Have you always wanted to sell your family's secret recipe? Do you have a specialty food product you know consumers are waiting for? Enroll now to learn about Cottage Food Rules and Regs and Home-based Food Production. Learn how to land your first customer and try your hand at selling specialty baked goods. If you don't want to bake, take a look at your cottage food law and learn about the vast array of food products your can prepare from your home kitchen and sell in your community. This is the perfect course for culinary creatives!

Feeling a bit OVERWHELMED?

• I totally get it.

• I felt the same way when I started my catering business and The Charlotte Pie Authority. Yep! Two businesses.

• Will my customers buy my products?

• Is the price too high? Is it too low?

• What if no one buys anything?

• How do I get my customers to learn about me?

• Are my products going to be good enough?

• What do I do after the first sale?

• How do I find more customers?

• Do I need a website and do I have to do the social media stuff?

It should be EXCITING knowing you are going to sell out!

Over the last twenty years, I have created & implemented various strategies to see which works best.

What have I learned?

There is more than one way to launch a business and sell your products, and it is about finding the right strategy that feels ALIGNED to you.

So I want to save you from feeling overwhelmed and spending hundreds of hours of launch prep for it not to work...

Here’s what we will be covering:

• Verifying your product

• Using a home kitchen for processing

• Safely producing foods

• Licensing and zoning

• Safe water requirements

• Developing a business plan

• Labeling requirement

• The rules and processes for starting your food business

• Promotion of your products

• Finding your target audience

• Selecting a profitable product or testing the waters with one of our recipes.

• Taking your product to market

• Social media basics and best practices

• Create a plan to make more than 1K per month

The course is comprehensive and designed to walk you through the introductory stages of home food processing. I encourage you to return, ask questions and get help with the development of your home-based food business. I also want you to join Charlotte Pie Authority Facebook Group, where I share my story and how I took my pies to market, selling both retail and wholesale!

See you in class!