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238 How to Make Your Farm Product More Desirable

November 22, 2023 How do you make your farm products highly desirable? To answer this question, this week I share another saga in my continuing quest to find a massage therapist. I share how my prospective LMT played “hard to get” when I tried to book her; and what that did inside my brain to…
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237 Introducing Farm Marketing School — My Digital Farmer’s Online Membership

November 15, 2023 What if you could go ONE place to learn all the farm marketing basics, and DIY your way through them? What if you could spend this off-season, working through ONE marketing project at a time – build it in 30 days, and move on to the next one? What if you could…
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236 How to Raise Your Farm Prices (and Make More $) Using Price Anchoring

November 8, 2023 In today’s episode, I’m diving into a crucial aspect of farm marketing: the art of price anchoring. Have you ever gone to Amazon to buy something with a certain idea in your mind of what something will cost?… and then you see what Amazon thinks it should cost?… For example, I recently …
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235 How to Build a CSA Renewal Promotion Step by Step

November 2, 2023 Do you wish more of your current CSA members would renew their share early? I just wrapped up my end-of-season “early renewal” promotion campaign to my current CSA members, and it’s October 23. I asked 400 members to give me their commitments for next summer. My results?… 310 of 385 spots were…
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234 The Three Most Powerful Words in Farm Marketing

October 25, 2023 When you talk about your farm products, are you making a nice, bullet-point list of features that come with your product? Things like: certified organic by USDA grass-fed, regeneratively-raised locally-sourced raw and unfiltered That’s great, but that may not be enough. The problem with just focusing on features in our marketing is…
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233 Ten Helpful Tags to Set Up in Your Email Service Provider

October 18, 2023 Imagine waking up on Christmas morning and running to tree to pass out gifts, only to discover that none of the packages have labels on them. You have no idea which package is for whom. Some packages go to the wrong person. People get upset. NO BUENO. Ahhh…. the power of LABELS.…
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232 How to Use Mirroring to Close More Sales

October 11, 2023 How often do you hold up a mirror? If you’re good at marketing, you’re doing it ALL THE TIME. We mirror in two ways: In our behavior and face to face interactions with customers/prospects In our messaging. Here’s an example of a mirroring effect in action in your messaging: In today’s episode,…
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231 How to SEO Your Farm Business with Julia Bocchese

October 4, 2023 Do people “Google” something that leads to your business? If so, what are they typing into that search bar? And is Google recommending your business to them? If not, you may have an “SEO Problem.” In today’s episode, I invite a special guest and SEO expert, Julia Bocchese, onto the show to…
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230 Quick Tip: Put More CTA Buttons on Your Farm Website

September 27, 2023 How many times does your call to action show up on your website home page? (or anywhere on your website?!…) Today I’m going to challenge you to go count. And if you’ve only got 1-2 on your home page, I want you to DOUBLE it (at least). In today’s episode, I talk…
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229 Five Ways to Take Care of Your Best Farm Customers

September 20, 2023 by Corinna Who are your “best” farm clients? Do you know? And how do you define “best”? Maybe it means “biggest-spending” or “biggest referral source.” Or maybe your best clients are customers who add energy to your brand in some other way. We all have a small subset of super valuable clients.…
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