A guide to
Understand label basics, then confirm the wording and details your state requires.
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Cottage food laws disagree about almost everything except the label. Here are the six elements nearly every state asks for, the exact disclaimer wording six states use, and how to build a label that survives a refrigerator and still reads as a brand.
· 10 min read
From the first read of your state's rules to your first market Saturday, in eight steps: choosing products that qualify, registration and training, labels, pricing, sales channels, bookkeeping, and a realistic plan for the first 90 days.
· 13 min read
A bag or box has three jobs: keep the product safe and fresh, carry the label your state requires, and sell it from three feet away. Here is how to choose packaging by product type, what a unit really costs, and which states require sealed, labeled packages before you can sell.
· 12 min read
Your name goes on every label, sign, and search a customer will ever run. Here is how to choose one people can say and spell, run the SBA and USPTO checks before you print, and build a two-color, one-mark look you can keep for years without paying a designer.
· 10 min read
