Helping Farmers Get Better at Marketing
July 19, 2023 by Corinna How important are consistency and persistence in sales? Turns out, pretty important for Red Handle Farm. In today’s episode, I interview Bridget McMillion, who shares her story of how she cultivated new florist clients for her cut flower product line by showing up EVERY week all summer long at the…
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July 12, 2023 by Corinna Do certain enterprises in your business feel a little stale? It’s easy for that to happen, when you put things on auto-pilot and just do stuff the same way over and over again. The downside is that your clients can get bored, and YOU can get bored. That lack of…
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July 5, 2023 by Corinna Over the years, I’ve had a lot of people come up to me and ask me, “What’s this box of veggies all about?…” I used to take 5-10 minutes with EVERY person and dive deep into how it worked, how to sign up, etc. Years later, I now know how…
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June 28, 2023 by Corinna I’m often asked by farmers who are strapped for time: “Help! If I only have a few hours a week to devote to marketing, what should I be doing?” Last week, I talked about the top repetitive weekly tasks that drive results in my farm business. So be sure to…
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June 21, 2023 by Corinna I’m often asked by farmers who are strapped for time: “Help! If I only have a few hours a week to devote to marketing, what should I be doing?” Today’s podcast answers that question. I share the top 5 tasks that I repeat every week in my main season to…
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June 14, 2023 by Corinna In today’s episode, meet my special guest Elizabeth Hopkins from Honeymoon Farm – the mushroom capital of the world. Since 2017, she’s been marketing her gourmet mushrooms at a farmer’s market, trying to educate a consumer who’s only familiar with the cremini mushrooms you might buy at the store. How…
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June 7, 2023 by Corinna What if I told you that the average cart abandonment rate across all industries is 69%? This week, I was placing an online order for poly bags for our farm’s pack shed — we’ll need a LOT for the season. But as I was reading the product description, I couldn’t…
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May 31, 2023 by Corinna Wondering why more people aren’t buying your product?… Well, it could be many things. But maybe your customers are confused about how to start doing business with you. Imagine a brand new potential client finds about your brand. They’re curious enough to go check out your website or store. They…
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May 24, 2023 by Corinna In today’s podcast, I interview Camilla Lombard, co-owner of SeaForager — a community supported fishery located in the San Francisco Bay area. Camilla is doing a lot of things intrinsically right with her marketing. Her location is ideal for her product. As the author of a renowned seaforager’s guide, her…
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May 17, 2023 by Corinna Last month, I booked a massage with a new LMT that I found via Google. Thirty minutes before my appointment, I realized that she wasn’t located in Oak Harbor, Ohio. She was located in Oak Harbor, WASHINGTON. Yeah. How did this happen? I’m still trying to figure out what I…
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