Profitable Mindset

Click HERE for 3 Steps to Your Profitable Farm I documented my journey of building a profitable farm so you don't have to struggle like I did my first years. And now, I'll teach you exactly what I do to find and reach customers happy to pay a premium for your product. ​>Click HERE for my Free Training: 3 Steps to Your Profitable Farm​ Save yourself time, money, and stress by joining me for this free training on Monday, July 15th. (A replay will be sent out the same day if you can't make it at 10 Pacific.) Imagine enjoying your farm, your family, and actually having daily free time. Oh - AND some money in the bank! I couldn't imagine it back in 2009 when I started my dairy. I worked hard for a year before bringing home my first milk cow. I interned with other dairy farmers and tried to figure out the farming side. Once I brought home my cow, though, I realized I had to learn how to sell all the milk I was getting daily. Now, I'll teach you how to start the process in ways that are inexpensive and simple. You'll learn:

• Where to find customers that are happy to pay the price you need to charge to make money
• How to reach customers who value your farm-fresh products over the grocery store
• How to quickly build relationships so they come back season after season

And so much more! It's all happening on July 15th at 10 AM Pacific/12 Noon CT/1 PM ET. This is the same foundational process Melissa used to get to $6,000 a week in farmers market sales of her veggies. And the same foundational process Carole used to go from $200,000 in sales to $1,000,000 in a year in beef sales. AND the same process Colleen used to sell out her flower CSA, even after she doubled production. ​See you on July 15th! Sign up to get the replay even if you can't attend live.​ Here's to a farm life you love! Cheers, Charlotte P.S. I love helping farmers sell out of their products. It's one of my favorite things to do. So it really made my day when Elaine shared: "Thanks to the mindset and strategies I've learned from you, I SOLD OUT with ONE sales email, worked far less, and made 77% more revenue." It really is possible to sell more flowers, veggies, meat, and milk using all I share in this webinar. This IS the room to be in. You'll also hear about Farm Marketing Boot Camp - Our Six Week Marketing Intensive - you're invited to get my direct feedback to make your marketing GREAT.

Click HERE for 3 Steps to Your Profitable Farm Erica Benoit was a self-described "hot-mess mom" before she joined my coaching program last summer. Even though they were making lots of sales on their meat and raw milk farm in Central Missouri, there was never any money left - every dime went back into the farm. She forgot customer orders, dropped all kinds of balls on the farm, and was overwhelmed by everything. She lay awake in the middle of every night - looping on everything she still had to do. This anxious looping was exhausting, wasn't productive, and didn't move her ahead. I often hear this complaint from so many farmers. Please know that you don't have to live this way any longer. It's my greatest joy to share this hope with you—and every farmer everywhere—that Erica turned this around and has created success beyond her wildest dreams. >>Tune in and Hear How Erica Made their farm Profitable and Retired Her Husband Working on her own, she couldn't see how they'd ever reach their goal of her husband being able to quit his factory job and farm with her full-time! However, Erica had started with my marketing program a couple of years earlier and had heard about farmers' success with the mindset coaching I offer. Fast forward nine months after joining my coaching program, 5x Your Farm Sales. You'll hear Erica talk about the dream come true - her husband was able to quit his factory job this past March to farm full-time. They've paid off their mortgage, saved more than a year's worth of living expenses, and continue to increase that safety net. This kind of success is possible for you, too, when you learn the skills Erica learned and then implemented over the past few years working with me. It's so important that you hear about these farmers' success in building profitable farms, which I regularly share on the podcast, so you can have hope and confidence that you can build a profitable farm, too. The best chance of success in learning and implementing these strategies is to surround yourself (here and in my class) with farmers who are already doing what you want to do. >>Tune into Episode 212 of the Profitable Mindset Podcast How did she do it? Erica studied and implemented the two main programs I teach. She started with Farm Marketing from the Heart a few years ago to create consistent sales. Then, last summer, she added 5X Your Farm Sales to study advanced marketing and time management and used the coaching calls to manage her mind. You can do this, too. Please know a huge burden is lifted when you learn the money-making skills I teach, and you learn to calm your stress and overwhelm with the coaching calls. See you in episode 212 - Everything you hear Erica did to get profitable is available to you, too. Enjoy, Charlotte

