Vegan Business Academy
With Vegan Business expert David Pannell
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If you're taking a stand at a trade or consumer show, David shares what you need to do before, during and after to make sure you get the most out of the event.
Tradeshows and larger consumer shows like VegfestUK are where you will meet not just new customers, but also great new contacts that might help your business move forwards. Learn what you need to be doing before, during and after the event to maximise what you get out of it.
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The more we know about ourselves and our often unconscious behaviors, the easier it is to create positive and beneficial changes that work for us rather than against us.
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Esther Pearson led Clive’s Purely Plants through the transformation of becoming a vegan-only food manufacturer. This resulted in them finding investment to scale up their production and Clive’s are now listed in supermarkets and independents across the country.
How Esther Pearson led Clive's through the transformation of becoming a vegan-only food manufacturer.
It's far easier to build a business when you surround yourself with people who are on the same mission that you are. But these kinds of connections don’t just happen by accident. You need to have a strategy in place to increase the number of connections you are making.
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Ella Clarke left Canada for Scotland to start her own vegan cheese company. Lisa finds out more about Ella's (accidental!) business journey and if the Scottish Highlands were ready for vegan cheese.
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Recorded live: For many of us who start a vegan business, we do so as our form of activism – a way to both help the vegan cause and align how you make a living with your ethics. But just starting a vegan business is not enough, you need to have a successful and profitable vegan business if you are going to help move the vegan cause forward.
Sandra Nomoto joins me as co-host to discuss our five favourite vegan marketing case studies from her new book, 'Vegan Marketing Success Stories'.
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Join Georgia Bamber in this live webinar to learn a practical framework with steps you can utilise to transform the thought processes that drive behaviours.
Steve Swindon founded vegan meat replacement company LoveSeitan in his co-founder's kitchen, but they quickly attracted vegan entrepreneur Heather Mills as an investor and partner. David finds out how.
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LoveSeitan launched in 2017 as an idea to start a vegan food truck after a weekend at Vegan Camp Out. Several years later, LoveSeitan provides both the general public and food manufacturers across the country with meat-replacement seitan. They also picked up a high-profile investor in Heather Mills. Steve tells us how they scaled up so fast.
 
New video course
How to get customers
Is getting new customers the main problem holding your business back? Join David in this intimate 8-part 4-hour video course as he goes right back to the basics of understanding how people buy, how to set up a sales and marketing funnel and how to take a customer over the line.