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372 Dealing with Dread: The Hidden Marketing Obstacle That’s Keeping Farmers Stuck

July 29, 2026 Have you ever found yourself putting off the very marketing task that could help your farm grow? Writing the email. Launching the promotion. Recording the video. Raising your prices. Building the sales page. You know it needs to get done… but every time you think about it, you feel that heavy sense…
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371 Rebroadcast: Use This Weekly Checklist to Sell More at the Farmer’s Market

July 22, 2026 This podcast is for all of you who go to farmer’s markets!! Do you want to walk away from the market feeling like you did everything you could to maximize sales that day? Here’s a fact: You’re going to sell more at the farmer’s market if you do a little bit of…
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370 Finding the Friction That’s Costing You Sales

July 15, 2026 Every farm has friction. The question is… can you see it? Friction is anything that makes buying from your farm harder than it needs to be. It shows up in every business—often in places we’ve become blind to because we know our own systems so well. The good news? You don’t have…
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369 The One Metric That Tells You if Your Farm Leads Are Actually Worth Anything

July 8, 2026 What is a lead actually worth to your farm business? Most farmers know how many email subscribers they have. Far fewer know what those subscribers are actually worth. And that can lead to some very bad marketing decisions. In this episode, I introduce a simple metric called Earnings Per Lead (EPL) that…
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368: How to Prioritize Your Farm Marketing When Time Is Tight

July 1, 2026 One of the questions I hear all the time from farmers is: “What marketing channel should I focus on?” Or: “If I only have a few hours a week, what’s the minimum marketing I need to do?” But I think that’s the wrong question. The real question is: Where should I invest…
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367 Not Every Offer Is a First Offer: A Live FMS Coaching Call with Pigasus Meats

June 24, 2026 What happens when you launch an offer that seems like a no-brainer… and nobody buys it? In this episode, you’ll listen in on a real Farm Marketing School coaching call with Lexi from Pigasus Meats. Lexi came to the call frustrated because their Simple Supper Box subscription had only attracted one customer after months…
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366 What Farmers Can Learn from Aldi’s “Shop First” Strategy

June 17, 2026 I got this podcast episode idea in the middle of Aldi. Seriously. I was walking down the grocery aisle when a sign stopped me in my tracks. It said: “Shop Aldi First.” And I remember thinking: “Dang. That’s good.” Buried inside that simple phrase was a powerful marketing lesson that applies to almost…
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365 Build Your Farm’s “Dream 25” List

June 10, 2026 What if the fastest way to grow your farm business wasn’t finding more customers… but finding the people who already HAVE your customers’ attention? In this episode, I’m introducing the concept of the “Dream 25 List” — a simplified version of the famous Dream 100 marketing strategy — and showing farmers how…
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364 CSA Buy Down Offers: Marketing Case Study with Thirsty Fruit Farm

June 3, 2026 In this episode, I sit down with Krista Barzen-Hansen of Thirsty Fruit Farm — one of my students inside Farm Marketing School — to break down how her marketing has evolved over the past year. In this farm marketing case study, we unpack: how customers discover her farm, how she nurtures leads,…
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363 Find Your Farm’s Proof Sentence (That Helps Customers Say Yes Faster)

May 27, 2026 What if one sentence could help your customers trust you faster? In this episode, I’m introducing a powerful marketing tool called a proof sentence — a simple line that helps your customer think, “Yeah… this is probably going to work for me, too.” A proof sentence doesn’t just describe your product. It…
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