Cake Boss: Video On Demand

by paula

You can also watch Cake Boss on Amazon Unboxed. The best part about this is that you can pay for just the episodes you want.

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Cake Boss DVD

by paula

Cake Boss Season 1 DVD is available from Amazon.com and directly from the TLC Discovery Channel Store.

Buddy Valastro is one of the most successful and renowned cake artists in the United States. Master baker of Carlo’s City Hall Bake Shop in Hoboken, New Jersey, Buddy is the cake boss. He supervises a team that includes [...]

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Bakery websites, hosting and domains

by paula

Buying a Website Simplified
I see many people asking the same questions about setting up a cake business or bakery website. They vaguely understand what is involved in getting a website operational, but because of their inexperience they postpone the purchase or worse, are taken advantage of as they shop around.
Here are the basics if you [...]

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Register your Cake Domain for $1

by paula

If you’ve been thinking about registering a domain name for your future cake business but haven’t wanted to pay the fees,here’s a great offer for you. GoDaddy iss offering a coupon for one year domain registration for 99 cents. Enter BOWL2010 in coupon field to show the discounted price. Additional 18 Cent ICANN fee applies.
World’s Largest Registrar – GoDaddy.com

What [...]

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Google Voice for your Cake Business

by paula

What phone number to give out?
Many small cake businesses ask us about the propriety of giving out a non-business phone number to their clients. For example, “Is it OK to give customers your cell phone or even home phone number.”  Those businesses who operate in a rented commercial kitchen or from home need to be [...]

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Advice and Inspiration for Beginners

by paula

Let them decorate cake:
Here’s an article about some women in upstate NY who find cake decorating  more than a hobby: 2 cake business owners, a decorator and a party store owner who offers classes.
New Berlin’s Kelly Banks started her own cake decorating business in 2005. Banks, who trained at the Culinary Institute of America, decided [...]

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Un-covered cake (no fondant/no frosting)

by paula

What are your impressions of this quirky NY bakery?
notes: cakes are un-covered on the sides and we do not do fondant or frosting.
cake is approx 60 servings with the top tier to save as your wedding souvenir.
price includes delivery in manhattan and set-up; extra delivery fees may apply depending on distance.
via :: momofuku ::.

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Is your cake business down?

by paul

The Boston Business Journal estimates that wedding industry revenue was projected to be down 6 percent in 2009. Now that we’re headed into the Fall season, I’m curious if this has proven to be true for you? Please leave a comment below if you want to share how business has been for you this year.

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

by paula

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

by paula

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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