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Small Business Spotlight: 1/17/13

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    Entrepreneur's modern day milk delivery service

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And the economy here -- some -- jobs numbers from the Labor Department today as we get them on Thursday every week.

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits down in the latest week to the lowest level since January.

2008.

Now remember these numbers change week to week they can be highly volatile.

I January numbers in particular can be erratic as employers begin to return to normal practices they lay off temporary workers.

Higher for the holidays might seed and the numbers going forward well time now for our spotlight on small business we talk to business owners not to viewers were surviving and -- -- this test -- -- -- me in this sad story certainly caught our I -- bombing is the founder.

A farm to home milk second translate that to our viewers John -- then you are a modern day.

-- man and he decided to go into this business after having a whole other career.

Just suddenly just recently why why -- she used to be it milk man of -- thanks.

Well which we thought of the fond.

I've been a I've been a writer and corporate consultant.

Speechwriter and everything else for about the last dozen years was really -- do something different something not corporate.

Something that was local -- kids that are 7-Eleven.

Some that they can see that was simple they can see a real simple way to make a dollar.

To give a talk about food or roundtable about cows and chickens -- something that the family can do together and my wife and just -- then.

So it's a good trip this summer we camp for two months when out west.

Just -- -- we wanted to do something new we're on the lookout for it.

When we were in Denver.

We we saw that our friends so that whole milk delivery investigated it.

Realize there is a Darian Denver that never stopped you at home milk delivery they did at 85 years kept going.

Looked around the country saw what's happening people were delivering milk meat and so forth and realize.

They just sound like fun this is some that we can do so.

And -- here you -- came -- -- -- -- -- go to business -- crazy enough here I -- I mean they're even doing it now for this is -- new year it's a new business you've been operating leverage about two -- -- how're things going that's -- customer -- spike would you know what is the year -- look like real.

Well it's it's been it's been there's been pretty wild.

We wrote our business plan and projected that we would add about 25 customers per month.

And in the first two weeks we have a 175.

Customers wow nineteen come and ends up I mean I was up before 30 this morning and run the route.

Had to come down here my wife still had to finish to last like seven customers I can get through it.

So -- you know.

And my first of all my town Asheville we have great local food distribution we have people make an all kinds of wonderful organic me.

So how hay and he would -- -- -- that are because the average price of milk in this countries around like three triage fifty cents 365.

Pat how do you compete with those rice is -- and get people of that to -- and.

Right well we we we deliver.

-- nonfarm glass bottle milk so economy will come delivers never been on -- never been on a tanker truck.

Never been in addition decent senator -- -- from a small dairy outside of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Fifth generation family farm.

The milk tastes wonderful thing glass bottles.

This deliver right you're doing a -- box is reusable bottles like come take up to Andy's next week so our prices are very reasonable -- going to like.

Whole foods and by -- by organic milk will be it will will be -- right around that same problem.

He had some great video of you doing your -- to -- pictures -- we look forward to checking -- with in about six months and see how -- things -- going but congratulations on making a -- taken -- -- and that sounds like things are going great thank you gave our -- -- -- -- find out more farm to home -- dot -- -- website -- -- a black thank you so much.

Thanks so much for having me --

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