From egibson@jps.net Tue Aug 31 17:53:30 1999 Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:48:36 -0800 From: Eric Gibson To: sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu Subject: The New Farmers Market [ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] REQUEST FOR SUBMISSIONS The New Farmers Market: 1001 Ways to Make Market Sales Sizzle! by Eric Gibson, author of Sell What You Sow! The New Farmers Market will be based on interviews and questionnaires with successful farmers market producers, farmers and managers around the country. Publication date is January of next year. To receive pricing and ordering information about this new book, send an email request to egibson@jps.net Be sure to include your mailing address^×please also send any additional contacts you feel would be interested. (To see more details, as well as the cover of this book, go to http://www.jps.net/grower/nfm.html). With due regards to my friend Jeff Ishee, who posted an almost identical notice a few weeks ago, I too was about to post a similar request for submissions for a new book on farmers markets! Oh well! Variety only enhances farmers markets, so there^Òs no losers, and the winners will be the farmers and market managers who will soon have some great information on how to find satisfaction and profits from farmers markets. My requests are for: ^Õ Logos of farmers markets, or photographs of market displays or market events; ^Õ ^ÓBest Ideas^Ô (1 - 4 paragraphs each) in one or more of the following categories: * Choosing the best products to bring to market (how to stay ahead of trends and the competition); * Display (attractiveness & abundance, product labels, signs, space & color utilization, set-up); * Merchandising (bagging/packaging, recipe & nutrition sheets, pricing); * Selling Tips (sampling, educating customers, relating to customers); * Starting & Promoting the Market (getting the community behind the market, special events, media coverage, setting up an internet web site); * Key issues & challenges & what to do about them: (^Ófarmer-grown,^Ô market diversity (should you allow crafts?), supermarket competition, ^Óbuy local^Ô campaigns, etc.) Everyone who sends in a logo, photograph or ^ÓBest Idea^Ô receives a Free Shipping offer! Each person submitting material that is used in the book will receive an additional 30 percent-off offer. (Be sure to include your address). Each person who submits material that receives a ^Ó5-Lettuce^Ô rating in the book receives a free copy! Deadline for submissions is Nov. 15, 1999. Send them to Eric Gibson, 11543 Quartz Dr. #1, Auburn CA 95602. Please include a note stating your permission to reprint photographs or logos in the book, ^ÓThe New Farmers Market.^Ô Photos and logos will be returned if an SASE is included. Thank you! Eric Gibson New World Publishing egibson@jps.net http://www.jps.net/grower To Unsubscribe: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "unsubscribe sanet-mg". If you receive the digest format, use the command "unsubscribe sanet-mg-digest". To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "subscribe sanet-mg-digest". All messages to sanet-mg are archived at: http://www.sare.org/san/htdocs/hypermail