Helping Farmers Get Better at Marketing
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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March 13, 2024 Have you ever thought about offering a Spring Plant Sale to your customers? You grow veggie startup plants for them for their garden. They pre-order them in early March, you get the revenue in the bag, and then deliver them when they’re ready? This has been one of our most popular promotions…
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March 6, 2024 Have you ever thought about monetizing your farm’s YouTube Channel? If you already have subscribers and videos on your channel — this may as easy as 15 minutes to set up. I recently flipped the switch to make monetize my channel, and it’s SO COOL to see passive revenue coming into my…
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February 28, 2024 In today’s episode, I share a case study of one pasture-based livestock farmer, who has spent the last 9 years slowly scaling her business in a way that hasn’t required her to take on debt, while also having time to homeschool her two kids. I ask her: “How’d you get here?” Dana…
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