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So you feel you’ve more or less cracked the cupcake baking, and family and friends love how you decorate them.
You’re starting to wonder if this could be a viable business as a sideline or even full time.
Here are 8 tell-tale signs that you’re ready to start a cupcake business.
- You are cupcake obsessed, and just love everything about them. You regularly scan cupcake websites, online forums, blogs and social media sites. You also have a growing collection of cupcake books and magazines. You’ve baked numerous cupcake recipes, and have a handful of tested recipes that you tend you have good results with.
- You have the necessary equipment to produce cupcakes, and you have a collection of decorating/baking tools that you’d like to put to good use more often.
- You are the baking queen at work, your work colleagues love the fact that you bring in lots of free cake for them to eat.
- All the mums at school are impressed with your cakes and want to know how to bake and decorate cupcakes like yours.
- You’ve taken a few cupcake classes to see how the expert’s are doing it and to hone your skills.
- You bake at every opportunity.
- You’ve started making cupcakes for friends and family for nothing or you’re charging very little and you want to charge more now that you’re becoming more confident.
- You look at other cupcake websites and secretly think that your cupcakes are as good, if not better than theirs.
Do any of the above sound like you? If so then check out our Handful of Tips for Starting a Cupcake Business Part 1 and Part 2 for extra hints and tips so you can take action now.
For more cake business articles check out my business page.
Good luck & happy baking !
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So glad you decided to do this as a class.
Thanks Elisha.
Excellent list! I would add: You are willing to learn how to run an actual business.
I’m coming across this more and more often with my clients, who are mostly in the metaphysical fields. No matter how talented you are, how amazing your gifts are, or how much you truly have to offer, you have to be willing to learn to market your business (or at least turn it over to someone else who knows how). Otherwise, all you have is an expensive, albeit tasty, hobby.
Hi Michelle, thanks for your comment. I completely agree with you and this is something we cover on my business course. One of my previous blog posts ‘It not about the Cupcakes’ talks about this also.
Tracy x