Deborah Niemann – Homegrown Businesses
Want to make money doing what you love on your homestead?
You can do it — by combining what you love with proven digital marketing strategies!
But you need to do it the right way!
In this course, you’ll learn …
- Simple and profitable ways you can earn money on your homestead
- Must-have requirements you need to earning from your homegrown products
- How to market your products for free without spending a dime on ads or a marketing guru (and without asking your niece or grandson to help you)
This is for you if
- You want to explore the multitude of ways you can earn money on your homestead doing the things you love
- You’re new to homesteading and want to a business without leaving your farm
- You already have a business but you want to earn more
These are just a few of the questions covered in the course:
Do you need a sales tax license?
Do you know if your liability insurance covers everything in your business?
Do you know how many pigs (or chickens or eggs or goats) you’ll have to sell to make a living?
Do you know how to market your farm products for free?
Do you know the right way to engage with your customers on social media?
This course takes you through the practical and legal aspects of ing and running your business. Plus you’ll learn about modern marketing so that you can get your amazing products into the hands of people who will love them.
Your Instructor
In 2002, Deborah and her family moved to 32 acres on a creek in the middle of nowhere to grow their own food organically. With the help of goats, sheep, pigs, and poultry, they produce 100% of their meat, eggs, and dairy products, as well as a large percentage of their vegetables, fruit, and herbs. Deborah is the author of six books, including Homegrown and Handmade, Ecothrifty, and Raising Goats Naturally, as well as her latest book, Goats Giving Birth. She also teaches sustainable agriculture courses online for the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. She has been teaching Raising Dairy Goats Sustainably since 2013 and Pastured Poultry since 2015.
Course Curriculum
- Homesteading business intro (4:14)
- How can you make money on the homestead? (2:00)
- Where to sell (14:31)
- Liability and government regulations (5:37)
- Making money with milk (12:58)
- Manure and Compost (1:54)
- Selling Meat (13:21)
- Making money with fiber (6:19)
- Leather and sheepskin (1:40)
- Selling fruits and vegetables (2:22)
- Selling breeding stock (2:50)
- Educational and “Edutainment’ on the farm (2:43)
- Homesteading Business Q&A (31:40)
- Choosing a Business (10:38)
- Business Planning for 2022 (28:40)
- Why You Need a Website (2:17)
- Website Checklist (9:03)
- Email List Basics (5:27)
- Relationship Marketing (2:47)
- Choosing Your Social Media Channels
- Why Do You Need a Facebook Page? (5:00)
- Facebook Insights and Why You Need to Post Daily (8:07)
- What to Post on Social Media (5:00)
- What do you post on Facebook?
- Finding Time to Post on Social Media (2:18)
- Facebook PAGE Checklist
- Creating Graphics with Canva (8:02)
- Introduction to WordPress
- Dashboard in WP
- Understanding User Roles in WP
- Appearance
- Categories and Tags
- Comments Guide
- Discussion Guide
- General Settings
- Media Library
- Media Settings
- Permalinks
- Plugins
- Posts and Pages
- Privacy Settings
- Reading Settings
- Tools
- Writing Settings
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