Hosted by Cheryl Bottomley · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 11 episodes
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The Cake Academy Podcast is for cake makers who want to build a profitable cake business and attract more cake bookings.Hosted by multi award winning wedding cake designer and cake business mentor Cheryl Bottomley, the podcast shares practical guidance on the foundations of running a successful cake business. Episodes cover cake pricing, marketing, enquiry systems, and the processes that turn enquiries into confirmed bookings.If you love creating beautiful cakes but want stronger systems, clearer pricing and more consistent bookings, The Cake Academy Podcast will give you practical insights to help you grow.
Cheryl Bottomley hosts The Cake Academy Podcast, a business show with 11 episodes published.
Cheryl covers why the urge to buy new tools and equipment is so strong for cake makers, and why acting on it too early works against you. She shares her own experience of buying things she barely used, explains what you
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Have you ever put real time and effort into a cake enquiry, only for the customer to go elsewhere? Or spent time designing a cake for someone who never actually booked? In this episode, Cheryl shares what used to happen
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In this episode, Cheryl explores one of the most underrated visibility strategies available to wedding cake makers; building genuine relationships with other wedding suppliers and venues, and explains why referrals and r
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You have spent years growing someone else's platform. It is time to build your own. In this episode, Cheryl takes a deeper look at email marketing for cake businesses, explaining what it is, how to set it up, what to sen
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In this episode, Cheryl talks honestly about one of the most common struggles cake makers face; going quiet on social media and why it happens even to experienced business owners. Cheryl opens up about the fact that she
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In this episode, Cheryl challenges one of the most common assumptions in cake business marketing, that posting more on social media will automatically lead to more bookings, and explains why visibility is a much broader
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In this episode, Cheryl breaks down the six key numbers every cake maker should be reviewing each month to understand how their business is really performing. Many cake makers run their business on instinct, with a gener
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In the previous episode (episode 3), we explored enquiry to cake booking conversion rates and how understanding your numbers helps you predict how many enquiries you need to reach your booking goals. In this episode, Che
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In this episode, Cheryl explains one of the most important numbers in a cake business: The enquiry to booking conversion rate. Many cake makers focus heavily on trying to generate more enquiries without understanding how
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Are you struggling with cake pricing confidence? In this episode, we take a deeper look at why most cake makers don't actually have a pricing problem, they have an income goals planning problem. If you've ever said, "I w
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In this episode, Cheryl explains the four tools she created to help cake makers move from inconsistent income to a more structured and profitable business. Many talented cake makers struggle not because of their decorati
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Welcome to The Cake Academy Podcast for cake makers who want to get more cake bookings, improve their pricing, and build a consistently fully booked cake business without burnout. In this first episode, Cheryl Bottomley,
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The Cake Academy Podcast is hosted by Cheryl Bottomley. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 11 episodes.
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