How Do I Get More Visitors to my Cake Business Website?

September 1, 2009

From MarketingLoudly:
Getting your small business listed on the local search engines sites is critical to getting not only more traffic to your website, but more calls on the phone and more new customers in the door.
Local search listings include not only your basic contact information, but they also include a map of your business location. [...]

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Cake Websites

August 28, 2009

A lot of my readers ask me about getting a website. I wanted to share an offer for web hosting that I personally can vouch for, because my site, cake-business.com is hosted there: 1and1.com. They are so confident you’ll love their services that you can try them free for one year.

I’ve mentioned both in my [...]

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Making a Car out of Cake

July 16, 2009

New Skoda Fabia Advert – Full of lovely stuff

The making baking of  the “Skoda Fabia – Car Cake” advert

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When Sister Is Your Cake Business Partner

July 16, 2009

Would you go into business with a family member?  Here’s an informative article about two sisters who started a cake business near Wrigley Field in Chicago.
There are several keys to note in this article about starting your own bakery.
First, they started off cautiously.
…holding down day jobs while they figured out their fledgling business concept. In [...]

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

June 17, 2009

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 [...]

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

June 16, 2009

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 [...]

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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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