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How to Hire and Manage Your Own Delivery Drivers

How to Hire and Manage Your Own Delivery Drivers

There’s no denying that the food delivery market is explosive right now. The pandemic has forced a large portion of the dining public to rely on delivery over the

  • Andy Blechman
    Andy Blechman
Andy Blechman 3 Dec 2020 • 4 min read
Six Micro Habits That Contribute to a Healthier World and Life

Six Micro Habits That Contribute to a Healthier World and Life

Our mission at Bottle is to build the local food system. By supporting makers who feed their communities, whether through meal kits or farm-fresh produce, it’s important to us

  • Chelsea Barbee
Chelsea Barbee 25 Nov 2020 • 4 min read
The Market For Homemade Food is Here: How Foodnome, Minimart, and Bottle are Empowering Home Cooks

The Market For Homemade Food is Here: How Foodnome, Minimart, and Bottle are Empowering Home Cooks

While Covid has caused all sorts of trials and tribulations, one silver lining is how it’s given many of us more time to explore our identities as home cooks.

  • Emily Wilson
    Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson 23 Nov 2020 • 3 min read
How Patreon Uses Memberships to Power and Monetize The Creator-Fan Relationship

How Patreon Uses Memberships to Power and Monetize The Creator-Fan Relationship

A membership model exists when customers make a commitment to a business in exchange for access or value. One example is subscriptions, which require individuals to pay a recurring fee

  • Emily Wilson
    Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson 18 Nov 2020 • 3 min read
How 9 Miles East Uses Bottle for Pre-Ordering, SMS Marketing, and A VIP Membership Club

How 9 Miles East Uses Bottle for Pre-Ordering, SMS Marketing, and A VIP Membership Club

How this multi-channel food operation uses the power of text and pre-ordering to sustain and grow their local food economy.

  • Emily Wilson
    Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson 26 Oct 2020 • 4 min read
What I Learned Testing, Starting and Launching A Food Delivery and Meal Prep Business

What I Learned Testing, Starting and Launching A Food Delivery and Meal Prep Business

From key assumptions to custom tech, here’s what it took to build Southfork.

  • Andy Blechman
    Andy Blechman
Andy Blechman 20 Oct 2020 • 6 min read
Our Story

Our Story

How Andy met Will, and Bottle was built

  • Will Schreiber
    Will Schreiber
  • Andy Blechman
    Andy Blechman
  • Emily Wilson
    Emily Wilson
Multiple authors 15 Oct 2020 • 3 min read
How Starbucks, Dunkin’, and Panera Drive Loyalty With Memberships

How Starbucks, Dunkin’, and Panera Drive Loyalty With Memberships

Why the membership model is a win-win for coffee drinkers and local coffee shops

  • Emily Wilson
    Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson 13 Oct 2020 • 3 min read
Founder Stories: Haluk Ural of Human Food RVA is All About Community

Founder Stories: Haluk Ural of Human Food RVA is All About Community

Haluk Ural is a Richmond resident and longtime CrossFit devotee, two facts that led to the natural birth of his clean meal prep business, Human Food RVA. Back in 2012,

  • Emily Wilson
    Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson 22 Sep 2020 • 4 min read
How Planted Table Doubled Their Revenue with Simplified Ordering and Top-Notch Customer Service

How Planted Table Doubled Their Revenue with Simplified Ordering and Top-Notch Customer Service

When co-founders Megan Scott and Lauren Mahlke launched Planted Table, a vegan meal plan company that serves the Bay Area, they received swift community traction. After all, the impetus for

  • Emily Wilson
    Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson 22 Jun 2020 • 2 min read
How to Build an Audience and Nail Your Communication Strategy

How to Build an Audience and Nail Your Communication Strategy

So you’ve launched your business. You have a product, maybe a small set of customers, some sort of web presence, and you’re ready to sell and scale. Now

  • Emily Wilson
    Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson 28 May 2020 • 2 min read
The Pros and Cons of a Subscription-Based Model

The Pros and Cons of a Subscription-Based Model

While a subscription-based model works across many sectors including entertainment, media, and consumer goods, there are pitfalls when it comes to local food and drink businesses. After all, stocking your

  • Emily Wilson
    Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson 27 May 2020 • 1 min read
Scaling Your Business: From Instagram to Bottle

Scaling Your Business: From Instagram to Bottle

If you’re a small business that’s been selling on Instagram—or taking manual orders elsewhere, like email—here are some tips on how to create a successful digital business that starts with Instagram and ends with Bottle.

