — not just first-purchase volume.

  • / 01Two-funnel split — DTC e-commerce and retail buyers (grocers, distributors) require completely different acquisition funnels.
  • / 02Trial-to-repeat economics — first-purchase math is rarely profitable; LTV depends on subscription, retention, and reorder rates that take quarters to prove.
  • / 03Retail attribution gap — store sales lift from a digital campaign rarely hits a marketing dashboard; measurement stops at the click.
  • / 04Seasonality + creative fatigue — food trends move faster than ad accounts; creative refreshes that match cultural moments determine winners.
OUR APPROACH

How we win in Food & Beverage.

We start with funnel audits and consumer cohort analysis, then run experiments across DTC, retail, and social channels to improve trial rates, repeat purchase, and distribution.

01

CPG growth strategy + brand building — paid acquisition, organic, and brand work tuned for both DTC checkout and retail buyer conversations.

02

Consumer + retailer targeting — paid campaigns that segment by purchase intent AND retail buyer persona, not just demographics.

03

Measurable sales + distribution — dashboards that connect ad spend to DTC checkout, subscription LTV, and retail sell-through.

SERVICES · TUNED FOR FOOD & BEVERAGE

The subset of the stack that moves Food & Beverage pipeline.

We run the full stack, but we don't apply it uniformly. For Food & Beverage, these are the disciplines that compound fastest — ordered by impact.

/ 01

Technical SEO

Schema, sitemaps, e-commerce site architecture. Foundations for product-page indexing and rich snippets.

/ 02

Content + GEO

Recipe content, ingredient education, brand-story topic clusters. Engineered for both Google and answer-engine citation.

/ 03

Paid Acquisition

Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Google Shopping. Bid against repeat-purchase value, not just first-order acquisition cost.

/ 04

Landing Page + CRO

DTC checkout flow, subscription offers, recipe-to-buy paths. Experiments shipped weekly.

/ 05

Lifecycle + Email

Triggered nurture for first-purchasers, subscription customers, and lapsed buyers. Compounding LTV loops.

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Analytics + Attribution

GA4, server-side events, retail-sales lift modeling. Reporting that connects marketing spend to DTC + retail sales.

CASE STUDIES · FOOD & BEVERAGE

The receipts from Food & Beverage.

WHAT CLIENTS SAY

Always incredibly helpful and provided great insights. Excellent analyst and very good at all projects, particularly SEO. Over the last 15 months, his work increased organic traffic to our e-commerce pages 2.5x, and revenue 1.5x.

Amanda Lopez
(fmr) Senior Digital Marketing Manager · Cuisine Solutions

An outstanding marketing professional that can significantly help any business turn into a rocket ship! He has not only ran successful advertising campaigns for our company for several years, but he has also been our go-to expert on all things SEO, marketing, and advertising. He has strongly influenced the high-growth and direction of our company. He is the expert you need on your team.

Will Boelter
Director of Inside Sales · The Boelter Companies
FOOD & BEVERAGE · STRATEGY CALL

Ready to Scale Your Food & Beverage Brand?

15 minutes with someone senior who has shipped growth for Food & Beverage brands like yours. We'll pressure-test your funnel and tell you — candidly — where the fastest compounding lives.

REPLY TIMEWithin 1 business day
CALL LENGTH15 min sanity check
WHO ANSWERSA senior partner — no SDRs
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