93 Three Tips to Rock Door-to-Door Delivery & Shipping with Brooks Hitzfield of Seven Sons Farm & Grazecart

February 3, 2021 by Corinna

If you’re a farm looking to scale into regional or national shipping, then today’s episode is for you. I’ve got Brooks Hitzfield from Seven Sons Farm, who has helped his little farm scale to 6 figures, by leveraging the power of online marketing, e-commerce and shipping. Brooks shares the 3 secrets to building an effective shipping and delivery system for your farm. He is a great example of a farm that has embraced online marketing to increase their profits.

Today’s Guest: Brooks Hitzfield from Seven Sons Farm & Grazecart

Brooks Hitzfield was born into agriculture and still plays an active role in the family farm (Seven Sons Farms) along with his 6 brothers. Brooks has a particular passion for online marketing strategies and has played an important role in helping the farm grow online revenue to multi seven-figures. He’s also a partner & C.O.O. of GrazeCart, which provides online training & eCommerce software to help other farms adapt and thrive in a changing marketplace. Brooks & the GrazeCart team are on a big mission to help their clients sell 25,000,000 pounds of product by 2023.

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Some of the resources mentioned in this episode:

• • • Find my Facebook group for farmers! I jump in here every month to teach farmers tips and fundamentals of marketing.
    • CSA Week is Feb. 21-28, 2021. Learn more about CSA Week and how to promote it at CSAInnovationNetwork.org
    • I mention the Growing Stronger Conference in the podcast! This is a 5-in-1 event taking place online Feb. 22-27, 2021. If you’d like to register (I’m one of the workshop presenters!), head to this link.
    • Brooks mentions the “Jeff Walker” Launch method. To learn more about this, check out his book: Launch.
    • Traffic and Conversion Summit — this is a great digital marketing conference held by Ryan Deiss from Digital Marketer.
    • Grazecart.com — Learn more about this e-commerce software system designed for meat producers.
    • GrazeCast — subscribe to Brook’s podcast to help farmers with online marketing
    • Amaze Every Customer Every Time — Brooks mentioned this book during the podcast.
    • Perishable Shipping Toolkit — Check out this free worksheet from Grazecart

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