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    Explore "#marketvendor" with insightful episodes like "Ep 283: Best of Tent Talk: Application Excavation" and "Ep 279: Maya Madsen: Black History Month and Beyond" from podcasts like ""Tent Talk" and "Tent Talk"" and more!

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    Ep 283: Best of Tent Talk: Application Excavation

    Ep 283: Best of Tent Talk: Application Excavation
    Are you a farmer or small food business trying to navigate finding spaces to sell at farmers markets? Are you a farmers market manager buried in application emails and trying to find the perfect needles in that haystack? In this episode we're chatting about how we process applications for our markets and approaches used by some of our fellow market managers. Yes, you can have an amazing product and still not be a perfect fit for a specific market. Learn how to narrow down your targets if you're a producer. Listen in to find ways to help a diamond in the rough shine if you're a market manager. 
     
    Find tips on:
    • Telling managers everything they need to know about your business
    • Balancing your market's offerings
    • Application red flags
    • Helping new vendors launch successfully

    Ep 279: Maya Madsen: Black History Month and Beyond

    Ep 279: Maya Madsen: Black History Month and Beyond
    We've known Maya Madsen since the beginning of her phenomenal Black woman-owned business' journey. You've heard from her before. We check in often enough to consider her an unofficial Tent Talk podcast co-host. 
     
    From the start she told us she meant to create a vegan cookie empire and she's done what it takes to accomplish that. She not only makes delicious cookies, she collects tons of data. She asks for professional help to analyze trends and inform her next moves. Basically, she treats her happy, gorgeous bakery business like a business. Join us to learn from Maya about:
     
    • How a fractional CFO and operations consultant changed her business
    • Becoming a more profitable business with laminated SOPs 
    • Where farmers markets fit in a business with brick and mortar stores 
    • The origin of this year's Black History Month cookie collection
    • Ways markets can celebrate and not exploit Black History Month