
Send us Fan Mail ๐ How 2 Turn Down Orders - When youโre 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 ๐ 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. ๐...
Aug 25
1 hr 40 min

Send us Fan Mail ๐งโโ๏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. ๐งโโ๏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

Send us Fan Mail ๐น 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 ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป 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 - ๐จ S-tier being the elite. For the oldie goldies like me, "S" apparently stands for superior. Following down the rankings, ๐ฉ A-tier means really good, ๐ฆ B-tier represents what's probably good to have around, ๐ช C-tier is a take-it-or-leave-it, ๐ง D-tier is mo...
Aug 4
2 hr 10 min

Send us Fan Mail ๐ค 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

Send us Fan Mail ๐ฆถ 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

Send us Fan Mail ๐ช 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. ๐๐จ 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

Send us Fan Mail ๐ 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 ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป๐จ some graphic design work her twin apparently refused to execute in a timely manner (my bad,...
Jul 7
1 hr 32 min

Send us Fan Mail ๐ฃ๏ธ Thereโs 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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