1. Be a part of specialty food marketing history! Let me know what you would like to see changed, added or deleted in our next (5th) edition of "From Kitchen to Market - Selling Your Gourmet Food Specialty." All ideas will be considered, but please let me know by the first of April.

2. How Popular is Your Website? You can find out here. It's popular and free.

3. Strategic Planning at a glance. Have a look at the winning Strategic Planning Workshop/Retreat Agenda I use. And contact me to learn how we can implement it in your firm.

4. Take our mini-surveys and submit questions for future surveys and articles for publication in FE. Most recent survey about "life before specialty food marketing" reveals that most respondents were in other businesses, and the medical field (yes), followed by food-related and education. What did you do before you got the urge to market specialty foods?

5.Complete Listing of FE Contributors. Please contact me to learn how you, too, can be added to this prestigious listing.

6. Three New Specialty Food Resources :

* The first provides an integrated sales and food marketing solution for specialty food entrepreneurs. Readers can find more here.

* The second offers a food media website focused on the lives of "Foodpreneurs." Readers can find more here.

* The third is a video sharing/advertising site for the gourmet & specialty food industry. Readers can find more here.

Please let me know what you think of these new resources.

7. Future articles from Tedde McMillen:

- "Testing and Tasting - How to Evaluate Your Product"

- "Making Your Product or Hiring a Co-Packer"

Email Steve@specialtyfoodresource.com to let us know what other areas you would like to have addressed.

Food Consulting Company's Karen Duester includes the following topics in the latest edition of Food Label News:

· Reader Q&A: If a company is using a safe lubricant like beef tallow or lard to lubricate pans for baking, or is using those animal products in the packaging of the product, does FDA require that these additives be listed in the ingredient list?

Table of Contents:

· Food Labels Qualified Health Claims in Question

· "Natural" on Your Food Labels? Consider This

· Help With FDA Regulations for Produce/Fish Labeling

· At Your Service: Label Statements and Claims

Readers of Food Label News can submit their food label questions free of charge for possible publication in the Q & A Section of Food Label News.

Here is the latest issue of Food Label News.

Your specialtyfoodresource.com site now has a SEARCH feature. You may now go right to the "find" section and look for information on our entire site. Feel free to let me know if you see anything that needs changing.

For example, when you click on the "Broker Information" tab, you will see an alphabetical listing and contact information for specialty food brokers.

Here is the web site for "Harvest Song Ventures."

Harvest Song Ventures, based in New York, is a partnership of James Tufenkian and Sylvia Tirakian is a specialty food company that imports fresh, natural gourmet food products directly from Armenia.

It's design might be of interest. Can you learn anything from the site?