Saturday, September 7, 2013

How To Launch A Food-RelAted Business From Home

By Dani Holt


Are you considering launching a food-related business - baking and selling homemade food products from your home?

There is a growing trend towards natural, pesticide-free and healthy food products, so it's not a surprise that custom food products are becoming more profitable. Food products are extensively given as gifts, they can also offer a solution to certain nutritional constraints.



If you like preparing foods and creativity is one of your assets, you can have a lot of fun in this type of business while giving your clients what they need. Below are a couple of business ideas you can start:

Become a Caterer

Catering can be a terrific part-time or full time operation. You can work with a variety of different clients, from small parties to huge corporate meetings. You can concentrate on imaginative laid-back outdoor entertainment or fancy intricate functions. Establish your very own unique type of catering and food preparation, and you can more easily attract a devoted following of clients and client referrals.

Start a Cupcake Business

Do you enjoy baking - with a flair for small desserts? There are a lot of choices you have when launching a cupcake business. Premium cupcake stores are opening up in every major city and are rapidly becoming a popular treat.

But what about baby shower cupcakes, wedding cupcakes, kids's birthday cupcakes and cupcake bouquets? You guessed it - practically any event that would have a cake or cookies would certainly like cupcakes too.

There is also an expanding market for gluten-free products, natural baked items and healthier desserts. With a cupcake business, you can start small, from your kitchen or other cooking establishment. You can make deliveries to customers or sell to retail stores or markets. As your business grows, and if you choose, you can open a cupcake shop and offer your cupcakes direct to customers.

Start a Cookie Business

Are you looking to start a part-time business that involves food - where you can work out of your home? The cookie baking industry is a great business for this. Even though there are lots of competitors, you can serve specifically your community market and do quite well.

You do not need many supplies, kitchen equipment, cooking ingredients or room to start - as compared with other food ventures. You can begin with small orders and grow over time as people learn about your cookies.

Instead of baking the conventional chocolate chip cookies, search for niche markets where there is very few or no competitors. Some examples are gluten free cookies, organic cookies, vegan cookies, one-of-a-kind flavors, forms or sizes, and so on. By being different, it suddenly becomes much easier to gain the market's attention and get them to purchase your products.

Become a Food Writer

Food critics provide a valuable service to restaurant owners and eaters alike, but their commentary can also be amusing to read. This specialized field might not get much attention as a business idea, but food writers can have a huge effect on the profits of a dining establishment, as well as the audience of a magazine or newspaper.

If you are good at providing valuable feedback and have an intriguing writing style, you can excel as a food writer, and you'll get to enjoy a lot of interesting meals too.

Become a Bakery Owner

If you want to work for yourself and enjoy making baked goods, a bakery can be a creative and fulfilling line of work that lets you do what you enjoy: creating desserts and cooking delicious treats.

You can also open a dog bakery, or focus on baking and offering cookies, concentrate on healthy low fat treats, uniquely-shaped cakes, open a cafe-bookstore or any of a number of other specialty bakery niches.

Bakeries can thrive on word-of-mouth marketing, recommendations and repeat clients. However, they first require those first initial clients to get those referrals. Considering that a bakery costs money to run from day one (and prior to), it is necessary to bring in customers as fast as possible to generate income.




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