Here’s the IMAGE formula for your spreadsheets. Way back in farm spreadsheet tips #47 through #50, there were some spreadsheets to manage your online farm store products. And one of the things you could manage was the URLs for your product pictures. It can be confusing when your products start to stack up and you’ve … More fsa tip #63 add product images to your farm spreadsheets
So you want to take garlic pre-orders? How much of your garlic should you sell while it’s still standing in the field? Today’s spreadsheet will help you figure out how much garlic you want to hold back to plant next year’s crops. And how much garlic you’ll have left to sell. There’s a safety factor … More fsa tip #61 how much garlic should you pre-sell?
This month’s spreadsheet tips are going to be about pre-selling your garlic. There are definitely a lot of considerations if you want to run a pre-order. How do you do this in your online store? How much should you charge? Is it risky? Will anyone buy in advance? But really the place to start is … More fsa tip #60 how much garlic is in your field?
Leave a potato on the counter and it will sprout. Bury it in the garden, and it will grow. And you might be surprised how well it does without any additional care. There are things that you can do to improve your yields – ad compost, scout for potato beetles, pulg a few weeds. But … More Online stores are like potatoes
You can export CSV files from so many digital places – bank statements, online stores. your website, and more!!! Once your data is in a CSV, you can import it into a Google Sheet. You can then reference that data using spreadsheet formulas. Or modify that data and import it back into the original software … More FSA Tip #50 How to import a CSV file into a Google sheet
These spreadsheets will let you import/update your products in your Local Line farm store. Local line only accepts XLSX files. That means you can use the sheets to manage your products and then copy paste into a blank sheet and export that new sheet with 1 tab a s an xlsx. This is going to … More FSA Tip #49 How to import your products into Local Line
How much time do you have to set up an online store? It’s never going to be enough. And it’s probably more than you need. (And did you notice that I used a picture of Thyme to illustrate time for your online store?) Mid December 2016 We were getting our online Farm Store ready for … More How much time do you have to set up an online farm store?
These spreadsheets will let you import/update your products in your Square farm store. There are a few more steps than last week’s sheets to import items into a Shopify site, but I bet you can handle it! P.S. One really important thing to note is that Square manages products in 2 ways as POS items … More FSA Tip #48 How to import your products into Square
This week the #farmerbookclub is going to be the #farmerpodcastclub. Back in spring 2020 when a certain pandemic flipped many farmer’s marketing plans upside down, Diego Footer ran an Online Sales series on Farm Small Farm Smart. Diego interviewed a bunch of different farmers about a bunch of different ecommerce platforms. (I was actually the … More Farmer Podcast Club: Online Sales series on Farm Small Farm Smart
Don’t you hate it when you spill the beans? Especially when you’ve just finished setting up for your CSA pickup? Perhaps a flash of anger as you envision all the picking that went into that. A bit of worry about whether you’ve got enough beans left to last all dropoff. Some frustration that you overloaded … More Do you hate spilling the beans?