Starting Your Baking Business

Seven Steps to Building Your Foundation for Success

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“Starting Your Baking Business” walks you through the steps to create a business with a strong foundation and puts you on the road to sweet success!

This course teaches you:

  • Baking Business Startup Requirements
  • How to Create a One-Page Business Plan
  • How to Identify Your Ideal Client
  • Marketing and Promotion Strategies
  • Pricing Your Products
  • Making it Legal with Contract, Policies, and Procedures
  • and more!

This course is your complete guide to setting up and starting your cake or baking business!

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Includes a companion

course workbook

Building a business has a lot of moving parts and steps required. This course workbook follows the outline of the course and provides a place for you to take notes as you work through the course.

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Course Curriculum

An African American woman wearing an apron, working in the commercial kitchen of a bakery. She is putting icing on cupcakes. She is the owner of a successful small business.

Block 1

  • About Starting Your Baking Business
  • Bakery Business Start-Up Requirements
  • Baking Business Audit Activity
  • One Page Business Plan
  • Create a Business Plan Activity
  • Pricing Your Products
  • Calculating Your Pricing Activity

Block 2

  • Making It Legal
  • Understanding Contracts & Agreements
  • Creating Your Policies & Procedures
  • Your Business Website
  • Baking Business Tools & Resources
Woman in a bakery decorating her cake
Smiling mid adult man wearing apron and talking on smart phone while standing at point of sale system with bakers in background.

Block 3 – Bonus Topics

  • Maximize Social Media
  • Sales Process & Sales Techniques
  • Storefront Requirements
  • Live Q&A Sessions
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Frequently Asked Questions

The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course – you decide when you start and when you finish. We recommend that you complete the course within 6-8 weeks as the end goal is to have a fully operating business.

**Please note that if you are in a beta/test group, you will only have access to the course for a few months. Check your program enrollment for details.**

How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as it is available in the school – across any and all devices you own, for the lifetime of the course. Once we retire a course it will no longer be available for access.

**Please note that the beta version retires for everyone after a few months – check your enrollment details for specific dates.**

This course is for all bakers and cake decorators who are hobbyists ready to transition into a business or those who have started the process of becoming a registered business and want to make sure all of their bases are covered. Oftentimes, people start baking and selling their cakes and cookies without fully forming a business and this course helps with that. There are no tricks or shortcuts here, this course is for those who are ready to take the steps needed to make their business legal and officially open for business.
 
Note: This information is general and geared primarily towards bakers in the United States although the business foundations and principles taught are applicable to everyone regardless of location.
There will always be responsibilities, obligations, and deadlines to meet. You have to decide if creating a baking business is right for you and if today is the day where it will be one of your top priorities. We’ve designed the course to be self-paced and easy to follow and you can always come back to the materials as many times as you need to, as long as the program is still available in the school.
 
The course is designed to set up your business over the course of several weeks, so you can work at your own pace. We’ve also included a course workbook that you can download and take notes. This will also give you your personal guide and playbook to set up your business.
This online course consists of 8 modules that walk you through all of the steps of building a cake or baking business. You will have a short video explanation of each topic and action items needed to complete each step. There is also a companion course workbook that is available for download so you can take notes and write down ideas you want to implement as you build your business.
Although you can probably get through all of the content in less time, The course is designed to be completed in under 8-12 hours. Due to the time it takes to file paperwork and get all aspects of business set up, a realistic expectation is to have a fully operating business created within 4-6 weeks. This is all dependent on your own efforts and scheduling to get documents completed and filed with your local government/business officials.
All students can leave a question or comment directly within the course and receive assistance, or send an email through the email address provided in the course materials.
We cannot determine how much money you will make in your business and that’s not the purpose of this course. There are no shortcuts or get-rich-quick schemes here. This course is intended to walk you through the steps of building a solid business foundation, taught by an award-winning baker and cake business owner.
 
The business principles taught in this course are the same business principles from other industries, however, they are customized for cake decorators and bakers who want to own their own bakeries, whether it’s a home-based bakery, cottage food business, or retail bakery.
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