A dog or cat food company’s online presence has progressed from an innovative sales and promotion platform to a necessity for success selling cat and dog food in the US. Recently, Petfood Industry reported that US online sales of dog food and cat food have doubled since 2010, according to Clavis Insight Index’s “US Pet Food Report.”
Pet food consumers don’t just buy online, they research pet foods as well. More than 40 percent of pet food sales are “digitally influenced,” according to 2015 Euromonitor data cited by the Clavis report. That means many pet food buyers who didn’t actually purchase online still were informed by information found online.
A pet food company’s online presence may be a key to sales, noted the Clavis report, especially for smaller companies struggling to get noticed in a crowded market dominated by two pet food titans, Mars Petcare and Nestlé Purina PetCare.
In 2012, Petfood Industry covered the basics of how to develop an online presence by cultivating brand advocates. Brand advocates can serve the traditional role of product recommendation, and they can also defend a pet food company against negative online messages from comments, blogs and social media.
Tim Wall covers the dog, cat and other pet food industries as senior reporter for WATT Global Media. His work has appeared in Live Science, Discovery News, Scientific American, Honduras Weekly, Global Journalist and other outlets. He holds a journalism master's degree from the University of Missouri - Columbia and a bachelor's degree in biology.
Wall served in the Peace Corps in Honduras from 2005 to 2007, where he coordinated with the town government of Moroceli to organize a municipal trash collection system, taught environmental science, translated for medical brigades and facilitated sustainable agriculture, along with other projects.
Contact Wall via https://www.wattglobalmedia.com/contact-us/
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