How We Are On Track To Reach $1M/Year Selling Gourmet Pies

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Marcia Wiggins

Founder, Cape Whoopies, Maine's Gourmet Whoopie Pie LLC

$80K

revenue/mo

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Employees

Cape Whoopies, Ma...

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from South Portland, Maine, USA

started January 2013

$80,000

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

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Want more updates on Cape Whoopies, Maine's Gourmet Whoopie Pie LLC? Check out these stories:

1. Building A $200K/Year Pie Business From Our Home Kitchen (2018) ➜

2. How We Organically Grew 75% Through Social Media And SEO [$300K/Year] (2022) ➜

This is a follow up story for Cape Whoopies, Maine's Gourmet Whoopie Pie LLC. If you're interested in reading how they got started, published almost 7 years ago, check it out here.

Hello again! Remind us who you are and what business you started.

Hi, I’m Marcia again, here at Cape Whoopies, Maine’s Gourmet Whoopie Pie. We are still working our way through all the problems and fun of starting your own business. You know the drill!

We are now almost 10 years in. We started on January 28, 2013, and have moved twice in that time. We started in our home kitchen, moved to a food incubator, and finally about 5 years ago moved into our own space.

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We have gone from $14,000 in sales for the first year and this year we may pass $1M for the year. There is so much to learn, work through and change along the way. My SCORE MENTOR told me in year one that you need three things to have a successful business: 1) a good product, 2) a loud voice to get your message out, and 3) the ability to borrow money.

Then he said…”YOU ONLY NEED ANY TWO OF THE THREE!” It...

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