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Chocoholic Networking

This group is for chocolate lovers who love chocolate and to network, we might combine this with the Wine group, because they both go together, Like PBJ!

Members: 57
Latest Activity: Feb 17

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Three Easter Saturday Sacraments Available

Started by TammyJo Eckhart Feb 17.

Featured Easter Reviews

Started by TammyJo Eckhart Mar 12, 2011.

Official Call Out for Valentine's Day Chocolate

Started by TammyJo Eckhart Dec 31, 2010.

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Comment by TammyJo Eckhart on February 17, 2012 at 10:23am

Do you have chocolate for Easter?

The Chocolate Cult has only three dates left available for their holiday featured reviews.

If you'd like to be one of those chocolatiers, retailers, or manufacturers who would like our help revealing your products to the world, contact us as soon as possible. Remember Easter is a bit early this year.

The available dates are:
February 25, 2012
March 3, 2012
March 31, 2012

We would also be honored to help promote chocolate for other religious or secular holidays so please do not hesitate to contact us for whatever holidays you may be hoping to tie your chocolate to.

Comment by TammyJo Eckhart on November 2, 2011 at 4:48pm
Updated schedule for The Chocolate Cult featured reviews the next two months.  Folks are sending in products quickly since my shout out about the schedule.  If you are an Indiana business who sells Chocolate in any form for the holidays and you'd like to be featured on The Chocolate Cult, contact me.

Saturday Sacraments:
     November 12 -- Claimed
     November 19
     November 26
     December 3 -- Claimed

     December 10
     December 17
     December 24
     December 31

Special Sacramental Reviews:
November 9 -- Claimed
     November 16
     November 23
     November 30
     December 7
     December 14
     December 21
     December 28
Comment by TammyJo Eckhart on September 21, 2011 at 9:49am

UPDATE: Halloween Treats Challenge 2011

The Chocolate Cult is pleased to announce our 3rd annual Halloween Treats Challenge for chocolatiers, confectioners, bakers, and purveyors of chocolate related treats.


The rules are simple.


Contact the Chocolate Priestess via thetammyjo@gmail.com and arrange to send a sample of your Halloween treats for review on The Chocolate Cult.


Send your sample early enough, and I will devote one day in October exclusively to your product — the earlier the better, because the 2000+ unique visitors we get each month will have more time to order from you.  The sample does not need to be large, but there should be enough of each treat for the Chocolate Priestess to write a five-senses review of the product, and keep in mind that a photograph we take of the product(s) will accompany the review. 


On Halloween, October 31, 2011, I will name up to six winners of the challenge.  The categories will be Best Mass Produced Halloween Treat, Best Gourmet Halloween Treat, Best Baked Halloween Treat (for businesses that create their own unique products), Best Independent Halloween Novelty, Best Halloween Treat Source (or those places that sell the products but do not create the treats themselves), and across category winner will be labeled Best Halloween Treat.

 

Please note that the category of “Best Gourmet Halloween Treat” is full in terms of challengers but the other categories are still open as of Wednesday, September 21, 2011.


In addition to be the featured product for the day your treats are revealed to the world, the winner of each category will be offered the opportunity to place a FREE ad on the blog for 30 days.  That ad must fit on the sidebar or at the bottom of the page, and you would need to provide the HTML code for it.  This means that you’ll get extra notice for any month of your choosing.

 

Previous winners have included Equal Exchange, Obrigadeiro, Sjaak’s, Sweet Mona’s, Taraluna, The Cookie Sandwich Company, and The Protein Bakery.

 

Please contact thetammyjo@gmail.com if your company is interested in this opportunity.   Note that featured review dates are limited so contact us soon but also know that we review on a first samples to arrive = first reviews scheduled and featured basis.

 

We also do year round reviews so if you don’t have Halloween Treats you can still become featured review on our popular blog that has worked with 110 different chocolatiers and companies in less than three years.

 

Our address:

TammyJo Eckhart, PhD

The Chocolate Cult

3532 E Park Lane

Bloomington, IN 47408

Comment by TammyJo Eckhart on August 28, 2011 at 9:24am

Halloween Treat Challenge 2011

 

The Chocolate Cult is pleased to announce our 3rd annual Halloween Treats Challenge for chocolatiers, confectioners, bakers, and purveyors of cocoa related treats.


The rules are simple.


Contact the Chocolate Priestess via thetammyjo@gmail.com and arrange to send a sample of your Halloween treats for review on The Chocolate Cult.


