Helping the Garden Industry Thrive
Garden industry marketers typically face the same challenge: our primary audience is downsizing or eliminating their gardens, and the generations that follow did not grow up learning how to garden. Consequently, even if gardening is of interest, they’re overwhelmed and intimidated about getting started.
Burpee has done a magnificent job of addressing new gardeners through (Click on the headline for more…)
Are you making the same mistakes I have been when cross-promoting your marketing channels? Here’s what I mean: We’ve been publishing a printed newsletter, Let’s Grow, three times per year for the last 7 years. It’s sent to a substantial mailing list we’ve developed over the years, and most of the articles in it are […]
Nothing sells like a photo of a happy customer using your product or showing the fruits (and vegetables and flowers!) of their gardening labor. I’m always amazed at how few companies make a concentrated effort to encourage customer photo submissions. Here are a few tips on how to go about it: (Click on the headline for more…)
Today there’s a popular trend towards marketing with personas – fictitious customers, each representing a different market segment. When developing personas for your business, there are lots of variables to consider, such as age, geographic location, education, experience with your products, whether they’re avid Internet or social media users. The benefits you provide, offers you make, and media you use to communicate is likely to differ from one persona group to another.
For instance, a company selling a self-contained raised bed gardening system may have personas such as: (Click on the headline for more…)
The rise of new media has given companies many options for presenting their sales messages: video, blogs, podcasts, and much more. Many wonder what’s the best way to get their message out. The answer: (Click on the headline for more…)
