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The Best of Selling Outdoors is a compilation of the best articles which appeared in the
MFFM newsletter Selling Outdoors from 1991 to 1997. Includes six entirely new
articles. Sixty-eight pages. Great reading for market veterans and newbies alike.
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Table of Contents* New articles.
Dealing with Customers
The Pound Weight of the Real 4
Customers From Hell 5
Why Leaving Attracts Customers 7
Customer Comments 8
Food for Thought about Customers 10
Customer Satisfaction 11
The Shơ of Market 11
Signs and Price Tags
Signs: Legibility & Use 14
Simple Signs 15
Fairfield's Important Signs *16
Scales
Hanson Scales 18
Computer Scales 19
Creating customer bonds *20
Tips for Selling Produce
Selling By Variety 22
Bagged or Bulk 23
Hints for Selling Produce 24
Pricing Your Produce 26
Egg Cartons & Egg Sizes 26
Who Sez Eggs is Eggs? 27
Blackboards or price tags? *28
Setting up at Market
Setting Up At Market 30
Canopies Anyone? 32
Lindsey Boxes 32
Writing on Wet Plastic Bags 33
To Tent or Not To Tent 34
To Peddle Or Not To Peddle 35
Getting Started at Market 36
U or I? The shape of your market *39
Starting a Farmers' Market
Starting A Farmers' Market 40
Basic Insurance Facts 44
Filling Market Voids 45
Orono's Emergency Buy Rule 46
Food Stamps & Farmers' Markets 47
Who's Successful and Why 48
Farmers' Mkts: Community Resources 49
Thoughts on buying in for resale *50
The Maine Farmers' Market Law
The Maine Farmers' Market Law 54
Other Definitions 54
Peddlers & the Farmers' Market Law 55
Market Reports
Cornish Report 56
Portsmouth Market 56
Springvale Report 56
Ellsworth Market Grows 57
Bridgeton Market Report 58
Brewer's Difficult Summer 58
Problems in the Markets 61
Getting Jump Started 63
What Makes a Successful Market? 64
What markets say to shoppers *65
Miscellaneous Articles
Market Websites 66
Useful Addresses 66
What are Farmers' Markets? 68
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