Cupcake Cash – How to Make Money with a Home-Based Baking Business Selling Cakes, Cookies, and Other Baked Goods (Mogul Mom Work-At-Home Book Series)

Define Your Products

Test Your Recipes

Brainstorm Packaging Ideas

Getting Your Business Set Up (Chapter 2):

Create Your Vision

Create a Business Plan

Research Your Local Health Regulations, Contact Health Department

Organize Your Kitchen

Begin Planning Your Schedule

Product Creation (Chapter 3):

Set Your Policies and Procedures

Perfect Your Recipes

Create a Production Schedule

Sales (Chapter 4):

Determine Where You’ll Sell Your Products

Getting Started (Chapter 1):

Determine What You’re Going to Sell

Define Your Products

Test Your Recipes

Brainstorm Packaging Ideas

Getting Your Business Set Up (Chapter 2):

Create Your Vision

Create a Business Plan

Research Your Local Health Regulations, Contact Health Department

Organize Your Kitchen

Begin Planning Your Schedule

To sum it up, it’s about making priorities, and separating your business and personal lives so that everyone gets their fair share of your time and energy.

The key is to not let it consume your whole life, but if you don’t get it under control now, you’ll struggle with it throughout your career.

So where to begin?

Not so fast. Unfortunately, great success comes at a price, and for small business owners everywhere, that price can be high stress, an unbalanced lifestyle, and quite possibly, your sanity.

Chapter 8: Taking Care of Your Mind, Body and Spirit While Balancing it All

Each night (or each morning), you want to make a detailed schedule for the next day. This is where you’ll list everything you’ve got going on, and the time you want to do something. Your daily schedule may look something like this:

o8 a.m. – Walk/exercise

o9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Bake

o3:15 p.m. – Pick kids up at school

o4 p.m. – 5 p.m. – Answer business emails

o6 p.m. – Dinner and family time

Chapter 7: It’s All About Balance

You should use as many methods as possible to get the word out, but most important, live up to your customers’ expectations by offering the best products and the best service imaginable, and eventually you’ll have plenty of customers.

Marketing is one of the most important aspects to any business, and you should not take it lightl