Sweet Seasons Greetings

With Christmas just around the corner, I will admit that I am very much in the holiday spirit! I have a particular affinity for holiday music, and we have been listening to it as we work, since right after Thanksgiving. I know some people who have a pretty low tolerance for this music genre, but I am definitely not one of them.

On a more business related note, sales of our cookies this holiday season have been fairly good, although it's somewhat hard to tell just how well we are doing, since this is our first year of business. I think we'll have a much better idea of how our holiday sales are measuring up at the same time next year, as we'll at least have 2007 sales numbers with which to compare.

The holiday special that we've been running on the eBay store for our Meringue Cookie Sampler Gift Package has been pretty popular. I think it was a good idea to provide a discount (if you place an order for this item by Dec. 25th, you can save $2.00) and offer holiday packaging. I'd like to thank the couple of friends who suggested these ideas- you know who you are!

Another holiday related sale we made was to the Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh. We have been working with the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at UPitt and they are part of this larger entrepreneurial organization. Every year, the Institute has a holiday party for its Entrepreneurial Fellows Center. We were asked by one of our contacts at the SBDC if they could purchase about 100 small packages of our cookies to include in the gift bags for the event. We were thrilled with this request! The SBDC is a great organization and has been an indispensable resource for us these past couple of months. After all the help our wonderful SBDC consultants have provided us with, we wanted to give something back. So we donated a portion of the cookies and the SBDC paid for the remainder of the packages. Although our company is small right now and has its limits, it was nice to be able to return the kindness that people have extended to us, even if it was a small gesture. Baby steps, right?


The small card attached to each bag of cookies for the party.

I leave you all with two album recommendations I guarantee will get you into the holiday mood if you still feel like Scrooge. If you're already in the holiday spirit, this music will make you feel like lighting those candles on the menorah or trimming that tree all over again:

December- Chris Botti
Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas- Ella Fitzgerald
A Charlie Brown Christmas- Vince Guaraldi

Seasons Eatings....I mean Greetings!