Robert Weybright is the Agricultural and Horticultural Program Leader at Cornell Cooperative Extension in Dutchess County.
Prior to joining Cornell, he was the Executive Director of Hudson Valley FOODWORKS, a non-profit shared use food production facility for small-scale specialty food entrepreneurs. Weybright has over 25 years of experience working in a variety of responsibilities associated with the service, food and food manufacturing industries.
Weybright's comments are from a panel discussion entitled "Selling Your Goods - More Than Talk, It's A Process!". The panel was from the 2007 Cornell Strategic Marketing Conference that was held on November 5 and 6 at the Henry A Wallace Visitor and Education Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.
Bob Weybright received his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and his MBA from California State University - Hayward.
Now the advantage that we have with being smaller producers, unique producers, different producers is what you're selling and it's embarrassing to a lot of people but 90% of what you're selling is you. It's yourself and the markets we're dealing with. If people want to interact with you they want t...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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