Baking it Down with Sugar Cookie Marketing ๐Ÿช
Baking it Down with Sugar Cookie Marketing ๐Ÿช
Heather and Corrie Miracle
๐Ÿ‘‹ 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). ๐Ÿช 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?) ๐Ÿค‘. Whatโ€™s it about? Weโ€™re a Facebook Group turned Podcast, Membership, Book Club, and Baking 101 thatโ€™s dedicated to assisting bakers in effectively marketing online to generate more sales and better manage their businesses. ๐Ÿง  With free Facebook Live classes, hundreds of resources, and thousands of like-minded bakers, thereโ€™s a lot to learn in "SCM" (aka Sugar Cookie Marketing). ๏ธ๐ŸŽง As an extension of our Facebook group, this podcast is here to let you learn by listening. ๐Ÿ“ˆ We'll cover group topics, marketing trends, and more (leaving this wide open in case Corrie wants to start singing). ๐Ÿ’ธ We take the sweet art of selling online to the cottage bakery world with marketing methods that move products (and pastries).๐Ÿ‘‚ So open up those glorious ear canals because we have a podcast! Just when youโ€™ve thought youโ€™ve โ€œheardโ€ it all with those marketing "miracle" twins (that's our last name - not a proclamation), weโ€™ve got something just for you each week! ๐Ÿฅฃ As a baker, you don't always have the luxury of two hands needed to scroll in Sugar Cookie Marketing Group or crack open a book in Sugar Cookie Bookies, but what you can do is listen (unless you're my kid asking โ€œwhatโ€™s for dinnerโ€ for the millionth time). ๐Ÿ‘ Hands full of flour? No problem! ๐Ÿ‘ 18 dozen iced cookies due tomorrow? Letโ€™s do this. The Baking it Down Podcast by Sugar Cookie Marketing is a weekly podcast geared toward helping you grow your bakery business - dropping (almost) every Tuesday. ๐Ÿ“… We choose a topic each week that's either something new and emerging in the world of social media or something that we saw in "The Group" that was a hot topic and we bake it down... I mean, "break" it down for you. ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ What you can expect in the podcast is about an hour of chit-chat with the meat and potatoes right at the beginning of the episode. ๐Ÿฅ” Thatโ€™s when we dive into the marketing topic of the week! ๐Ÿ“ž Oh yeah, folks can call / text / email in with their questions too - a fun way to hear from other bakers out there. Our promises to you: 1๏ธโƒฃ We always make it clean = no cursing. We understand that you are busy and could be around little ones while also trying to get your weekly dose of business growth so we make sure that each episode would make our grandma proud and keep it clean so you can listen while also living your life. 2๏ธโƒฃ We always make it fun. Thereโ€™s a lot of negativity in the world so we try and make the podcast an upbeat and fun learning experience for you. I mean, we try to make the Instagram updates and changes as happy as we can, but come on Instagram! Give it a rest! No more changes! 3๏ธโƒฃ Other than that, we take a positive approach to marketing We are also *not* professional podcasters. I feel like we need to say this because, hey, sometimes we get giggles! We do our best to extend our marketing knowledge to you all free of charge each week at the cost of listening to our higher-than-normal pitched voices and the occasional giggle spree. 4๏ธโƒฃ You can find the podcast on all the major platforms and you can typically expect a new episode each Tuesday afternoon (unless life happens). We invite everyone to listen. Either start from the beginning or work backward! The episodes donโ€™t build off themselves so you wonโ€™t be confused hearing one before the other. You just might miss new Lives we mention but you can always catch the replay in the Sugar Cookie Marketing Group on Facebook!
276. Baking it Down - How To Turn Down Orders When You Need Orders
Send us Fan Mail ๐Ÿ›‘ How 2 Turn Down Orders - When youโ€™re new and need orders. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 276 - How To Turn Down Orders When You Need Orders, the beginner baker needs to turn down orders - yes, even when they need orders. Sometimes the client isn't the right match, the client has expectations that exceed current skill set, or the baker just doesn't have the time to handle as much back-and-forth as a specific client needs to feel comfortable. So how do...
Sep 1
1 hr 29 min
275. Baking it Down - Big Shoes Battle
Send us Fan Mail ๐Ÿ‘Ÿ Big Shoes Battle - How to compete with the big bakers. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 275 - Big Shoes Battle, we're back on our beginner baker series, and good news - even if you're new and it feels like you're takin' on the Big Dog Bakers who have been in the space for 5+ years, you can still play ball. Here are five ways that being the underdog actually gives you the home-field advantage over more established bakers regarding your marketing approach. ๐Ÿ‘Ÿ...
