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How Wolf Creek Family Farm Sells By Weight Using Local Line
More and more farms are diversifying their revenues. From running a CSA program, adding laying...
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LocalPay, a better way for farms to accept online payments
Food is a low-margin industry. Farmers, producers, manufacturers, distributors, chefs, and grocers;...
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How to Sell Meat by Weight Online Using Local Line
For many farmers, sticking to pack sizes doesn’t make sense for their business. For example, if...
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The Top 5 Local Line Sales Reports You Need to Be Using for Your Farm
Let’s talk data. Farming successfully relies on many data inputs. You monitor rain, soil health,...
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7 Local Line Best Practices To Increase Your Online Sales
Get the most out of your Local Line account! Using all the features to the fullest will allow you...
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How to Take Product Photos for Your Online Farm Store
A lot goes into building a beautiful online store. Great product descriptions, a stand-out brand...
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How This CSA Increased Their Average Sales with Local Line
Since moving their CSA online, Milky Way Farm’s sales have seen a noteworthy increase in their...
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The Best Farming Book You'll Read This Year Isn't About Farming.
How ‘Ready Farmer One’ Will Change The Way You Think About Business Ready Farmer One is a modern...
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How to Write Product Descriptions That Sell
When you’re selling food online, your product descriptions and product photos are the most...
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Upselling and Cross-Selling: How to Increase Your Order Size
The most frequent question we get from farmers is how can I increase my order size to meet my...
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How This Microgreens Farmer Took Control of Their Sales
Leveraging Data as a Farmer We all know data plays a large role in success. Starting their...
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Local Line Now Seamlessly Integrates With Other Apps
Your Local Line account now seamlessly integrates with your most commonly-used digital tools! We...
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How Local Market Balances Online and In-Person Sales Using Local Line
Located in Fernie, British Columbia, the team at Wildsight Elk Valley and Mountain Market wanted to...
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How Shared Legacy Farms Sold Out Their 400 Member CSA
Kurt and Corinna Bench run Shared Legacy Farms, a 400 member CSA in Elmore, Ohio. With over 12...
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Local Line Releases New POS Feature in Partnership with Square
Local Line is excited to announce its integration with the Square Terminal. This integration allows...
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How This Farm-Run Online Marketplace Increased Sales with Local Line
Merry Meeting Kitchen, based in Brunswick, Maine, has developed a new multi-vendor, collaborative...
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How This 1-Acre Canadian Micro-Farm Grew Sales by 20% During COVID-19
Good Clean Farm, a 1.2-acre vegetable farm located in Salmon River, Nova Scotia, found a new sales...
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New Feature: Store Credit
Local Line is excited to launch our new store credit feature! This feature allows customers to pay...
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How this Biodynamic Farm is Meeting Demand Online
Based in Mulmur, Ontario, Fiddle Foot Farm saw record sales in May during their annual seedling...
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How to Use Online Ordering to Pre-Sell for Market
COVID-19 has changed the way we do markets. As markets now continue to open, some customers may not...
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New Feature: Payment Options
We're excited to announce a long requested feature in Local Line: payment options. Payment options...
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How Owen Sound Farmers’ Market Increased Sales with Local Line
Co-market managers Richard and Morag have been running the Owen Sound Farmers’ Market together...
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How This Ontario Farmers’ Market Found Success Selling Online Using Local Line
The Bradford Farmers’ Market has been serving their community for over 13 years. Throughout ...
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