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Farmers Market Marketing Series #3: Five Solid Ideas for Online Marketing

There are two main ideas, outside of thoughts on social media (which are coming next in this series) that could make the biggest long term difference for you and your farm. IDEA #1: Be Googleable. If you have something you’re offering that people are searching for online, make sure that they can find you. Bottom line, have a […]

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Farmers Market Marketing Series #1: What This Series is and Why I’m Doing It.

How this Farmer’s Market Series came to be… Over the coming days, I’ll be releasing a series of blog posts full of marketing ideas for farmers. I was recently asked to put together a workshop on marketing for farmers at Farmer’s Markets. A volley of emails went back and forth that sounded mostly like me saying,

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a blog post in which I discuss why the whole economy is toxic, destructive and suicidal and yet… marketing is needed to fix things?

This is a different sort of blog than I usually write  because it’s not just about marketing. It’s about the context that marketing happens inside of. Namely, the economy. Of course, most of us have some very justifiable issues with marketing. Some of us wonder if even the whole ‘conscious marketing’ thing is bullshit. But those issues

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Guest Post: The Top 10 Coolest Ways People Are Changing the Economy

by Shilpa Jain of www.yesworld.org  10. Impact Investing: What’s the point of funding good social justice and environmental change projects when your investments are tied up in the very companies and industries that are at the root of the problem?  Impact investors are helping companies and foundations bring their investments in line with their values, for

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financial permaculture

If you’ve followed my work for a while, you’ll know I’m a huge fan of permaculture. I think it’s a framework that might just be one of the more important things in the world right now. What is permaculture? Permaculture is to gardening what yoga is to stretching in the morning. It’s one of the

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