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groupisd.com 32 Crazy Love for Small Businesses The power of emotions-based branding isn’t reserved only for mega global brands. Brands of any size can benefit from emotionally connecting with customers. In fact, you can be as small as a single farm in Swoope, Virginia. Polyface Farm has a crazy-loyal following due to its obsessive commitment to healing the land, food, and economy. It’s a family-owned, multi-generational, environmentally friendly, pasture-based, organic farm, producing natural meats and poultry. They farm the way a mega-agricultural corporation cannot, feeding grass to its cattle instead of corn, never using chemical fertilizers, and never shipping food products. Polyface provides the best possible food through a fanatical approach to earth-friendly farming, even though that’s more costly than other options available. The result? Customers rave! Some customers drive 150 miles just to make a purchase. In thi