How to Talk About Your High Prices Without Feeling Guilty
The mindset shift Joel Salatin taught me about pricing your products as “craft food” instead of as a commodity. For the second time in less than a year, my husband and I hosted Joel Salatin at our home so we could teach “The Profitable Farm Workshop.” No matter how many times I hear Joel speak, […]
Your Top 10 Herd Share Questions Answered Here
Holy smokes, did I have the most exciting weekend ever! Joel Salatin and attorney Elizabeth Rich stayed in our home for a couple of nights, we co-taught a workshop, we shared some incredible meals and fantastic conversations right here on the farm! I tried not to be too much of a fangirl. I let […]
How to Sell Your Products When You Identify as an Introvert
Do you consider yourself an introvert? Oh boy…if there was a way I could sell my farm products without having to talk with customers all day then heck yes, I would!! You and I just want to farm or work in the garden, we don’t want to have to sell our stuff and interact with […]
Joel Salatin Talks Farm Marketing
300 farmers go out of business every week in America. Every week. I was shocked to hear that statistic. I know 80% of farmers don’t make it past the 2 year mark and only 2% make it to the 5 year mark, but knowing we lose 300 per week is really heart wrenching! While […]
If You Think Market Determines Your Price, You’re Wrong
Ever hear yourself saying any of the following? “I can only sell my eggs for XX amount because in my area that’s all the market will bear.” “The going rate for pork in my area is XX per lb. so I hate to charge much more than that.” “I am competing with farms who have […]
What’s stopping you from building a lucrative customer base?
For the past few months I’ve been covering some great marketing tactics for your farm – how to blog for profit, why you need to build an email list to get more customers customers, and how to make your website work better for you. Now I’d like to bring it all back home and refocus on the very […]
2 Website Tweaks You Can Make For More Profit
If you’ve spent any time here on the blog you know how firmly I believe in relationship centered online marketing as the key to your success on your farm. In this post, I walk you through how to make 2 easy tweaks to your website to make more profit so you can start making your farm […]
Charlotte Smith & Mark McAfee: cheap raw milk is dangerous raw milk
You gotta see today’s video. Doesn’t matter if you produce raw milk or not, nor what kind of Ag related biz you own, you’ll be inspired. Mark McAfee has been a raw dairy farmer for 20 years and is first and foremost a humanitarian. That clearly shines through in this conversation we had a few weeks […]
GREAT way to get more customers + free template
Last post I gave you an extremely powerful tool to Reach out to your customers by email It was a template for an email you could copy to help build trust with your customers. This goes far in developing a loyal fan base who will pay your prices you need to sustain your business. I got lots of thank […]
My secret to getting more customers + download to help
I hear from farmers regularly that you are struggling with sales, wondering what you could be doing to sell more of your products. What you’re doing isn’t working, you’re scrambling around doing all sorts of things people tell you about. Farmer’s markets, deliveries, craigslist, posting at the local feed store. You are exhausted and still don’t have enough customers or a […]