My business started off as a Bed and Breakfast into Tucson Arizona near the university where we have six bedrooms, exquisite customize personal service and we advertise ourselves as the only parking spot for the football game that comes with breakfast. We are centrally located which has been a boom to our business because people can come and do what they want to do and just about everything they want to see is within half an hour. We are also a green business. We catch grey water from the rain and from our evaporative cooler and we make certain that the products we use will help keep Tucson as green as possible. Yes, Tucson is green.
Last October I was laughing with the friend who is a manufacturer of wine jellies and I said, “Denise, one of these days I'm going to make mad Marion’s marvelous muffin mix” thinking she would laugh. And she said “Do you do scones?” and I started, “I suppose I could.” So I went back to my kitchen and device that recipe that we are now manufacturing and has hit the small specialty shop I was circuit in the Tucson region and we've just went out on the internet so we’re very excited about that.
Where is the business going we’re off in us and I smile and say, “I want to grow it big enough until I find someone who will buy it at a price I liked”. The Trailblazer Award with fabulous boom to my scones business because I now have the capital where I can do a pitch for the scones that is concentrated. And I also can hire a person to tell me what the market is and what I should be doing with that. It will also allow me to expand my lines so I'm very, very excited about the Trailblazer Award.
And was I surprise to get it I was amazed. I was amazed. My friend Lola urge me to apply for the award and I said, “Oh Lola, common it’s such a tiny little business and nobody going to pay attention to me.” Oh, just do it.” And I did and I got a phone call one day from this ad saying you’re a winner and I said, “You've got to be kidding.” When I heard she was from Wells Fargo I thought, “We could then have over drawn me account, I know we couldn’t have.” And now we don’t have too so I'm absolutely thrilled.
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