Cash from Baking??

skintbint_2

hi hayley, i made up my own photo book - that way i can change the pictures, got the photos free off one of the sites, think it was photobox. watch out doing it for friends as a lot still think they can get "mates rates" once you have your business up and running, make sure they realise its a favour and a friend of a friend would not get these preferencial rates, have found that to my cost!

hayley11

skintbint wrote: »

hi hayley, i made up my own photo book - that way i can change the pictures, got the photos free off one of the sites, think it was photobox. watch out doing it for friends as a lot still think they can get "mates rates" once you have your business up and running, make sure they realise its a favour and a friend of a friend would not get these preferencial rates, have found that to my cost!

Thanks, does make sense to do my own actually.

I'm telling people that i'm only charging cost at the moment as i'm learning and not set up as a business yet. I'll have to be tough and make sure I charge everybody properly.

stephy110288

Yaaaaaaaay!!! The council guy said yes!!! whoooo! to be honest, he didnt even step foot in my kitchen, just asked me to sign a form and that was it!
so im going to carry on with a website, keep baking and taking pics of my cupcakes, and eventually ill be up and running!

karenccs67

stephy110288 wrote: »

Yaaaaaaaay!!! The council guy said yes!!! whoooo! to be honest, he didnt even step foot in my kitchen, just asked me to sign a form and that was it!
so im going to carry on with a website, keep baking and taking pics of my cupcakes, and eventually ill be up and running!

thats fantastic, well done and happy baking.

johanne

well done stephy!!!!! what exactly did he say? Pm me if you dont wanna say on here.... !!

Might be temtped to ring them myself now and hope they have the same attitude to me! haha

stephy110288

Are you liverpool too? he was really nice, just sat down, asked me what i was going to do so i told him. he asked if i had ever worked with food before, told him ive worked in restaurants for the last 7 years and i have food hygeine etc. he just told me that its low risk as far as they are concerned so he will be able to sign it off and they wont need to come out again. hes sending me some health and safety pack in the post to read through as well. and that was it, done in 15 mins! he said that the only people that they might ever turn down is say if people have alot of pets because of the hair etc. well happy!

johanne

yeah im in liverpool! Im thinking of concentrating more on the odd novelty cake rather than cupcakes though so dont worry not the competition. lol

skintbint_2

well done stephy! oooooooh your a business woman now! am at sixes and sevens have the oppertunity to book a stall at a wedding fair but its £380 and not sure whether to go for it or not eeeeeek! have until the end of the week to decide only means making 2 or 3 dummy cakes and some samples - am sure i could manage that but the doubts are creeping in as to whether i'm good enough! anybody else ever feel like that?

alyssa_liss

i would love to start a cake business but im really scared about how to go about it?

is it easy to go self employed?

hayley11

skintbint wrote: »

well done stephy! oooooooh your a business woman now! am at sixes and sevens have the oppertunity to book a stall at a wedding fair but its £380 and not sure whether to go for it or not eeeeeek! have until the end of the week to decide only means making 2 or 3 dummy cakes and some samples - am sure i could manage that but the doubts are creeping in as to whether i'm good enough! anybody else ever feel like that?

I'm sure you're good enough, have faith in yourself (says the girl who thinks everything she makes is rubbish! :rotfl:)

I think i'd weigh up the costs of hiring the stall plus the ingredients etc. and then see how many orders you'd need to get that back.

Good luck if you do decide to go for it, show us some piccies