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Professional Associations


If you belong to a professional association, look into having your website and/or email address listed along with your other contact information in the association's directory or handbook. You may also want to consider sponsoring some part of an association's annual conference or educational meeting. Organizations typically recognize sponsors in some fashion during the conference or meeting. Contact the association's main office to discuss possibilities.

In addition to being a sponsor, you may want to have a booth advertising your business and product or service during a professional event. This can allow you to advertise as well as network and make professional contacts with others in your industry.

Belonging to your community's chamber of commerce can spread word of mouth advertising for your business

 
Websites to be listed on

There are many larger websites that people use to search for businesses rather then going to a search engine.

For farmers' market businesses, a national website that you can get listed on is Local Harvest (http://www.localharvest.org).

In Pennsylvania, two popular sites used to search for agricultural sites are AgMap (http://www.agmap.psu.edu) and the PA Dept. of Agriculture (http://www.agriculture.state.pa.us).

and website. The chamber of commerce is a general business association for local businesses. Often the chamber will sponsor educational events of interest to business owners. You can find your local chamber of commerce's contact information in your local phone book, or you can find it easily on a search engine.


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Web site and all contents © Copyright SRDC 2009, All rights reserved.
CSREES These materials were developed as part of the Southern Rural Development Center’s National e-Commerce Extension Initiative. They are based upon work supported by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under Award No. 2005-45064-03212

Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or the Southern Rural Development Center.
 

For Questions or Comments, contact Shannon Turner.