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From Stay-at-Home Mom to Baking Empire: Bakety Bake’s Success Story

June 24, 2024
From Stay-at-Home Mom to Baking Empire: Bakety Bake’s Success Story

Kourney Post started Bakety Bake in 2018, just after having her 4th baby as a way to earn extra income and be creative. It began as a home-based bakery, where she sold custom decorated sugar cookies. After baking and decorating thousands of sugar cookies, she found the market was really lacking a meringue powder for making royal icing that was easy to use and didn’t taste like cardboard. After months of experimenting in her home kitchen, she developed a recipe for meringue powder that quickly became a staple in her cookie business. She started selling her meringue powder to local bakers, and then connected with a cookie-based Facebook group, where her sales suddenly and dramatically increased literally overnight. She quickly outgrew her home kitchen and had to find solutions to make larger quantities faster. Sales grew from $2,000 to $100,000 within a year.

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From High School Job to Dream Business: One Woman’s Passion Creates Joyful Beginnings

June 20, 2024
From High School Job to Dream Business: One Woman’s Passion Creates Joyful Beginnings

DEVILS LAKE – Helping address the pressing issue of a shortage in child care providers, Margy Prozinski has created an invaluable asset for the community of Devils Lake and surrounding area with her business, Joyful Beginnings Child Care & Preschool.

Margy loves watching children learn and grow. She’s had a passion for working with children from an early age. She started working at a child care center when she was a freshman in high school, and worked at the same child care center in Bismarck foreight consecutive years. Through this experience, she saw that there was a great need for child care. Her work experience, along with fantastic bosses who grew her passion and encouraged her to open her own business, led her to the decision to do just that.

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Long-Term Partnership with UGA SBDC Fuels Ecolink’s Growth (4x Sales!) – A Success Story

May 2, 2024
Long-Term Partnership with UGA SBDC Fuels Ecolink’s Growth (4x Sales!) – A Success Story

Brandon Pelissero knows the value a long-term relationship with the University of Georgia Small Business Development Center (UGA SBDC) can add to a small business. Pelissero, owner of industrial chemical company Ecolink, has worked with the UGA SBDC for more than 15 years, beginning with a website audit in 2009. Over the past few years, the success of the partnership has been reflected in Ecolink’s growth—by 2023 the company had quadrupled sales and expanded both domestically and internationally.

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Ecolink manufactures industrial cleaning compounds. Their products are created in a novel way that lessens the amount of cleaning material required, resulting in lower costs for the customer, less harm to the environment and a lower carbon footprint. Ecolink’s product line includes industrial cleaners, degreasers and solvents.

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Find Diverse Businesses Easier with DBEsearch.com – A Success Story

April 25, 2024
Find Diverse Businesses Easier with DBEsearch.com – A Success Story

In 1983, the first Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) provision was enacted by Congress, requiring the U.S. Department of Transportation to ensure that small disadvantaged businesses must be included as suppliers on federal, state, and local infrastructure contracts. Since then, the policy of helping socially and economically disadvantaged minority, woman, veteran, and disabled owned businesses has expanded.

A 2017 Transportation Act made it a requirement for any government contractor to spend a certain percentage of dollars on diverse suppliers for road, railroad, and other infrastructure projects.

It was this requirement that essentially sent Matthew Reed, President of JCR Construction on the path to create DBEsearch.com. JCR Construction is a utility contractor who builds power lines for various utility companies in the Northeast.

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