Get Passionate About Sales with Amanda Schonberg

The Forrager Podcast for Cottage Food Businesses

Amanda Schonberg unloads an incredible wealth of knowledge in this episode!

She lives in Baton Rouge, LA and started her journey by building her cottage bakery, Chef Schonberg’s Sweets, into a very successful business.

But then Amanda took that knowledge and started sharing it with others, and she has now coached hundreds of other entrepreneurs to build their own bakeries.

She now runs Baking For Business, which includes free resources, paid coaching, and a paid membership called The Entrepreneur Community. She is also the host of the Baking For Business podcast.

This episode is riddled with insights from Amanda’s many years of experience in both running — and helping others run — a successful bakery.

What You’ll Learn

• What Amanda learned from managing huge bakeries that sold 5k+ baked goods per day
• Why you don’t need to sell wedding cakes to be a successful baker
• How to become an ambassador for your business & brand
• Essential strategies for marketing yourself beyond social media to increase sales
• How to get noticed by the press, media, celebrities & corporations
• Branding ideas from big box stores that you can use to make your products stand out
• Methods for streamlining processes to make the most of your precious time
• The downsides of social media platforms, and what you can do to overcome them
• Rarely-used marketing techniques that will allow you to get ahead
• How to use email marketing to form a deep bond with your customers
• How to generate $1k in sales in one day at an event
• Amanda’s favorite learning resource that is even better than YouTube
• Why the language you use with customers is critically important
• How manage your mindset and aim higher than you ever thought possible

Resources

Baking for Business website (Instagram | Facebook)

Baking For Business Podcast

Amanda’s Free Resource Guide: 30+ Apps and Services To Level-Up Your Baking Business

The Entrepreneur Community

Thumbtack website

Recommended books:

• Think and Grow Rich
• The Alchemist
• The Psychology of Selling
• The 4-Hour Work Week

Louisiana Cottage Food Law

Free Tutorial: Intro To Email Marketing

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I created this free tutorial that will walk you through the essentials of using ConvertKit to build an email list and get more followers!

Free Tutorial: How To Build a Great Website In 1 Hour

A lot of entrepreneurs still think they need to spend money to get a good website, and that is simply not true anymore.

I created this free tutorial that will walk you through how to set up a totally free website on Square Online in less than an hour!

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/80