Kettle Corn Business

Another alternative is obtaining a business credit card or using your own personal credit cards.

Sometimes credit card companies offer new customers with strong credit a zero percent interest rate for the first six months. Just make sure you've paid off the credit card before the interest rate kicks in. The JOBS act's intent was to allow individuals to invest in a company without the company having to go public.

The idea was that start-up companies and those businesses looking to expand could receive investment from the general public and not be limited to venture capital or accredited investors, sometimes called angel investors. As of date of publication all the rules and regulations haven't been established yet by the Securities and Exchange Commission. However, that hasn't stopped crowdfunding. It's a method of accepting monetary donations -- not investments -- from individuals. You post a video pitching your product -- kettle corn -- and ask for donations.

Some pitches include giving the product to the donor as a thank you for the contribution. Katie Jensen's first book was published in Since then she has written additional books as well as screenplays, website content and e-books. Her articles specialize in business and personal finance. Her passion includes cooking, eating and writing about food.

Items You Need for a Bakery Business. Equipment Needed A kettle popcorn business doesn't need a lot of equipment, but what it does need is critical to success. You can start your kettle corn business and earn a return on your investment right away by selling kettle corn at all kinds of places like Our package isn't one of those expensive franchise units, rather you start and operate your kettle corn business in the way you choose.

If you're short on cash, you can even lease a machine. At Five Star Inc. We are relentless in searching out new ideas, innovations and marketing tips to pass on to you so you can build a profitable and fun kettle corn business. Pop us a line , call , or order your free brochure.

From Bob and Catherine We have enjoyed your kettle machine now for over a year, it's working great and we're looking to move up to a trailer. I get the scoop on popping kettle corn from a kiosk with an electric kettle, located on a very touristy post on River Street in Savannah, Georgia.

You'll also get questions and answers about the kettle corn business that were generated by YOU. I've been asked questions about things I might've missed in the original ebook and I'm including them all here.

Our 1st day back and you'll be surprised how well we did with hardly anybody there with too few vendors. Everything isn't always perfect in pocorn land. We give you some tips on where and what you should avoid. The guys pop in 96 degree weather in August. What you need to do to prevent yourself from melting. Mark Sanders shows us what he did to build his own sink on the cheap.

We list the main components and their links to where you can buy them.

We show what kind of crowds you can bring in at a historic site. The lists above aren't the only games in town. You'll find most of the bigger events in each state, but not the out of the way events which are just as profitable. These would normally take a lot of searching, but I created this little PC app which does all the brunt work for you. The video below shows you how it works and what I've done to create a definitive schedule just to my local area. I recently went nuts and converted my entire online blog into an easily readable. The sucker is over printed pages and has all the pictures and links to over 80 videos that I created.

I also included a recent update on my thoughts of each event - why it did or didn't work. This will clearly show you how I was doing during that past 6 years, from the really great paydays to the truly awful. I write about my encounters with unusual customers, relentless health department officials and inept event coordinators. I briefly go over the equipment used to start my kettle corn business and the improvements I encountered as my business grew.

I explain the different types of popcorn that are available and the benefits of each type. My business had many peaks and valleys and I share the bad times as well as the good. For a while, I sold my product online as well as at events, and, on at least one occasion, US troops serving overseas were surprised with boxes of my kettle corn. As marketing is always important for any new company, I goes over the different things I tried--from refrigerator magnets to t-shirt sales. I explain what it took to get a mention in the local newspapers and what other press he managed to get.

I go over what worked and what didn't in my attempts at SEO search engine optimization to get his website ranked on Google. I learned the hard way that, contrary to expectation, bigger events don't necessarily mean bigger profits. I talk about the factors behind failed events, such as on-site location, when I was sometimes stuck in the far corners of a parking lot. At other times I was a victim of my own success, as with the occasion offended town officials stopped me from popping because the product became the focus of their event. Word of mouth spread about how good my kettle corn was, and I was eventually pursued by other towns for my services.

I go over my thoughts regarding corporate events, where the vendor gets payed up-front regardless of sales. Some events were unconventional, like the time we gave away kettle corn to the neighborhood kids on Halloween, sold at a haunted hayride and set up our equipment on-site for a local movie night. I also took my set-up indoors during the winter, and explain why it never seemed to work. Midway through my career, I moved and was forced to find locations all over again.

I go over my perceptions of each event before and after I attended. I took my business on the road to Florida where I explored the business opportunities available during the winter months when, back home in New England, popping outdoors was impossible. We even traveled to Hawaii, exploring it as a possible business location. Creativity plays an important role in attracting customers and I write about how I got customers to sing songs and participate in unusual challenges all on video just for a free bag of our product.

On one occasion I even got an artist to go against his aesthetic judgement and paint on black velvet for some kettle corn. We also found out that kettle corn has non-human fans, such as cows and pigs. Dealing with criticism from demanding customers and disgruntled competitors has been an ongoing issue. I relate stories about these confrontations and talks about what other bloggers and competitors said about me and my company. These tales include my account of the kettle corn vendor at Boston's Fenway Park who felt the need to confront me and when the failure of a wealthy town to embrace his product changed my perception of what makes a good customer.

I think these personal anecdotes illustrate the rewards and perils of running a small business like this. I hope you enjoy them! You and your order will be sent over to a site called PayPal. They can process credit cards and other transactions. Once the order has gone through, you'll be automatically directed to a page where you will be able to download the. If you have an un-verified Paypal account , it may not automatically send you the link immediately. You can contact me here if you didn't receive it.

I send the links to the email address that were associated with the Paypal account in the email that I get from them.

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If you are using someone else's account to pay for this, let me know! Sometimes my reply email with download links will end up in your spam folder. Please check this before you start crying to Paypal. Why I get bitchy sometimes: Some people may not get their link immediately and will report the transaction to Paypal after waiting maybe an hour. I may be popping during the day! I will check my email later that night.