10 “Crafty” Small Businesses for Budding Entrepreneurs

We all heard growing up that artists don’t make any money. If you had artistic ambitions, perhaps you put them to the side in favor of the daily corporate grind and the promise of a steady salary, health benefits and a retirement plan. Now though, perhaps your job is on shaky ground or worse, gone entirely and you are casting about for a new way to earn a living.

Why not, this time, take a new route that puts money in the bank AND leaves you creatively fulfilled?
The following are ten home based businesses for perfect for artistic types:

Cake Baking/Decorating – Everyone has birthdays, weddings, and other special occasions. Why not encourage them to celebrate with a custom designed cake of your creation? This business requires relatively little capital to start, but cake decorating skills are imperative.

via 10 “Crafty” Small Businesses for Budding Entrepreneurs | Outright Blog.

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Fast Food, Ice Cream & Cake Shop For Sale 12245 Bouras

Asking Price: $380,500 Inventory:
Gross Revenue: $497,118 Real Estate: n/a
Cash Flow: $154,767 FF&E: n/a
++ included in the asking price ** not included in the asking price
A busy fast food, Ice Cream and cake store in a thriving winter and summer recreation area. Absentee operated and doing well. Open 7 days a week. Owner’s relocation causes sale.

via Fast Food, Ice Cream & Cake Shop For Sale 12245 Bouras Business For Sale in New Hampshire | BizQuest.com.

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Success is sweet for passionate cake maker | CharlotteObserver.com

May 4, 2009

Success is sweet for passionate cake maker

Cynthia George made this four-tiered, heart-shaped chocolate cake for the Valentine’s Day Chocolate Extravaganza at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
In this bad economy, sometimes all you hear is the negative: Unemployment is high and the housing market is slow.
But there’s a silver lining: entrepreneurship. Many employees who always had a [...]

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Divorce cakes sweeten business

April 22, 2009

We covered this once before, but here’s an update. Also, I’m curious what you think about this. Kind of a gloomy addition to a cake business, but maybe in some places the consumer is ready for divorce cake. Is there any risk of scaring off the new bridal customer who doesn’t want to think about [...]

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Marketers find Twitter a tweet recipe for success - USATODAY.com

April 1, 2009

A great article on how one cake business is using social networking to reach her customers for repeat business. If you’re not using Facebook and Twitter to market your business, read this article and get on these sites!

LOS ANGELES — Cake decorator Suzi Finer fills in spare time during the workday updating her “status” on [...]

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Live Wedding Cake Competition

March 25, 2009

WE TV (The network that brought you “Amazing Wedding Cakes”) is proud to announce the first WE TV Live Wedding Cake Competition hosted by the Great American Cake Show in Westminster, Maryland (May 2 and 3). Wedding cake makers of all skill levels are invited to apply, but only 20 lucky people will be [...]

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Cake Business Television Show featuring Buddy Valastro

March 25, 2009

TLC takes the cake with Buddy Valastro
Master baker to be featured in the new series CAKE BOSS
March 25, 2009 Los Angeles, CA
He’s created some of the most mouth-watering and elaborate cakes, including Britney Spears’ circus-themed 27th birthday cake, and now he’ll serve up the perfect recipe for TV entertainment when TLC airs CAKE BOSS on [...]

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Cake Decorating Tutorials + an Important Lesson

March 16, 2009

I have posted several tutorial videos from many well know and soon to be well know cake artists and entrepreneurs. What I love about this video in particular is that in addition to simply being useful, Edna also begins and ends the video promoting her business. For many of us looking at this video it [...]

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How much does it cost to start a cupcake business?

March 14, 2009

From MainStreet.com

Cupcake businesses are posting steady sales despite a sour economy. Interested in starting your own cupcake company? Here’s what it took to launch The Sweet Tooth Fairy Bake Shop, a brand new cupcake shop in Provo, Utah.

The Small Business:
The Sweet Tooth Fairy Bake Shop
1227 S. University Ave.
Provo, Utah
Est. Jan. 31, 2009
The Start-Up Costs:
Security deposit [...]

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One way to get a loan for your cake business….

March 12, 2009

Ask your customers…or would-be customers.
Read and listen to this piece from NPR.org about how a small dairy in upstate NY is attempting to procure an unsecured loan (at a 6 percent interest rate) from their own customers.

So many of you who want to borrow money to start your cake business are running into difficulty [...]

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