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Maybe you’re a great baker and want to sell cupcakes made in your home kitchen. Or maybe you’re an excellent woodworker and you’re thinking about selling those wooden toys you made for fun. You took nice, almost professional level product photos of your products. Now, you’re ready to open for… Read More »How to Start an Online Store the Fast and Easy Way
Most people can’t resist slipping a table scrap or two to their pooch. In fact, some dogs eat as well as, if not better than, their people. So, if dogs often eat people food and you can start a people food business from home, can you start a dog food… Read More »Can You Start a Dog Treat Business from Home?
Some food businesses are easier to start than others. For example, a food business selling cookies or cakes is easier than a business selling chicken or beef tamales. That’s because, whenever you sell food with meat, you’ll have to work with some pretty complicated sanitation and safety laws. In contrast,… Read More »Starting a Home-Based Food Business Under State Cottage Food Laws
You like meat? How about a nice summer sausage? Or a frozen pepperoni pizza onto which you’ll add your own toppings? All these products were inspected by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) before getting to you to make sure they’re safe to eat. So, if you want to be… Read More »USDA Rules Every Small Food Manufacturer Should Know
When was the last time you bought gourmet cookies or artisan bread or hard-to-find pickles over the internet? Seems like a great kind of business to go into if you’re a great cook or baker, right? Well, yes and no. The cooking or baking might be the easiest part. The… Read More »FDA Rules Every Small Food Startup Should Know
Everyone loved those chocolate chip cookies you made from Grandma’s secret recipe. They even said you should sell them. For sure, you’d make a ton. So, what do you need to do to start a small food business? Can you make the cookies from home and sell them over the… Read More »Selling Grandma’s Cookies? How to Start a Small Food Business
We’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but we all do it anyway. That’s why some businesses put a lot of thought into product packaging. In fact, quite often, the packaging costs more than the product itself. So, what should you think about when deciding on your… Read More »Product Packaging Tips for Small Businesses
It’s a statistic cited almost too often: about half of new businesses don’t survive the first five years. But what the statistic doesn’t show is how many people think about starting a new business but never do. So what stops them from being an entrepreneur? In my experience, it’s I… Read More »What Does it Take to be an Entrepreneur?
Product photography is the boring workhorse of the photo world. People need these photos for one purpose: to show the product to a potential customer in whatever detail the customer needs so they’ll buy the item. If your small business sells a product, you’ll need product photography. But hiring a… Read More »How to Take Product Photos Like an Almost Pro
Photo editing software comes in all shapes and sizes. Some are on your phone only. Others are best used on a computer. Some are free. Others you’ll have to pay. The simpler ones tend to give you limited editing control, but the complex ones let you adjust down to the… Read More »Photo Editing Software for DIY Product Photography
