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Publisher: New Society Publishers
Pub. Date: 2022-12-13
ISBN: 9780865719699
Format: Paperback - 384 pages
Size: 8" x 9" (w x h)
BISAC: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Home-Based Businesses

Homemade for Sale, Second Edition

How to Set Up and Market a Food Business from Your Home Kitchen

Follow your dream to launch a food business from your home and join the booming movement of food entrepreneurs.

Fully updated and expanded, Homemade for Sale, Second Edition is the authoritative guide to launching a successful food enterprise from your kitchen. It covers everything you need to get cooking for your customers, providing a clear road map to go from ideas and recipes to owning a food business. Contents includes:

  • Product development and testing
  • Understanding state cottage food and food freedom laws and advocacy
  • Independently tested recipes for non-hazardous food products, including frostings
  • Marketing and developing your niche
  • Step-by-step guides for packaging, labeling, and creating displays
  • Structuring and running your business while planning for the future
  • Bookkeeping and financial management
  • Managing liability, risk, and government regulations
  • Avoiding burnout through self-care and time management
  • Profiles of successful food entrepreneurs.

More people than ever are demanding real food made with real ingredients by real people, and you have the freedom to earn by starting a food business from home. No capital needed, just good recipes and enthusiasm, plus enough business know-how found in the pages of Homemade for Sale to be a success. Everything else is probably already in your kitchen. Best of all, you can start right now!

AWARDS

  • SILVER | 2023 Living Now Book Awards: How-To / DIY
About the Authors

Lisa Kivirist is a nationally recognised speaker, writer, instructor, and co-author of 15 books, including award-winning ECOpreneuring, Homemade for Sale, and Farmstead Chef. Lisa teaches the best-selling online Udemy cottage food course. With John D. Ivanko, she runs the solar-powered Inn Serendipity B&B in Wisconsin.

John D. Ivanko is a nationally recognised speaker, writer, instructor, and co-author of 15 books, including award-winning ECOpreneuring, Homemade for Sale, and Farmstead Chef. John is also a photographer and the co-author of six award-winning multicultural children's books. With Lisa Kivirist, he runs the solar-powered Inn Serendipity B&B in Wisconsin.



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