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I Do Cupcakes: My Elevator Pitch
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Thursday, 8 April 2010. You should be able to sum your business up in 15-30 seconds, making it easy to understand and communicate to potential clients. So I'm going to do a draft of this 'elevator pitch' now, and see how it has altered by the time I come to the end of the 6 weeks. Posted by Growing Up Gracefully. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Creating my Wrought and Adorned Life. When is a preemie not a preemie? Chocolate Peanut Butter Rock Cakes. A change in direction.
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I Do Cupcakes: A change in direction
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Wednesday, 14 April 2010. A change in direction. This project has gone on hold for a while, as I was presented with an oppertunity this week I think could be a great starter business for me, or a springboard to a lot more. Therefore I am currently focussed on exploring this business and I'll get back to the original one later! Posted by Growing Up Gracefully. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Creating my Wrought and Adorned Life. When is a preemie not a preemie?
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I Do Cupcakes: Use what you have!
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Tuesday, 6 April 2010. Use what you have! I'm going to undertake an exercise Freesourcing: How to Start a Business with No Money. Talks about. The aim is to write two lists, the first details everything I currently have to hand to start and run my own business. The second is everything I think I will need to run and grow my business. Helpful and enthusiastic family. Some equipment (bowls, muffin trays, tins, measuring equipment, icing gun). Caddys to transport cupcakes. Blender/fondant cut outs/icing bag.
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I Do Cupcakes: Next weeks to do list.
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Friday, 9 April 2010. Next weeks to do list. I find things a lot easier in small chunks. So by Friday 16th I intend to:. Have finished reading Freesourcing: How to Start a Business with No Money. Start and get at least halfway through reading Starting a Cake Decorating Business from Home. Make an appointment to see 3 florists. Make another 20 cards. Get my sewing folder up to date). Non priority, can roll over to next week. Finish my wedding book. Have set up google adsense. Call the wedding list stores.
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I Do Cupcakes: Setting up the foundations of a business
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Thursday, 8 April 2010. Setting up the foundations of a business. I've reached the end of chapter 2! This doesn't sound like much of an acomplishment, but I'm in fact nearly half way through the book. Lessons for today are:. Learn what needs trademarking or what I can stamp as having intellectual property rights at www.ipo.gov.uk. Look at Creative Commons www.creativecommons.org.uk for free licences and legal tools. What can I say, I think I read most of the useful stuff yeserday! View my complete profile.
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I Do Cupcakes: April 2010
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Wednesday, 14 April 2010. A change in direction. This project has gone on hold for a while, as I was presented with an oppertunity this week I think could be a great starter business for me, or a springboard to a lot more. Therefore I am currently focussed on exploring this business and I'll get back to the original one later! Posted by Growing Up Gracefully. Friday, 9 April 2010. Next weeks to do list. I find things a lot easier in small chunks. So by Friday 16th I intend to:. Make another 20 cards.
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I Do Cupcakes: 6 Weeks and counting
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Tuesday, 6 April 2010. 6 Weeks and counting. A few days ago I found out I need 6 weeks of physio before likely keyhole surgery on my knee. So I have decided to use these 6 weeks productively to try to get a little closer to realising a dream of mine. By the 14th of May I hope to have:. Read cake decorating business book. Read starting your own business book. Read social media book. Make a list of all places that do craft fairs in the area. Make a list of all places that do wedding fayres in the area.
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I Do Cupcakes: Freesourcing
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Tuesday, 6 April 2010. Today I've been focused on reading Freesourcing: How to Start a Business with No Money. I've also cracked Amazon Associates (feels good to cross something off the list on my very first day! I accidentally registered for the US version first though, so I need to work out how to make it all UK-licious. I've only gotten through chapter 1 of the Freesourcing book but I'm finding it really useful. So far I have learnt:. Create a facebook group to market your products. Peanut butter is l...
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I Do Cupcakes: Lessons for Wednesday
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Thursday, 8 April 2010. So my posting every day soon went wrong! However thats only because yesterday I got very wrapped up in the book, and ran out of time to post. Lesons from yesterday are:. I'm not eligable for the Prince's Trust help or grants as I'm already employed (why is society geared to get us to a certain base level, but not push us or help us reach our full potential? Wwwshortask.com is a website containing micro jobs, worth checking out to try and find ways to boost the start up fund.
