Free Resources for Farm Marketing

This month, we’re reflecting on past wins that made our hearts grow and celebrating our clients, whose tireless work of feeding families is the inspiration behind everything that we do. 

Side-by-side comparison of specialty CSA platforms including CSAWare, Farmigo, GrownBy, Local Food Marketplace, plus e-commerce platforms like Shopify and Square. See which is best for each type of CSA, including traditional farmer’s choice, subscriptions, and more.

Whether you’re working with Grapevine or on your own to set up a website or email marketing, you may be wondering which photos to select and how large they should be. Will your existing photos work? What should be in your photos? Read on to learn our tips!

For purposes of this comparison, we’re focusing solely on platforms that will enable you to have both your complete website and your online store together under one roof, so we’re zeroing in on GrazeCart vs. Shopify vs. Square.

Learn about how you can spend a little time now building out your farm website’s FAQ page to save a lot of time in the future and enhance the user experience.

Imagine you can turn every search into an opportunity, every click into a connection, and every review into a referral. Google Business Profiles allow you to do just that.

Getting your farm photos ready for use in your website and marketing emails is easy — just download the free software, then crop, scale, and export. Here’s our step-by-step guide!

If you’re wondering which email/SMS platform to use for your farm marketing, it depends on the website platform you’re using.

Wondering where to focus your marketing efforts? We suggest starting with a proven framework!

Check out our checklists and conversational prompts to help you stress less. The faster you have everything ready, the faster we can build your website!

Let’s hash it out: is it better for your farm to sell by the pound or by the package?

Whether you’re launching your first online store or considering a platform shift, think through your needs before you invest precious time and money into a farm website platform.

If you know it’s important and are dedicating time to learn social media, it can be hard to know what needs to be in a post to make it successful. Here are some simple tips!

Learn effective strategies that will help you avoid email marketing pitfalls, land in more inboxes, and ultimately drive more sales and growth for your farm business.

Especially for small and local businesses like farms, SMS (text message) marketing is a highly effective way to reach your customers.

When designing your emails, design can work in your favor, making emails engaging and easy to read, or the complete opposite: make your message hard to get across and possibly leading to potential clients hitting the unsubscribe button. Let’s avoid that!

Capturing the media’s attention is no easy feat, but a well-written and strategically distributed press release can help. But first, be sure what you plan to promote is newsworthy.

Stock photos often get a bad rap for being cheesy and inauthentic, but the right ones can take your farm’s e-commerce store to the level while staying true to your brand identity.

When done correctly, email marketing is an incredibly powerful tool that allows you to connect directly with customers as often as you’d like. In this post, we’ll cover how to know if your emails are performing well — and what to do if they’re not!

A logo is your brand’s cover letter: it’s meant to visually communicate your unique identity. But what makes a farm logo great? Answer our 8 questions to find out!

When we say “optimize,” we are referring primarily to the process of compressing file size enough so that it loads quickly, but not so much that it doesn’t look crisp. We also consider visual consistency.

Here are our top tips to leverage Drip to build your subscriber list, boost farm revenue, and more.

If you feel like you’re taking the same photos over and over, check out our tips below to freshen up your camera roll and give you a few more options next time you need photos for marketing. Plus, scroll to the end for a few technical tips!

In the age of email newsletters, social media, and online ordering, digital photos have become a must-have asset for small farms in marketing directly to consumers. Having a beautiful library of high-resolution, professional photos is infinitely valuable.

See November’s newsletter for 3 food/farm funding opportunities, some impactful website platform updates, and a holiday marketing checklist so you can stay focused this season.

Learn about an important change to Square order update emails, plus our seasonal promo that will make website consultations more accessible.

We’re sharing Square, Klaviyo, and Shopify updates that make your customer experience and order fulfillment smoother. Plus, some mental health resources from SARE.

Make life easier! We cover boosting your farm’s SEO, a game-changing Klaviyo update, and Square’s new point of sales device.

This month, we’re diving into USDA grant information, new SMS support from Local Food Marketplace, a free tool from Google, & more!

Find resources on appealing a USDA grant funding freeze, learn about Google Shopping’s new feature, and meet our new team member, Mary!