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Sending Newsletters Through Local Orbit: How it Works

Sending Newsletters Through Local Orbit: How it Works

Local Orbit’s email newsletter tool is one of the most popular features our customers use to share their latest market news and information with buyers and sellers. Our customers tend to send newsletters once a month. If you send newsletters less frequently, you run the risk of being forgotten. On [...]

Restaurants & Institutions Don’t Order on Social Media Sites: Online Marketing Tools That Get Down to Business

Restaurants & Institutions Don’t Order on Social Media Sites: Online Marketing Tools That Get Down to Business

If you find navigating through the sea of online marketing tools daunting, you’re not alone. Even after working in marketing for ten years, I still struggle to keep up as new platforms are added and existing platforms change. Some “marketing experts” believe the key to generating more sales is promoting [...]

Atina Diffley draws on her decades of experience in vegetable production and marketing to provide operators of produce farms of any size with useful, practical, profit-making guidance on how to achieve the highest quality produce for sale.

Eastern Market Hosts Workshop on Post-Harvest Handling & Marketing for Wholesale Growers

Detroit’s Eastern Market, along with the USDA and FamilyFarmed.org, is offering an excellent learning and networking opportunity for fruit and vegetable growers in Detroit. Eastern Market, a six block facility that has been feeding Detroit since 1891, will host a daylong workshop focusing on post-harvest handling, food safety and marketing [...]

Meet Cory: Marketing Through Storytelling

Meet Cory: Marketing Through Storytelling

My passion for food and business began at an early age. The signs were clear. Garfield was my favorite cartoon character because he feasted on lasagna. I learned how to write my name by mimicking letters in a Betty Crocker cookbook. When I was in fifth grade, I would bounce [...]

Ragan and her youngest daughter, Brooke

Meet Ragan: Passionate About Re-linking the Food Chain

As a mother of two young children, nutrition has found its way to the forefront of Ragan’s lifestyle.  “About 5 years ago, when our daughter began indulging in solid foods my husband and I woke up out of our processed food coma and made a pact to not allow junk [...]