Tag: social media
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Are you an Obi-Wan for good farming? What Star Wars can show us about how to connect with dairy customers.
One of the things that I love doing is working directly with the farmers. They are great people: humble, hard-working, independent, and proud of the care they give the land and their animals. Almost all farms are family-run businesses (97%) and I believe they are this way because you need to have the passion of…
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How to set up Periscope for you or your farm / ag business
Why would you want to do this? I give you five reasons you want to use Periscope for your farm or ag business in an article but here are the headlines. Your customers want to see real dairy farming. Your customers like farm animals and want to see them. Your customers have questions about dairy…
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Five reasons to use Periscope on your farm or Ag business
First thing – what is Periscope? Periscope (winner of Apple’s 2015 app of the year) is live streaming video mobile application. What’s live streaming video? Live streaming video is if you want to broadcast video directly to the world live. You know, it’s what the reporters do on sidelines of football game or weather guys…
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How to handle tough questions on farming through social media with my secret weapon
We all get tough questions about agriculture. It’s not that people are attacking what we do (though some might), it’s just that they may not understand what we are doing and they only want to know more about it or learn our point of view on it. So whether you are talking to a crowd…
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Does Your Future Depend On Your Social Media Etiquette? The Do’s and Dont’s of Social
I recently gave a presentation at School Nutrition Association’s National Leadership Conference in San Diego. I had a great time and actually got an “I love you” out of the audience (first time for that). I wanted to share some of my notes from the presentation because a lot of it was common sense that…