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👋 Hey - Heather and Corrie here with the Baking it Down Podcast with Sugar Cookie Marketing (a group on Facebook full of sugar cookiers turned business owners). 🍪 We're here to help you rise with your reach, flood with new followers, bake up new ideas, and make that all-important dough (while makin' that dough - see the pun there?) 🤑. What’s it about? We’re a Facebook Group turned Podcast, Membership, Book Club, and Baking 101 that’s dedicated to assisting bakers in effectively marketing onl ...
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How Mom Made It!

Mary Goulet & Heather Reider

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How Mom Made It! And How You Can Too! We’re Shining a Light on Mom Creators... Whether they’re baking cookies, playing pickleball or spreading peace around the world, moms are making it and making a difference. “How Mom Made It! is a new podcast dedicated to showing moms you can do it too! Produced by MomsTown, and hosted by Mary Goulet and Heather Reider, “How Mom Made It!” is on a mission to share the stories of mom creators, not only to promote their products and services, but to serve as ...
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💼 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 order totals, repetitive si…
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🙏 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 runnin' like a well-oiled m…
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🔪 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, so what's a local coll…
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🍗 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 smelled) their rotisserie c…
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👨‍💻 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 + plugins. 💻 Find what wo…
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🤑 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 for an order. As someon…
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🤝 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 that's where meeting frame…
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💸 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 buy his newly acquired pe…
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🥲 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 defeatist mentality ain't go…
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🤦‍♀ 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 business acumen to make mistake…
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⭐ 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 issues with... well, unh…
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⛔ 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've been doing this for ye…
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😡 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 expectations because likely you…
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🏡 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. Ya see - marketing encom…
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👎 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 hilarious baking meme (see botto…
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✍️ Copy This - Copy Formulas for Beginners. 🗒 If you see a big blank space asking "What would you like to say" and your brain follows suit and also turns into a big blank space - copy formulas are you're new bestie. 🤔 First - what's copy? 📑 Copy is any text you use to sell or persuade someone to take an action (like buying cookies). So copy could b…
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🎨 Hobby vs. Have To - And what Bob Ross has to say about it Okay okay - Corrie and I couldn't agree on the ✨definition✨ of "hobby baker" since most of us are technically a hobby baker - but in reality - I don't consider filing business taxes, updating your LLC yearly registration, and tappin' a lawyer to check for a trademark anything remotely clos…
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🪪 License to Delight - And what we can learn from $400 perfume. Twin2 is back in her "Corporate Girly Era" with Neiman Marcus and "Patrick 2" - and here's what we learned from their customer experience manager that will help you delight your own customers all the way to the bank. Waiting up in the (fancy) corporate office of Neiman Marcus - a depar…
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☝️ I Adject...ive! - Using different words to sweeten the deal. Your business will live and die by the words you use - either words used to make more sales or words used unintentionally to make a sworn enemy whose new purpose in life is to drag you through all the local community groups. *shudders* But in today's podcast, we're talking about words …
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🪧 Branding Woes - The process to proceed with the perfect branding. If your commitment-averse (like yours truly), you'll find branding one of those long-term relationships you may eventually regret. So how do you build a brand when you're not sure of what you're building in the first place? Fair question. The answer? It's a tricky blend of approach…
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👀 Peeky Blinders - When to Look and When to Look Away The typo was intentional (this time) - 👀 it's a play on words when it comes to peeking over the proverbial fence of social media to see what our competition is up to. 🧠 But staring leads to comparing and that can be a real mind-trip wondering why the highlight reel of your nearest cookie competi…
