PUBLICATION SP787A
Are You Ready to Start a CSA? Marketing Your CSA and Making Your Customers Happy
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Summary
Marketing basics for Tennessee CSA operators, focused on finding target customers and building a written marketing plan. Summarizes effective ways to recruit members, plus websites, free online listings, social media, partnerships, and on-farm events. Emphasizes keeping members by setting clear expectations, communicating through newsletters and recipes, offering share and payment options, asking for feedback, and handling complaints well. Includes insights and pricing/share examples from a Tennessee CSA.
Publications in Series: Are You Ready to Start a CSA?
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