On Valentine’s Day, I baked a lemon flaxseed cake for my hubby. It  was “Almost guilt-free,” due to the low-fat ingredients and healthy  addition… Flaxseed. It was absolutely delicious. I’m not saying that  because I made it… well, cut me some slack, I think I deserve a  cookie for that (He he).

Anyway, my family and I enjoyed it a lot.

So what in the world does lemon flaxseed cake have to do with working from home? You might be thinking, “Vernette you are a little off here.” Well, I’m not. I thought I would share this recipe with you and explain why I’m showing off my cake.

Well, there are many people who have a passion for baking and don’t know how to get started in their own home baking business…baking cake, cookies, cupcakes, etc. You see, I can bake well, even without a recipe in hand, but have I ever thought of starting a home baking business venture in the past? Absolutely not. I’m not that great (smile), and furthermore I never had the drive. Before I go further with this articles, check out this video on how to make cupcakes by Caitlin McDermott. See…you can turn a baking passion like Caitlin, and make a boatload of cash in your own home baking business.

Home Baking Business – Cup Cake Cash!

For the moms and dads who can bake exceptionally well, why not consider a home-based baking business? Before you get started think about a niche for your home baking business. What about baking for weddings? Maybe you can cater for birthday parties, banquets, etc.

You can also specialize in baking custom cakes for special occasions, such as customized picture cakes, etc. So many niches to choose from.  Well, if you’ve decided on your niche market and…

Want to own a home baking business, here’s how to get started:

First of all, baking must be your passion in order to become successful in this business. You’re going to be baking your life away (most likely).   Also, in setting up this type of home business, you’ll have to do your homework. You want to make sure that you’re in accordance with all of rules and regulations. When dealing with food, strict rules do apply, especially for home baking businesses.

To get started, I advise you to get in contact with bakers, caterers, other home-based food businesses, personal chefs, etc. I’m sure that you will find lots of these people in your area and they can share with you what they went through to get started and also share any information with you about licensing.

In addition to speaking to other business owners in your area, make sure you call up your town, county and state licensing office. Ask them for all the guidelines that a home  baking business would need to follow. One of the first things that you would need to do is make sure that your kitchen is up to par because it will have to pass an initial health inspection.

If your kitchen passes inspection and you get started, you should have it in mind that you will be visited frequently by health inspectors. These inspectors just want to make sure that you’re still in compliance. If you want to grow your business to make it extremely profitable, you can go on a large scale beyond your local area by selling baked goods to commercial establishments.  You can also sell through the mail, etc.

Maybe you’d like to target busy parents and focus on baking children’s birthday cakes or providing homemade cupcakes or cookies for the birthday child to take to school. You can even cater to the health-conscious, and bake, for example, low calorie brownies with some type of healthy ingredients, Flaxseed bread and any other breads with nutritional ingredients.

You also have to think about how you’ll market your product. Are you interested in selling directly to customers in and around your town, or do you want to supply stores with your finished products?

Would you contract with a caterer to provide desserts for special events, or would you be hired directly by the client to create a show stopping cake? How about setting up a Website or mail order fulfillment service to peddle your wares?

Depending on the volume of bake goods that you would be supplying, it would be wise to find a wholesaler who can provide you with such things as sugar, spices, flower and other ingredients in bulk. This way, you would not have to run to the supermarket often just to replenish your pantry.

So with all of this said, please do your research carefully and make sure that this is what you want to do before you go full force into this. It sounds like a lot of fun, but it’s a lot of work. Make sure that baking is your passion or you will give up sooner than later.

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Have you ever stepped in dog poop? Well I have…many years ago. It is something I would never, ever forget. From that day on, I have made it my business to never, ever step in poop again. Well to my dismay I ended up stepping in poop again, but not dog poop this time. It was the worst kind of poop ever. And you know what, this is poop that is very difficult to clean off.

Guess what, you might be stepping in the same poop too…the dreaded “home business opportunity POOP.”

Thank God that I was able to clean my POOP off and make a living online. However it took me a few years to do so. Home business opportunity seekers, beware of stepping in POOP. It could destroy you.

What is home business opportunity POOP? Well let me sum it up for you:

1. P- People who claim to be Internet marketing gurus when they are not.

Now there is nothing worst than falling into the trap of so-called gurus who claim that they are earning anywhere from $10,000 or more monthly and are not making a dime. The worst part is, they sell you their program trying to teach you how to make money that they themselves do not even know how to make.

2. O – Overwhelmed and Overloaded with too much work at home opportunity info.

Now this one could actually destroy you. This one hit me like a ton of bricks and almost “Popped my head open.” I thought I was going crazy… literally. Maybe you are going through the same thing too. Each day my email box was filled with so much information that I just did not know which way to turn. I did searches on the search engines, visited forums, visited work at home websites, purchased over 100 e-books and programs and did everything possible to find the truth about how to earn a living online.

I was actually searching in vain because I ended up at a dead end, actually right where I first started… nowhere. There is nothing worst than working extremely hard day in and day out seeking information, purchasing e-books, reading those e-books, applying the instructions, etc and never earn a dime. The more money you spend, the more money you lose. You end up day after day pulling out your credit card in hopes of making the next online opportunity, only to be disappointed again, and again.

3. O - Opt-In lists from hell

Have you ever placed your name and email address in an opt-in box in order to receive more info and was spammed left and right? This is against the law, but many marketers do it anyway. To make matters worse, your email is shared and sold to other marketers who then do the same damn thing… spam your email box. Now this kind of thing is quite frustrating because you can end up spending most of your day cleaning out your email box.

To make matters worse, when you try to unsubscribe from some of these lists, your request goes unheard and you still continue to receive junk. I hate spam and I cannot imagine spamming anyone’s email box. I am sure these so called gurus would not like anyone spamming their email boxes. So why they do it to others puzzles me.

4. P – Passive Income Propaganda…

Gurus have a tendency to spread their misinformation like wild fire all over the Internet. This is after all the digital age, and information spreads instantaneously with just a click of the mouse. The most popular way of perpetuating this misinformation is to send e-mail messages with headlines such as:

• “Make $2,500 per month filling out surveys” • “10k in 30 Days…” • “Read our step-by-step blueprint to wealth and earn $659,560 in 6 months.” • “Make thousands of dollars with this amazing method.” • “Google is hiring at-home workers”

Most of these programs are set up to make you fail. I have never found a work at home program that could make you five, six-figures or an internet millionaire overnight unless you piggyback on someone else’s success by buying your income. Buying your income is the only way that I know of that can make almost anyone an “overnight sensation.” And even with this method, you have to know exactly what you are doing, have some money to invest or you could get burned.

With the economy the way it is and more and more people losing their jobs, many people are jumping online and have become business, home job opportunity seekers with big dreams of making quick money. More and More people are lured into many opportunities and are left “Hanging on shoe strings.” And you might be one of them… one of those poor, unlucky souls who are constantly stepping in POOP.

Fortunately, you can avoid all the sharks and earn a decent living online. For instance, selling products for large companies like Amazon, working from home as an independent contractor for major corporations, buying your income, and working as a freelancer are some of the most effective means of generating a full-time income via the Internet.

If you are a newbie trying to “Cast your net,” on the Internet, hoping to catch some big fish, please be careful not step in POOP. You might never be able to clean that damn POOP off.

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