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What's your marketing strategy? will you have a testimonial from the sports wor...","answer":"Alessandro, thank you for your support. Many of those issues we are dealing with but we need to stay focused on our marketing and sales right now. Since the huge food industry conglomerates are now in our category we have to maintain our position in our retailers. We don't have the marketing dollars to keep up with their promotions but we do have creativity to help combat their marketing."},{"question":"How often will financial reports be available to the public or investors?","answer":"We anticipate to provide financials report yearly to all investors."},{"question":"Long time product user, love it! I'm having a hard time seeing how you can project revenues going from $3.5m in 2016 to $12.1m in 2020, but only earning $300k in 2020? 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