Best Flour Hour Podcasts (2024)

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173. Baking it Down - Prep 4 Q4 1:42:16

7d ago1:42:16

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Send us a Text Message. 🎢 Prep 4 Q4 - How to prepare for our busy season. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 173 - Prep 4 Q4, we're preppin' for Q4 - the baker's "Super (mixing) Bowl." 🏈 Right now, you should be feeling the tides of a lullish summer slowly begin to change as we creep into back-to-school territory. 🌬️ Add in the cooler …

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172. Baking it Down - Choc-A Lot 1:25:29

14d ago1:25:29

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Send us a Text Message. 🍫 Choc-A Lot - How to increase price by increasing value. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 172 - Choc-A Lot, my sisters and my mom partook in our annual "Christmas in July" gift exchange. For a family who loves gift-giving with birthdays from November - February, the rest of the year feels like a gifting deser…

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171. Baking it Down - Say It, Don't Spray It 1:19:35

21d ago1:19:35

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Send us a Text Message. 🙊 Say It, Don’t Spray It - How to ask for help in the groups. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 171 - Say It - Don't, Spray It, we wanted to cover a topic to help us help you help us. Because it's how you ask questions in Facebook groups that dictate the kind of answers you'll get. Depending on how you asked it…

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170. Baking it Down - Class Supplies 1:18:49

28d ago1:18:49

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Send us a Text Message. ✂️ Class Supplies - A "bake-down" of what we bring and why. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 170 - Class Supplies, (another) Heather (of One Smart Cookies and Crafts - also a returning Vendy this year) asked us to cover what cookie class supplies we bring and why. (🤫 Pssst - if you're a Cookie Class Kits or Co…

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169. Baking it Down - Corrie-tisol 1:13:19

1M ago1:13:19

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Send us a Text Message. 😌 Corrie-tisol - Managing stress this summer. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 169 - Corrie-tisol, Corrie said, "I want to talk about ways to manage stress." And for good reason - in 2022 she was admitted to the hospital because her kidneys were shutting down. The cause? Chronic, unmanaged stress. So while thi…

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168. Baking it Down - Alotta Parking Lots 1:05:30

1M ago1:05:30

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Send us a Text Message. 🚶‍♂ Alotta Parking Lots - Volume-based pricing versus high pricing. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 168 - Alotta Parking Lots, Corrie wanted to talk... well, parking lots. 🌴 We took off from the podcast last week to visit VA Beach (love that beach if you're passing through the great state of Virginny). There'…

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167. Baking it Down - Getting Corpy Orders 1:28:22

2M ago1:28:22

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Send us a Text Message. 💼 Getting Corpy Orders - A campaign for corporate girly eras. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 167 - Getting Corpy Orders, Corrie wanted to switch from telling you to get into corporate orders and now tell you how to get corporate orders. Corporate orders are great - they have higher dollar amounts, bigger ord…

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166. Baking it Down - Ask and Ye Shall Receive 1:28:09

2M ago1:28:09

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Send us a Text Message. 🙏 Ask and Ye Shall Receive - Because if you don't ask, the answer's no. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 166 - Ask and Ye Shall Receive, we covered the unfortunate necessity to ask for what you want in business. For those of us who d-r-e-a-d rejection, not asking for what we need to get our business up and run…

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165. Baking it Down - Taking a Stab at Collabs 1:36:55

2M ago1:36:55

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Send us a Text Message. 🔪 Taking a Stab at Collabs - The bake-down of a local collab. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 165 - Stab at Collabs, Corrie took one for the team and signed up for a local vendor collab on Monday so she can give us the bake-down this week. And I think you'll like what she has to share with the classroom. Okay…

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164. Baking it Down - Loss Leaders 1:07:46

