How do you raise your prices and get your customers to buy at that price point? (And feel good about it?) 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 needed to buy a countdown timer for our Chopped Competition -- a big one that everyone can see from the ...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 236
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 pre-sold in 7 days before November 1st! That's 7 months before we start our season. And most of them came on day one of the promotion period. In today's podcast, I'm doing a full-scale audit of the whole...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 235
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 that we (as the salesperson) have assumed that the customer has a level of understanding he/she simply doesn’t have. From the inside looking out, we think, “Everyone ...
Oct 25, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 234
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. When it comes to communicating with your customers and leads, it is VITAL that you have some kind of identifier, label, or marker on their account to help you know what messages to send their way. So where can you add ...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 233Ep. 1
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. In today's episode, I'm revealing "sales secrets" that the great sales reps often leverage to quickly connect with their prospects and close more deals. It's something known as: "sales mirroring." Basically, you are holding up a mirror and reflecting back what you are seeing from your custome...
Oct 11, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 232
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 share some best practices for how we can improve our SEO performance and drive more organic traffic to our business. This interview was so good that I hired Julia afterwards to "SEO-proof" my farm business! Wh...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 231
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 through why repetition of this CTA button is so important for conversions. I also share some best practices for how to design (and write copy for) that button. It's a simple, quick tip that you can execute on in under 10 minutes! Try i...
Sep 27, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 230
Who are your "best" clients in your farm business? Do you know? And how do you define "best" when it comes to your customers? 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. In business, it's vital that you A.) know who these clients are, and B.) that you take GOOD care of them so they keep replicating the desired behavior. So what are som...
Sep 20, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 229
Traffic is a count of the number of visitors to a website, web page, or your point of sale. Increase the number of people who get exposed to your message, and you will inevitably increase your traffic (and your sales). If I know that 20% of people who see my message end up clicking to my website or online store, then the way to get more eyes on my offer is to increase the number of people I'm funneling through that message in -- aka turn up the traffic hose. If you're a newer farm business, one ...
Sep 13, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 228
What farm marketing metrics are you tracking in your business? When I first took the reins of sales/marketing in my business, I didn't know I SHOULD be tracking metrics, much less which ones! Peter Drucker (wise, business man) once said: "You can't improve what you don't measure." SO TRUE. Please trust me: if you haven't starting measuring data, you're leaving money on the table. The data is there, waiting to show you something. Don't be afraid of it. Let it guide you. In today's podcast, I'm pu...
Sep 06, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 227
How much does it matter that a customer "like" you -- before they buy your product? Turns out, it helps a ton. In today's episode, I let you peek into one of my private Book Studies I'm doing with my Accelerator Group Coaching cohort this summer on the best-selling book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini, PhD. In this study, we discuss two key psychological "trigger points" that will set off automatic behaviors in our clients. What are they?... "liking" and "social proo...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 226
A few weeks ago, I broke a personal weekly record with my online pre-sales for this time of year. My store sales revenue jumped by 35% in my Local Line store. I accidentally did something different that week, and I think that's the reason it happened... In today's episode, I share the story and why I think it worked. If you have an online store that you're driving customers to each week -- this tip will totally work for you. And it took about 15 minutes to implement. I'm all about KEEPING IT SIM...
Aug 23, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 225
Sometimes you just need to have a few key elements in place in your marketing system to get the sales going. In today's episode, I interview a guest who spends most of her time on two things -- social media and an email marketing process (called a "nurture email automated sequence"). These two elements are enough to drive new clients into her world and get them to feel ready to buy her bulk beef. If you're looking for ideas for content marketing for a bulk buy business, this episode will resonat...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 224
If you want to be in business for a long time, then you MUST become a master at making "offers." An offer is not your product. An offer is how you position and pitch your product in such a way that makes a person want to buy it. There are LOTS of different ways you can pitch your product, and in this episode, I'm sharing 10 of the most popular ones you see around many industries (that also work for farming). (Plus I share how you can get my Ultimate list of marketing offer Ideas in the show.) Th...
Aug 09, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 223
August 2, 2023 by Corinna For many farms, COVID-19 forced many of us to re-imagine how we could sell our products to our customers, and inadvertently created an opportunity to sell more product with less work. Today's guest is Sarah Bakker from Field Sparrow Farms, and she shares how moving to an online pre-sale process made everything easier. We'll learn how she drives the marketing engine in her business -- you'll be surprised to find out how simple it is. Sometimes, you don't need a lot of be...
