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Food Company (Online and Offline)

Start Your Own Food Company And Create Your Recipe To Sell To The World

Food industry leader tells how he started with nothing but a dream and a lot of determination

Start Your Own Food Company takes you by the hand and guides you from startup to production to distribution. Even those insider tips are here. You'll learn how I did it with very little money, and I've included many of these tips so you can save a bundle getting started.

In this book, you will learn:

• You really don't need an office, you can run your business from a spare bedroom
• How to get started legally (you don't want to break any laws in the food industry)
• How to choose how your business will operate (sole proprietorship, corporation, etc.) and an explanation of each so you can decide what's best for you
• How to register your URL or website name for next to nothing
• How to register your business with the county clerk
• How to clear legal hurdles such as local requirements, sales tax permits, federal tax ID, and a food manufacturer's license
• A short history of my first product (it's subtitled "This is not the way you want to do it")
• Help in finding someone to produce your product legally and inexpensively
• What outside professional help to employ, and how to save money doing it
• How to find someone to produce your labels (they must be professionals)
• Labeling rules
• How to acquire a UPC code
• Establish a wholesale price
• Tips on packaging that will skyrocket reorders
• What tools I find essential to running a small business besides my computer
• Shipping tips
• An invaluable section on different type of shows and conventions with an ROI (return on investment) guide for each type. This alone will save you a ton of money
• Breakdown of distributors (these are the people that get your products into stores) and a history of my first distributor, also subtitled "This is not how you want to do it"
• How to get insured. Don't proceed without insurance
• Insider tips on winning local or even national awards (I definitely know my stuff when it comes to this subject)
• Costs of national product competitions
• One product I would never produce
• An extensive section on the shows including how we sample different products
• How to deal with the health department at the shows
• Decorating your booth
• Discussions with two different copackers (the people that will produce your product) with dollar figures to help you estimate the cost of your initial run of product
• How to launch a website and get a merchant account
• The complicated procedure of how credit cards are processed over the Internet

And over 40 links to provide you with enough research and reading material to become an expert