3M ago1:07:46

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Send us a Text Message. 🍗 Loss Leaders - How losing can help you win. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 164 - Loss Leaders, we covered, well, what a loss leader is and how to implement it as a marketing strategy in your baking business. 💰 If you've been to Costco (formerly Price Club) anytime in the last 2 decades, you've seen (or sme…

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163. Baking it Down - Website 101 1:28:35

3M ago1:28:35

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Send us a Text Message. 👨‍💻 Website 101 - An audit of twin2's website. We've been working on getting Corrie a new website 🕸 - and we got the barebones bits together - so we thought it'd be fun to audit an unfinished website on today's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 163. The big takeaway is this: there are many website hosts + templates + themes +…

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162. Baking it Down - Tags vs Tips 1:06:56

3M ago1:06:56

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Send us a Text Message. 🤑 Tags vs Tips - The bottom line is the bottom line. This week we cover a topic that can get some bakers into trouble - hiding in the bushes of their exes. Kidding - that was our mom, but the concept still applies when it comes to stalkin' our clients. The issue arises when we feel we're owed more than just the money we made…

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Covering the knife during Benching (Birchas Hamazon #2) 5:39

3M ago5:39

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By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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161. Baking it Down - Mmmmmm 1:26:43

3M ago1:26:43

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Send us a Text Message. 🤝 Mmmmmm - A meeting framework (that works). About two years ago, Corrie and I started meeting (well, 😭 she was kicking and screaming) each Monday for what later became known as the 📅 Monday Morning Marketing Meeting with the Miracles. The MMMMM for short. 😕 Meetings can feel pointless unless they, well, have a point. And th…

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Clearing the table before Benching (Birchas Hamazon #1) 13:01

3M ago13:01

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By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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160. Baking it Down - Price vs Value Prop 1:06:19

4M ago1:06:19

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Send us a Text Message. 💸 Price vs Value Prop - Value is relative(ly easy to manipulate). I was watching a YouTube video featuring a TedTalk where a salesman asks a member of the audience for their pen. He then asks how much the person bought the pen for. "Five dollars," the guy tells him. The salesman then asks if anyone in the audience wants to b…

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159. Baking it Down - Excuse my Excuses 1:52:12

4M ago1:52:12

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Send us a Text Message. 🥲 Excuse my Excuses - Don't cry unless you've tried (everything). This week's podcast is a deep dive into a post I made in the group earlier this week - the post regarding "woe is me" threads saying the cookie industry is done, pack it up kids, you don't gotta go home, but you can stay... in this kitchen. You see - that defe…

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Mistakes in the pesach kitchen, bal tashchis on chometz? 10:32

4M ago10:32

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Used the wrong oil, spices, kitnios,By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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Younger children performing tevilas keilim, Costco water, gebrukts cake, oat cream, kosher soap, almond milk for pesach and halachic chumras for ashkenazim (Halacha and Pesach Q & A) 33:41

4M ago33:41

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By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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158. Baking it Down - Comfy Mistakes 23:35

4M ago23:35

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Send us a Text Message. 🤦‍♀ Comfy Mistakes - Getting comfortable with uncomfy mistakes. We had a (very) abbreviated podcast today - thanks to the door guys. 🚪 But in the few minutes we did get to chit-chat, we wanted to touch on "uncomfortable mistakes." 😿 Being bad at something sucks. It's no fun making mistakes. In fact, it feels like bad busines…

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Gefilte fish and pet food mistakes 1:48

4M ago1:48

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By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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Common mistakes with pesach shopping and mislabeled products 7:55

4M ago7:55

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By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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"I don't want to rely on selling chametz" Which items do I need to get rid of or give away? (Pesach Q&A) 9:25

4M ago9:25

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By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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Pedialyte, coffee, almond flour, baby food, infant formula, Powerade (Pesach Q & A) 4:06

4M ago4:06

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By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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Peanuts, allergy therapy, shampoo, Aveeno, mouthwash, toothpaste, (Pesach Q & A) 4:01

