Susie lives passionately, evangelizing good things while making people's lives and the world a better place as a social entrepreneur. She is:
- an Artisan Food Concierge and Consultant, bringing entrepreneurs' food business dreams to life and company's goals to find good food a reality,
- a food and travel writer and photographer, sharing stories of food artisans and farmers + writing a food business book,
- co-creator of Epicuring California (the best California food experiences),
- advocate of Buyer's Best Friend, a great way for small sellers to connect with wholesale buyers,
- founder of SuperViva Life Lists (a “bucket list” making tool) and an Ideas Coach with a bevy of successes connecting and brainstorming for people.
A long-time Internet company “renaissance marketing” person, Susie has evangelized and enjoyed creating new technologies that make the world, and people’s lives, better.
Communities: The Hub, Couch Surfing, Foodbuzz, Instructables, Yelp, and many more. Major advocate of Wordpress and of starting businesses on a shoe string.
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For years Susie has promoted and supported small farmers and budding food producers in their efforts to grow, connect, and get visibility. From working at various farmer's markets during the 2000s she made her own debut at underground markets in 2011, with her Nutless Professor food business experiment - part of her research writing a book on bringing food products to market. Today she consults with food entrepreneurs to simplify and illuminate the process of developing and launching natural and artisan packaged food products.
A 2011 Good Food Awards chocolate committee member, Susie tackled the task of helping with chocolate judging in 2010 like a near-empty cookie dough bowl. (Chocolate is in her blood. Or is her blood, rather.)
As Food Artisan Relations Manager (FARM) for Foodzie.com Susie enjoyed working with over 250 small artisan food producers to sell on Foodzie’s e-commerce marketplace, combining her extensive background in Internet marketing, content writing, and a passion for merchandising good food.
Susie has written about starting food businesses, discovered many producers around the country during travels and through connections, created an online community, took lots of scrumptious food photos and videos, and wrote about our food producer partners in the Foodzie blog and other social media. And of course evaluated lots of delicious creations and brands.
(O Magazine said ““If you have only 10 minutes: Shop the gourmet marketplace at foodzie.com, which offers a smorgasbord of goodies from small producers nationwide.”)
Recently, Susie partnered with Laiko Bahrs to create Epicuring, a website, newsletter, and Google Calendar of hand-picked food events and experiences. Our goal as Epicurators is to get food loving travelers to enjoy California to the fullest as well as inspire food entrepreneurs to create new and interesting events, classes etc.
More on Susie’s food writing and consulting.
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