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🎁 G-i-v-e-a-w-a-y-s - What to Watch out for Choosin' a Winner. Giveaways - do you do them? If so, what do you need to watch out for? What should you give away? How do they enter? How do you make the post? How do you choose a winner? 🧠 Giveaways are tempting - I mean, who doesn't want free stuff? Marrying a giveaway to audience growth seems like a n…
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☎️ Not All Leads Are Created Equal Let's define some words before we jump into this week's podcast topic: ✅ Lead: someone contacting you to secure a potential product or service ✅ Qualified Lead: a lead that has been vetted and is willing to pay your price or work with your availability ✅ Converted Lead: a lead that has turned into a sale, a sign-u…
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📍 Community Groups 101 - Creating Your Greatest Lead Source Community groups - you love them, you hate them, you love to hate them, you hate to love them - but they are a lead source powerhouse, and we're not ones to sit on the sidelines when it comes to making that dough (baking and monetary types). So what happens when you get banned from a commu…
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📑 A list of EOY Tasks to set you up for sales in 2024 Hopefully you've survived the holidays and with NYE being a more muted cookie holiday, you get a chance to breathe, meet your kids you've not seen in 6 months because you've been sequestered in the kitchen, and take a little time to binge some good ol' Netflix. During this lull of a week in betw…
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💚 Burnout Boundary - How to ward off the Spirit of Grinch-Mas. 'Tis the season to h-h-hate your bakery business. I can't even judge, I'm a slave to the "cookie SuperBowl" where we sell the MOST volume all year x10 (see the diagram from Google search queries for "Sugar Cookies" below). 🔥 It's our time to shine - shine - shine, baby, and then go out …
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🏫 The Cookie Class Kits Explained and how you can get all 13 kits for $4.84 each Okay yeah - Heather here. I made a calendar boo-boo and thought I'd be in town on Monday, but turned out, I'll be outta town, so I had to record the "Tuesday Podcast" for the "Onesday Wednesday Newsletter" on Sunday - so, 👋 hello from the past. Since I had to podcast a…
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🙊 Vendy Blendy Marketing-endy and what you can learn from our blendy blunders. We may not be allowed to talk about "the event that shall not be named," but that doesn't mean we can't learn from it! A lot of marketing goes into the yearly Vendy Blendy, and it seems like each year we learn a little more from both the Vendys and the Pendys (turned Spe…
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🎁 Best Baker Gifts 2023 (feel free to forward this email) 🎅🏻 Corrie had a genius idea (they come around to her once a decade) to ask bakers what they think other bakers would want should they find their names scrawled on Santa's nice list this year. 📜 Ho-Ho-Hold your credit cards, because some of these are really creative! We've come up with an "ac…
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🤑What if I Gave You A Million Dollars... Would you do it? 🤔 "Do what? But also - yes," you might ask - and that's exactly the point of this week's podcast. If you knew you were going to get a million dollars for taking a benign action, most of us wouldn't think twice before we did it. Full confession - 👕 I was cleaning out my closet, 👖 donating wha…
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😵‍💫 Surviving Q4 - the fight for the newsfeed It's the time of yeeeear... when the reach is low and the engagement is even lower. What gives?! I'll tell ya what - the deep pockets of big corporations capitalizing on the "year-end consumer" who is primed to pay. It's a fight to the feed death in Q4, and we've got some tips and tricks to help you gai…
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⤴️ The Last Rule Bender - bending the rules for the bottom line You know we preach policies. 👏 Protect your boundaries. 👏 Charge your worth. 👏 Guard your peace. But you may be surprised to know we also say "bend the rules." You see - the policies are the "big bad monsters" we use as our fall guy. 🤷‍♀ "I'm sorry - my policies state no refunds for no…
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Welcome to another sweet episode of the "How Mom Made It!" podcast, the show that uncovers the inspiring stories of mothers who've turned their passions into livelihoods, crafting success from the comfort of their own homes. Today, we're unwrapping the sugary success story of Nancy Gulizia-Flint, the culinary artisan behind Sugar Mamma Caramels. Na…
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Welcome to a journey through the multifaceted world of parenting, lifestyle, and the vibrant intersection where they meet pop culture. In the spotlight today is none other than Bethany Braun-Silva, a name synonymous with the pulse of modern parenting and the heartbeat of home and culture. Join us as we dive into the mind and musings of the esteemed…
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🍰 Audit of a Cake Class and the lessons we're implementing. Corrie and my mom and sisters all met up on Sunday for a cake class - they had a blast, but they also got to be on the "student" side of a class for once (Corrie specifically). So she made some notes she could take back to our own class drawing board. Here's her "bake down" of her mental n…
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🍓Vendy Blendy Berry (and how to squeeze the most from it) It’s that tiiiime of year… 😍 when the cookie world falls in love with some STELLAR deals. It's the third-ever Vendy Blendy! (👀 oh and how to win one of two Bambu Baby Carbon X1C 3D printers?! More on that in a minute.) Get into the holiday spirit by treatin’ YOSELF to some cookie cutters, st…