Send your sample early enough, and I will devote one day in October exclusively to your product — the earlier the better, because the 2000+ unique visitors we get each month will have more time to order from you.  The sample does not need to be large, but there should be enough of each treat for the Chocolate Priestess to write a five-senses review of the product, and keep in mind that a photograph we take of the product(s) will accompany the review. 


On Halloween, October 31, 2011, I will name up to six winners of the challenge.  The categories will be Best Mass Produced Halloween Treat, Best Gourmet Halloween Treat, Best Baked Halloween Treat (for businesses that create their own unique products), Best Independent Halloween Novelty, Best Halloween Treat Source (or those places that sell the products but do not create the treats themselves), and across category winner will be labeled Best Halloween Treat.


In addition to be the featured product for the day your treats are revealed to the world, the winner of each category will be offered the opportunity to place a FREE ad on the blog for 30 days.  That ad must fit on the sidebar or at the bottom of the page, and you would need to provide the HTML code for it.  This means that you’ll get extra notice for any month of your choosing.

 

Previous winners have included Equal Exchange, Obrigadeiro, Sjaak’s, Sweet Mona’s, Taraluna, and The Cookie Sandwich Company, The Protein Bakery.

 

Please contact thetammyjo@gmail.com if your company is interested in this opportunity.   We also do year round reviews so if you don’t have Halloween Treats you can still become featured review on our popular blog that has worked with 110 different chocolatiers and companies in less than three years.

 

Our address:

TammyJo Eckhart, PhD

The Chocolate Cult

3532 E Park Lane

Bloomington, IN 47408

Comment by Becky Homko on June 24, 2011 at 11:59pm
Networking Group starting in  Downtown Indy! For complete details go toBusiness Generators of Indy First informational meeting is June 30th at 11:45am. at LePeep. Please RSVP with link above. Thank you.
Comment by TammyJo Eckhart on September 13, 2010 at 7:49pm
The Chocolate Cult is pleased to announce our 2nd annual Halloween Treats Challenge for chocolatiers, confectioners, bakers, and purveyors of cocoa related treats.

The rules are simple.

Contact the Chocolate Priestess via thetammyjo@gmail.com and arrange to send a sample of your Halloween treats for review on The Chocolate Cult.

Send your sample early enough, and I will devote one day in October exclusively to your product — the earlier the better, because the thousand readers we get each month will have more time to order from you. The sample does not need to be large, but there should be enough of each treat for the Chocolate Priestess to write a five-senses review of the product, and keep in mind that a photograph we take of the product(s) will accompany the review.

On Halloween, October 31, 2009, I will name up to five winners of the challenge. The categories will be Best Mass Produced Halloween Treat, Best Gourmet Halloween Treat, Best Baked Halloween Treat (for businesses that create their own unique products), Best Halloween Treat Source (or those places that sell the products but do not create the treats themselves), and across category winner will be labeled Best Halloween Treat.

In addition to be the featured product for the day your treats are revealed to the world, the winner of each category will be offered the opportunity to place a FREE ad on the blog for 30 days. That ad must fit on the sidebar or at the bottom of the page, and you would need to provide the HTML code for it. This means that you’ll get extra notice for an month before the very busy winter holidays.

Our winners last year included Taraluna, Equal Exchange, and The Cookie Sandwich Company.

Please contact thetammyjo@gmail.com if your company is interested in this opportunity.
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Comment by Cissi Sherlock on January 21, 2010 at 9:58am
Has a Skor for breakfast! The best chocolate surrounding the best nugget English toffee. Very much so a cut above the Heath bar.

Was at a friends and has Russell Stover's dark chocolate selection. It was great! I'm going back to get the box!
Comment by TammyJo Eckhart on January 15, 2010 at 12:08pm
I'm working on setting up the 2010 review calendar on The Chocolate Cult. Would love to include more Indiana chocolatiers so if you are one, please contact me and we can talk.

Also would love more feedback on The Chocolate Cult itself if you have time to check us out.
Comment by Jenna Gatchell on October 22, 2009 at 2:04pm
For all you dessert lovers, we are having a dessert cooking class at Chef JJ's Backyard October 27th, featuring items such as Peanut Butter Bacon Chocolate Smores! Tickets are on sale at www.chefjjs.com/grilling-classes/ tickets go fast, so get them while you can!
 

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Three Easter Saturday Sacraments Available

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