Click HERE for 3 Steps to Your Profitable Farm Hi! Have you heard the term "Pay to Play" on social media? You'll want to know what this means and why it's crucial to play by the rules (or risk being shut down when you try to sell). I cover that and several other strategies that'll help you finally have success getting more customers from Instagram and Facebook, especially. ​>>Tune into Today's episode of The Profitable Mindset Podcast​ ​#211 of the Profitable Mindset Podcast.​ Social media is FREE to use, and almost every one of your potential customers is on there, so why's it so darn frustrating to try to sell something using these platforms? There's a lot of skill involved in how to turn them into customers - skills you can learn. ​Today's episode will help.​ I explain the "pay to play" model used by FB and Instagram. Then, I explain the serious drawbacks to advertising on social media—if you don't understand them, you'll struggle. Once you understand the pitfalls and the possibilities - I've got some recommendations of what's working TODAY, things you can implement right now on social media. Please tune in, save yourself lots of money, and if you ARE spending money on ads, today's episode will save you heartache. Warmly, Charlotte

Click HERE: 3 Steps to Build Your Profitable Farm - free training This ever happen to you? Someone asks the price of your lettuce, flowers, or meat—you can fill in the blank with your product. And as soon as they ask, you freeze, remembering the person last week who surprised you by asking, "Why's it so expensive?!" Truth is… our farm products MUST be higher priced than the store since we have no economy of scale. ​Click HERE to Confidently Charge What You Need​ Just last week, a farmer requested my coaching because she always feels like she has to apologize for her expensive floral designs. I know this is such a struggle among the farmers in my community here. Some women tell me they feel guilty or obligated to keep prices low, others feel angry that people don't get it - - today's podcast episode will help you!! Like my client, Kathryn, you want to feel confident knowing you must charge that much because of all the work, time, and, of course, hard costs that go into your farming. But it can be so hard because these products are often much less expensive at the store. And to add salt to the wound, you've got neighbors selling similar things for much less money. But if you want to farm long-term and not lose money the whole time, you'll have to charge a sustainable price. When you learn the skill I teach today, it becomes much easier to confidently charge a profitable/sustainable price for your meat, milk, eggs, flowers, classes. I tell you, when you solve for this in your life, you feel so much lighter, AND you finally start to make and keep money. Feeling confident and no longer apologizing for your pricing IS a learned skill, like ALL the things I teach in my marketing Bootcamp. The farmers I coach aren't making money because they're more gifted, or live in a better place, or have found the magic FB ad or website. NO—they're making more money than they ever dreamed possible because they're learning the skills of marketing and mind management, and then money follows. Listen to the Profitable Mindset Podcast Episode 210 today and learn how to feel far more confident in your pricing.​ Thanks for being here! Remember - Farm Marketing Bootcamp opens up in July. Plan to join me! A 6 week program to get your marketing started and finessed! Let's get you making and keeping more money. Charlotte

Click HERE for 6 Tools You Need to Build a Profitable Farm You work so hard to create the best farm you can - whether it's meat, milk, flowers, eggs, fiber. Plus all the workshops and tours. I even know some of you are farming oysters and salmon and Air BnB's! You bust your buns to get these products & services to people in your community. I know this because I did it, too. I used to wake up thinking - "my product is amazing. People should be flocking to buy - and they aren't." And despite your best efforts, often you feel like your market just doesn't want what you have. They didn't buy enough whole chickens, so you had them cut up. They didn't buy the Flower and Vegetable Shares… So you made a YouPick and weekly orders. They didn't buy the beef shares… So you created bundles and boxes and still have FREEZERS full of meat. So the obvious thing to tell yourself is - that the market is the problem. But. This thought is KILLING your business. And it's not true. The market is NEVER the problem. I know right now a lot of you reading this are tempted to think, "but Charlotte doesn't know MY market. MY market IS the problem. She doesn't realize it IS saturated with products just like mine, many cheaper." It's totally okay you think that - I hear you! I totally thought this, too, until I figured out the solution I offer today. What my experience with thousands of farmers now shows me time and again is it's NEVER the market that's the problem. There's ONE reason your market is not buying from you. And that lie you tell yourself (you didn't know it's a like, it's okay) is keeping you stuck. Today on the Profitable Mindset Podcast I outline how this dangerous like will cost you thousands of dollars. And, I'll share the three things you have to do to fix this problem. When my clients in the 5x Your Farm Sales coaching program discover the solution to this lie in the first two weeks after joining, and implement the solution I offer today, they start to make consistent sales. They find their market was never the problem. This is the best news ever. Because if the market is the problem - it's out of your hands to fix it. I show you how it's 100% within your control to solve this problem and start making consistent sales at the price you need to charge. Click HERE to tune in and hear how to solve for lack of sales. Enjoy! Charlotte

