3 Favorite Farm Innovations of 2023
Barn2Door made several improvements to help Farmers streamline their sales and operations in 2023, including numerous product releases and feature updates. These innovations include Ongoing Subscriptions, Refunds for Farm Products and POS Built for Farmers.
5 Tips for the Off-Season from Successful Farms
The Off-Season is a critical time to prepare for success for your Harvest. Maintaining a social presence, planning ahead of the coming season, and having realistic goals will set you up for success once Harvest begins. Barn2Door asked our most successful Farms their tips for the Off-Season.
The Importance of Buyer Trust in your Farm Brand
Buyers are eager to find a Farm they can trust when choosing to buy local. Your Products, Branding and Practices all contribute to the trustworthiness of your Farm business. We surveyed 25,000+ Buyers to seek their input on what they look for when purchasing local Farm Products.
Double your CSA Members
Tagge’s Famous Fruit and Veggie Farms in Perry, Utah has seen their CSA membership more than double over the past 2 years. While it did not happen overnight, Laci Tagge recently shared in a Podcast how pricing and packaging their products, expanding convenient delivery options, and personalizing their marketing efforts helped propel their Farm success. Now, they serve 1,000s+ of community members weekly.
Tips to go From Hobby to Full-time Farmer
Tom Bennett of Bennett Farms in Michigan decided to make the jump from Hobby to Full-time Farming years ago. Now, he runs a successful 7-figure Farm. He has tips to share with other Farmers looking to make the jump, from what products to Farm to how to market to Buyers.
Farm Products Stuck in your Inventory? Start Pre-Selling.
If you want to move all your Farm inventory, start Pre-Selling today. You can build consistent cash flow for your business, and satiate Buyers who don’t want to miss out on your products.
3 Tips to Access More Customers for your Farm during Back-to-School Season
Back to school time means that many families are back on a routine schedule of dropping off and picking up kids from class, practices, and other activities. You can maximize your Farm opportunities by having Farm pick-ups after school, offering sustainable food alternatives, and present field trip and volunteer options for students.
Fuel Farm Sales by Offering Buyers Convenient Pick-ups in their “Local Loop”
Farmers seeking to increase Sales and attract more customers, can benefit by offering Buyers convenient Pick-ups in their Local Loop. Analyzing the outcomes from our most successful Farmers, here are three (3) of the most convenient Pick-up destinations along the Local Loop.
3 Key Insights from 1000+ Farm Businesses
Too often, Farmers fail to evolve their business practices or expand their market presence to reach a wider audience. Serving 1000’s of Farmers, here are the 3 Insights for your Farm to succeed selling direct.
5 Tips to Convert Buyers to Self-Serve Ordering
While your Farm may be “new” to self-serve ordering, it is NOT a new experience for your Buyers. Here are 5 Tips to Convert Buyers to Self-Serve Ordering from your Farm, based on the best practices implemented from our most successful Farmers.
How to Sell Farm Products Online
While in-person avenues still hold merit, only 1% of Americans regularly attend farmers’ markets. The other 99% want to find convenient and approachable options for purchasing Farm food - like online. Selling Farm products online has three key components.
Email Subject Lines & Data Benchmarks
If you’re spending time writing emails to drive purchases to your Farm – then ideally, you want your customers to open them, right? The key to meeting (and surpassing!) email benchmarks for your industry and optimizing your email marketing strategy is to have people open and engage with your emails.
3 Farm Success Stories With Email Customer Journeys
Email is a powerful tool for Farmers to drive sales and engage their customers. We selected the three most common use cases to help Farms implement Customer Journeys to drive more sales and spur more customer engagement. We designed and assembled a Welcome, Loyalty, and Re-Engage campaign for each participating Farmer.
3 Steps to Your Farm’s First Order
Between spreading awareness about your products, staying top-of-mind to prompt consistent purchases, and being available on all channels – there are three tactics that work together (every time!) to help drive the quickest response from local buyers.
3 Reasons Why Direct Sales Drives Farm Profits with Chucktown Acres
Barn2Door has partnered with the Rodale Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to growing the organic movement through research, farmer training, and education.
Why Local Delivery Couriers Often Win Over Commercial Carriers
When time is limited and customers demand convenience, many Farmers work directly with a Local Courier to deliver products on their behalf (and forego major commercial carriers, such as FedEx and UPS). So, the question remains: should you choose Commercial Carriers or work with a Local Courier to deliver your Farms’ products?
Why Farms Experience 4x Average Cart Conversion Rates on Barn2Door
One of the most common questions we often get asked when we engage with Farmers is, “why can’t I embed the online store into my existing website?” Our answer: Farms experience 4x the average eCommerce cart conversion rate with a stand-alone store. Here’s why.
How to Start Your First Farm Pickup
If a Direct Delivery service is out of reach at this time, then having a convenient Pickup location or Drop-off point will be critical to your success. Here are three variables to consider when arranging your Farm Pickup(s) to be as convenient as possible for your buyers.
Package Your Farm Products to Sell Out!
When Farms simplify their inventory, pricing, and packaging options, they drive more sales, delight customers, and build a more loyal and diverse customer base. Here are the tactics used by three (3) Farms to drive more revenue with simplified inventory and packaging options.
Can Farmers’ Markets Help Drive Year-Round Sales? YES!
We encourage Farmers to participate in local markets. In fact, our most successful Farmers implement tactics at markets that can help set your business up for success long-term. Here are two strategies your Farm can use today that can bring more stability to your business and help generate year-round revenue.