A stay at home mom who loves to make and bake homemade cookies can start this home-based business. Who in their right mind would ever turn down the scrumptious morsel of a freshly baked brownie, chocolate chip or almond cookie? Cookies are as American as apple pie and millions of moms and grandmothers bake the absolute best cookies straight out of their homes.
The marketing niche of this business is that you bake cookies and then deliver them hot to a customer. The business model is very much the same as that of the pizza delivery business. In the pizza business, they bake pizzas to order and then deliver them to their clients straight from the oven. This is exactly what you do in the hot cookie delivery business.
This is how the business works. You have ready-made dough, which you have either pre-made or purchased from the store. I would suggest that you find a great recipe from your grandmother or from someone you know and bake it yourself. Customers call in their order with at least an hours notice and give you their order. (You should stipulate a minimum order and a maximum driving distance; otherwise, you will be baking five cookies and delivering it to a home 20 miles out of town) Once they give you their order, you bake the cookies, and then place them in a container that will hold its heat so that your cookies do not arrive cold.
You can market your hot cookie delivery business to local businesses around your neighborhood. If possible, you want your market to be very close to where you will be baking the cookies. It will be even better if you live in a city where there are hundreds of businesses located in a very small area.
To get the word out you can make and bake a sampling of your cookies to hand as a taste test. Good business targets are real estate agents, accountants and any office workers who can take five minutes to taste your cookies. Before you leave make sure they get an ordering guide and even some coupons for first time orders.
I hope that this article has inspired you to try this business idea. The beauty of this business startup is that you can start it with very little initial capital. You will need a quality oven, a phone that can stay open for order taking and possibly even a fax machine. Once you outgrow your startup location, you will need to find a small kitchen with a commercial oven. At that point, you can begin to approach the Small Business Development Corporation for assistance with planning for your business growth. For now let us focus on the first step of getting started, established and financial healthy, I wish you all the best in starting your new business.
Those companies based abroad and wishing to utilize the faster and more affordable option of the emerging offshore outsourcing planning and management as offered by India based vendors specializing in IT and other sectors, need to also focus on business models that are customized in accordance to their company’s objectives while being assured of high quality processes and techniques by their chosen firm. This is because cost-cuts of even 50% should not be the sole criterion for selecting an India-based vendor as many a time inexperienced and unreliable vendors lacking resources, good planning that includes disaster and fraud prevention and management of business delivery models, fail to deliver a result-oriented service to the client, who is stuck with having signed on the dotted line too soon.
Experts advice researching and reading up on a list of probable cost-effective and experienced vendors providing support with consultancy and offshore outsourcing planning to ensure proper assessment, planning, implementation and management, which are the key factors in determining success of the business delivery model.
Choosing an experienced and cost-effective vendor who can ideate and deliver made-to-order business delivery models for offshore outsourcing planning besides ensuring optimized, high quality services and are mature shared services practitioners are the best vendor choice.
This is because they can work in a practical way to enable case studies, presentations and resources made available through years of experience in having studied the changing market trends to ensure the best offshore outsourcing planning assistance for a new client.
An offshore outsourcing planning services provider who has the teamwork, web tools and technology resources besides industry focus at command to help re-conceptualize a client’s outsourcing needs in accordance with changing global delivery models will be in a position to offer value-creation engines for customers and larger providers alike. This makes the smaller, but keener offshore outsourcing planning support firm that focuses on a client’s business objectives as unique to his business continuity and expansion the best choice in vendor selection as this service provider will definitely add value to the core segment extensions of customer’s company and its fundamental way of doing business.
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