Click HERE for my free live training: 6 Tools You Need to Build A Profitable Farm If you're like many farmers, you probably struggle with being overwhelmed, exhausted, and burnt out for years. You know you can't keep living this way — so why haven't you DONE anything about it yet? You can't find the time! Or, if you do find time, such as Grandma showed up to take the kids for a couple of hours… you're faced with "... but I can't because I feel guilty or I don't deserve to spend time on myself when there is so much to do." All farmers tell me they struggle with taking personal time, but especially as women, we carry so much guilt around taking time for ourselves because we've been conditioned to think this way. We think we need to provide physically, mentally, emotionally, and often financially - to our families - and we've placed ourselves last on the to-do list. This costs us a great deal—especially in terms of our health, energy, and profitability. It's ironic that thinking we need to be doing it all is keeping us from even making money. Then, we end up beating ourselves up for it all. Well, I say, "No more!" Today's episode is about learning 3 simple steps to start creating more personal time for yourself without feeling guilty. I hope you'll try this. There's a direct correlation between feeling fulfilled in life and having an hour of personal time each day. NOT time folding laundry or working out… I mean legit, do-nothing downtime, just for you. Sounds crazy-impossible?! Trust me, I've been right where you are. And when I saw how just an hour a day to myself changed my whole life, I had to share with you. Now, I spend my life teaching farmers how to make money. And it starts with learning to manage your time. And step one in learning to manage your time… is the skill I teach today. Tune in to this episode and give it a try! Warmly, Charlotte

Click HERE for the Free Email Marketing Course It's crucial that you learn marketing from people who've created long-term success with it. There are no 'make money fast' schemes out there that work. Oh, there are plenty of people trying to sell you one! But from years of experience with thousands of farmers, I know that you can't spend enough money to compensate for not learning marketing. By that, I mean you won't successfully spend enough money hiring someone to do your marketing to get profitable. You can't spend enough money on FB ads to make yourself profitable. Nothing will build your profitable farm without you learning marketing. So, if you've got to learn it, it might as well be fun and fulfilling. Today, on the Profitable Mindset Podcast, I'm in the hot seat answering Jonathan Kilpatrick's burning questions about our marketing workshop I taught in Minnesota. Hear how I used the marketing skills I teach farmers to create my own successful, profitable farm. Hear about the 'cash cows' farmers are building today using the same foundational principles. Tune in and learn several things, including:

• The one task you can do each week to build loyalty and connection
• How to build trust with people online so they'll buy from you consistently
• The number one way to build SEO on your website - and it's NOT by hiring expensive SEO consultants or programs

It's crucial that you learn to market your farm products. There's no fast or easy way to do it! If there was a fast, easy way… you know everyone would be doing it successfully. The fact that learning is "hard" weeds out those who are not willing to do hard things. But that's not you, insert first name here. I set up my marketing a year before I brought my first cow home, so I hit the ground running and was sold out the day I opened for sales. Now I teach farmers to do the same. Listen TODAY and learn. Warmly, Charlotte

The first month after I started my farm and brought home my first milk cows, I realized there was no way I could get it all done! By "all," I mean the milking process, working with customers, feeding my family, and driving my daughter to basketball practice and games six days a week. It was physically, humanly impossible for me to run the farm all by myself! I hired my first employees and then began the process of learning by experience what NOT to do and what works best. I share some great techniques today that I learned in those first few years. Tune into the link above for the Profitable Mindset Podcast. I share skills you can use to manage your new employee(s) with confidence and ease. You'll learn:

• How to give direct feedback in a way that feels good for you and your employees
• My formula for evaluating employees' quality of work
• A simple question that makes employees feel valued
• How to get your employees to stay with you long-term
• And more!

