Starting a small business

You can always sell online. Cheap because you don;t have to pay rent, but you can have wider market online. Try first with your friends through social networking sites,, until your business spread to your friends' friends. Good luck and I hope everything turn out well. Sorry I cannot help you with the supplier.

just looking at gogleto has something you will come out. you can make an online store or something. just scratch a little and you will find something valuable and useful for you. I wish you success.

If I were you, I would sell cakes not tools. I mean, you love to bake so it means you're good in baking. Why sell tools if you can sell cakes? I think not so many people want to bake because it takes a lot of time and effort. They would rather buy a cake than to bake. Anyway, because that is your choice, I respect that. I think this link would be helpful to you. Check http://www.gourdos.com/ .

It is only my opinion, but perhaps it is better to sell the product (cake) rather than tools. Only my opinion - but I think selling food is more prospective business. :D But if you are still going to sell the baking tools and if you have no store, you can start to create your online store. You can use Facebook pages, free blogspot blog, or buy your own hosting and domain with affordable price. And as I come from different country than yours, I don't really have idea about the specific place to get wholesale priced items. For a start, I think you can go to your nearest mart, and ask the sellers there.

Are you from Talisay City? Is that Cebu? If yes, try going to down town area. We used to own a bakery and my dad used to buy our baking stuff somewhere in downtown.

Hi. I am also from Philippines. Let me ask, where are you now? I mean in what place here in the Philippines you are located at? If you really want to put up your own business, then you must plan about how and when to start? you need to ask yourself what type of business and how much capital you need to start. If you have passion in baking, then I'll tell you go for it. Since it is your hobby, you love to bake then there are no reasons for you to start that kind of business. A bakeshop or cake shop is definitely a best choice for you to start. If your from Cebu, I will recommend the store in front of SM Cebu wherein you can see all the baking tools, accessories and equipments that you can use for baking. and if your from Manila, there are a lot of store where you can purchase the tools and equipments and i think you can get more discounts if you buy many items. Go sis! Go for business,. start today. Hope this help you!

The classic way to go about it is to go and work in a bakery. In 6 months you will learn a lot about prices, marketing, suppliers, good and bad equipment, the general public (there are a lot of crooks out there! haha) and other interesting and useful information. Needless to say you do not announce your intention to set up on your own! You are obviously a sparky, 'get up and go' person so any employer would be delighted to employ you as you would be an asset to their company. To supply goods you need a good margin of markup to allow for the unseen problems. A comeback on one item supplied can wipe out a lot of profit on other trades. Therefore, as you know already, good buying is critical. Good luck.

I learned from your discussion that you are from Cebu. Well, I live in another island and from what I hear, those in the food business here or restaurants buy their tools or utensils in Cebu. If you don't know where, you can try googling those suppliers on the net.

I think it's a good idea. If you have the passion, capital and determination I guess you will most likely succeed. You also said that you love to bake, I guess it's a passion of yours so why sell baking tools and other stuffs instead. As a starter you could bake some cakes and sell it on line or if you want to learn more about the trade you could enroll in some baking school. To complete a course the most I guess is 2 months for a beginner. Anyway, it's just a suggestion of mine.