  • Emily Wilson
    Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson 13 May 2020 • 2 min read
How to Take Your Farmers Market Game to the Next Level

How to Take Your Farmers Market Game to the Next Level

You can use Bottle to power a weekly CSA home delivery program, to allow your regulars to restock outside of market hours, or to tout exclusive deals to clients that buy in bulk.

  • Emily Wilson
    Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson 6 May 2020 • 3 min read
Bakers on Bottle: Streamline and Expand Your Weekly Bread Sales

Bakers on Bottle: Streamline and Expand Your Weekly Bread Sales

Are you a bakery that’s bringing pieces of your sourdough starter, or a farmer that just harvested the first of the season’s asparagus? A personal text to your list of regulars goes a long way to build friendly rapport and generate increased sales.

  • Emily Wilson
    Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson 4 May 2020 • 2 min read
How Bottle Helps Wine Shops Deepen Customer Relationships and Capture More Orders

How Bottle Helps Wine Shops Deepen Customer Relationships and Capture More Orders

The real-time access and casual conversation afforded by text message communication positions wine shops to become more than a place to stop in for a bottle. They become locals’ go-to source for all things wine, a fully-fledged neighborhood fixture.

  • Emily Wilson
    Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson 4 May 2020 • 2 min read
Customer Connection is More Than a Trend

Customer Connection is More Than a Trend

With a significant portion of the world sequestered to their homes, people are looking for—and finding—new ways of connection. Co-workers are having happy hours over Zoom instead of

  • Emily Wilson
    Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson 6 Apr 2020 • 3 min read
Alternative Revenue Streams

Alternative Revenue Streams

These are extraordinarily challenging times for small business, but the economic and social impact of COVID-19 is also lending itself to creative solutions for alternative revenue streams. Few of us

  • Emily Wilson
    Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson 6 Apr 2020 • 4 min read
CARES Act Summary and Resources
COVID-19

CARES Act Summary and Resources

On Friday, March 27th the CARES Act was signed into law. It includes $2 trillion of relief, including $350 billion specifically directed to small businesses. We’ve begun compiling a

  • Andy Blechman
    Andy Blechman
Andy Blechman 31 Mar 2020 • 2 min read
COVID-19: Thoughts and Resources for Meal Delivery Businesses
Food and Beverage

COVID-19: Thoughts and Resources for Meal Delivery Businesses

Our team is thinking about all the effects that COVID-19 will have on our friends, family, communities and customers. We sent a note earlier today encouraging vendors to open up

  • Andy Blechman
    Andy Blechman
Andy Blechman 13 Mar 2020 • 2 min read
Episode 4: Working Remotely
Free Refills

Episode 4: Working Remotely

On this episode of Free Refills we talk about what it's like to work remotely, the tools we use to manage our work, the challenges and joys of remote work.

  • Andy Blechman
    Andy Blechman
Andy Blechman 27 Feb 2020 • 2 min read
Subscription Fatigue
Subscription Stats

Subscription Fatigue

I’ve been working on our 2019 taxes this week, which I enjoy because it gives me a 10,000 foot view of Bottle’s financial picture. As I was

  • Andy Blechman
    Andy Blechman
Andy Blechman 27 Feb 2020 • 2 min read
Episode 3: Should We Raise Money?
Free Refills

Episode 3: Should We Raise Money?

We've been talking a lot lately about the future of Bottle. One topic that has come up consistently is the debate about raising money to help fund our growth and

  • Andy Blechman
    Andy Blechman
Andy Blechman 20 Feb 2020 • 2 min read
Free Refills: Episode 2
Free Refills

Free Refills: Episode 2

On our second episode of Free Refills we talk about wide ranging topics. We name the podcast, talk about Sam Harris on Having No Head, Paul Buchheit's writing, I Am

  • Andy Blechman
    Andy Blechman
Andy Blechman 12 Feb 2020 • 2 min read
Quick Subscription Stats, Volume 1
Subscription Stats

Quick Subscription Stats, Volume 1

Subscription services are all the rage. Here's some interesting stats on the subscription economy: Women are more likely than men to have 3+ physical subscriptions at a time (58% of

  • Will Schreiber
    Will Schreiber
Will Schreiber 11 Feb 2020 • 1 min read
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