Spice provides nice business opportunity for Nevada woman – Radio Iowa

A small enterprise proprietor within the central Iowa city of Nevada is marking her tenth 12 months in enterprise and he or she provides a big a part of the credit score to a program at close by Iowa State College.

Jennifer Knox runs Saltlickers out of her residence kitchen, an organization that provides greater than two dozen sorts of cooking spices, together with flavors like Cy Salt, Herky Perky and Iowa Good Spice.

“We’ve got a really distinctive product,” Knox says. “It’s one thing you could add to cooking to make your cooking, it doesn’t matter what it’s, style good. It’s like our product helps them be the cooks that they wish to be.”

Knox says she’s all the time loved cooking meals from completely different locations around the globe and as soon as she bought a dehydrator, she was hooked on selfmade spices. “I dried the heck out of every thing,” Knox says. “I ended up making Christmas items, then I did a bit of market in Brooklyn, a vacation market and I made $3,000 that weekend and nothing like that had ever occurred to me earlier than. I believed, ‘That is paydirt. I’ve to maintain doing it. Folks prefer it.’”

When she first launched the enterprise, she was residing in a small condominium in Brooklyn, New York, and says she by no means might have succeeded in such a crowded metropolis.  “This might not exist if I used to be nonetheless making an attempt to do that in New York,” Knox says. “We develop yearly to the purpose that we are able to deal with it.” Knox determined to maneuver to central Iowa the place she’s now additionally an English professor at ISU. She says she’s consulted the Small Enterprise Improvement Middle and the Middle for Industrial Analysis and Service at ISU on a bunch of challenges.

“At each step that we come to that appears insurmountable, there was someone there from Iowa State to assist us out,” Knox says. “They helped us streamline the method and do it for a value that we are able to keep in enterprise.” Officers with the facilities say they’ve helped 1000’s of different companies throughout the state, creating an financial affect measured within the billions of {dollars}.