
Send us Fan Mail 😱 Scary Scope Creep - How to stop the spread. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 280 - Scary Scope Creep, we are scarin' you straight back to staying within scope, aka what you and the client originally agreed on for their order. Scope creep is the scary term for agreeing to a design and a price, but over time, through minor changes and alterations, the initial quote no longer matches the bloat. You're now making less profit or, even worse, losing money on this ...
Sep 29
1 hr 31 min

Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ Pod Guest: Jonathan Brandel - Cookier turned 3D printer...er? In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 279 - Cookier Interview - Jonathan Brandel, we had the third in our series of guest speakers this year! This week featured Jonathan Brandel (our potentially long-lost triplet), who is a full-time worker, baker, father of three, and now a 3D printer. Printer-er? How do you say that correctly? He takes us through how he balances it all, what new tech is comin'...
Sep 23
1 hr 41 min

Send us Fan Mail 🧟♂️ Cost Creepers - Scary ways you’re losing money. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 278 - Cost Creepers, the Cookie College is comin' up with Blueprints (more on that soon), and the first 14-day Blueprint focuses on accurately pricing your bakes profitably - the key word being: profit. One of the most insidious threats to your profit margin is sneaky overhead costs (also called indirect costs). These are the line items in your budget that are needed to make ...
Sep 15
1 hr 27 min

Send us Fan Mail 🤡 First Timer Follies - When you’re new and need orders. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 277 - First Timer Follies, we're wrapping up our New Baker's series, talking about first-timer mistakes you don't have to repeat if you snag yesterday's episode. When you're new to any industry, it's easy not to know what ya don't know - and that's what this beginner podcast series is for: to help new bakers miss the missteps when just getting started, saving them time (a...
Sep 8
1 hr 20 min

Send us Fan Mail 🛑 How 2 Turn Down Orders - When you’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

Send us Fan Mail 👟 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. 👟...
Aug 25
1 hr 40 min

Send us Fan Mail 🧙♂️ 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. 🧙♂️ 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

Send us Fan Mail 📹 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

Send us Fan Mail 👩🏻💻 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 - 🟨 S-tier being the elite. For the oldie goldies like me, "S" apparently stands for superior. Following down the rankings, 🟩 A-tier means really good, 🟦 B-tier represents what's probably good to have around, 🟪 C-tier is a take-it-or-leave-it, 🟧 D-tier is mo...
Aug 4
2 hr 10 min

Send us Fan Mail 🎤 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
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