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Meet Donna Wise

Donna L. Wise has built her career in sales, marketing and strategy development across multiple industries. Donna is adept at assessing growth potential and formulating strategies to drive measurab...

Shipping 101 for Chocopreneurs

Chocopreneurs are busy keeping up on the latest industry news, providing great customer service and focusing on perfecting their craft. They don’t have time to also develop and maintain expertise i...

Meet Lauren Adler

Lauren Adler is a pioneer in the craft chocolate industry with over a decade of experience introducing consumers to fine chocolate. She was the founder of Seattle retail store Chocolopolis and she ...

How to Build a Customer Community

What is a customer community you ask...A customer community is defined as places or platforms for customers, experts, partners, and others to discuss a product, marketplace, post reviews, brainstor...

Meet Rodney North

Rodney North is a business management and marketing consultant, with afocus on small-scale, food-based businesses, cooperatives and socialenterprises. Formerly he was the marketing director for the...

Empowering Chocopreneurs© - La Rifa

Empowering Chocopreneurs© - La Rifa Co-written by Monica & Daniel Eduardo Rezza, Monica Lozzano & Fausto Reyes We are a project focused on the transformation of cacao to chocolate. We start...

Marketing Basics for Small-Scale Producers

A key factor in the success of any business is marketing. Without marketing even if you have the best products most of your potential customers will ever know. Good marketing helps customers to get...

Meet Jeanne Donkoh, Bioko Treats, Ghana

After retiring from a long and successful corporate career, Jeanne Donkoh, founded Bioko Chocolates, with a vision to produce quality, handcrafted chocolate confections in Ghana, an untapped, local...

Establishing and Maintaining a Bonbon Innovation in Ghana

Join Jeanne Donkoh as she guides us through the flavours of Ghana. Bioko Chocolates is the premier chocolatier in Ghana creating innovative bonbons and pralines using fresh local ingredients in our...

Meet Leslie Agyare - Three Mountain Cocoa

Leslie Agyare is the Founder and CEO of Three Mountains Cocoa (TMC). After a successful twenty-year career in hospitality in the UK, he decided to leverage his experience, knowledge and disposition...