5 Things I Learned from Bar Rescue
There is a television in our cookie kitchen A giant one. It was there before the conversion to bakery, so it’s grandfathered in and thus is allowed to stay… On Tuesdays, I spend my whole workday with my friend Jon Taffer watching Bar Rescue. He doesn’t know we’re friends but that’s okay. He’s given me […]
Read More...Combat Boredom, Win CookieText® and Cash
Cookie Text to the Rescue No school for the 4th day in a row…and you’re wondering what in the world to do with those children of yours that are climbing the walls. We challenge them to make a Cookie Text video. We don’t want to put too many parameters on it, but we had to […]
Read More...Bittersweet Birthdays
It’s not something I talk about often, the loss of my parents. But there are times when it’s foremost in my mind. Birthdays–mine, my children’s, and this week, the company’s, do not pass without my wishing my mom and dad were here. The Loss of My Mother Long, long before Cookie Text, LLC, I was […]
Read More...What Are You Selling Anyway?
The question was posed today As a business owner and salesperson, do you know what you are really selling? Well, unbelievably delicious cookie cakes, of course…but clearly the person asking the question was looking for something more meaningful. So I thought for a bit. What Are You Selling? Last week, when we sent out a CookieText® […]
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Cookies at College
A Mom-trepreneur Perspective Though we didn’t launch Cookie Text specifically as a college-student service, we are in close proximity to four Universities (ODU, CNU, W&M, HamptonU). As we’ve built our brand and gotten our footing, we’ve done what we can to reach out to parents of these schools to let them know we can provide […]
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My Dip in the Shark Tank
Sidewalk Camping I won’t sleep on the sidewalk for just anything. I do have standards, you know. But sleep on the sidewalk I did. Right between the couple with the neoprene lunch boxes that convert into placemats and the lady with the pop-top jewelry. The couple to my left had flown up from Miami. They […]
Read More...Facebook or Forcebook?
A small business perspective. About 8 years ago I caught my UVA niece checking her Facebook page. “What’s Facebook?” I asked. “It’s kind of like MySpace, but geared toward College. It helps you connect with people,” she said (in my loose memory of the conversation). Shortly thereafter, I started an account. I remember it was […]
Read More...Little Victory
I had to shut down the shop and farm my boys out to friends last week. We moved the daughter/niece to Atlanta for her first real job. It was a quick trip, so it didn’t make sense to throw the boys in the car for 20 hours round trip when the hang-time in Atlanta was […]
Read More...Struggle or Success?
I read a quote by former NBA player Chris Herren recently. He said that more people were impressed with his sobriety following addiction than his amazing career as a Denver Nugget and Boston Celtic. Herren said people identify more closely with struggle than with success. It got me thinking…I’ve always tried to put Cookie Text’s […]
Read More...It’s a Small World
Late Friday Night It’s Friday evening and my business line rings with a call from Texas. “Good evening, this is Jeanne,” see, since it’s my cell and my business phone, I answer any unknown calls like that. “Hi,” says a slightly strained voice, “is this the bakery?” “Yes, this is Cookie Text,” I reply. “First […]
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Can you make a $5 cookie cake?
Prologue: Since this blog was originally published we’ve gained some fans and some readers…we thought it was worth re-visiting, especially since the Juggle for Hunger event is tomorrow at CNU. Read through to the epilogue for what’s changed since this post…;) I lost both of my parents at a fairly young age, so […]
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