Go Farmer October Newsletter

(Reproduced - see http://www.gofarmer.com)

Welcome to the Gofarmer Newsletter

I hope the majority of you are able to view this newsletter as I am sending in html format. I intend to send out a monthly newsletter at the beginning of each month from now on. Members are welcome to send me details for inclusion such as new product launches, awards you may have won, shows you may have coming up and so on. Each issue will also feature details of the current Business and Farm Focus so please send details of your rural businesses or farms for inclusion on these pages. These are fairly high traffic pages so this is good additional exposure for your business.

I would like to update you on our traffic and visitors to our website. We are now receiving over 250,000 hits a month and around 5000 unique visitors. We are aiming to increase our unique visitors over the next few months but are encouraged by the fact our Google page rank is now 4 for the main site and 2 for our links page at http://www.gofarmer.com/links.html. We are always willing to exchange links with other farming and rural related websites so if interested let me know.

We are currently in the process of registering Gofarmer as a trademark and so far this has passed the first stage.

Below you will find details of this month's Business Focus and Farm Focus member, member news, society news and details of how to advertise in this monthly newsletter which now goes out to over 750 registered members.

For the latest farming news and discussions please visit our forum at http://www.gofarmer.com/forum.php and our blog at http://www.gofarmer.com/blog. You will need to register separately for free with the forum.

Finally please note that web addresses and email addresses or telephone numbers are not to go in the short or long description of your product as these are placed automatically with each advert. Thanks.

Rachel (rachel@gofarmer.com)

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Gofarmer Business Focus - The Institute of Organic Training and Advice (IOTA) is an important new initiative supporting the work of advisers, trainers and others working in organic farming throughout the UK. To read more visit: http://www.gofarmer.com/businessfocus/businessfocus_mgmt.php

Gofarmer Farm Focus - Bayhlam House Rare Breeds Farm - We keep four different breeds of cattle, White Park, Shetland, Old Gloucester and Highland and also seven flocks of rare sheep, Castlemilk Moorit, Norfolk Horn, Greyface Dartmoor, Llanwenog, Balwen, Ouessant and Herdwick. Our pigs include Large Black, Middle White, Berkshire and the exceedingly friendly Maori pigs from New Zealand called Kune Kunes. We also keep some very attractive pygmy goats and a variety of poultry including Buff Sussex, Ixworth, Scots Grey and Scots Dumpy. To read more visit: http://www.gofarmer.com/farmfocus/farmfocus_mgmt.php

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Member News

Lesley Brewer of the www.theintroductioncompany.co.uk recently featured in The Northern Echo and she was also invited to be the speaker at the Settle Farmers Dinner in September. She gave the Settle folk lots of tips on how to improve their relationships. That's bad for business but let's hope it paid off with the Settle Farmers' wives. Click Here

Chris Lees of www.hawl.co.uk featured in the Farmers Guardian in August and you can read the article here - http://www.farmersguardian.com/story.asp?sectioncode=44&storycode=4020

Society News

The British Blonde Cattle Society has a sale coming up on 27th October at Carlisle and Perth Bull Sales on 23rd to 26th October. For more details visit www.britishblondesociety.co.uk

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Advertising in Newsletter

Gofarmer now offers a number of different advertising options:

1. Banner Ads - Your banner displayed at the bottom of all web pages, including the blog for just £50/mth. Your banner will be on rotation with 4 other banners only and you will also receive a short description ( 5 lines) of your product or business in the forum under the Gofarmer Sponsor's section and a website link and description above in the newsletter.

2. Button Ads - Your button will be displayed in the right hand column of all Gofarmer webpages and also on the blog for £100/mth. Your button is NOT on rotation with any others. You also receive your button featured in the newsletter and a longer description (10 lines) and link about your business or product in the sponsor section of the Forum.

3. Large vertical banner on let hand side of all Gofarmer webpages and on the blog for £300/mth. You will also get a banner or text ad at the very top of the newsletter and a banner in the footer of the forum, a feature on your business or product on the blog and an announcement style description (20 lines plus a picture) of your business/product in the forum.

For full details please visit http://www.gofarmer.com/advertising.html

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