Bidding our tomato logo a heartfelt goodbye…. You may have noticed a fresh, new look when it comes to Local Food Marketplace! Since our inception in 2009, our humble tomato logo has seen us through our development from a local, direct-to-consumer sales platform to the comprehensive sales and distribution platform […]
Food Hub Success: How High Country Food Hub Utilized Collaboration Over Competition
Meet High Country Food Hub and learn how a demand for local food storage and distribution and utilizing collaboration over competition led to their success
Since 2009, Local Food Marketplace has supported hundreds of food hubs by providing a streamlined sales and distribution platform backed by our expert Support staff. We’ve put together an informative blog series focusing on stories of successful food hubs we’ve worked with for years. In Part 1, we spoke with […]
Photograph provided by Alaska Food Hub Since 2009, Local Food Marketplace has supported hundreds of food hubs by providing a streamlined sales and distribution platform backed by our expert Support staff. We’ve put together an informative blog series focusing on stories of successful food hubs we’ve worked with for years. […]
Image provided by Market-to-Go at Grow Oak Ridge of vendor Peg Harrison. A few weeks ago, Local Food Marketplace launched a brand new Mailchimp Integration, included with most packages. While it’s still a brand new feature, farms and food hubs have eagerly been adapting it, seeing an increase in sales […]
At LFM, we are constantly developing our platform to provide the best product for local food producers and sellers. Most recently, we are excited to announce our Mailchimp Integration included with all LFM packages! According to the Houston Chronicle, “Approximately 97 percent of businesses are using email marketing to try […]
How Quality Photos Drive Sales
By Liz Hammond of Local Food Marketplace and Tricia Phelps of Taste the Local Difference Online sales through Local Food Marketplace increase your products’ accessibility, offer convenience to your customers, and develop key marketing touch points that you otherwise would not have – but you need to harness these opportunities […]
Online sales through Local Food Marketplace increase your products’ accessibility, offer convenience to your customers, and develop key marketing touch points that you otherwise would not have – but you need to harness these opportunities to get the most out of them. We teamed up with Taste the Local Difference (TLD) for […]
Have you been struggling with managing order pick-ups from your customers? Are your more popular pick-up times overrun with customers while other timeslots are slim? Do you want to accept gratuities for your online store’s services? We have great news for you! Here at LFM we have recently released two […]
By Liz Hammond of Local Food Marketplace and Tricia Phelps of Taste the Local Difference Online sales through Local Food Marketplace increase your products’ accessibility, offer convenience to your customers and develop key marketing touch points that you otherwise wouldn’t have – but you need to harness these opportunities to […]
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