Without a doubt, there is a huge market for beautifully decorated, custom-made cakes, cupcakes, and more.

The key is reaching the people who want to buy from you. As a cake business owner, your job is not only about making great products; you are also a marketing strategist. This means simply, you have to get the word out there about your new business. In the early stages, most businesses require a great deal of marketing. The posts in this section of our site covers all of the different facets of marketing, including social media, traditional advertising, community outreach, and brand awareness.

Naming your Cake Business

Creating the perfect name for your cake business Starting a cake business involves many steps that are both creative and strategic. If you are considering how to move beyond baking cakes for friends and family, you’ve probably thought about the identity of your business — your business name and logo. One of the first steps [...]

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Bakery websites, hosting and domains

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 [...]

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Register your Cake Domain for $1

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 – [...]

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

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 [...]

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When Sister Is Your Cake Business Partner

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 [...]

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Divorce cakes sweeten business

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

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” [...]

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Cake Business Cards

One of the best ways to promote your cake business is to leave business cards with everyone you know. Attach your cards to every delivery you make, hand them out to anyone who asks about your baking, and always have plenty of cards on hand. While there are plenty of high-tech networking solutions you may [...]

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