I love and appreciate your sobering, no holes-barred talk on business. It's really really helpful, thank you 🙏

I'm a Passion to Profit graduate and I've been following Janelle for a couple of years now. I always watch her content and ALWAYS learn something! Love her!

@TheCakeMamas

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Aww we love you! Hope all is well

I had that "Gas Station" moment @ Walmart. Seen 2 guys discussing the store bought cakes he had in his basket, talking about not knowing if this candle was a 6 or a 9, so I showed them the easiest ways to tell. As they chatted about the colors of the cakes, wanted to know if they had enough cake, etc. I answered their questions, I ended up just spitting it out, "I Decorate cakes, I do Custom Decorations, I do a little sugar glass work, Fondant 2-3 D figures, buttercream frosting, a little Wafer Papper. It was wired at first. But within a few minutes I just started chatting up a storm.

@TheCakeMamas

Жыл бұрын

Just gotta break the ice lol

Key Takeaway was when Eddie said “Do not wait for something to happen to your business, you have to happen to it!”

Thanks for this info, very useful! Im about to start reaching out to farmers & flea markets. What stops me from that is the need to be in a commercial kitchen in my State (which I cannot afford at this time).

Totally makes sense!!! That is so true I chase the spots with the cute fun unique drinks .. alcoholic...hahahaa

@TheCakeMamas

Жыл бұрын

lol!

Great information

Great points! Thank you for sharing!

@TheCakeMamas

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Hope it helps!

Thanks so much for this video.

@TheCakeMamas

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment

When you’re a home baker, meaning you don’t own a brick & mortar. It’s pretty hard to keep you with the short occasion baked goods, such as dog day. Etc. so how do you keep up or try to attempt to keep up with trends? 💕

@TheCakeMamas

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Great question! One thing I recommend that will help you tremendously is planning ahead. When I was at home and in my store front I would sit down and have a meeting with myself on the first of every month to plan for the month ahead. I would look up any wacky holidays I could participate in, look at the media and see what popular movies are coming out, etc. and then I would plan my month around those occasions/trends. As my business grew, planning ahead became more and more essential and I saw that other business owners struggled with the same thing so I created "the social celebrator" which is a compiled list of all the wacky and essential Holidays for the entire year with pre-written customizable captions and promo ideas. You can actually grab this here: www.janellecopeland.com/social-celebrator if not, I would suggest doing that monthly meeting with yourself and creating a schedule.

When you have a Lamborghini, they allow you access to a closed track. Just FYI. Of course, you will get to drive as fast as that car can go.

It should be illegal to give away these free gems but I’m so glad it’s not. Thank you!!!

@TheCakeMamas

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hah! Imagine what we give away when you pay us!