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Homemade for Sale, Second Edition

How to Set Up and Market a Food Business from Your Home Kitchen
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Homemade for Sale, Second Edition by John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist serves as a comprehensive guide for aspiring entrepreneurs aiming to dive into the business of selling homemade foods. It offers practical advice on navigating legal requirements, marketing strategies, and effective business planning to successfully start and grow a home-based food business. This edition is updated with new insights and strategies for thriving in today's market, providing both inspiration and practical tools for those interested in pursuing their cottage food dream.
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You might enjoy this book if you're keen on transforming your homemade creations into a profitable business. It's ideal for aspiring entrepreneurs looking to navigate the world of home-based food businesses, offering insight and guidance on managing legalities and marketing strategies effectively.

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Homemade for Sale, Second Edition is the authoritative guide to starting and running a home-based food business, now fully updated and expanded. From food product ideas and marketing, to profiles of successful cottage food and food freedom entrepreneurs, to navigating laws, get cooking and turn a hobby into a business.

Updated and expanded! The authoritative guide to conceiving and launching your own home-based food business – from idea to recipe to final product.

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Updated and expanded! The authoritative guide to conceiving and launching your own home-based food business from idea to recipe to final product.

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 roadmap to go from ideas and recipes to owning a food business. Contents include:

  • 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 is 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

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Homemade for Sale, Second Edition is praised for its comprehensive guidance in starting a cottage food business, with a strong emphasis on marketingβ€”a crucial aspect often neglected by new entrepreneurs. The authors, John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist, are highlighted as pivotal figures in the cottage food movement, providing essential resources and examples to aid success. This book offers thorough insights into legal considerations, business incorporation, and product marketing, supported by real-life entrepreneur profiles for inspiring and practical advice.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780865719699

Publisher: New Society Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 December 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: New Society Publishers

Edition: 2nd Revised edition

Illustration: 185 Halftones, black and white

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 653g

Pages: 384

About the Author

Lisa Kivirist and John D. Ivanko are nationally recognised speakers and writers with 15 books between them including the award-winning ECOpreneuring, Homemade for Sale, Farmstead Chef, and Rural Renaissance. Lisa is the instructor for the best-selling online Udemy course: How to Start and Market a Food Business from Your Home Kitchen. Together, they spearheaded the first-ever Home-based Food Entrepreneur Virtual National Conference. Lisa served as a plaintiff in the successful lawsuit that legalized the sale of home-baked goods in Wisconsin. She also leads Soil Sisters, an award-winning project of Renewing the Countryside that supports women in sustainable agriculture and is the author of Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers. John is a photographer and the co-author for six award-winning multicultural children's books including To Be a Kid, Come Out and Play, and Back to School. John and Lisa are innkeepers of the completely solar-powered Inn Serendipity B&B in Wisconsin.

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