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Unlock the potential of your chicken farming business with tailored marketing and promotional strategies. Unlike conventional farmers, you can set yourself apart by creating unique visual tools that engage customers' senses—through captivating posters, interactive displays, and enticing aroma experiences. Showcase your farm, your products, and your story to build trust and integrity. Invite the public onto your farm, connect with chefs, and utilize honest sales tactics to foster loyalty and boost sales. Learn the market and take charge of your success!
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Marketing & Promotion Creating the tools you need
This Ain’t No Ordinary Chicken • Conventional farmers have a huge array of materials and resources available to them • Outside the conventional box there is nothing • Create your own
See, Smell & Taste • Engage all the senses • Create good visuals – posters, labels, website, displays, table tents • Show the animals • Show the product • Show the farm & the farmers • Cook it – bring the aroma • Offer free samples • Provide recipes
See, Smell & Taste • Can’t afford the fancy visuals? • Photograph the farm • Photograph the family • Photograph what you do
Sales • Know the rules of salesmanship • Greeting • Dress • Etiquette • Promptness • Be an expert on your product
Be Honest • About the product • How does it look? • How does it cook? (apron cards) • How does it taste?
Be Honest • About what you can deliver • Don’t promise the impossible to get the sale • Develop a reputation for quality and integrity • Know when to say “yes” and when to say “no”
Chicken Products • Whole Roasters • 90% of market • 3# • Cost: $8.50 • Sell for $11 • CA cut • 2 legs • 2 thighs • 2 wings • Split breast • 2.5 # • Cost: $9.50 • Sell for • Deboned & Deskinned • Breast meat = $5.50/# • Dark meat = $2.00/#
Timing & Cost • Majority of cost is in first 5 weeks • Bigger chicken brings less per pound • 1.5 pound dressed = $5.00 / pound • 3.5 pound dressed = $4.00 / pound • 5–6 pound dressed = $2.50 / pound
Know the Market • Fresh • Refrigerated • Frozen • Wholesale • Retail • Direct to Consumer • Whole Bird • Cut Up (California Cut) • Specialty Cuts • Breast • Deboned & skinned • Dark meat
Invite the Public • Open the doors to the farm • Have a bio-security plan and stick to it • But make them feel welcome!! • Be candid
Invite the Chefs • Restaurant day at the farm • Invite chef, owners AND wait staff • Show, tell, share, listen • Provide table cards (cheap advertising) • Be candid
Get It In Writing • Contracts answer questions about who is responsible for what • Contracts with farmers • Contracts with buyers • Contracts with transport
Generating Visibility • Access • Expertise • Internet • Quality • Other
Push -- Pull Quantity Quality
Push -- Pull Genetic Diversity (Healthy) Genetic Uniformity Product Variability Product Consistency