The alcoholic and distillery industry is competitive now more than ever, and especially was at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. Consumers are shopping the organic category more often and we are seeing continued trends of consumers looking for healthy, organic options for their family + friends. The organic space experienced significant growth in 2020 and 2021. The challenge for Prairie Organic Vodka was discovering a successful way to reach the right consumers at the right moment in time, and to educate them that Prairie Vodka is truly in the "organic" category.

Upon starting new management for any new brand, I find that after an audit there are several key changes that need to be made including structure, creative, and targeting. This was the case for SITM. They sell crazy fun socks but they were targeting crew socks, knee high socks etc. Along with restructuring their campaigns,

When it comes to advertising on social, its very challenging, since products are cheap. This made it difficult to make it profitable with ads when targeting directly to individuals (B2C) instead of business owners (B2B). They are more profitable when they get bulk orders from businesses or organizations. Targeting a cold audience on Facebook/Instagram was challenging to stay profitable at scale.

Dakine was running paid search campaigns that were targeting all of the United States and were not breaking up states. I let them know this was a concern because different audiences in different regions are going to be interested in the same products, it depends on the weather.