Can we still make money baking and decorating cakes from home during the
pandemic I mean we're told to stay home and not
to share our germs so how can we possibly have a cake baking business at
home and still sell our cakes and make money what can we do well don't worry
because today I'm going to give you some ideas of what you can still do with your
cake decorating business or even if you've never had a cake business but
you're thinking of maybe it would be something you'd really like to do so
stick around I'm gonna help you with just that today hi I'm Amanda van der Gulik
from www.CleverDoughCakes.com and if you like yummy recipes and fun cake
decorating ideas then make sure that you hit subscribe and click that
notification bell so that you'll know the minute my next cake video is kind of
to inspire you to do just that okay so what can we do to still make
money baking or decorating cakes in today's society where social distancing
is key to keeping everyone safe how can we possibly bake a cake decorate a cake
at our homes and still sell it to somebody else without potentially
spreading the virus it's really important that we we look into
alternative ways just simply stopping your business is not an opportunity like
is not an option right now let's first have a look at the old way of making a
cake first of all how much money can you actually make with baking or decorating
cakes it takes a lot of time and for most of us it's actually really hard to
charge enough money for each cake to actually cover the time spent as well as
the ingredients especially if you use fondant although if you check out this
video here I've got a really easy way to make homemade marshmallow fondant that
is so much cheaper oh and not to mention it's getting a lot harder to actually
find the ingredients we need to be baking cakes right now so yeah this is a
challenging time but I've got good news for you this is
actually the perfect time to learn your craft if you already had a home baking
at home bakery then this is the time to learn ways to get more clients learn
cake decorating techniques to really up your game this is also the time to learn
alternative ways to earn income from every single cake that you bake and if
you're new to baking cakes but you're kind of wondering what could I do from
home to make money especially right now during the corona virus this is the time
to learn those skills and once this pandemic is over you will be so much
further ahead than all the other home bakers this is the time to learn new
yummy baking recipes new techniques for piping whether you're using buttercream
frosting or you're using fondant icing and this is the time to learn how to
market your cake business to get the clients you're wanting to pay the bills
so what are our options well the old way of selling our cakes to our friends and
our family from our home bakery it's not really the right thing for us to be
doing right now now there are cake businesses that are done at home that
are totally following all the legitimate rules to make it safe but for the
everyday home entrepreneur baking and decorating cake right now that goes out
of the door into somebody else's home is just not something we should be doing
however I've got a couple of really fun ways that you can still share your craft
and potentially earn a lot of money doing are you ready so the first way is
you could write your own cake decorating book or cake recipe book or for that
matter any of your home baking or cooking recipes and I know it sounds a
little bit scary where am I going to get a publisher how am I going to sell it
Amazon makes it so easy for us now to collect all of our own
recipes to take photos of all of our cake decorating compile it together and
use a system called create space or Amazon's KDP to actually self publish
our books so that's one way but it's not as easy as that you still have to market
it's not miraculously gonna start making money so I want to help you with
something that's going to be a little bit easier for you to accomplish at home
during the pandemic so another way to make money with your cake decorating
business from home is to have a youtube channel like I do and every time you
upload a video showing a new cake recipe a new baking recipe or a new decorating
skill or trick every time you do that you can allow ads to play on your videos
and you could earn ad revenue however YouTube recently updated how you can
actually qualify to earn revenue and it's made it a little bit harder not
impossible but a little bit harder in order to qualify you have to have over
4,000 hours of watched video that's a lot of hours you have to have over a
thousand subscribers to even just put in an application to start earning ad
revenue so know it's not impossible but it's not gonna happen tomorrow but by
working today you're building it and right now is the best time to be putting
out YouTube videos because everybody is working from home or having to stay home
because of the coronavirus and what are most people doing watching YouTube
videos this is an opportunity for you to start to grow your business so think
about it even though you may not be earning ad revenue right now you will be
building up your brand you'll be building up the trust in you and what
you have to offer and then once this virus is over and you can actually start
baking and decorating cakes again then you will have a whole army of people who
will just be flocking to you because they trust you and they know that if
they want a cake and you're in there yeah you are the one they want they
built you build a fanbase and you build reciprocity
