…to BigBarn every month, looking for local produce and local Food outlets, can you afford NOT to be listed on UK’s Number 1 Local Produce website?
Premium Members are seeing 1,000+% better return from BigBarn than the average Mini-listing.
Would you like some of the £120billion spent with supermarkets, every year?
BigBarn’s mission is to get people out the supermarkets and shopping locally. We want to divert as much as possible or that £120bn to you, the local shops and communities with massive social benefits for all.
We do this by reconnecting over 100,000 consumers with their local producers/retailers of local food & drink ever month, and encouraging trade and communication using our BigBarn Food Map, BigBarn MarketPlace, partners, PR initiatives, social networking and sophisticated Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).
Winning Customers And Making Them Regulars
Are you a local producer or supplier and want to be the centre of the local food industry in your area?
We provide the services and promotion you need.
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| Your BigBarn options | Mini-listing | Premium Listing | Platinum Listing | ||
| Icon on BigBarn Food Map Be seen by hundreds of visitors in your area, with your contact details shown. |
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| Icon on Affiliates Sites Be seen on 90+ BigBarn affiliate sites. |
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| Your own page on the BigBarn website …with contact details and a short description*. BigBarn pages are automatically optimised for SEO with keywords, product, tags, and Google places. |
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| …add offers, events, new and more…**. Your offers, news etc.. will be featured in the BigBarn localised newsletter, home page and within our other promotions and local pages. |
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| …ability to update and change your listing and page within BigBarn at any time. | |
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| …link back to your own website from your BigBarn page. | |
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| BigBarn MarketPlace sales Ability to develop your own online shopping area within the BigBarn site for a full or partial range of your products. For those without their own eCommerce site, link straight from your website to your BigBarn MarketPlace pages. |
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| Fraud protected online shop Secure sales through your BigBarn MarketPlace. |
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| Monthly Producers’ Newsletter …find out about BigBarn offers and get marketing ideas and news. |
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| Traffic Statistics Access to traffic statistics to your BigBarn pages. |
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| Enhanced icon on BigBarn Food Map …add a video to your BigBarn page for the video icon. |
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| …announce that you are cheaper than supermarkets with the “£” icon. | |
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| …special ‘Crop for the Shop’ icon if you join that programme. Learn more about ‘Crop for the Shop’ here… | |
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| Trade Discounts Negotiated discounts on trade facilities such as credit card fees, insurance and courier services***. |
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| Partner Promotions BigBarn partners run local and national promotions and offers. Premium and Platinum members may join in with these initiatives and gain the advantage of large scale promotion. |
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| PR and News coverage Eligibility for PR and News coverage as part of the BigBarn family. |
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| Product links from Recipe videos Add a recipe video to BigBarn KIS recipe section and link the ingredients to your BigBarn MarketPlace. |
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| Dedicated Account Manager Regular discussion of trends, marketing tips and some page enhancement recommendations. |
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| Monthly Optimization Call A monthly call to optimise your page, with your BigBarn account manager. |
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| Promote your offers & discounts To BigBarn Members As a Platinum member, you have the opportunity to promote your services to all BigBarn Mini-listing, Premium and other Platinum members. |
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| Managed Membership Have BigBarn manage your page for you for small extra fee to be discussed… |
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| All prices excluding VAT | £40 per year | £14.50 pm**** | £27.83 pm**** |
| * | On Mini-listings, other offers and news from within your local area may be seen on your BigBarn page. |
| ** | With Premium Listing, only YOUR offers, news and events will be shown on your BigBarn page. No other posts from your competitors. |
| *** | Trade Discounts are according to availability from time to time. |
| **** | Premium Membership is charged half-yearly at £87 + VAT, equivalent to £14.50 per month. |
| Platinum Membership is charged half-yearly at £167 + VAT, equivalent to approx. £27.83 per month. |
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BigBarn in briefBigBarn has been trading for 16 years and gets thousands of visitors per day, to bigbarn.co.uk. • Build the definitive database of local producers and retailers
• Put them all on a map and give each a password to add and edit their details • Get the BigBarn data on as many other websites as possible, paying each site a commission on trade and advertising • Provide initiatives to encourage consumers to change from the supermarkets to buying local, including; BigBarn MarketPlace, cheaper than the supermarkets, ‘Crop for the Shop’ and KIS Cookery. The BigBarn Food Map including BigBarn MarketPlace is now on 90+ affiliate partner websites with more joining every week as the demand for better, fresher local food & drink grows. |
The Premium Membership is the equivalent of £3.34 per week. You only need to get one new regular customer from us per year to more than recovered this fee.
Our partners earn a commission from sales through BigBarn MarketPlace, so if you have an online shop it pays them to promote you.
If you would rather talk through the benefits of joining BigBarn call us on 01480 890 970 or your local partner, or if you are a community organisation or not for profit call us about our community rate.
BigBarn is a Community Interest Company (CIC).
Read more…
Discounts Currently Available to Members
We want to save our members more than they pay us. Here is the list of discounts we currently offer. New ones will be added to this page and included in our Producers Newsletter.
Reduce your costs
• Insurance discounts: Protect against business risk and reduce costs… Call us for more
• Bizerba Food Equipment: Thought about cutting the use of plastics? Get the special BigBarn 10% discount on all Retail Equipment, like zero waste scales, slicers, mincers, bone saws call us on 01480 890 970 for more
• Clothes 4 Work: BigBarn members get a 10% discount on Clothes4Work (website) prices on their first order. call Bryony on 01905 381 705 for more. Clothes4Work have a price guarantee on website prices and carry out a cross-check pricing exercise on a regular basis.
• WOOLCOOL Packaging: To get your special 10% off first order BigBarn rate call us on 01480 890 970 for more
• Bonnie Yau’s: Get 15% off your first order of Authentic Oriental sauces for members. All-natural, low allergen and vegan. Includes the unique, Free From award-winning Nut Free Thai Satay sauce and Soy-Free Hoi Sin sauce. 10 sauces in the range plus authentic noodles. Call Phil on 07595 167029
• UK Tea & Coffee: BigBarn members get 15% off their first order. Mad Hatter Tea is a unique, independent brand, offering an array of high-quality teas to both the retail and wholesale markets. As a family-owned, family-run business – with over 35 years of experience in the food and beverages industry
• N’eat Healthy Snack Bars: BigBarn members get 20% off their first order. N’eat delicious, vegan snack bars are wheat free, dairy free with no nuts and no added sugar. They are a good source of fibre, protein and natural energy.
• Special Ingredients: BigBarn members get 10% off their first order of Special Ingredients chef products. Transform your menu with some gastro dishes. Recipe videos included. Call Steve on 01246 906 247 for more.
• Grays Medic: BigBarn members get 10% off a wide range of training courses in Food Safety, Fire Safety, First aid and Health & Safety. Call David and the team on 0808 166 1016 for more.
For full Terms and Conditions click here