Michele is an expert in general management for customer service based businesses, with experience including start up business models for specialty food and beverage businesses, a fitness/wellness consulting business, and years of work in the hospitality industry. She has combined her love of business with her passion for managing people. Featured in many magazines and receiving awards for best product by consumers, she understands the importance of creating and delivering a great product. She has consulted for business start ups in both the food/beverage industry as well as wellness, combining a new standard for career development.
Recently, she has been interviewed by Shape Magazine Germany where her collaboration with the award winning Jungle Bay Resort and Spa allows her to guide customers toward a healthy lifestyle while enjoying the top luxury amenities of a first class resort and spa on the island of Dominica.
Michele strives toward providing businesses with a unique, entrepreneurial style of management to strategically drive sales and increase customer satisfaction.
Some samples of reviews and write ups of Michele's own prior businesses:
Maryanne Mocha: I was on my own now, and steered the dragon west to the sleepy little hamlet of Beulah. There I found the cool, clear waters of Crystal Lake, and hidden in a shady little nook, the Sundance Cafe, where the coffee and the food are organic, and the mocha latte orgasmic.
Books, Art and Wine: A driving tour of the Traverse City/Grand Traverse area
dining Sundance Cafe' and Coffee Roasting 198 South Benzie, Beulah
2002 Roaster Resource Guide.
Specialty Coffee Retailer
2002 Roaster Resource Guide
Sundance Coffee Roasting Beulah, MI (231) 882-7750
www.sundancecoffeeroasting.com
Traverse Magazine June 2007
Lazy Day In Frankfort
Tool around Frankfort, the adorable town on the shores of Lake Michigan, bike around Betsie Bay, walk the pier and play in the sand and surf.
Mar 4, 2008 Katie Holland
Stop to sip the cool fresh water bubbling up from the fountain at Mineral Springs Park, then follow your nose to the Blue Door Gourmet (326 Main St., 231-352-8050) for a packed-to-order cheese and wine basket. Browse their selection of wines from around the world and sip an espresso while you wait.
Traverse Magazine October 2007
Bracing and Bold
The unexpectedly harmonious heat of jalapeños and horseradish give an invigorating jolt to Bite Back Tartar Sauce from The Ojai Cook. Addictive alongside grilled salmon. Find it at Blue Door Gourmet, 323 Main St., Frankfort, 231-352-8050.
July 23, 2006
An Old Port’s New Day
Proposed Frankfort art center reflects rural county’s changing economy
By Keith Schneider
Great Lakes Bulletin News Service
"We were talking the other day about the demographic that is coming to the area that appreciates what we are doing in our store, and would seek out an art center," said Michele Fulkerson, a 38-year-old entrepreneur who along with her 39-year-old partner, Lisa Schroeder-Confer, opened the Blue Door, a gourmet food and wine shop on Frankfort’s Main Street that celebrates its first anniversary in September.
"To me it seems like we have a lot more weekend destination traffic, not just from Detroit, but also from Traverse City," Ms. Fulkerson added. "People come here to walk through our town. The new art center can only help. It will give our city an artistic identity."
