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Moving from Cottage Food operation to Commercial - Here are some tips for selling wholesale
May 15, 2025
In this video I share the benefits to moving from cottage food operations to commercial. Once you get out of being in cottage food you can start selling wholesale which can have significant impact to growing your sales. I share some tips on what I’ve learned from selling wholesale and how it can help your business.
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hey welcome back to another video with
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freeze-dried business I'm David and I'm
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out here in front of grit and Grace this
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is a store that I sell wholesale to in
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Emmett Idaho
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I wanted to share with you that once you
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get out of the commercial the cottage
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food operation where you're very limited
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on what you can sell and you have to
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sell direct to Consumer if you can
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afford it either one getting your own
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commercial kitchen space or two
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you know find a commissary that that you
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can share with other food like food
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processing companies
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that's another affordable way you can
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start selling wholesale and one of the
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there's a couple benefits to selling
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wholesale and one of them being that
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you're gonna get paid immediately
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usually with prepay on wholesale so
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you're you know you make the goods and
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you immediately know and you recognize
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that hey I made you know 400 bucks or I
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made 500 and number two benefit of
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selling wholesale is your brand is at a
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location that you don't have to be at
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physically so this store gets to
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Showcase my my brand maybe people don't
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buy it but they're recognizing
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freeze-dried Depot freeze-dried goods
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and hopefully that drives more brand
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awareness so that when I'm on about or
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whether they visit online through Google
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they find my my website my brand and it
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resonates and they purchase later on
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especially right now it's September but
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as we head into the holidays you know
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it's going to be more and more prevalent
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and more important that they know my
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brand and and know your brand too as a
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business so that they so that you get
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those sales
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I would suggest there's a couple things
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that I found through selling to
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different stores now that I had that
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food processing permit is one make sure
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you're trying to get in a lot of
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different locations around where you are
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now you can ship and you could charge
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the customer for that ship the product
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or you could just do deliveries like I
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do within a 30 minutes drive and
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dedicate one day every two weeks or one
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day every month to do those deliveries
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but it's great being at different spots
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around the area so that you're you have
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touch points at various different places
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around number two uh I would say is make
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sure that you have all the variety of
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products
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um what I do with wholesale customers is
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I require them to purchase over 100
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items it's around five hundred dollars
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because I give them 40 discount so give
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them a variety of different
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um options to purchase and try to
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include a lot of different types of uh
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products one thing I found with
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wholesale as well is you're also trying
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to get different audience types and
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customers involved some places will sell
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a lot of fruit some places will sell a
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lot of candy some places will sell a lot
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of maybe use some unique freeze dried
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Goods that you have so I think it's just
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great to get yourself exposed to a wide
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geographical area to get exposure to
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more and more more of your Target
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demographic
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so anyway I hope you enjoy this video
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and just gives you a little bit more of
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a taste of my business and it gives you
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some encouragement about you know
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thinking about getting out of that
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Cottage food side of things and getting
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into the commercial side and it can be
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affordable it could also be expensive so
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you got to kind of look at that so
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um anyway Again David freeze-dried
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business I hope you have a great rest of
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the month for your sales and your
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business let me know in the comments if
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you have any questions or maybe you just
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like the video that'd be great and
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subscribe if you'd like to just be
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notified of more videos as I come out
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with them catch you later bye
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