Lifestyle
Cake and Sales: The Ingredients Make All the Difference

Everyone wants a piece of success in their life. Whether it be from selling homemade baked goods or handling your businesses microsites, the ingredients can make all the difference. Finding qualified prospects and achieving a sale are at the forefront of business goals.
Thanks to the new online landscape, targeted content marketing is a powerful tactic being used by many to educate and attract qualified leads.
However, as the old saying goes “never put all your eggs in one basket”, so below we are going to look at how to build a diverse strategy.
Let’s explore some ideas to generate purchases and create lasting clients.
Generating Leads
As any sales representative can attest, even when the prospect is a good fit, they aren’t always able to close the deal. Maybe the timing isn’t right, or the company doesn’t currently have a strong need or budget for what you’re selling or providing.
Make sure everyone in your business knows that winning in sales means winning at work. Each one of your employees, yourself included, should have incentives to really promote the brand. Maybe a bonus or extra paid time off for whoever makes a sale.
Ask your customers how they’re doing. Send emails or messages out to previous buyers and question them about your services. Maybe they have some useful feedback. Not only does this promote authenticity and gets them thinking about your brand, it’s an opportunity to ask for referrals. If you own a bakery, include some sort of discount and ask for your customer to bring a friend next time they visit.
You can strengthen your sales process with amazing marketing content to help your prospects. Maybe a prospect isn’t ready to buy, but you can still add incentives. It could be something like, “I understand that you aren’t ready to make a purchase. How about I send you over some complimentary coupons? From what you’ve told me about your love of chocolate, I think they might brighten your day.”
Digital Marketing
Let’s assume you have a bakery. Although bakeries are small businesses, it doesn’t mean you have less to worry about. Oftentimes, smaller businesses don’t have as many resources to work with. Thankfully there is the internet.
When a potential customer is relaxing at home craving something tasty, a doughnut perhaps, instead of opening up an old phone book, they’re more likely going to use a trusted search engine. SEO companies are made for just that. They get your business found on the World Wide Web.
A good SEO campaign will boost all aspects of your business. From creating or optimizing your website, which is something all businesses need to have, to local outreach and generating word-of-mouth on social media, the final result will be a multi-faceted approach to strengthening your brand, obtaining new customers, and ultimately finding increased success.
Another avenue to take towards elevating your business could be targeting customers. Find out where your target audience goes, online and otherwise. Leave pamphlets around town and email or message, in a friendly and professional manner, people who are likely to stop by your shop. Give them an incentive, like a bake sale or a fund-raising event. Have a way to add their email addresses to your list, either by asking in-person when they come to your store or over the internet.
No matter your budget, your business can utilize at least one of these avenues of marketing. If your brand isn’t making progress then you are falling behind. Your goal as a business owner is not to break even, but to achieve growth and further your success.
Microsites
A microsite is an individual web page or small cluster of web pages that act as a separate entity for a brand. A microsite typically lives on its own domain, but may exist as a subdomain.
Microsites can be used to help brands achieve a number of things. For example, some companies have used them to highlight a specific campaign or target specific buyer personas. Others have used them to tell a short story, or to inspire a specific call-to-action.
Take Domino’s Pizza for example. One year they really amped up the promotion of the DXP vehicle, a delivery car specifically designed for Dominos. The site is dominosdxp.com, while dominos.com remains their main site. See how microsites can work?
Using a microsite for specific business tactics could help optimize your brand. Your bakery might sell cookies, doughnuts and muffins, but maybe you want to make a huge event selling Valentine’s cupcakes. To do this, promoting a microsite for your customers to visit before they come in could improve business. Offering special discounts or an extra cupcake if they visit said site and share it on social media could help get the word out.
Don’t limit your ingredients when you have so many to choose from!
Time and Testing
Proper scheduling and time management will encourage a productive work environment. Creating productive meetings is important for yourself and employees. See where things are great and where they need to be improved. Testing involves trial and error, so it’s okay if things aren’t always perfect.
Getting to know your employees is just as important as getting to know your customers. It’s like keeping in contact with family, you want to promote good business relationships as well. Having good relationships improves morale and creates more sales. You’ll get better at relationship marketing and offering value to everyone you shake hands with.
Incorporate creative content into your business as well. Try going out of your element- if you blog about your bakery, try using video and see how well it does. Being creative could also spark a niche you never knew you had. This could form into another option for your business to host an exciting event or a sale.
Remember to remain consistent with your products, services and ingredients, and soon your business will perform at its best.
Lifestyle
Why Derik Fay Is Becoming a Case Study in Long-Haul Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship today is often framed in extremes — overnight exits or public flameouts. But a small cohort of operators is being studied for something far less viral: consistency. Among them, Derik Fay has quietly surfaced as a long-term figure whose name appears frequently across sectors, interviews, and editorial mentions — yet whose personal visibility remains relatively limited.
Fay’s career spans more than 20 years and includes work in private investment, business operations, and emerging entertainment ventures. Though many of his companies are not household names, the volume and duration of his activity have made him a subject of interest among business media outlets and founders who study entrepreneurial longevity over fame.
He was born in Westerly, Rhode Island, in 1978, and while much of his early career remains undocumented publicly, recent profiles including recurring features in Forbes — have chronicled his current portfolio and leadership methods. These accounts often emphasize his pattern of working behind the scenes, embedding within businesses rather than leading from a distance. His style is often described by peers as “operational first, media last.”
Fay has also become recognizable for his consistency in leadership approach: focus on internal systems, low public profile, and long-term strategy over short-term visibility. At 46 years old, his posture in business remains one of longevity rather than disruption a contrast to many of the more heavily publicized entrepreneurs of the post-2010 era.
While Fay has never publicly confirmed his net worth, independent analysis based on documented real estate holdings, corporate exits, and investment activity suggests a conservative floor of $100 million, with several credible indicators placing the figure at well over $250 million. The exact number may remain private but the scale is increasingly difficult to overlook.
He is also involved in creative sectors, including film and media, and maintains a presence on social platforms, though not at the scale or tone of many personal-brand-driven CEOs. He lives with his long-term partner, Shandra Phillips, and is the father of two daughters — both occasionally referenced in interviews, though rarely centered.
While not an outspoken figure, Fay’s work continues to gain media attention. The reason may lie in the contrast he presents: in a climate of rapid rises and equally rapid burnout, his profile reflects something less dramatic but increasingly valuable — steadiness.
There are no viral speeches. No Twitter threads drawing blueprints. Just a track record that’s building its own momentum over time.
Whether that style becomes the norm for the next wave of founders is unknown. But it does offer something more enduring than buzz: a model of entrepreneurship where attention isn’t the currency — results are.
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