This Has Been An Amazing Start

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 Good morning, everyone, it’s Mark, the bowl hat farmer. Thank you, thank you for signing

 up as ambassadors for the Food Finders Hub.co.uk.

 to say thank you because we’ve had up at 120 ambassadors come on board so far and as a

 I thought I’d just drop you a quick note

 voluntary role we appreciate that very much, 

I have to say because to me I came up with

 the idea of the site, spoke to a friend who’s put it together with a team of designers

 and we are up in a way and I didn’t realise we originally thought if we could get 50 consumers

 signed up within the first month to be amazing and we’ve got 2000 plus which was signed up in the

 first three days. So really good, really really busy and now the next thing is to get content on there

 for the consumers to be able to find and go out and be able to buy. So and that’s where you come in working hard in the background, we’ve got some girls now which are kindly working out voluntary

 contacting places locally where we are down in Suffolk. The next thing for us is to really

 motor this across the country. The demand is clearly there, you know I thought I was just the

 crazy one who you know didn’t want supermarket food. Now I realise I’m not alone and that there

 is thousands upon thousands of people who also want to, real good wholesome natural nutritional food.

 So guys let’s get the public what they’re looking for. Let’s find them. There are some really really

 good British growers out there and producers and you know box schemes, river Ford for instance

 have signed up good food project of contacting me to say they’re going to come on board.

 There are some big companies out there that’s a lot of small independent growers who can serve

 people locally. Let’s get out there, let’s find them. Guys we are going to change the way people

 shop. This is a bloody revolution guys and you are signing up to come on board and help it happen.

 Thank you all so much. Have a great day, guys.

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3 responses to “This Has Been An Amazing Start”

  1. Lee Proffit avatar
    Lee Proffit

    I have emailed 6 local outlets, including a link to the site and not a single one has bothered to get back to me.
    So planning on taking the bus (I have no transport) next week plus a handful of handouts, with the aim of actually talking to them and hopefully some of their customers.

    1. Shropshire Lass avatar
      Shropshire Lass

      I think the face to face approach is the best way to go really. Seeing and talking to folk in person helps set up a trusting relationship from the outset. I would keep the initial communication short and simple, stressing the positive advantages to them, especially FREE advertising, and that one of the initiative’s key objectives is to support their business, way of life, and their future. As the FFH initiative develops one can always make an appointment to go back to folk you originally approached, or just pop back in and ask to speak to the owner/manager or when it would be convenient to do so, or get back in touch with them via email or phone or their website if they have one, . Might be worth doing a basic bit of research on successful marketing tips for launching a new business (same principles and practices are likely to apply for the FFH project.

      1. Thanks for the reply,

        I agree that the personal touch is going to be needed (hence my bus expedition next week), but I was very surprised that not a single one of the six emails even got a reply, despite the mention of free listing on the site and no charges going forward.
        I thought that they would have jumped at the free advertising bit.

        This is one of the reasons that I asked for that (free to list / no further charges), be included in the Ambassadors letter.
        We also need to get away from calling us “consumers”, we are customers – customers buy, consumers just consume.
        And stop calling them “hubs”, they are shops or businesses, that we want to join the hub (a hub being a central part).
        If we can supply a potential farm / shop / business with a well written letter covering all of the facts, it is going to make our job a whole lot easier and we will look a lot more professional, something that people want to join up to

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