I thought I had my first failure but it was successful

Thinking you got the perfect business formula it turned out different and you had it again.

I baked cookies this week since the teacher went out campaigning for Leni Robredo or implicitly (The girl in pink) for the philippines presidental election of 2022 since everyone has their *cough* presidental choices for candidency and a bit of political alignment I won’t discuss much in detail about this whole presidental candidency thing or this whole absence of this but that’s the general summary about the whole week.

Before teacher decided to leave again for “campaigning” he discussed what we’ll all be baking for midsems or what everyone will be baking for the midsems for midsems I’ll be baking cupcakes because someone’s birthday is coming up and I was paid to do it. I originally thought of lying but I’ll just be truthful since everyone is being honest that they’re doing this for the midsem week and because I seriously need the cash for whatever I want to spend on.

There will be a blog post on the whole cupcakes stuff next week, and hopefully teacher doesn’t have another absence because I seriously don’t want a catch up with baking and all.

The purpose of this blog

My dad insists to keep it for savings and I keep the cash for whatever luxuries I want to spend that I want to buy. Also since I need to bake more especially for business these days but I also enjoy baking so it wouldn’t be that hard “I’m not doing this because I want a job” my past ventures always didn’t work out well but I guess now it’s working because I wasn’t trying to make money through tough means. I’m not saying that I’ll be depleting my money on all the things I want (I try to not spend too much or to focus the money on what’s good for business) like buying a diaplay container like on my last blog post where I bought cupcake containers.

So since teacher was out again because he’s helping campaign for philippines’

presidency 2022. I decided to bake cookies and no I won’t always be blogging about baking cookies since everything is different and that’s just going to be tiresome after a while nobody wants to read a million different blog posts on baking cookies unless “you’re looking for several different recipes and variations on baking cookies.” But this blog isn’t a recipe blog I do want to try making my own recipes someday or at leaast experiment but I don’t have a ton of experience to do that.

Its more like a random public journal x business blog on me baking. Mostly I write to talk about what I baked this week and the business side of things (I decided to make this blog because I wanted a way to doccument my journey on this side hustle or passion project). Its sort of like a portfolio about what I did to this business and not just me mounting words the pictures are actually mine I didn’t decide to magically search up pictures on the internet except for the stock photos of people but all of the food is mine (I honestly wish the photography is prettier. But I don’t have the time yet to experiment on marketing.) Also I wouldn’t have much time to experiment on taking prettier pictures and having pre orders for certain things.

The failure

The last time I baked cookies (and honestly I wish I might be joking.) A preschool aged child when they found out I wasn’t selling cookies that day cried, my grandmother had to give her cookies that she bought from me to her and now I feel bad since ugh if I had time and didn’t had the homework of baking Focasia Bread well I would’ve baked more cookies. Thankfully the double edged sword to this was teacher going out the following week and I baked more cookies.

The following Friday evening that child came back asking for more cookies and thankfully I was baking when they asked because the cookies were freshly baked so they went with their mom and ordered some of my cookies she asked for big ones and my mom tried getting all the big ones and told me. I didn’t mind and told her to get as many for the child and they and their mom went and get money for a bit and came back for it because they need to pay and they got their orders of my cookies and the mom complimented my baking (hoping that I’ll be baking more cookies in the future.) Which I will (if the teacher decides to go absent again and doesn’t assign anything to bake.) Some kids arrive later on to order my cookies.

And this is where I thought I failed over the weekend people buy my cookies and I’m usually out on weekends when I went back the cookies weren’t sold out and not so many people bought cookies that weekend because a lot of people were out. I’d made this huge assumption that nobody is going to buy my cookies but I’m wrong the cookies got an almost sold out. It got more sales mostly on Monday and by Tuesday there’s three cookies left which almost means that it’ll run out of stocks eventually. Well I convinced myself of this assumption because my baked goods always get sold out on weekends or get sold out in three days. But I probably got used to that sequence and convinced myself easily that Sunday.

I realized that this was the business model I wanted, not a sold out in three days when I originally thought of a business model or plan I wanted it to be me baking every week and then I sell, whatever I sell will last a week and then when it gets sold out a week will past by and then I sell whatever I baked. Think of it as a cross combo of a business subscription model and a one time payment thing where people can freely order on the week of their choosing on the product and then pay once and right now its working.

I think I learned that growing a business and a startup or side hustle takes a little bit of time before it blossoms but it’ll eventually get results it just won’t be consistent if ever there will be results.