Sweets and Stories

Surviving Chocolate Holidays, Winter 2012 Edition

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December was just amazing for us. Chocolate, chocolate everywhere! Many times going, ‘How did chocolate get here–and there?!’ It was an odd December though compared...

Chocolate Shop Metrics 2011

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Each year I comb our sales data and try to create a picture for the family of their hard work for the year. We thought...

The Chocolate Whisper

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Tuesday May 16th, 2011 our doors opened without a whisper. We wanted to have a very very soft opening, so the best thing we could...

Chocolate Shop Dreams, Reality

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2010 was a long year for us. We set out with a goal–more specifically I told Bill and Karen Dietz that I would have us...

Trials of Making a Chocolate Business Plan

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Anyone who has ever developed and made a business succeed knows the difficulty involved. Entrepreneurship is both awesome and terrible at each and every stage...