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- From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] First market tips?
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:23:36 -0400
The advice depends on your personality and
what you’ve done in the past. Certainly, having as much on display as
possible helps. I am very “retiring”, and don’t make
conversation easily. In fact, when people ask the basic conversation starters
to me, I feed defensive and as if they are prying into my private life. BUT, I
am the 1% personality who feels that way. For me, the challenge is to ask them
if they had a good winter, and follow up from their answers – where did
they go if they went elsewhere, health if they mention it or I know it was an
issue, kids, etc. I am realizing that many folks are not buying meat or
veggies, they are buying the relationship, and the other vendors who are
outgoing and conversant get the business because of it. My display can be as
good or better, my prices as good or better, but they like buying from the
folks who talk with them (and I feel like I’m being nosy when I ask the
basic questions). I am working on it and getting better at it. Have to. Beth Spaugh http://rhomestead.com
http://www.facebook.com/rhomestead "How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the
world is used." - Wendell Berry "Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is
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[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Richard Moyer Our major market opening is tomorrow. Have read that some customers form patterns on the first market that
carry them through the season. Any advice for renewing/strengthening relationships with customers and
building new ones? Thanks, Richard Moyer Out to pick and pack more. |
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[Market-farming] First market tips?,
Richard Moyer, 04/20/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] First market tips?, John Ehrlich, 04/20/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] First market tips?, Beth Spaugh, 04/20/2012
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