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263 Interview with Farmhand: 101 Guide to Using SMS Texting in Your Farm Marketing Strategy

May 22, 2024 Are you using SMS in your  marketing? SMS is “code” for text messaging. It stands for short message service. And in today’s podcast, my guest, Ari Memar, is going to give us a basic tutorial in how we can be using texting in our farm marketing strategy. Turns out there is a…
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262 What do I SAY to attract more farm customers?

May 15, 2024 Raise your hand if you want to find more farm clients… I often hear farmers lamenting that they can’t find enough customers. Maybe the people you are attracting don’t live in your local area, or they DO live in your area, but they aren’t buying. You have an attraction problem. If you’re…
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261 Is This Thought Holding You Back in Your Farm Business?

May 8, 2024 This week, I have two farm projects that feel like a heavy lift. And because these decisions feel hard, I’m not taking action…. (Does this sound familiar?) I feel like I need more information. I’m worried I’ll make the WRONG decision that will upset clients. And finding a solution would require several…
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260 The TLCF Marketing Formula for Farms

May 1, 2024 When I first started learning about farm marketing years ago, there was SO MUCH. I felt overwhelmed. I really wanted a framework to help me stitch it all together and give it a rhyme and a reason. Then, one of my mentors shared an acronym that I found really helpful. It’s TLC.…
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259 If I Only Had 2 Hours to Do Farm Marketing, What Would I Do?

April 24, 2024 As life would have it, I’ve been in a season of long-term illness this winter. These health issues have been so distracting, that I’ve had to pare down my farm marketing to the absolute bare bones. What’s interesting is that I haven’t noticed a huge difference! I’m often asked by farmers, “If…
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258 Auditing Your Online Store for Better Conversion

April 17, 2024 Last month, I was doing a one to one coaching call with one of my farmer Accelerator members. They came to me with a problem: “Help us figure out why hardly anyone is buying from the online store.” They had recently received a boost in traffic to their website thanks to some…
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257 What is Your Farm Product’s Conversion Rate?

April 10, 2024 Every one of your farm products has a conversion rate. The question is: do you know what it is? I used to scream and rail and raise my fists to the heavens in frustration, when I couldn’t get more people to buy my CSA box. What was wrong with me? Maybe nothing……
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256 Customer Onboarding Ideas for Your Farm Products

April 3, 2024 Do you have a customer retention problem? If so, I bet I know one of the major factors behind it. In this podcast, we take a deep look at the critical customer management system that should be firiing RIGHT AFTER a person buys. It’s called “customer onboarding.” I know. Not very sexy.…
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255 The 8 Step Farm Marketing Framework

March 27, 2024 Today it’s time to review the marketing basics. When I was a volleyball coach years ago, I used to say, “We spend 80% of our time focusing on the basics.” If you can’t serve a ball over the net, you’ll never score points. If you can’t bump the serve into the air…
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254 How to Market a Flower CSA – with the Dirt on Flowers Podcast

March 20, 2024 How do you market a flower subscription CSA? That’s the topic of today’s podcast, which is actually a recording from ANOTHER show I was on last week. I was interviewed for the Dirt on Flowers podcast, and the episode turned out SO good that I asked if I could share the recording of…
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