CREATIVITY
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EXPERTISE
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Corporate-level marketing strategy. Built for real-world agriculture. Sized for your operation.
Most agricultural businesses were not built in a boardroom. They were built in barns, pastures, sale rings, shops, fields and kitchen-table conversations.
But today's buyers experience your operation in both places: in the real world and online.
In 2025, 85% of U.S. farms reported internet access, 82% reported smartphone use and 29% were already conducting agricultural marketing activities online. The question is no longer whether agriculture belongs online:
The question is whether what people find there accurately reflects the quality of the operation behind it.
Big brand marketing
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Small-business practicality
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5th generation agricultural experience
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Big brand marketing · Small-business practicality · 5th generation agricultural experience ·
The quick version
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What is a long term marketing partnership?
An outsourced marketing department / ongoing marketing partnership where we offer an all inclusive marketing, design, social, sales and advertising experience.
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Who is it for?
Farm, ranch, livestock and ag businesses that have outgrown DIY marketing but do not need a full internal department. You’re part of the process. We keep communication open and strategic decisions fluid while curating or matching your brand voice—no generic content or surprises.
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Why Lauren Schmid Marketing + Design?
Because you get an actual marketer and agriculturalist with the accreditation and collegiate/corporate level expertise —not a “social media manager” merely keeping social accounts active.
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What Does Lauren Do?
Strategy first; then a curated marketing plan consisting of social, web, design, paid advertising, organic advertising, photo/video, print, email, sale promotions, merchandising and other execution that an operation actually needs.
our philosophy is
A living brand ecosystem.
Big Ideas. real impact.
Because your operation's marketing should work for you year-round, rather than restarting from zero every time there is a sale, event, product launch or need for a flyer.
Your Operation Doesn't Need a Social Media Manager.
It Needs a Marketing Strategy.
You have enough to manage.
marketing is way too serious to be another job waiting for you at the end of the day—and it should be doing more than keeping your Facebook page alive.
Lauren Schmid Marketing + Design provides ongoing, executive-level marketing strategy and hands-on execution for farms, ranches, livestock operations and agricultural businesses ready to build a stronger, more profitable brand.
You get the strategy of a corporate level marketing executive, the execution of a full time creative department and the industry knowledge of someone who actually lives and breathes agriculture.
No bloated packages. No paying for services you don't need. No explaining your industry or your brand to your marketing person.
Just the right strategy, the right tools and the right work for your operation.
A social media account is a channel.
It is not a marketing plan.
Posting is execution. Marketing begins before the post—with your goals, positioning, audience, sales calendar, competitive environment, budget, offer and message.
That is the difference in working with Lauren Schmid Marketing + Design.
Founder Lauren Schmid-Brough holds a marketing degree from Bowling Green State University and specializes in sales, advertising and strategic brand positioning. She is also a fifth-generation agriculturalist with lifelong production-agriculture experience and a particular depth of knowledge in the livestock sector.
You are not handing your business to someone who happens to know how to post.
You are putting an experienced marketer at the table to help decide what your business should say, who needs to hear it, where it should go—and what needs to happen next.
The Marketing Department You'd Build—
Without Having to Build One.
Strategy + Direction
Marketing planning
Campaign strategy
Budget allocation
Brand positioning
Audience development
Sales + promotional strategy
Performance review + adjustment
Digital + Relationship Building
Social media management
Paid digital advertising
Email campaigns
Website management
SEO-focused content
Lead generation
Customer communication
Creative + Content
Graphic design
Promotional photography
Livestock photography + video
Short- and long-form video
Print advertising
Sale and event marketing
Campaign creative
Brand Experience
Website experiences
Promotional campaigns
Apparel + merchandise
Seasonal gear stores
Branded collateral
Launch campaigns
Special projects
Large companies build marketing departments around specialized people: strategy, creative direction, digital, advertising, web, analytics and content.
Most independent agricultural operations neither need nor want that payroll, But that should not mean settling for disconnected marketing.
Our ongoing partnerships give growing operations access to the thinking and capabilities of a professional marketing function—fractional to your business, fully invested in your goals.