Freshalicious® Member Benefits
Since writing the freshalicious® cookbook, many people have been asking us to suggest healthier food products and specialty products that will make living a local healthier lifestyle easier. However, not everything you need may be at one grocery store!Your requests have lead us to develop the freshalicious® Freeway. By becoming a member of the freshalicious® Freeway, you'll have exclusive access to "the North American Eat Local Resource Centre": a directory of "freshalicious approved*" brands, businesses and healthy food products. The goal of our Resource Centre is to help users find a better and easier way to source healthy foods. Best of all, membership is FREE.
The North American Eat Local Resource Center gives you access to:
- sourcing fresh food and food products from the comfort of your home - make your decisions before you go grocery shopping
- information about healthy brands you can trust
- information about Organic, Non-GMO, gluten-free, dairy-free and peanut and nut-free products
- information about natural, free-range, pastured meats and poultry suppliers
- local farmers, farmers markets, pick-your-own farms
- healthy food options other than those found at your grocery store
- the knowledge you need to get started living local today
Freshalicious® Commitment to Eat Local Vendors
When you feature your business online with freshalicious, we make a commitment to you to:- attract targeted traffic to the freshalicious® website via blogging, social media valued partners, and cross promotion with like minded affiliates
- promote our eat-local vendors offline via speaking engagements, book signings and cooking events
- promote your website to our visitors and provide a link to your website from your profile and/or banner ad
- blog about your product/services and provide product reviews to increase interest and awareness of them
- drive traffic to your site to create awareness of you, your company and your brand, identifying with what makes your brand better
Featuring your business online with freshalicious® is designed to...
- provide site visitors with information about your products/services and a direct link to your business via our website
- help potential customers find you and your product on their time 24/7 365
- connect your product with like-minded consumers who are eating healthy
- be your personal product pitch allowing you to pre-sell to customer before they walk into the grocery store
- connect your product with "mommy-bloggers" who use social networking to promote products to one another
- set your product on the top shelf of a resource center designed to educate and give the customer what they want
- provide an environmentally friendly/paperless method of advertising to your target market with significantly reduced cost
Your page will consist of...
- your own landing page, where you can promote your company, what makes you unique in your category and why they should be buying your product over the competition.
- Logo/image upload
- Link to your website
- All contact information easy search by postal code
- Business location searchable by business category and postal code
Additional banner sponsorship is also available on the freshalicious® blog and on our freshalicious® Freeway landing page. These banner ads are designed to increase your brand exposure and targeted traffic to your website in your store. Email info@freshalicious.ca to learn more.
It is our job to showcase only "freshalicious® approved* products." Members must meet certain criteria before joining.
Criteria:
- Must be a product that is of North American origin
- Ingredients coming from outside North America should be disclosed
- Must be healthy food products
- Can be packaged - however greener packaging is always better
- Grown as close to home as possible
- Must taste good and meet consumers' expectations
- Food labeling must be clear
- Pastured, free range and organic are welcomed
To submit a business listing, click the submit button and complete the form. Our staff will review your submission to ensure it meets our criteria and contact you to confirm payment details.