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Really Good Chocolate is a home-based chocolate business that cares about the planet and the people who live on it.

🍫🌱Organic

🍫🌱100% plant-based

🍫👋Handmade with ❤️ in Melbourne, Australia

27/06/2023

These thoughts and plenty more have been swirling around in my brain for a couple months now.

Here’s the version that (just?) fits on Instagram. I started this analysis months ago by filling two columns on a white board with what I loved and didn’t love about running a business. It’s still propped up on my desk. I’ll add one more thing that I loved and didn’t love about running a business:

Loved: the flexibility with my time. A life not controlled by bells!! 😍 That said, the reality of this is I did a ton of work after the kiddos went to sleep and that is not a fun or sustainable lifestyle.

Did not love: SUBSCRIPTIONS! Actually, f*** you, subscriptions!! They sound like the best idea: people sign up, get delicious and ethical chocs to their door every month (great gift, too!) but the reality of administrating it, keeping track of details (who wants which flavours which month?!) and setting up an automated email sequence to let people know their delivery was coming encourage them to engage with the brand/renew their subscription was a LIVING NIGHTMARE (or, more accurately, boring and hard to get right.

Bye! 😘 👋 🍫

sibillin

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26/06/2023

Limited stock left!

ALLGOODTHINGS30 will get you a discount.

👋 😘

12/05/2023

SALE! Chocs going fast…

…we have limited supply left (even more limited since my new coworkers got their hands on some at morning tea). If you’d like to secure your share of the last ever Really Good Chocolate blocks, head to the website now and use ALLGOODTHINGS30 to get 30% off 🍫 😋

27/04/2023

Final market at Coburg this Saturday ✨

Melbourne Farmers Markets have been integral to growing Really Good Chocolate, and are such a vital part of the local economy in our state. The duopoly that dominates most of the grocery shopping in Australia has a role to play in providing cheap and convenient options… but if you’re trying to support farmers and entrepreneurs in Victoria, AND want delightfully healthy and fresh groceries (um ok and chocolate), the local farmers market is the place to be. Can’t recommend it enough for a weekend shop/coffee/catch up! Would love to see lots of familiar faces there this weekend for our last hurrah!

This is a photo of our first hurrah… technically not a Melbourne Farmers Market… Coburg Night Markets 2020.

23/04/2023

It's with a lot of different feelings that I am letting you know that Really Good Chocolate will be wrapping up within the next month.

It all started in my kitchen in one of the early lockdowns in 2020. I was a high school teacher trying to conduct remote learning, not quite ready to jump on the Sourdough Bus, and eating a whole lot of chocolate to stay sane.

Since then, I've been through 5 different grinders (gah, things with moving parts…), bought hundreds of kilos of cacao from organisations I'm proud to work with, employed 7 incredible humans, supplied dozens of retailers, met people who will be lifelong friends, and learned so many things about the world and about myself.

Most of the things I've learned have been delightful and exciting, but I've also learned about the reality of social media marketing (you literally pay Meta hundreds of dollars, continually, in an attempt to drive an income stream, while relentlessly developing new marketing campaigns so you can keep doing it), what scaling a business actually means (tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars of investment so that you can be a manufacturer, not a maker), and - no surprises here but living it is different than knowing it - the core of any business is selling selling selling. If the parts of your business you love aren't the selling parts, you still have to work hard to sell, sell, sell.

Also, in a nutshell, I want my “normal” life back and more time and energy for my kiddos.

I have loved growing and running Really Good Chocolate. I'm proud of it. But, as they say, it's time. Today I am starting in a Careers/Pathways role at a government high school; I'm really excited.

You can still buy chocs online until early May, and if you're in Melbourne, I'd love to see you at our final market this coming Saturday April 29th. (nb. the big grinder broke again and I couldn't schedule the last market exactly when I wanted it, hence a shorter wrap-up than initially anticipated.)

Thanks so much for being part of Really Good Chocolate. I'm thinking of starting Nicky's Secret Chocolate Club - stay tuned.

15/03/2023

Getting ready for the Preston Market…

There are so many thoughts, images, and videos I could have posted to share the journey of getting ready for the Really Good Chocolate pop up that’s taking place starting tomorrow. But for now I’ll choose this one. It’s me looking at this strange instrument, kindly lent to me by neighbour , which I’m pretty sure I haven’t made use of in over 10 years. About to iron the tablecloths for the ✨double table ✨ set up we are going to have. Cloth has to touch the ground at Preston Market. Gotta look smart.

I like this photo because it’s got me in activewear (so, my “authentic self”), nature (or at least a photo of it), something made by my kids (squint,it’s pink) and it displays one of the whole gamut of emotions I’m feeling as I prepare for RGC’s launch into by far the biggest retail space we’ve ever been in.
Wish me luck (not burning the house down)! 🔥

15/03/2023

Can you spot the bilby? You can spot US, and lots of bilbies, at Preston Market (come to the central intersection!) starting tomorrow, right up until Easter!

12/03/2023

Come visit us! 🎉 💕 🍫

Starting Thursday, for the next three and a half weeks, we’ll be selling our regular range of delicious chocolate, as well as Easter bilbies and other goodies ✨in the middle of Preston Market✨ Please come and visit and try some Really Good Chocolate. And if you’re into delicious chocolate- Easter or otherwise - that has been paid for fairly, and is wrapped sustainably (no plastic or foil*), we’ve got you covered ✅

Hope to see you there! 👋

*recyclable in theory but unless those little pieces get saved into a tennis-sized ball, they probably float away at the recycling plant. And aluminium is incredibly energy-intensive to produce.

09/03/2023

First ever Chats Over Chocolate ✨🍫🥂✨

I mean, it’s not the first time folks have chatted over chocolate. I hope you have, dear reader. But it’s the first time Really Good Chocolate has organised a little event; in this case, business owners, side hustlers, and those with entrepreneurial dreams met up in a Brunswick pub on International Women’s Day to revel in our greatness, have a drink, and connect with our sisters. Oh, and eat some chocs 🍫

Thanks to everyone who came along and made it a perfect night.

Here are the handles I have:

cocoa

🤩💕💕🥂🍫

09/03/2023

First bilbies of the season 😏

Available soon!

08/03/2023

Happy International Women’s Day 💕💪

This year I’m thinking about the support us girls show each other - the chats and the listening and the caring, understanding, and plain old practical hands-on help. For me, these are the threads that weave through my life and are vital in keeping everything together.

It’s important to celebrate the brave and prominent female change-makers today, but it’s equally important to reflect on and honour the connections with women in our own lives. Our sisters bring comfort, laughter, and, frankly, sanity - if that’s not everything, it’s close.

07/03/2023

Not prepared to say what just yet 😏

…because the deal is, brands are supposed to tease out big announcements and build anticipation. So here we go. Given my total inexperience at writing clickbatey captions of any kind, I asked ChatGPT to have a crack - check out our stories.

And stay tuned! ChatGPT would like me to say

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