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

dan combs (dcombs@bloomington.in.us)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:38:01 -0500 

At 10:29 PM 3/9/2010, =Mark wrote:
>You may want to contact Jim Campbell.  He has been in the internet business
>long enough to be able to help out...

Jim Campbell did not invent the internet.   But he got there just as 
soon as he heard about it.

carp






>=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
>
>
>--
>=Mark
>
>http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens