Exploring the business models of online food retailers and advertisers
With online sales of specialty foods growing each year, more retail, re-sell, and advertising websites are popping up to get in on the action - each offering a new way of selling and/or promoting gourmet foods online. In earlier article, I outlined a few of the [...]

Here are a few of our newest companies that we are pleased to have recently partnered with:
Nashville Wraps partnered with us last month to feature their products on our Gourmet Business Directory and wholesale division of iBuyGourmet.com. Since we had worked on a referral basis with them in the past on our consulting projects (recommending [...]

iBuyGourmet.com recently hit the one year mark, and we are extremely pleased with how explosive our growth has been. Honestly, we didn’t think it would have taken off quite like this, and many doubted our business model. I am proud to hereby quiet those doubters with these statistics:
1. We now boast over 110 retail gourmet [...]

We recently launched our long-awaited gourmet and specialty food PR portal! Below is the Press Release
Food marketing firm launches online PR portal for food producers, press
Florida-based food marketing firm hires national food writer and launches PR website for the gourmet and specialty food industry.
Clearwater, FL, April 28, 2008 — Gourmet Business Solutions, a leading management [...]

First of all, let me preface this article by answering the question I will probably get asked numerous times: “Why are you writing about the 4th quarter when it’s only April?”
I am writing this article now because getting results from implementing a search engine optimization (SEO) strategy does not happen overnight. In some cases, it [...]

Everyone knows it, and office banter seems to keep reverting back to economic grumblings. Gas is at an all-time high, home ownership is becoming unreachable for the middle class, and foreclosures are increasing - yet salaries are stagnant. Sadly, we have seen this hit the food industry pretty hard as a result. Commodity prices and [...]

Now days, selling food online is quite common for specialty food manufacturers. As a result, there has been a huge increase in online food retailers, affiliate sites, and drop-ship websites in the past few years that offer to sell or advertise food products online. With such a large and growing (gourmet & specialty food) industry, [...]

May Newsletter - exciting announcements and accomplishments
May 2nd, 2007
 
What have we been up to?
The first 4 months of 2007 have been extremely busy and productive for Gourmet Business Solutions and our clients. Here are a few of our more recent exciting accomplishments:
New online wholesale ordering service – we are now [...]

Keys to Success for 2007
by Ryan Montague, Founder and CEO
December 2006
With the New Year less than one week away, most are making their New Year’s resolutions to get in shape, spend more time with the family, or to kick that lifelong habit. But what about your New Year’s Business Resolution? What are you going [...]

The Importance of Product Photography
by Ryan Montague, Founder and CEO
November 2006
As the saying goes, “an image is worth a thousand(or million) words”, and in the world of internet sales and marketing, this couldn’t be any more applicable. Convincing someone to spend twice as much for your product when they can buy [...]