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Your label is your reputation on the lid
Quick one for anyone still hand writing stickers. I recorded a 2 minute walkthrough building one label in LabelHub, start to finish. Avery sheet, product name, net weight, ingredients, logo, QR code, UPC spot, then print. (Video attached.) Two things that matter more than the design: 1. Put the real net weight. If you sell two ounces, weigh two ounces every time. 2. Turn on background graphics in your print settings or your colors won't come through. LabelHub is free to start. Pro is $49 one time: unlimited saved product drafts and clean high resolution print sheets. Yours for life. Sign up free here: https://labels.microgreentools.store Make one label for your best selling crop this week and drop a photo below. I want to see them.
Your label is your reputation on the lid
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@Red Seh Glad it helps, Red! Make your first label for free and let me know what you're putting it on. Happy to help you dial it in.
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@Mark Grzybowski Love this, Mark. An hour and three prompts to get 50+ barcodes lined up on an Avery sheet is a solid trade. What matters most is that it reads clean on the lid, because that's the first thing a buyer sees. Are you using the same layout across all your mixes?
Your first restaurant account: the 5 steps from tonight's live
Landing a chef is not the hard part. Keeping them is. Here is what we covered tonight: 1. Be ready before you walk in. Same crop, same weight, every week. Short menu. Know your rack space. Labels and clamshells ready. 2. Pick the right restaurants. Read menus. Independent, chef driven places first. Never walk in during service. 3. Drop a real sample. Bring what you can supply every week, packed the way you would deliver it. Leave your price sheet and contact info. Follow up when you said you would. 4. Walk in with a price sheet. One written sheet for every account. No intro discount. Set a minimum order per stop. 5. Keep the account. Fixed delivery days. Plan trays from the standing order, not from hope. Never short a chef on a Friday morning. If you can't fill the order every week, don't take the order. Missed it? Watch the replay here: https://youtube.com/live/JPVk33PtiiU Drop your question below. Restaurant or grocery first, which one are you going after?
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Consistency keeps accounts
Consistency is what keeps accounts. That includes the label. Same product name, same net weight, a date on every pack. LabelHub makes that simple and prints on regular Avery sheets. Try the free preview: https://labels.microgreentools.store
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Grow mat trial, day 11
Day 4 first, day 11 now. Honest update: the trays look really great. Thick, even stands across the board. But they're shorter than what I'm used to on soil, and that means yields will be noticeably lower. Looking good and paying well are two different things. A tray that looks perfect but weighs light still costs you the same seed, space and labor. Harvest is coming up and I'll share the real yield numbers when I have them. Next round I'm going to try adding nutrients to the soak to see if that closes the height gap. Have you grown on mats? Did you feed them, or just water?
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Grow mat trial, day 11
I need a Update on Sunflower seeds.
Hey I recall some of you mention you buy a better quality Sunflower seeds from Mumm's. Is this still accurate? What company do you purchase them in America? Thanks
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Henrietta, we've had our best sunflower lately from Greener Harvest Seeds. I'm running it side by side with Johnny's right now and will post photos when it finishes. Whatever you buy, ask for the lot number, run one test tray first, and if it grows well, buy more of that same lot.
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Entrepreneur & Mentor: from hospitality to Microgreens & Business Coaching. A cancer fighter using microgreens in his health journey.

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