When Do You Take Calls? Farmers and Ranchers are often out in the fields working during the day. When do you like to conduct your business over the phone? When is the best time to call you? (Not unsolicited of course. Calls from your suppliers, colleagues, customers, etc.) Online Surveys & Market Research

July 30th, 2009 | Tags: alpacas, business, business contacts, calling, calls, farmers, phone calls, Ranchers | Category: Business Matters, Farm Business | Comments Off

Alpaca Nation recently sent it’s customers an email. In it, they let customers know that they appreciate their participation in their customer satisfaction surveys and that they will be making some changes based on the feedback they received. They report that they will be upgrading with larger photos, lineage reporting, and show results in the [...]

April 13th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca herdsire list, Alpaca Nation, alpaca sales list, AlpacaNation, alpacas, ANSync, business, competition, customer service, economic climate, Fairhope Alpacas, King Kong, sales, sync | Category: Business Matters, Farm Business | Comments (3)

With all the economic upset lately, I have been contemplating being in the alpaca business and what that means for me during these harrowing times. One friend pointed out to me that if I had all my money in the stock market, rather than invested in alpacas, I would have about half of what I [...]

March 16th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca business, alpacas, business, Fairhope Alpacas, sculptor, successful | Category: Farm Business | Comments (7)

Anyone else notice how much times are changing? Now that we have unfathomable amounts of information just a click away, the power in business has shifted significantly to the consumer. Consumers have access to billions of vendors, why should they choose you? The answer lies in the relationship. Your customers have to trust you. They [...]

February 21st, 2009 | Tags: 21st Century, alliance, alpaca, alpacas, business, business model, changing times, collaboration, consumer, customer, fulfillment, J.P. Rangaswami, relationship, trust | Category: Business Matters, Quotes | Comments (1)

Blackberries aren’t black to start with. Or sweet for that matter. In fact, blackberries start out quite green. And quite sour. Then they turn reddish. And then black. And that’s when the birds start to eat the blackberries. ======================================== Which brings us to the most interesting part of consumption. ======================================== And how a blackberry can [...]

February 9th, 2009 | Tags: alpacas, blackberries, branding, business, library of small business ideas, marketing, Powerpoint, psychological tactics, Psychotactics, sales, sales conversions, staggered consumption, the Brain Audit | Category: Business Matters, Marketing/Sales | Comments Off