"...since we did more extensive posting on search engines this year, more
inquiries have come in about our our farm's gift boxes, as well as the
pick-your-own opportunities at the farm."
Tip=Jon Clements says: "make sure your site
gets listed in all the major search engines. www.submitit.com is a good start"
"You really don't know what keywords people will use (re: searching), so
you try to put as many keywords about what you are selling on your front
page as possible."
"A challenge for any grower setting up a web site is handling the flood of
e-mail questions that often come with hosting a web page."
"It's important to make your web site unique in some way."
"We felt if we wanted to survive, we had to go direct to get better prices
and be more in control of our markets."
Jon Clement says: "the web may be just one way to do this"
"I didn't have huge expectations, but we wanted to establish a presence.
The web site was an exploratory thing at first. It's still such a new field
we're all kind of felling it out. We don't know where it's going, but we
feel it's a place we'd like to be."
