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Apr 29, 2009
15. Re: Starting a bakery business from home Apr 29, 2009 1:44 PM
momma;

This is my first post on this website. It looks like a good idea. You need to contact your COUNTY office for business licensing. They should be able to tell you what to do. You will need, most likely, to register your business with them. They should run a check to be sure your business name isn't already taken. You do not want to start using a name and developing a corporate identity only to find later that it is taken. You'd have to start over and lose all that printing and marketing money! The county may also tell you how to get an FEIN. Have you checked on line for "how to start a business" "how to get a FEIN" etc...? Just be careful that you go to official sites and you may just use the net for general info. Go IN PERSON to the county office so you know who you're dealing with. Good luck! P.S. I haven't found the SBA to be very helpful, but still try them out. They usually refer you to a university where they have quasi governmental agencies under a title along the lines of Small Business Development Center.
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Apr 29, 2009
16. Re: Starting a bakery business from home Apr 29, 2009 1:54 PM
momma:

You will also absolutely need General Liability Insurance for your business. If not, everything you own is at risk to a law suit and a food product has big lawsuit potential. So, contact an Independent Agency, or several, and get some quotes. You are too small to get much attention, so don't expect the agents to give you tons of service. Find one that will take a bit of time for you. As a start up you may not get a standard carrier, but you should be able to get a policy. You need premises/operations and products liability coverage at a minimum.

Your homeowner policy may offer an endorsement, or they may want to cancel you for running a home based office. That is the place to start and just be general when you call the agent...don't say "I am starting a business" say "A friend of mine.....:)".

Read the policy and be sure you have $300,000 minimum limits. Consider $1M if you can and look into a personal umbrella policy.
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17. Re: Starting a bakery business from home Apr 29, 2009 3:57 PM
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18. Re: Starting a bakery business from home Jun 3, 2009 12:34 AM
Here's a helpful web site I found on how to start a bakery business.
It's called StartABakeryBusiness.com Check it
out...http://www.startabakerybusiness.com/bakery/index.html
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Apr 3, 2009
19. Re: Starting a bakery business from home Jun 3, 2009 2:51 AM
I am in a webdesign and Internet Marketing fim. One of the reasons we are much sought after is that we do not try to sell a wrong solution.
You cookies and other items will at first proably be picked up from your kitchen bakery. You may deliver some large orders. So assume that the radius of operations is about 8 kilometers. Once people get to know about your offerings they'll call in to check about prices etc.
If you do want to build a website you could do it in those which offer you free space anglefire.com gives you tools and webspace free. You could use a free space like blogspot.com to load up prices. In all this I am assuming you are short of cash.
Good luck. Don't eat too many of the tasty cookies yourself!
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