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SweetTube Academy helps home bakers and cottage food operators build profitable, organized, burnout-free businesses with tools, systems, and step-by-step education.
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19+ years baking · 21 in retail
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The reality for most bakers
Most Bakers Are Taught Recipes — Not Business
✕Underpricing cakes and cookies
✕Burnout from doing everything manually
✕Disorganized orders and chaos
✕Confusion about true costs and profit
✕Inconsistent income and feast-or-famine months
SweetTube Academy teaches the systems behind a successful baking business — so you can bake with confidence and run your business with clarity. Built by a real baker, for real bakers.
Meet your instructor
Hi, I'm Marcia — I ran big-box retail for 21 years, then went all in on baking
I spent 21 years running operations for big-box retailers — Big Lots, Bed Bath & Beyond, Rickel's. Managing teams, reading the reports, running the systems that keep a real business profitable. Baking started as a part-time passion on the side — I even spent time working in two bakeries, which shaped how I run my own business today — then 19+ years ago I went all in.
When I started, there was nowhere to learn the business side. No pricing guides, no how-tos, no channels — just Duff and Cake Boss showing you cake could become edible art. Beautiful and inspiring, but nobody taught you how to actually run it like a business. So I used everything I'd learned in retail and figured it out myself — the slow, expensive way.
I've been where you are: undercharging, overwhelmed, saying yes to everything. That's exactly why I built SweetTube Academy — so new bakers finally have one place to find the real, valuable info I never had. Pricing, systems, and the business know-how that turns a hobby into a profitable business. Consider me the mentor I wish I'd had.
21 years in retail operations & management
19+ years baking professionally
Worked in two professional bakeries
Former big-box retail leader (Big Lots, Bed Bath & Beyond, Rickel's)
Owned a baking supply business
Marcia
Founder · SweetTube Academy
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Your creativity is your foundation — but a strong business is what allows it to grow. Every tool here was designed from real bakery experience, not a boardroom.
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BatterSuite
Complete bakery business management software. Manage orders, track ingredients, build recipes, calculate pricing, and run your baking calendar — all in one place.
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Track your baking equipment inventory, maintenance schedules, and replacement timelines — so you always know what you have and what's coming up.
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