The farmers2freezers.com directory is designed to complement your current online presence, promote more engagement with your social media channels, and enhancing your organic search. Our state listings display short producer snippets in rotating random order for fast searching and filtering by species, practices and locations to help consumers find compatible local producers. If you do not have an online presence, our directory can be an easy starting point.
Our directory is new, so we have created a few sample listings to show how state listings will be displayed, filtered and linked to the full listing pages.
Sample StateYearly Subscription: The standard plan is a simple low yearly subscription to list and promote your business 24/7/365 for consumers looking to purchase meat or animal shares directly from the producer. You create and update your own listing and let us work to create the best directory for consumers to find local farmers. We will be promoting our directory and your business online and through all the major social media outlets to get more consumers and more producers to our directory.
Producer Page Listing: Your full page listing is your chance to tell your unique story, explain what you offer and let consumers know how best to contact and do business with you. Your page can be customized with your logo, farm address, map link, contact information, links to all relevant web and social media content, and display icons for any third party certifications. Each listing page also has a dedicated contact form link that will automatically forward any submissions to the email address we have on file with your listing.
State Snippets: Our page formatted content includes a page title, page description, and page tagline to follow good search engine optimization for your listing page and are also used to display a snippet of your listing within the state listings for easy reading, searching and filtering for consumers. We recommend concise descriptions with relevant keywords for these three important fields.
Producer Portal: Each producer creates their own secure producer account which is where you will create and maintain your producer page listing. A unique email & password is required for each producer account. The registration process will verify your email to ensure your account password can be safely reset. You are also allowed to create your unique page slug for your business listing page like farmers2freezers.com/producers/my-store-name.
Producer Portal Dashboard: The producer portal is where you will create, refine, and update the content sections for your listing. Your Account Settings contact, phone and email can be different from your listings contact name, phone and email that are published for your listing. Subscriptions and payments are handled by Stripe and tracked in the portal.
Business Info: The business info tab is pre-filled with some basic profile information from your registration, but this information can be updated for the your public listing. The Google Maps link is optional and we anticipate maps based searching in the near future. Our directory is designed to help consumers find local farmers. The City / County Area helps you to create a distanced based searchable list of local communities in your area. Businesses in close proximity to a state line may want to add an adjoining state to your listing.
Web & Socials: Allow consumers to directly link to your website or any of your social media pages. Social media content can spread more organically and can give consumers more insight and trust in your operation.
Page Content: Your business name along with the page title, page description, and your page tagline should summarize what you offer with descriptive relevant keywords and are structured to optimize your page for online search engines. The promotional content area offers the formatting options to tell your story, promote your offerings, and describe how you prefer to conduct your business.
Species & Certifications: The Species is a multi-select field and is the most basic search for most consumers to find what they are looking for. Third Party Certifications can provide more confidence for consumers interested in certain practices. We are interested in building our list of certifications, so if you have third party certifications that should be added, please call or email. We do want to confirm that producer certifications are current.
Logo & Media: Your listing page can include your business logo which can be uploaded or referenced by an image link. A logo's width display size is typically between 160 - 320 pixels. We plan to offer other images in the near future and recommend images that are optimized for the web. The map coordinates will be utilized future map based displays and also help with search engine results.
Review your submission: The enrollment form has 4 pages of input and selections for your listing. We think all fields are important, but not all fields are mandatory. The required fields (*) are marked. If there are required fields you do not want included in your listing, please contact us so we can manually remove them from your listing. You will have a chance to review the information before the final submission. The standard listing content can be updated via our enrollment form by contacting us. We will email you a specific custom form link to fill out to update your listing.
Enhanced Listing: Our standard listings can be enhanced with your own rich text or HTML promotional web page content. This is inserted either after the three content paragraphs from the standard listing or in place of the paragraphs.
Embed Commerce / Payment Links: enhanced plan rich text areas can include some images and links allowing for additional promotional options. Some payment services like Stripe, PayPal, Square, & Venmo offer payment links. There may be other services which allow for simple embed links for commerce that can be added also. Limitations may apply.
Photo Gallery: Our enhanced listing offers an opportunity to display up to 6 promotional photos in tab style image gallery.
Our Yearly Subscription pricing is simply an annual subscription to host your listing in our directory. The standard plan consists of what you provide to us on our Producer Enrollment form which is on out Get Listed page. If you need to make changes or update information for your listing, we can send you a special form link that can be used to make any updates. Your listing subscription will automatically renew yearly until cancelled. Any promotions or special offers are limited to the first years subscription.
Our Enhanced Listing can be added at any time to your yearly subscription listing. This allows you to provide extra images, commerce links, and extra rich text descriptions to enhance your standard listing. We offer consulting and will help to optimize your enhanced listing content. Currently these services require time and effort to create and there will be an additional fees involved. Contact us to inquire about our enhanced listings to get an estimate or with any questions. As we get a better understanding of what type of content producers are wanting, we will set some standardized pricing for additional services. One of our goals is to help producers create simple ways to transact business from web inquiries.
