Cake Decorating Business

The most common questions here in CakesDecor forums are about Starting a Cake Business and Cake Pricing. There are many books and brochures about this topic over the internet already, but...

Part #2: What Kind of Business Do You Want? Once you’ve established that you’d like to be in business, you need to start thinking about the kind of business you would like to be in. Although...

Part #3: Setting Up Your Business There are some things about being in business which need to be done no matter what size or kind of business you are running. You’ve got to do the official...

Basic Principles of Pricing Your Cakes Cake pricing is the thing most cake decorators and bakers really struggle with. In part this is because this is a very emotional business we are in, so...

Part #5: Basic Marketing Marketing is the second thing other than pricing which seems to frustrate a lot of cake business owners. We know it’s important, we know we need to do it, yet many of...

Part #6: Social Media and Your Online Presence Social media has become a part of our daily lives, and it’s important for businesses to have a presence on those platforms. Social media is...

Part #7: Customer Service Customer service is something which is vitally important to the cake industry. The products we provide are highly personal, are usually a luxury, and we provide them...

Part #8: Work/Life Balance When you are running a small business, it can feel as though the business has taken over your entire life. This is true of all small businesses but a little more so...

Part #9: Dealing with Passion Killers: Criticism and Burn Out In a high emotion-based industry such as cake, it can be very difficult to deal with criticism. In the moment that the client...

Part #10: Planning to Expand and Grow of Your Business Once things start to really move along in your business and you start to turn away business, you may find yourself thinking about...