Mets Petits Choux was started by an amazing mother in Quebec, Canada. Pascale Gosselin. Pascale’s product (and passion) is creating frozen, ready-to-eat meals for infants 10 months or older. She has created two product liens, EVOLULU and ACTIGIDOO, which offer tasty prepared meals with a variety of textures and consistencies to facilitate the transition between puréed baby food and junior food.

Quite simply, Pascale wanted to make sure her two young daughters had nutritious meals – no matter how busy she was. “The idea for Mets Petits Choux came to me naturally. I wanted to provide parents with homemade meals for their children, like those my mother made for me,” explained Pascale.

What this mom-entrepreneur keenly believed (and what turned out to be VERY true) is that all parents want healthy, nutritious and tasty food for their children – and more and more simply do not have the time to prepare and provide it. Mets Petits Choux offers balanced meals, made with fresh ingredients of the highest quality, with no preservatives, additives, or trans fats. Natural, homemade, healthy: that’s Mets Petits Choux.

Mets Petits Choux became part of Mighty Ventures family after attending the CEO Freedom Summit in June of 2009. Pascale Gosselin and her new Partner, Johanne Gilbert, company knew long before the actual summit that they needed some serious guidance to create a breakthrough and signed on for one of the few available “hot seats” to present their business model for feedback from the CEO of Mighty Ventures, Christine Comaford. After this event, they joined Business Growth Blueprint to continue Christine’s million-dollar mentoring.

“Our first breakthrough was to suddenly jump from 30 to over 180 more stores of distribution for our products. This major new distribution gave us a lot of visibility, help us with the sales considerably, brought us more partners to work with. At the same time it challenged our production and put us in a situation to have to change our production plant for a bigger one. We are still in negotiation with them but this could lead to sales in even more and really more stores.”

One major goal for the company was that they needed to have more cash to support their imminent growth, more knowledge on how to MANAGE their growth. and more knowledge on how to plan ahead and make sure that their growth continued on and on.

And so, Module 7 of Comaford’s BGB program (Funding Essentials) proved to be the most effective (and the most profitable) module for Mets Petits Choux, as well as Module 5 (Marketing Essentials).

“The Funding Essentials Module help us understand why and how to get financing, how to prepare the right paperwork and the right presentation, where the interest come from for an investor, and how important that step is. We have gained a ton of valuable financial tools and templates, plus how to present ourselves and show the value of our company and raise money.

For the marketing module, we learned about the educative marketing and how to use the web more efficiently. This knowledge now leads most of our marketing decisions. We easily and readily apply these principles every day. This opens up our vision on all the new marketing tools available and provides us also with a nice solution to get people’s attention more efficiently, quicker and cheaper.

Mets Petits Choux is now in TWENTY markets, as well as 180 Metro & IGA stores. They offer a variety of nutritional and delicious products and have an amazing future unfolding faster than anyone could have imagined. Mighty Ventures is proud to be a part of the Mets Petits Choux story of growth and success!

SUCCESS Stories – If you’ve followed my company, Mighty Ventures, for a while, you know that Business Growth Blueprint is one of the ways we help build massive success with entrepreneurs and small businesses.  Scott Jordan is one of those success stories, and we’re proud to call him a colleague and a friend.  Read on!  And if you want more info about the BGB program, visit http://www.mightyventures.com

Scott Jordan, All Credit Lending Solutions

For Scott Jordan of All Credit Lending Solutions, (ACLS) becoming a mega-success story is all about focus and a strong foundation. ACLS provides financial expertise and non-bank / private lender funding to small businesses seeking financing of $50,000 or more.  Scott has almost single handedly built his business by providing a variety of financing options, with special focus on equipment leasing, lines of credit, accounts receivable and purchase order financing and other B2B needs.

When clients first come to Scott, they are often panicked – they have been denied capital from traditional banks and don’t know where to turn for funding. Scott educates clients on what funding sources look for and why lenders come in a variety of shapes and sizes – with many different criteria for lending. Not having the knowledge or relationships needed, the client in question faces losing opportunities for profit – or even sustainability. With ACLS’s expertise and support, the client gains access to multiple non-bank sources of funding and is provided the vital analytical piece of the puzzle.  Add to this equation that Scott has built relationships with over 50 non-bank lenders, and has hit the ground running with the timely concept of utilizing creative and little known finance strategies and direct access to multiple lending sources to solve a borrower’s problem of being denied financing for their business.  With Mighty Ventures’ mentorship, ACLS has created a new focus, moving from banks and the Mortgage Backed Security Marketplace, to asset-based lenders and other non-traditional sources of capital, many of which are only now coming back into the market after the long recession.

ACLS is in a market-leading position, similar to where Scott was in his career when he was part of a voice over the internet (VOIP) startup in 1997, which raised $265 Million in a successful IPO in 1999. ACLS has the ability to dissolve a client’s fear and replace it with knowledge and experience by preparing a package that will lead a borrower to receive approval for funding. 

Scott is 100% committed to the success of ACLS – and has achieved much of that success with his own effort and expertise. With Christine Comaford’s direction he has started to assemble a talented team to focus, identify and overcome certain hurdles in his path. With the Business Growth Blueprint Program, he has created much needed increased focus and clarity. Christine Comaford has begun to take ACLS through steps needed to create solid building blocks and business development. Scott has already identified many of his company’s roadblocks and begun to blow through them, “My ego was not my amigo.  It compelled me to think that I could do it on my own — without someone else’s help. I now have more focus – more clarity on what is important in growing and developing my vision into a reality.”

