A marketing workshop series specifically for wood products businesses.

Are you a wood products business looking to create or fine-tune your story? Looking for a competitive edge with your marketing that captures the story behind your product?  “Telling Your Forest Story” is an online workshop series designed to help you better understand and incorporate your wood-origin story into your business philosophy and marketing messaging.

The series will cover and connect you with experts on:

• Branded marketing
• Wood and wood flows from the forest
• Forest stewardship
• Forest product and chain of custody certifications
• Consumer perceptions of wood and wood products

Following the workshop series, each participating business will receive up to 10 hours of 1-1 technical assistance from a marketing expert to help you put what you have learned into practice in marketing your business.

This class consists of six (6) online sessions:

• Dates: Tuesdays, starting October 24, 2023
• Time: 10:00 – 11:30 AM (90 minutes)
• Location: All sessions will be via ZOOM

Please be sure you can commit to this entire time frame before applying.

This will be a small group (up to ten businesses), which will give you an opportunity to learn from each other, engage with guest speakers, and receive up to ten (10) hours of one-to-one time with a marketing consultant.

To receive the 10 hours of technical assistance with the consultant, participants must complete all six sessions.

If you are interested in participating, please complete and submit the application using the link below. This is a first come, first served opportunity with limited spaces available.  Please submit your application as soon as possible.

If you have additional questions or would like to speak to the Northern Forest Center’s business advisor, please contact Amy Robinson at arobinson@northernforest.org.