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April 12, 2023
Maple Ridge Farms Team
Getting hungry? Charcuterie gifts continue to trend, so it’s the perfect time to build a board with your clients, employees, friends, family and event attendees for work, play or that magical space in between. These delicious gifts put the fun in functional by creating an interactive experience that grabs your recipients’ attention along with all their other senses. Ready to build your board? Good news! The art of charcuterie continues to evolve to include different taste sensations, so there’s something for everyone. Whatever your tastes, let’s dive in. How do you charcuterie?  
January 11, 2023
Maple Ridge Farms Team
To blog, or not to blog? That’s the question so many companies are asking themselves today. As a business, you’re always looking for ways to connect and engage with your audiences to establish trust, build relationships and help them succeed with your products and services. But are blogs still relevant today? While blogging is evolving, it can be as effective as ever, depending on your goals. Let’s take a quick trip back to see how we got here, so we can figure out the best way to move forward!
September 29, 2022
Maple Ridge Farms Team
Social media is a powerful tool to grow your business, but it can also take up a lot of your time. As a busy professional or small business owner, you don’t have all day to surf the web—business related or not. How can you maximize your time while building your brand and growing your business on social media?  Check out these five quick tips to make the most of your time online!
July 21, 2022
Shana Gardner, MAS, Operations
Food gifts are rather a different beast from virtually any other promotional product. They can present challenges, but they also provide new and exciting opportunities. Food gifts satisfy needs that soft and hard good lines are intrinsically unable to while making it possible to imprint memories with taste sensations—one of the most powerful types of memories! Creating those connections with your client's gifts can give you a leg up on the competition and offer an impressive boost to your sales. That being said, how do you get started selling food gifts when you've never offered food before?
May 26, 2022
Maple Ridge Farms Team
As a small business owner, you wear many hats, from sales and marketing to customer service and accounting. You get so much done in a day, but you’re always scrambling from one task to the next. How are you supposed to work on your business when you’re so busy working in your business? One way to maximize your productivity and streamline your time is to use the best tools and resources available. It may take some trial and error, but finding tools that work for you will help you manage your to-do list when you don’t have anyone to delegate to. We’re sharing some of our favorite tools, so check them out and let us know what you think!
April 19, 2022
Shana Gardner, MAS, Operations
Did you know that Maple Ridge Farms is your individual drop ship expert for gourmet gifting? Partnering with us on drop shipping projects makes you a superhero with myriad powers to save the day—not to mention time, money, and more. Read on to discover some of the awesome capabilities individual drop shipping has to offer!
February 7, 2022
Shana Gardner, MAS, Operations
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, we know chocolate is on your mind (just like ours), but chocolate is more than just a sweet treat—it can be transcendent. We don't just claim that; we have evidence to prove it! That transcendent aspect is what we're going to explore using some of our gourmet chocolates, so be prepared for things to get a little steamy.
October 27, 2021
Molly Neises, MAS, Sales
It’s the word you’ve probably heard a thousand times over the last eighteen months… Kitting. Although a new concept for a lot of distributors and their buyers, it’s nothing new to the team here at Maple Ridge Farms.  We love when we get to explore really creative and unique ideas – often utilizing other promotional products sent to us to kit with our tasty treats. Let’s start with a fun case history of a project that really embraced holiday gift-giving in a way that celebrated the company’s culture.  Then we’ll share some tips and tricks to create custom kitted gourmet gifts!
August 12, 2021
Maple Ridge Farms Team
Wellness programs have become commonplace in corporate America, but they tend to have the same goal: weight loss. While that can be beneficial, don’t neglect other areas of your employees’ health and wellness that are just as important. Keep these tips in mind as you plan your wellness program or relaunch it with new goals.
July 15, 2021
Isaac Buttke, Contributor
In this day and age, nearly everything in marketing is done electronically. Email is the go-to method for corresponding with co-workers and clients. Search engine optimization helps companies jockey for prime position on search engine results pages. Social media has ingrained itself not only as a marketing tool but also as a leisure activity for anyone with 15 minutes or less to kill. Yet even with all this technology embedded within our lives, a different marketing channel continues to thrive: direct mail.

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