One week to go!
Sunday, April 26th, 2009(…and we start popping again on Tuesdays in Springfield, MA!) I’ll be spending this week cleaning everything up and preparing for the first day of this season. A month from now we’ll be popping on Thursdays in Framingham, MA.
I just got back from Savannah, GA. I had a video editing job for a week down there and met with Jeff Grob of the Savannah Kettle Corn Company. He had purchased my kettle corn start-up ebook and had wanted to say hi when I went down there. He’s got a very cool spot in which to sell kettle corn, right on River Street on the waterfront of historic Savannah. He agreed to do a little interview with me on how he got into the kettle corn business. This will be included with my original ebook sales.
The ebook has been selling remarkably well. I figure I might be selling a dozen or so over the course of a year, but at this moment I’ve sold 34 after only 3 weeks. As I mentioned above, I will be adding more stuff like video training to the package, so we’ll see how long I leave the price at $30. I’ll be starting a Google adwords advertising campaign shortly, so that outta drive some more traffic and sales.
I guess I’m turning into all thing kettle corn. I just got this email today:
I can see that you guys are kettle cornNUTS, so here is a song that you might like. It’s by The Pleasant Family Old Time String Band, it called The Kettle Corn Addiction Song.
My wife and I are this close to going over the deep end and getting a kettle corn trailer to fix our addition?!*#$@%^.
Now..being a northern Yankee that was bummed when Kurt Cobain died, I have to say that normally this sort of thing isn’t my thing. But, I would be a hypocrite if I said that because I’ve already played stand up bass in a jug band called “Commodore Dutch and his Shanghaied Sidemen.” (That’s me in the right of this photo) This is what happens to your rock band from your 20′s when the children and wives arrive and you’re told not to have too much fun. The website link has all sorts of recordings we managed to do between martini’s.
I got another big idea for this website – a kettle corn poppers directory. I want to list everyone in the United States who makes kettle corn and break it down by state. Anyone would be able to upload their link to their company and website. This way no matter where you are, you’ll be able to locate someone who could pop at your event of where you could find kettle corn locally. As I mentioned on my ebook sale page, kettle corn is strictly a local thing, I’m not going to pop beyond the borders of Massachusetts much.
And this is just nuts:
Randy of Cranking Kettle Corn had sent me this link to the Chinese You Tube site. I’ve never seen popcorn made like that. I’m not even sure if they use any oil in the process. I’ve heard that the popcorn comes out with a smoky flavor and is kind of over done. Here’s a couple of other links on the same thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrOTZoy9uNA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlviGLKwNCk
