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- From: "Tom at Limerock" <limerock AT thirdplanet.net>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Market-farming] business sense
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:45:32 -0500
As a roadside market/farmer I can not agree
more. One thing I try to do is learn people's names and call them by name
each and every time they stop. This is especially effective when you
have lots of other customers within earshot. ( I do truly like to get
to know my customers. This time of year, it gets lonely not seeing
them, asking how their family is, how the fishing was that day,
etc.)
Here are two good examples from last
year:
I called a few customers by name as they
were paying for their produce one day (as always) and when it came time to take
the next person's money (an older man with his grown sons who has stopped
several times before) he said 'hello and just what is your name?' and we
introduced ourselves. Kinda clever way to present his name to me.
And yes, I call him by name now too.
Another time, a regular stopped with several
friends. After greeting her by name, the others said to her, 'Wow!
You must come here a lot.' Then she advertised for me and replied 'Always,
I wouldn't go any where else.'
( I do truly like to get to know my
customers. This time of year, it gets lonely not seeing them,
asking how their family is, how the fishing was that day, how did
their weekend of making pickles go, etc.)
Tom
Limerock Orchards and Roadside
Market
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[Market-farming] Re: Market-farming Business-Gross Profits,
jasperm1, 02/04/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Re: Market-farming Business-Gross Profits,
GreenMrkt, 02/04/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Re: Market-farming Business-Gross Profits,
Tradingpost, 02/08/2005
- [Market-farming] business sense, Tom at Limerock, 02/08/2005
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[Market-farming] Canopy,
logrock, 02/08/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Canopy,
Willie McKemie, 02/08/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Canopy,
TxBeeFarmer, 02/08/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] Canopy, Willie McKemie, 02/09/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Canopy,
Lucy Goodman, 02/09/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] Canopy, Willie McKemie, 02/09/2005
- RE: [Market-farming] Canopy, logrock, 02/09/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] Canopy, Willie McKemie, 02/09/2005
- RE: [Market-farming] Canopy, logrock, 02/11/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] Canopy, Willie McKemie, 02/09/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Canopy,
TxBeeFarmer, 02/08/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Canopy,
Willie McKemie, 02/08/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Re: Market-farming Business-Gross Profits,
Tradingpost, 02/08/2005
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