Icing Smiles – A “Sweet” Non Profit Success with Tracy Quisenberry
Gift Biz Unwrapped
English - December 21, 2015 14:00 - 38 minutes - 17.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 192 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Education How To business entrepreneur entrepreneurship marketing entrepreneurs interview entrepreneuronfire finance leadership career Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Tracy is the founder and executive director of Icing Smiles, a non-profit organization that provides custom celebration cakes to children with critical illness and their siblings.
She believes that everyone has a responsibility to give back with their God given talents. Tracy has identified two. One is her artistic skill of cake decorating and the other is the skill with numbers.
Cake decorating is much more fun, but unfortunately, doesn’t pay the bills. So she spends her days juggling between her job as an international tax consultant, and her role at Icing Smiles. She’s also a mom to two great kids, Emily and Justin.
Motivational QuoteBusiness Inspiration
How it all started [4:11]
Icing Smiles defined [6:39]
Creating the company [10:17]
A Candle Flickering MomentDealing with a website hack [23:34]
A PR nightmare turned very sweet [26:00]
Business Building InsightBuilding a business while working full time [15:20] and [16:29]
The cake that changed the game [11:54]
What it takes to run their non profit company [17:40]
Success TraitThe ability to listen and develop rapport lead to a huge corporate sponsor [29:58]
Productivity/Lifestyle ToolAn old-fashion “to do” list where she schedules her day [31:23]
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