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💼 Corporate Girly Era Corrie was on a mission this year to enter her ✨corporate girly era✨ - 👨‍💼 a time in her life (and business) where she gets most of her leads from small to medium-sized businesses (and heck - at this point, international businesses). Why? 🧦 Because corporate clients rock baker's socks - that's why. Here's the magic of corporat…
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1️⃣ The One Percenters As admins of a group of niche cottage home bakers, we get to see a lot of questions about getting sales - and even more people thinking they can compete on price to gain traction in the marketplace. But competing on price is a literal race to the bottom - the bottom of your bank account. Ya see, if I lower my price by $1, and…
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🦉 Consistent Crows Ruth Ann (twin grandmother - my middle name is Ruth, Corrie's is Ann... you see what they did there, don't ya?) has a habit of being consistent. Not just any type of consistency - she's radically consistent. I mean - you could set the atomic clock to her ability to wake up at 6AM on the nose. So - last year, 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉 (I know, these …
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🩹 Make Mistakes. I watched (see: was addicted to) a TikTok the other day where an insanely successful older man was interviewed on a podcast. 🤔 The interviewer said, "How did you know it was time to expand your business? Which metric were you tracking that helped you make the jump into expansion?" 🧐 "Metric? We weren't following a metric. I knew we…
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🍿 How Ya Get 'em is How Ya Keep 'em Things we want when we market: 🤩 High engagement! 🤩 Exponential growth! 🤩 Reach as wide as the Atlantic - heck the Pacific! 🤩 Big Numbers! 🤩 Lots of Likes! 🤩 All the money in the WORLD! But what don't we want? All the above if you went about getting it the wrong way. Such is the topic of this week's Baking it Dow…
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Bee-fore you listen to any other podcast today, bee sure to listen to this one, bee-cause it is bee-yond fun! Joining us in this episode is bee-keeping mom, Kemi Pavlocak. Paying homage to her sweet sense of adventure, Kemi recently opened a new specialty store in San Diego's Old Town. Kemi and her husband, Mike, are outdoor enthusiasts and their s…
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💃 The Pricing Dance When's the perfect time to introduce price into the "cookie conversation"? Is it message one, 👋 "Hello, my name is $68 dollars a dozen?" Or is it after 50 messages when you've spent days (maybe even a week?) mocking up, designing, ordering cutters, and checking gel colors you've got, only for the client to turn "tire kicker" and…
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We've been following, for a couple of years now, the entrepreneurial journey of a single mother, veteran and determined business woman! Thereasa Black is the owner of the chocolate company, Bon AppéSweet. It's not just your ordinary chocolate company and it's not just your ordinary story. In our chat with Thereasa, she shares the ups and downs- the…
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New Award-Winning Children’s Book, Henri and the Magnificent Snort, Makes Hearts Burst with Joy With kids back in school and October as National Bullying Prevention Month, a local author’s award-wining picture book about a bullied French bulldog helps children rise above bullying and love all parts of themselves. A touching review from 12-year-old …
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This episode hits some spicy notes as we talk to a mom who turned her side hustle into a full time gig! We're talking with food entrepreneur, Samantha Binkley about why and how she got started in the spice business and the unique musical twist she's bringing to kitchens across America. When Samantha's daughter went off to college she said to her mo…
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💣 The Nuclear Option 💵 Put ya money where ya goals are. Here's all you need to know about this week's podcast: PayPal: hello@sugarcookiemarketing.com 💥 Okay - a lil' more context before you send me your life's savings. I really like David from the Raptitude Blog - and one of his more recent emails talked about "atomic accountability" in the form of…
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🗣️ Narcissistic Conversations - how chatty cathy is costing you cash Okay - this isn't exactly what you think - I mean, we're not talkin' about your Narc ex. That's between you and a therapist. BUT we are talking about narcissistic conversationalists - of which many of us at times have been guilty. 🤑 And it's costing you cash. The term, coined by C…
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A Mom Makes a Family Passion for Ice Cream into Yummy Success Sarah Wynn | Founder, Wynston’s Ice Cream Visit: Wynstons.com It’s safe to say two scoops of ice cream is better than one; which means two ice cream stores is also better than one (and, we got the scoop that a third location is possibly in the works!) Wynston’s ice cream in San Marcos ju…
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Executive National Vice President with Arbonne & New Author Shannon Blas | Thrivingto50andBeyond.com Shannon Blas has a diverse background. She began her career as a Registered Dietician, but later transitioned into the real estate industry. For the past 16 years, she has been dedicated to building her health and wellness business. Shannon is passi…
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