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Message |
| Topic: Minimum Orders? |
Nchanted1
Replies: 7
Views: 253
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 Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 2:59 am Subject: Minimum Orders? |
| My minimum is $100. I have had that on my web site for awhile now, mostly to cut down on new customers. But I have just started to apply it to my regular clients. I got a call for a soccer cake for 16 ... |
| Topic: Is anyone as exhausted as I am? |
Nchanted1
Replies: 36
Views: 1750
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:08 am Subject: Is anyone as exhausted as I am? |
Would it be possible to invest in some equipment that will make life easier? A bigger mixer that makes 20 lbs of buttercream at once? An oven that bakes 10 layers at once? A fondant sheeter?
It sou ... |
| Topic: Serious Advice for Cakediva73 |
Nchanted1
Replies: 2
Views: 420
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:03 am Subject: Serious Advice for Cakediva73 |
Don't re-enter her shop.
I realize that you need a legal space and that this would be a major setback to your growing business.
BUT---if a dollar goes astray, you'll be accused of stealing it. I ... |
| Topic: Giving away instructions? |
Nchanted1
Replies: 142
Views: 8080
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:56 am Subject: Giving away instructions? |
| I hit delete. They are on their own if they want to make it themselves. |
| Topic: Pro Bono Work. How do you choose your causes? |
Nchanted1
Replies: 22
Views: 1026
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:39 am Subject: Pro Bono Work. How do you choose your causes? |
I NEVER donate cake anymore. here's why:
After 6 years of doing a boring sheetcake for the American Cancer Society, I finally talked them into letting me do a fancy cake. Deliver fancy cake. Observ ... |
| Topic: Fuming! Need to vent! |
Nchanted1
Replies: 15
Views: 1283
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:40 pm Subject: Fuming! Need to vent! |
| I got a call from a woman who found my website. I have prices on there for all to see. She wants a cake she found on the Pink Cake Box web site for her daughter's sweey 16. OK. I gave her a price. She ... |
| Topic: How do you handle donation requests? |
Nchanted1
Replies: 30
Views: 2228
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:31 am Subject: How do you handle donation requests? |
I don't do it at all anymore. I never once had a good experience, or got a single order out of any of the many donations I gave.
I made a 4 tier white and gold musc themed cake with individually mo ... |
| Topic: Undercharging when you're first starting out |
Nchanted1
Replies: 23
Views: 1324
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:32 am Subject: Undercharging when you're first starting out |
WHO TOLD YOU THAT? WRONG< WRONG< WRONG!
Charge enough to make a profit right from the get go. Have a 2 dozen minimum, and raise your prices right now.
You want to be the BEST cookie perso ... |
| Topic: I need advice on two subjects please--long |
Nchanted1
Replies: 16
Views: 986
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:27 am Subject: I need advice on two subjects please--long |
The whole point of being self employed is to have control over your schedule. If she cannot meet with you within the hours you are available, kiss her goodbye.
As for late payments from Brides, I f ... |
| Topic: Go the extra mile, you never know where it will lead... |
Nchanted1
Replies: 14
Views: 588
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:15 am Subject: Go the extra mile, you never know where it will lead... |
I did a cake for a man last year, a small birthday cake for his girlfriend. She has a tea business. "Just a small birthday cake, whatever."
I decided to make it a teapot like I had seen in a store, ... |
| Topic: Customer Pickups and Equipment Returns? |
Nchanted1
Replies: 4
Views: 153
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:21 pm Subject: Customer Pickups and Equipment Returns? |
I am a legal home baker. i deliver 95% of my cakes, and I get paid for it. Bake like mad Thursday and Friday, decorate Friday (sometimes all night) and deliver Saturday. Home, clean up, sleep!
If th ... |
| Topic: Ok... I need a backbone.... |
Nchanted1
Replies: 13
Views: 523
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:08 pm Subject: Ok... I need a backbone.... |
| I almost never answer my business phone. I call back in a timely manner.You can have your answering machine help you with resetting your prices. Record a message that says something like...Thanks for ... |
| Topic: Ok... I need a backbone.... |
Nchanted1
Replies: 13
Views: 523
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:08 pm Subject: Ok... I need a backbone.... |
| I almost never answer my business phone. I call back in a timely manner.You can have your answering machine help you with resetting your prices. Record a message that says something like...Thanks for ... |
| Topic: Trying to run a business but keep giving cakes away |
Nchanted1
Replies: 34
Views: 1649
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:33 pm Subject: Trying to run a business but keep giving cakes away |
| We have all been where you are now. We are reluctant to stand up for ourselves. So ask yourself, If someone treated my best friend as disrespectfully as I am treating myself, wouldn't I stick up for t ... |
| Topic: Trying to run a business but keep giving cakes away |
Nchanted1
Replies: 34
Views: 1649
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:32 pm Subject: Trying to run a business but keep giving cakes away |
| We have all been where you are now. We are reluctant to stand up for ourselves. So ask yourself, If someone treated my best friend as disrespectfully as I am treating myself, wouldn't I stick up for t ... |
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