Greetings and welcome to my blog! My name is Cheryl Jagoda (also known as CJ) and I am the Owner/Partner/Marketing Person for Marin Chef LLC, the makers of CJ's Stix and CJ's Bitz. Our business is a family business and we are coming up to our 5th year anniversary. Our business is like a great metaphor for life - each year it gets better and each year we change our look and expand our "family". We started this business with our flagship product CJ's Stix and then came CJ's Bitz - the bite sized version of our gourmet chocolate treat! Now our CJ's Bitz brand has expanded to 6 varieties and in a brand new (very grown up) looking package. We are very proud of what we have accomplished and look forward to next steps in this crazy world of owning your own small business.
I hope that this blog will help me connect with our fans/customers of the product, sharing stories of where we are showcasing our product, getting feedback on what they like the most and ideas for our future. I'd also like to share my insight on what it has been like to start a small business selling gourmet products - there is a great support community out there for those of you that have great ideas.
When people ask me in interviews on how I got started, I reference the Oprah Winfrey article that I read years ago in her `What I Know For Sure' section of her magazine. She talked about discovering the reason for your existence on this earth by knowing what your passion is. I found my passion and now I hope to share more of it through this web site and blog!
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Congratulations to Emily Levy from New York - shown here enjoying one of our Single CJ’s Stix while on the Great Wall of China. Look for more of her pictures from the Beijing Olympics in our