4M ago4:01

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By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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E cigarettes, olive oil, avocado oil, alternative to self cleaning an oven, salt, steamers, sous vide machine, (Pesach Q&A) 13:47

4M ago13:47

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By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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157. Baking it Down - Deborah Deborah Deborah 1:13:22

4M ago1:13:22

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Send us a Text Message. ⭐ Deborah Deborah Deborah When you've not been seen, heard, or understood. Grab your popcorn - 🍿 we covered a buttery topic on today's podcast when a Canadian restaurant went viral for all the wrong review reasons. 🧈 Blaming Deborah in a now globally reaching door sign, Heirloom Restaurant closed its doors this April citing …

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156. Baking it Down - Class is Canceled 1:07:18

4M ago1:07:18

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Send us a Text Message. ⛔ Class is Canceled - What to do when you need to cancel cookie class. When you venture into the wild world of cookie classes, the last thing you want to do is consider canceling said cookie class. BUT - it's just a fact of life that even the most seasoned instructors will have to face a cookie class cancelation. Heck - we'v…

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The COR Costco shopping list for Pesach (Pesach #5) 9:56

5M ago9:56

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Coffee, oil, medicine, toothpaste, mouthwash, water, seltzerBy Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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The COR Costco shopping list for Pesach (pesach #5) 9:56

5M ago9:56

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By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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Eggs for pesach (Pesach #3) 4:27

5M ago4:27

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Purchasing eggs on pesach, liquid eggs, hard boiled eggs, bishul akum, hashgacha, kosher, passoverBy Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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Fish for Pesach (Pesach #2) 6:00

5M ago6:00

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Salmon, frozen fish, kosher for pesach, hashgacha, passoverBy Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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Meat and Poultry (Pesach #2) 7:30

5M ago7:30

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Do I need to buy kosher lpesach meat and Poultry?By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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155. Baking it Down - Upsetspectations 1:35:50

5M ago1:35:50

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Send us a Text Message. 😡 Upsetspectations - How setting expectations up front can keep us outta hot water. Upsetspectations - the tongue-twister we came up with to describe what setting expectations as a baker and then not meeting them as a baker creates in your clients. 🛫 Listen - you're the one piloting the plane here, you get to set the expecta…

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Which items do not require hashgacha for pesach - Introducing the topic (Pesach 1) 10:09

5M ago10:09

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By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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154. Baking it Down - Cottage Curb Appeal 1:10:55

5M ago1:10:55

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Send us a Text Message. 🏡 Cottage Curb Appeal - How zhuzhing up your front lawn can increase sales. 🌼 Happy first day of spring! And with sunny skies (for some of us - ⛄ my apologies to y'all gettin' snow), it's time to consider that curb appeal - ya know, 👀 the stuff people are glancing at as they walk up to your house to snag their sweet treats. …

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12 purim misconceptions (L"N Reb Yisroel Yitzchak ben Noach) 34:17

5M ago34:17

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Drinking, Megillah, mishloach manos, eating before Megillah, Chumash vs. Megillah, Berachos, Themes, Fancy water,By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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Mason jars and candy dishes (Common Kashrus issues in mishloach manos #12) 5:05

5M ago5:05

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By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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Croutons, pita chips and bagel chips (common Kashrus issues in mishloach manos #11) 2:46

5M ago2:46

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By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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Is this really parve? Does it make a difference? (Common Kashrus issues in mishloach manos #10) 3:02

5M ago3:02

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By Rabbi Eli Markowitz

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153. Baking it Down - The Facebook Ouch-tage 2024 1:00:33

5M ago1:00:33

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Send us a Text Message. 👎 Facebook Ouch-Tage - And what we can learn from Papa Zuck. I remember exactly where I was when it all happened... I was... sitting at my computer like I always am. I reached for my phone - only to realize, in horror, my access to the mighty blue thumbs-up app was no more. How was I supposed to post that absolutely hilariou…