Re: [CH] Wish Me Luck - New Internet Business

=Mark (mstevens@exit109.com)
Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:29:49 -0500 

You may want to contact Jim Campbell.  He has been in the internet business
long enough to be able to help out...

=Mark

On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:42:09 -0600, jjk wrote
> Driving to work this a.m., a brilliant idea struck me.  I was 
> watching Alton Brown's chile (ok, Chili, if you want to be correct)
>  episode last night for the unteempth time, and it struck me when he 
> said that making your own chile powder was far superior to the stuff 
> you get in the store.  In fact, I think he said homemade powder had 
> superior flavor, and the stuff you get in the store had less flavor 
> than the glue on the label of the chile pepper bottle.   I took it 
> to heart.  I've heard several bbqers (including Paul Kirk, the Baron 
> of BBQ) say the same thing.
> 
> I relocated to the Midwest from New Mexico in 1987.  I missed the 
> flavor of New Mexico green chile, and couldn't find plants at my 
> local home centers that measured up.  Sure, they had "Anaheim 
> Chiles" and "Super Chiles" but they never had the flavor or pungency 
> of NM green chile.  So I started importing seed and growing my own.  
> Growing in the Kansas clay with a short growing season and high 
> humidity, they still aren't "Hatch Chile" or "Espanola" chile or 
> even Chimayo chile, but my home-grown varieties were still a damn 
> sight better than the fruits you get off the plants obtained from 
> the local home store.  I figure there must be other NM transplants 
> or passersby out there who know good chile when they taste it, and 
> are willing to obtain and start seed and grow their own.
> 
> So the idea was a internet chile seed company.  I've been paying 
> folks 
> (NMSU, Tough-Love Chile Company and ThePepperGal) for seed for years,
>  and decided to compete with them.  So today I registered 
> MidwestChileheads.com and am about to set out on my journey -
>  selling chile seeds on the internet.  Low cost product, can't 
> normally get it locally, low overhead and low shipping costs.  What 
> could go wrong?  Lol.  I'm sure there are lots of things.  
> Eventually, the business will offer high-quality chile powder, salsa,
>  hot sauce and all things chile-related.  Baby steps for now, though.
> 
> This will be my first venture into ecommerce.  The website is 
> www.midestchileheads.com (you may recognize the group name from our 
> Midwest Hot Luck Group) but right now it just has the freebee 
> business profile page that Network Solutions gives you.  Wish me 
> luck!  And let me know if you want some of my so far extremely 
> limited variety of seeds.  Since I am a lawyer, the disclaimer 
> follows.  JJK
> 
> The disclaimer:  MidwestChileheads does not offer "certified" seed 
> and does not guarantee that your product will grow.   There are way 
> too many variables for that to happen.  I don't have enough land to 
> grow certified seed, and your poor gardening skills just create too 
> many variables for me to guarantee any specific results.  Your seeds 
> will sprout at about an 80% rate if you treat them right, but after 
> that, it's all on you.  What do you expect for $3.00 per seed 
> packet?  If you want certified seed, buy it from the New Mexico 
> Chile Pepper Institute <http://chilepepperinstitute.org/chile-pepper-
> institute-c.html#anchor_23260> or some other reputable seed vendor.  
> I'm an upstart company growing chile seeds in my backyard.   If you 
> want perfection, you have to pay for it!
> 
> -- 
> JJK
> CH # 1149
> from somewhere in the Midwest
> 
> jknoll4@cox.net


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=Mark

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