He added that marketing now has a clear, solid role in ACLS’s model for success, “Module 1 of Mighty Ventures’ Business Growth Blueprint was great, and the marketing module helped to provide some clarity and focus on the marketing efforts we are now instituting.”

With the guidance of Mighty Ventures, ACLS will soon add a membership site with a “Freemium” model, featuring three levels – Free, Paid, and Premium – this will enabling small business owners to connect with other like-minded entrepreneurs. The site will enable members to gain the knowledge in approaching non-bank lenders themselves, or they can utilize ACLS’s unique process in obtaining the financing they need. With the launch of the new website, www.YourBusinessLoanNow.com, Scott looks forward to taking his company into its next evolution. Say’s Jordan, `Because of our unique creative strategies and access to multiple lenders we can provide the best solution for the customized needs of each borrower. There are very few companies that have access to multiple types of loans, leases, etc. Most companies do a single type of loan, and if it fits their box, they take in the file – if not, they reject it, RARELY providing additional options for the borrower to consider.  At ACLS, we believe we are on the cutting edge of providing a new model (multiple lending choices combined with financial expertise) for providing the optimal capital structure to business owners. We are excited to take our unique business model nationally to help business owners get the capital they need while we are in this uncertain economic cycle.”

With Mighty Ventures’ guidance, the future looks bright.  Scott is now ready to find a pay-for-performance sales agent to help handle the screening of inbound leads – a key player who can support ACLS as it moves forward.  He is also looking for lenders who have new programs who need marketing of those new products.  The new website, www.YourBusinessLoanNow.com, will provide information helpful to borrowers, such as their free downloadable information product: 9 Secrets Your Banker Never Told You.  ACLS will also create a portal for submitting loan scenarios and forms every borrower will need when submitting to a lender for funding. 

So most of you know my story by now.  After building massive success and writing Rules for Renegades, I retired.  But as they say in the movies, I just kept getting pulled back in.  There were simply too many struggling entrepreneurs NOT getting the direction they needed to build their companies into something viable and BIG.

So I launched several mentoring courses to help those success stories happen.  (If you’re looking for a mentoring program to ROCK your business, check out http://www.mightyventures.com).  This is one incredible success story unfolding right now. 

Leannie Aalgaard, is our winner of the January 2009 Success Story of the Month. Besides getting a ton of wisdom in our 10-module “Rapid Growth” training, for being the Success Story, Leannie also won a one-hour personal session with me. (yay!)By participating in our 12-month mentoring program (Business Growth Blueprint) Leannie has addressed every single challenge she’s faced, fixed the setbacks she’s suffered, and has acquired numerous points of leverage for her company, which will translate into exponential growth and revenues.  Finally, Leannie won a free pass to my massive-success-building BAI seminar this year.  WOW.Here’s Leannie’s story in her own words:Dear Christine,In this beautiful, white month of December, we completed our first 5-week training workshop (Contemporary Jazz) with Blue Egg Entertainment’s first paying customers. Yeah! Our contact list is continuing to grow with people interested in our training for 2009.

We had our first film shoot on Dec 16th during which we shot two training videos that will be for sale via our website; plus, two entertainment videos for the web – all dance but we are not just a dance company. Our training as well as the entertainment we produce will include acting, dancing, singing and music, all in a contemporary flavor. Our editing begins Jan 6th. I am really excited to see the results from our filming.

This month, I hired our third and hopefully, final web developer and received our first preliminary website pages (not yet published). They look great. Our logo is now designed. Two minor changes and it will be finished. Blue Egg Entertainment is on FaceBook now and as soon as our logo is finished we will add our Blue Egg Group.

We have rented space from other facilities in order to run our workshop and film. We are presently looking at loft spaces to rent in the new year in order to gain greater flexibility in our scheduling prior leasing a bigger space for 2010.

Every step of this process has been a learning experience and I can honestly say that I have gained more confidence and clarity through just doing it than I did during the planning and preparing stage. I still do my planning and preparing; I think I may be compulsive. I like to learn as much as possible before I take action. I also like to plan in detail. I like to think of myself an idealist. A therapist may use a different term. This was probably my greatest hurdle to overcome. My vision and intention are mighty and wrapping my head around starting small and in a manageable way was a challenge. When November arrived, that was it, I hit my limit for preparing. Completing 2008 without experiencing outward results was not an option! I knew I had to bringing Blue Egg Entertainment to life outside of my head. Within one week that’s what I did. I took massive action and I am so happy I did. I know better what to do next because of what I have done. The idea seed that I planted in January 2008 has now become visible above ground.

I had my first meeting with the actor whom I believe will be our first acting instructor in 2009. During this next year we will also add singing and more dance training.

I have lots to do in 2009 and I am excited about it all!

I have learned so much from the Business Growth Blueprint program, from being on the Hot Seat and from the modules. I have several more modules that I look forward to completing. I have looked through them all and completed four. I gained the most so far from the Marketing Module.

I have gained just as much from listening during the Strategy and Coaching calls, I don’t think I have missed one. It has been beneficial to be on a call every week in addition to my mastermind call and using the discussion board.

Since initiating our first workshop in November, I have an overwhelming sense of gratitude. I am so grateful to be able to do what I do – build Blue Egg Entertainment. I am so grateful to this amazing Business Growth Blueprint program that Christine Comaford has created. Thank you!

Leannie Aalgaard
Blue Egg Entertainment Inc.
Vancouver, BC