If you've ever felt frustrated because you just can't find good help and then they never seem to meet your expectations, this episode will help. It's not that there aren't good employees out there willing to work hard. There certainly are, but you've got to develop good people-management skills to retain them. This is part 3 of my 3-part series on attracting, hiring, and managing employees. Let's get you some help on your farm!! You'll get your time back, but also, tons more joy and fulfillment. Much love, Charlotte

Click HERE to Reinvent Your Farm Marketing: Free Training There are three crucial elements your marketing MUST include to be successful. And by successful, I mean you sell all the products you want and need to sell. And you sell them at the price you need to be profitable. Link to sign up here The farmers who implement these simple elements I teach are having financial success beyond anything they ever dreamed possible. Many people think farming is not a lucrative endeavor. My clients prove them wrong every day. My clients are selling out, often at the highest prices around. Like Hannah Boggs selling $50-$80 chickens. Not because she likes to charge a lot, but because that's what she must charge on her small-scale farm to cover costs, pay her employees and make a profit. My clients, farmers from all over, can do this because they've studied with me and coached hard with me to learn the simple marketing steps I'll be teaching these steps on April 22nd during my free training, "Reinvent Your Marketing." The feedback I offer will help you in all your marketing, including how you write emails and the pages on your website. You'll want to be there, watch and learn. Sign up even if you can't make it at 10 Pacific - you'll get the replay. ​Sign Up HERE.​ Each time I offer strategic marketing feedback on these calls, farmers email me afterward sharing success:

• "Sold 80% of my flower subscriptions with ONE email after you rewrote it"
• Another farmers rewrote her email as I taught and a day later sold 2 hogs with that email, previously not getting anyone to buy from her emails.
• This new farmer added the missing key to her website and created 12 signups to her email list which was previously at zero (everyone starts at zero, you just don't want to get stuck there)
• Several farmers DOUBLED their email signups within weeks of making the website edits
• "Selling one beef per month consistently since rewriting my newsletter as you explained how"

This WILL be you if you implement even half of what I teach during my "Reinvent Your Marketing" free training. My clients learn that people will buy ANYTHING they offer for sale on their farms. They experience this because they are learning how to craft expert marketing that creates sales. They learn how to sell people on their products in a non-icky, non-salesy way and find that people love giving them money. And these customers don't complain about the prices their farmers, my clients, have to charge. And I'm going to help you learn this skill, too. This is "Reinvent Your Marketing." For farmers. Yes. FREE. April 22nd. (replay sent same afternoon) Get feedback on one piece of your marketing that makes your 2024 goal inevitable. Learn from others' feedback. Let's go. Click HERE to Sign Up​ When you sign up, you'll receive an email with instructions on how to request your marketing be reviewed. See you there, Charlotte PS: You'll also receive the limited-time replay when you sign up.

Click HERE to Reinvent Your Farm Marketing: Free Training Hannah Boggs, a South Carolina farmer, was gearing up to have her first baby in November but was overwhelmed with work AND not making money on her farm. Knee-deep in manure and maternal instincts, she wondered how on earth she'd manage to raise both her crops and her newborn without losing her mind in the process. She stumbled on this very podcast and knew I could help - she immediately decided to start coaching with me last August. Click The Link Above to Listen to Hannah's Story of Balance and Profit Hannah dove into my time management program and learned to juggle motherhood, farming, and the occasional pig on the loose. With calm and control. She got coaching on her fear of raising her chicken prices. She KNEW they were losing money, but she was scared of losing customers. Not one customer batted an eyelash at her 70% price hike. (sooo many farmers are way undercharging, so a 70% increase is not unusual actually to make a profit.) She made back her investment in the program within six weeks. As Hannah's due date loomed closer, her life actually became calmer. Hannah has defied the status quo and now has employees helping out, and she makes money. On a farm. With a newborn. With calm, ease, balance, profit. And she does it all with self-described, "frolicking in the field with my son." Listen and Hear How Hannah Built a Profitable Farm on the Profitable Mindset Podcast Warmly, Charlotte