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 222
What if you only needed 100 "true fans" to hit $100K in revenue? I remember in my early years of farming, I was just grasping for new clients -- whatever I could get! I wasn't looking at numbers, or data, or patterns. I didn't think about a "strategy" for how to hit revenue goals. Today, I share the "Principle of the 100 True Fans," (well, actually it's called the Principle of the 1000 True Fans, but 100 is way more accessible for farmers). The idea is that if each of our 100 "true fans" bought ...
Jul 26, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 221
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 florists' shop with her product. After months of no sales, she finally got them to convert. And now they are regular clients. Bridget has a ton of wisdom to share -- even though she's only been doing t...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 220
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 energy translates to your customers. In 2017, I stumbled accidentally onto a path where I began creating "new" projects and content with my clients. I saw an immediate increase in excitement and attention to my brand. I now make it a prac...
Jul 12, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 219
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 a CSA worked, how to sign up, etc. I could tell some of them were interested, and some weren't, but it would take me a little longer to figure out if they'd be successful . Years later, I now know how to shorten that process immensely. I've learned how to ask the right questions first, read body language, and determine ...
Jul 05, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 218
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 check that one out too here. In today's podcast, I share the monthly and annual marketing tasks that repeat every year, to keep the flywheel spinning. Creating a system for your marketing strategy is the key. When you k...
Jun 28, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 217
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 keep the flywheel spinning in my farm business, and to keep the revenue coming in. Creating a system for your marketing strategy is the key. When you know the tasks that drive results in your business, and you create a container/system to make sur...
Jun 21, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 216
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 do you create interest, pique curiosity, and overcome the "outlier" factor that might keep a person from trying it? This episode is full of practical wisdom based on trial and error of being in the ...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 215
What if I told you that the average cart abandonment rate across all industries is 69%? OMG, yes. It's a big deal. This week, I was placing an online order for poly bags for our farm's pack shed. But as I was reading the product description, I couldn't tell if this was the "right bag." I went to look at the actual box in my pack shed to read the label. I copied down the product number, and all the specs like 1.5 mil and 1.8 gallon -- just so I could make sure it was the same bag. But the product...
Jun 07, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 214
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 might even scan the website all the way to the bottom! But they don't take action because they can't figure out what exactly is going to happen when they click the BUY NOW button...
May 31, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 113
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 husband has authority in the fishing space which helps them attract new clients. And with a "fun" brand that includes singing sea shantys and leading seashore foraging ...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 212
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 did wrong. Did I type something wrong into Google? Why would Google give me a search result for somewhere on the west coast? The experience DID give me a lot to think about when it comes to marketing, though. There were several...
May 17, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 211
Are customers experiencing success with your product? Or are they overwhelmed and confused once they get it in their kitchen? (Maybe they're not even using the product because they've given up on it!?) Yikes! As a marketer, our job is not just to get our customers to buy. We ALSO need to make sure they experience a "win" with the product! We want them to LOVE it, know how to use it, and feel like a winner! This "customer win" may not happen on its own, especially for things like bulk beef buys o...
May 10, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 210
How important is it to inspire your customers with your business? In today's podcast, I dig into that question with flower farmer Lyndsay Biehl of Wildroot Flower Company. Over the last 6 years, she has slowly built an organic following of super-fans. And after our conversation, I have my suspicions that it's not just because her flowers are beautiful.... Listen to Lyndsay's messaging, and you'll hear phrases like: "I believe in you... you deserve it... slow down... admire the beauty around you....
May 03, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 209
How are you leveraging word of mouth? It is still by far the #1 way that people hear about your product. So are you building any mechanisms to encourage this to happen more? And what if I told you that around 60% of word of mouth marketing for your brand is happening in offline conversations? When specifically is your product or brand coming to mind for your customer, so that they think to talk about it with someone. In today's podcast, I'm sharing a recording of a Book Study I led with y Accele...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 208
Do you have a product that isn't selling well in your online store? In today's episode, I share a strategy you can try that may change your low-seller to a best-seller. And it only takes 5 minutes. This idea was inspired by the breakfast buffet table at my women's Bible study last week.... Aren't you curious?... This podcast was sponsored by Local Line, the leading e-commerce platform for the local food system. Try Local Line for your farm today! Local Line is offering a free premium feature for...
Apr 19, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 207