you've helped inspire and entertain them over this period and they want to give
back to you and another way that you could make money is to actually have
your own website where you have your recipes your cake decorating techniques
you could create courses training other people how to go from scratch and how to
create their own cake business or just be a home baker and enjoy baking cakes
again it's not something you're gonna earn money on right away tomorrow but
this is the time to get started and the beautiful thing is if you use a
combination you use YouTube to advertise what you're doing and you send traffic
back to your business and and it's free you making YouTube videos is free we are
so blessed with this opportunity an opportunity for you to show your skills
and to share it with the world and build your own home business a side hustle for
you to earn money on the side and no longer have to be reliant on a job now I
want to talk about one of the most amazing things and that is passive
income with every single YouTube video that you create to showcase your
beautiful cake decorating skills you actually are doing the work one time and
you have the potential to earn revenue on that over and over and over again
every single month whether it's through the YouTube ad revenue once you reach
that that height of what you need to accomplish to be accepted for that or it
is that you're driving traffic to your own home business you're only doing it
one time and it's helping you going forward over and over again passive
income is key we can only put so much of ourselves out there every week but if
you create something that can work on its own without you then you've created
freedom for yourself I'm actually working on a master class to share the
secrets that I have learned over my goodness like the past 12 years
here on YouTube and it's gonna be a free master class for you showing you how to
set up your YouTube channel and how to target your videos so that they actually
get views and people want to get to know you and learn from you or be entertained
by your skills and I've got a link in the description below
and you can find up for that and I'll let I'll give you the details as I put
the masterclass together for you so now let me just tell you a story my own
personal story of how I even learned how this worked so this was but way back in
I think like 2011 I baked a cake I know wow I actually baked my family secret
sponge cake and it's honestly really delicious and here's the recipe right
here you can go make it for yourself but I made this cake way back in 2011 goes
2011 it cost me $20 to get the put the ingredients together to make this cake
cost me an extra five or six dollars to make the icing and I had a birthday cake
I videoed myself making both the cake so this one here but also the icing which
you can see over here and I uploaded it to this YouTube channel it just kind of
sat there for about a year or so it didn't really do much it had a little
bit of traffic it definitely wasn't earning any money but in that time I set
up the Google Ads I at that time I qualified for applying for the ad
revenue from Google and it was amazing because about a year later I started
noticing that that video was earning me about 20 cents a month okay so I know 20
cents a month you can't live on that right it was so exciting because I
wasn't making that video anymore it was made one time and I didn't have to do
anything and every single month I was earning like 20 cents so I got really
excited and I thought I need to make more of these because just a numbers
game so the more idea the more it's gonna add up and it's going to be an
opportunity for me to work from home to be with my children to enjoy my life
doing something I love to do and get paid for it and then about two years
later it had grown up to $20.00 a month I mean it cost me twenty dollars to make
the cake it cost maybe three hours to bake it and to video and edit it put it
up so for three hours with an investment of twenty dollars I was now making
twenty dollars every single month so I was getting a hundred percent return on
my investment every single month it was mind-blowing and I thought you know what
I have to teach this I have to teach how this works because other people just
like me want to find a way to build a side hustle something on this side that
they can bring in some money on a recurring basis where they only have to
put the effort at one time and so it was very excited then a couple of years
later I decided to do a 90 day challenge one of my fellow internet marketers he
pushed me is that come on do a 90 days challenge and the challenge was to put
one video on YouTube every single day for 90 days now if you look at my
channel you'll see that I've got some sub channels and I had one for my
daughter and my son and so I asked them if they wanted to do the challenge as
well so all three of us made a video every single day for 90 days yeah that
was a lot of videos and guess who got to edit them up and upload them every day
it was amazing I didn't really notice what had happened until suddenly one day
I saw wow my channel was earning about 50 or 60 dollars a month on a cake that
cost me $20 like the rest didn't cost me anything and so now I wasn't just
earning a hundred percent it was like a couple of hundred percent every single
month and then I started looking and I'm like over the years this this water
video has been earning thousands of dollars I mean who could bake a cake and
I didn't even decorate it for that video and earn thousands of dollars on a
simple sponge cake recipe that cost 20 bucks in three hours
