The National e-Commerce Extension Initiative
Southern Rural Development Center
Marketing Food Speciality Products Online
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Continuing Your Technology Journey

Once you are online and have a Web site, please remember that the customers you service and recruit online are often very demanding in terms of speed of service and demand for information. the e requires maintenance and updating. As customers become familiar with your site you will need to offer reasons to return so you’ll need to keep surprising them with new resources, new products and new presentation. Grab their attention and then give them reason to keep coming back and checking in.   

So let’s end with four main areas of thinking that can lead to the evolution of your Web presence:
  • Put Marketing Plan into Action (the "P's")
  • Advertising Strategies
  • Customer Relations
  • Evaluation and Improvement

 




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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.