Chocolate of the Month Club

Are you a great baker? Ever thought of expanding your abilities by becoming a chocolatier? (Candy Maker) Start a chocolate of the month club. Charge subscribers a monthly or yearly fee. Send them a set of different kinds of chocolates each month. This could be a fun and lucrative business for you.

One foodstuff found anywhere in the world is chocolate; and it is because chocolate eaters dominate the world! However, different countries produce different forms of chocolates. The most delectable of the lot is the chocolate from Switzerland and Brazil. As you know that everyone loves chocolates, and if you are a great baker, you could consider starting a chocolate of the month club!

This club is a special club, where the main theme of the club is chocolates. Once you have members enrolled in the club, you have to send them a box of different kinds of chocolates every month, as the name of the club implies! Of course, the revenue you earn from this club is the monthly, or yearly, fee you charge the members. You can collect this fee either as installments, monthly, or on a yearly basis. The people joining the club will be chocolate eaters, and will readily pay to get to eat different kinds of chocolates every month!

You could offer the members? delicacies like ?Skelling's Champagne Fizz Truffles from Ireland?, ?Vosges Haut Chocolat?, (which is an infusion of rare spices and flowers with premium chocolate) and ?Rabitos?, which is a Spanish delicacy. You can create your own new tastes using cacao bean blends, closely guarded roasting, conching techniques, and the Grande Cru single bean chocolates. Of course, hire some help so that you can create more chocolates to disburse amongst your members as your business grows.

You could also disburse chocolate delicacies from around the world to the members of the chocolate of the month club. Besides creating chocolates, it would be a good idea to have a monthly newsletter about your club. You could include some basic information about chocolates, which the readers will be interested to read. There is always something new learned about the benefits of chocolate in the news every month. This newsletter will set you apart from other chocolate of the month clubs!

Providing gift memberships for your members to present to their dear loved ones will increase the number of members in your club too. This membership could be for the length of a month, a year, or more. Whatever the duration of the membership, you are sure of having the recipient of the gift membership yearning to become a member of your chocolate of the month club, once they get to taste the chocolate delicacies you create!

Besides sending different chocolates to the members of the chocolate of the month club, you could also hold free chocolate tasting and chocolate making demonstrations. You could show people how to turn untempered chocolate into a delicacy in their own kitchens. With the free tasting, visitors get to sample different types of chocolates, learn how one can evaluate chocolate from the single original bean variety to the special blends of chocolates available.

Resources:

http://www.sallys-place.com/food/columns/zonis/chocolatier.htm

http://www.chocolatecandymaker.com/tempering.html

http://www.chocolatemonthclub.com/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/health/chocolate.html

http://www.lakechamplainchocolates.com/