to make like it was just unreal but what I noticed was that my channel was really
confused YouTube didn't really know what to what to classify me under because my
videos were not just baking cakes or decorating cakes some of my videos were
absolutely yummy cakes recipes are yummy homemade icing recipes especially the
fondant recipe that I mentioned make sure you go and watch that one or
actually I've got a download you can download that I've opted the link in the
description below for you and you can have that for free but it also was a
channel where I shared family videos where like I said my daughter had her
own sub channel my son had his own sub channel and they just had fun things my
son had this a adventure show that he was creating and my daughter loved
Barbies at the time so she had all these Barbie videos that she'd created and we
used it as our homeschooling project as well plus I had a passion for teaching
financial education to families so I was using my channel for financial literacy
for kids and so you can just imagine that the algorithm was like okay so
financial education and homeschooling and baking and like where do we put you
and I had to make the difficult decision to finally separate my channels so you
can actually see my my financial education channel over here I'll put a
link to that in the description for you as well if you're a family or an
entrepreneur who would like to learn more about how to create passive income
doing things that you love definitely check that out and that made a huge
difference now suddenly my channel was really
focused on cake recipes baking icing icing techniques and just fun cake
decorating ideas and now I was being shown more often you know when you
finish watching this video at the end it'll come up with all these different
videos that you might like because they base it on what your your interests are
my video was coming up more and more to be watched because people were focused
on just cake decorating or just cake baking and because my channel matched
that and it was um having videos on it that
people who are watching and enjoying it caught brought up to the top of the
search if you will search how to bake a cake my video is the top one or at least
a second depending on the day it kind of flips between first and second but how
cool is that out of the millions of videos on cake decorating and on baking
cakes my video this one here always ranks right at the top and so I want I
learned from that and I also learned other techniques you know I finally
realized okay so your title is important okay so the description that you write
is important and the key phrases that you put in your videos is super
important but it was an awful lot of information and I wanted to share this
and I I wasn't sure how to do this and so I got really excited and I decided
you know what oh I'll send it out there and I'll see if anybody's interested so
back in December of 2019 so that just this past December I sent out an email
to my to my own list of cake decorators and also to my financial education
members as well and I just asked them would you like to learn how I do this on
YouTube like you what is working for me would you like to learn how to do that
because I'm thinking of writing this free master class for you and I got an
overwhelming response to that saying yes so I really loved to do that and then I
cut it got pushed off because I had other things I was dealing with and then
this pandemic came up and I noticed that everybody is watching youtube videos and
there's stuck at home and people are starting to really stress because they
don't know where the money's gonna come from and and and they don't have the
skills that they need perhaps or or they just really want to change things up and
they don't want to be dependent on an employer when society literally doesn't
let you even leave the home and so I thought this is the perfect time right
now for me to offer a master class so I'm still working on it but I have put
together a page where you can sign in I plan to launch this master class in
about a week maybe give me a bit of time I am a lung
patient after all so I need to pace myself but if you're interested if you
would like to learn how to make youtube videos that actually can make you money
whether it's driving traffic to your website or getting yourself qualified to
earn ad revenue and to make revenue like what I've been making then go and on
over there it's ww.CleverDough.com/youtubesuccesssecret so I'll put it right here
but I'll also put a clickable link in the description below for you and I'm
gonna walk you through what you need to do to make your videos really effective
and just pop and easy and fun and inspiring and empowering so I can't wait
to see you on there and I can't wait to do this and share everything that I've
learned over the years what doesn't work and what really does work so I can't
wait so make sure you head on over there and sign up for that class right now
before you forget about it because this is the time when we have to take this
at-home time to learn the skills we need to learn to make our lives better and to
not be reliant on somebody else paying us when they can't because they have to
send their employees home I hope all of you are safe
I send you my love and healing to everybody who is dealing with this and I
know we can get through this so hang in there go and sign up for that YouTube
class and then head on over here and watch this video on my financial
education channel and I'll share with you how I make money from rainbow cakes
or rather how my daughter makes money from rainbow cakes by using me