Marketing Strategies that Deliver the Goods with Casper's Ice Cream CMO Keith Lawes

We talk about brands a lot on Marketing Trends. From the relationship consumers have with their favorite companies, to the marketing strategies behind what makes them thrive. But while we spend all this time talking about brands, we don’t often talk about parent companies or the challenges they face when marketing a portfolio of multiple brands, each of which serves a very different demographic. Casper’s Ice Cream is one of those companies. Casper’s has outgrown the safety net of its beloved FatBoy ice cream sandwiches and now oversees three very distinct brands and products. What Casper’s had known and done for so long with FatBoy wouldn’t necessarily work with its broader product portfolio, so something had to change. 

“When the opportunity came to launch those good-for-you products, it really was a real shift in mindset. We'd always kind of sat around and we were the consumers of our products, so we knew what the consumers wanted because we were that consumer. Trying to train ourselves and bring in experts on what the consumers of these other brands wanted was really us relearning everything we thought we knew. ”

Keith Lawes is the EVP and Corporate Secretary at Casper’s Ice Cream, a family-owned and operated company producing FatBoy Ice Cream Sandwiches, Jolly Llama, and Churnbaby Ice Cream. On this episode of Marketing Trends, Keith provides the scoop on how Casper’s utilizes influencer marketing strategies to push its brands to various target audiences, and he explains why the company continues to lean into national advertising to grow the business. Enjoy!

Main Takeaways:

• Can You be Influenced: Brands are trying to find real and engaging ways to connect with their audience and one of the ways they are doing so is through influencer marketing. Using influencers does more than just push your message out, it creates a much more organic way to grow your brand’s awareness among the audience that means the most to you. to create your content is an organic strategy to grow your brand's awareness.
• The Power of Sponsorships: Sponsorships have many benefits. The first is that they act as a key way to get your brand in front of consumers that might not be familiar with your product. Additionally, sponsorships offer a strategy for cementing the power and presence of your brand within the marketplace by showcasing your brand’s bona fides with an already trusted source.
• Getting to Know Your Brand: When you acquire a new brand, it’s important to understand the consumer base that product is targeting and why those consumers gravitate toward that product in the first place. Don’t just push your tried and true marketing strategies based on what has worked in the past. Make sure you are consistently gauging the market and learning why your consumers are choosing certain products.

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