284 Holiday Promotions: How to Prep Your Farm’s Online Store for the Holidays
October 23, 2024
With the holidays coming, are you preparing any farm promotions to finish Q4 strong?
If not, this episode is for you. I’ve invited my friend Christina Marbury (the marketing director of Taste the Local Difference — a marketing agency for farmers) to share her expertise in building holiday promotions that sell. Christina has the advantage of working with hundreds of farms across the Midwest on their marketing strategy, and she has seen the types of offers that work well for the Thanksgiving/Christmas seasons.
Your consumer is “trained” to buy this time of year. Between gift giving and the big three holiday feasts (Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years), there is ample opportunity for farms to pitch their products. In this episode, Christina will share what types of products and offers work well for this time of year. She also gives tips on how to set up your online store so that more people will buy those offers. AND, we talk through some marketing pointers so that your customers find out about those great offers living on your e-commerce platform.
My challenge for you is to listen to the episode with your key decision makers and then brainstorm a holiday offer (or two!) that you will pitch this season. Let us know how it goes!
Who is Christina Marbury?
Marketing Director at Taste the Local Difference
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Download the Guide we mention in this episode: E-Commerce Optimization for Farms here. It’s an overview of the key elements of this episode, put together by Christina for you!
The updated CSA E-Commerce Platforms Guide can be accessed here.
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Early Bird Campaigns that Convert — In this week’s episode, I mentioned that I am currently in my final week of the CSA this season. In fact, I’m in the middle of my “early renewal promotion” to get my CSA members to sign up again. IF you want to learn my system for how I do this every year, I offer my step by step online course to help you get it done. This course will teach you how to build a compelling offer that gets your current members to decide to renew during your promo campaign. I show you the emails to write, the posts to create, and the ENERGY you need to generate in the week before you launch.
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