Aug 25
1 hr 40 min
274. Baking it Down - Allow Us to be Your Personal Yodas
Send us Fan Mail ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ Your Yodas - allow us to be... In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 274 - Your Yodas Allow us to Be, we're back on our beginner baker series, and what better time than to reintroduce ourselves, tell you a bit about our background in marketing and sales, and how we got into the wild world of Sugar Cookie Marketing and The Cookie College. ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ Hi, I'm Heather Born and raised in Northern Virginia right outside DC, I recently moved to West Virginia - as wild and w...
Aug 18
1 hr 30 min
273. Baking it Down - Content Cookies for Beginner Bakers
Send us Fan Mail ๐Ÿ“น Content Cookies - For the beginner cookier. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 273 - Content Cookies for the Beginner Baker, we acknowledge there's an issue between when a baker gets started selling and the amount of content they have... or, well, don't have. A lot of the content that bakers post comes from the orders they take, and they get orders from the content they post. So when you're new to selling, you've got a bit of the 'chicken or the egg' going on ...
Aug 10
1 hr 52 min
272. Baking it Down - S-Tier Lead Gen for Cottage Bakers in 2026
Send us Fan Mail ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป S Tier Lead Gen - For cottage bakers in 2026. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 272 - S-Tier Lead Gen Sources for Bakers in 2026, there's a new trend where people rank things they like and hate by tiers - ๐ŸŸจ S-tier being the elite. For the oldie goldies like me, "S" apparently stands for superior. Following down the rankings, ๐ŸŸฉ A-tier means really good, ๐ŸŸฆ B-tier represents what's probably good to have around, ๐ŸŸช C-tier is a take-it-or-leave-it, ๐ŸŸง D-tier is mo...
Aug 4
2 hr 10 min
271. Baking it Down -  Cookier Interview - Taylor Gandolfi
Send us Fan Mail ๐ŸŽค Cookier Interview - Taylor Gandolfi with Taylor'd Cookies. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 271 - Cookier Interview - Taylor Gandolfi, continuing on with our cookier interview series, we snagged Taylor Gandolfi this week. She's been baking as a side hustle (more on her Italy trip below) since November, and comes from a UX degree, working a day job in public sector user experience design. When asked what she could bring to a podcast interview, her write-up ex...
Jul 28
1 hr 45 min
270. Baking it Down - The Right Foot when Getting Started
Send us Fan Mail ๐Ÿฆถ The Right Foot - When getting started. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 270 - Getting Started on the Right Marketing Foot, we're continuing with our "back to baking" basics - this time getting started on the right marketing foot. What used to work - even just 3 years ago - doesn't work today, or at least not as effectively as it once did. As marketing pivots with algorithm updates, platform feature changes, and the introduction of AI, so must marketing. ...
Jul 21
1 hr 58 min
269. Baking it Down - Sugar Cookies as a Side Hustle
Send us Fan Mail ๐Ÿช Sugar Cookies as a profitable side hustle. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 269 - Sugar Cookie Side Hustle, we wanted to take it back to the beginning - specifically to those folks who know they want to take on a new hobby that not only covers itself, but also pads the pockets for some decent fun money. ๐Ÿš—๐Ÿ’จ Sugar cookies as a side hustle is an awesome concept because it doesn't require cars, insurance, fuel, or oil changes. You're also in control of your sche...
Jul 14
1 hr 23 min
268. Baking it Down - Biting at the Bit for Bartering
Send us Fan Mail ๐Ÿ”„ Biting @ the Bit 2 Barter - How to barter as a baker. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 268 - Biting at the Bit for Bartering, Corrie has been running some 'bartering' case studies for podcast land. In these test runs, she's joined a local bartering group and exchanged cookies for a social audit with the group admin. In another case, she exchanged her cookies for ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐ŸŽจ some graphic design work her twin apparently refused to execute in a timely manner (my bad,...
Jul 7
1 hr 32 min
267. Baking it Down - There's Such a Thing as Bad Publicity
Send us Fan Mail ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Thereโ€™s Such a Thing - As bad publicity. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 267 - There's Such a Thing as Bad Publicity, if you've not lived under a rock, TikTok is buzzing with some cake pop drama between two bakers. If you have no idea what we're talking about - congrats, you likely have a life and aren't chronically online. The drama is easy to find, but it's lesson-worthy in terms of how your hyper-local small bakery can take some nuggets on how to approa...
Jun 30
1 hr 57 min
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