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Chapter 20
SnackAisle
www.snackaisle.com
Your Name: Christopher Maher
Company: SnackAisle
Website:
www.snackaisle.com
Your company / website vision statement / goal:
We are in business to become the best source of all natural, organic,
and gourmet quality snackfoods for retailers, businesses, orgainzations
and individuals. Everything we stock is all natural, without any
preservatives or artificial ingredients. We specialize in gourmet
quality potato chips, tortilla chips, and vegetable chips.
Have you always wanted to run your own business? What were some of your
previous jobs / companies?
I have always wanted to run my own business and have a couple of times
through the years.
My experience is in sales through multiple channels. I have worked for
a couple of the brands we carry, as well as a few distributors that we
now compete against.
Have you got any qualifications? Please tell us about yourself
academically?
My qualifications include life experiences, years of sales training, and
a bachelors degree in Communications from the
University of
New Hampshire, class of 1988.
How / when did the idea of your website / company come about?
The idea for the business came to me about 5 years ago, knowing my
market was underserved and the lack of much competition in the niche we
have created online. Unfortunately, we went online days after Sept. 11,
2001...not the best timing in the world. The anthrax scare soon
following didn't help us either, but those were the cards we were dealt.
If you could give readers of this book one piece of advice when starting
up a business, what would it be?
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