Really good at baking and don’t know how to start a business?
Baking is like a therapy, many people try baking as a hobby and some out of curiosity. Due to the Corona pandemic, various home-based bakery businesses are coming up. People are trying out new things and they also try baking. Baked goods are always in trend, people try new bakery joints to find their right choices. There are many online bakeries that started in this lockdown season. People are becoming more creative and trying out baking as a hobby as well as a source of earning. This comes under home baking, where you don’t really own a bakery but work from home and bake cakes, cupcakes, brownies, or any such bakery goodies. Setting up a bakery at home is really easy for beginners and for people who don’t want to invest in bakery shops. Starting a home-based bakery might sound really fun thing and it’s easier because you don’t invest much.
Here are a few things you require to start a home-based baking business and show your skills of baking to the world.
- Sufficient skills and knowledge
No doubt this is the most important step, having sufficient information on what you are baking and knowledge of the ingredients is really necessary. Most of the home bakers start their process by learning from YouTube but for starting a business like this you need to take professional help.
- Have a separate Instagram account
Nowadays, everything is on Instagram. Instagram provides an option for business, so you can create an account for your business and be creative with posting about it. Show up all your available bakery goodies in your posts. Take friends’ help for promoting from their accounts
- Promote yourself
Try to make a fancy menu and make some pamphlets designed for yourself. Try to promote your bakery as much as possible and create a considerable fan-base.
- Source your ingredients
It is really important that you use the best ingredients for your baking. Get good quality ingredients from cake supplies shops and try to find a good deal for it. You can buy your ingredients online as well, just make sure of its validation.
- Be properly equipped
Having proper types of equipment is a vital step for starting a baking business. You may have the basic types of equipment for baking but keep yourself updated with new equipments in the market and try to upgrade
- Manage the cost and pricing of your items
Getting the pricing right is important for any baker. You always should make sure your making cost is not turning higher than selling cost. Try to have conversations with all-time bakery owners and find the right pricing.
- Stock and order management
Always manage your stocks of ingredients and other things and the orders you get properly. You might take a friend’s help to set it up. Managing the orders and the money is really important or else you would be left in a mess.
