Ryan Pintado-Vertner, Founder of Smoketown LLC, joins the Real Food Brands Marketing Podcast to discuss how solving problems for your customers fuels innovation.

In This Episode:

  • Why building an innovation pipeline is so crucial for food brands
  • How food businesses can build their own innovation pipelines
  • How to create empathy for your customers
  • How to balance short-term wins with longer term disruptive innovation
  • Why you should focus on solving problems for your customers

Resources:

  • HBR: What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like
  • Smoketown Website
  • Ryan Pintado-Vertner Linkedin
  • Foodscape Group (the producer of Meta Trends report referenced by Katie)
  • Real Food Brands Marketing Roundtable Facebook Group
  • Real Food Brands