Be honest, what’s the hardest part of Christmas in your bakery? Is it: Too many orders and not enough hands Customers wanting last-minute changes Pricing and Profitability Trying to run Christmas season and still have a family life I’m hosting a FREE 1 HOUR online session to help you build a calmer, more profitable lead-up to Christmas (and still enjoy your Christmas at home). Comment “LINK” and I’ll send you the session link Thursday 5th November 12.00 noon ACST Hope to see you there 🎅

BAKERY OWNERS Would you walk into your own bakery? 🥐 People decide in about 3 seconds whether to walk in or keep walking. Your shopfront, your cabinets and your team are your first sale of the day, before anyone tastes a single thing. I’m choosing ONE bakery to feature in a live Wow Factor Assessment, and it could be yours. How to get involved: → Send me 3 or more photos of your bakery: one from the street, one of your cabinets, and one of your sales team (optional, this is for dress standard), plus anything else you think I need to see → I’ll choose one bakery to feature → On the live call, I’ll assess your photos while everyone watches. You’ll hear exactly what I think is working, what’s not, and what I would change If I choose your bakery, you’re my guest on the call, completely free. Want to watch live and get the full toolkit? Photo submissions are free. To watch the live call and get the shopfront checklist (signage, window display, entrance, chalkboard, merchandising and lighting), join the Bakery Skool for just $29. I’ll lock in a date and time as soon as I’ve chosen a bakery, so the sooner you send your photos, the sooner we go live! 👉 Message me your photos or comment “WOW” below and I’ll get you started. Simply Soulfully Successfully Marie 😊

Quick question for everyone running a business here... Where does your traffic come from? If your answer is mostly Instagram, Facebook, TikTok or paid ads... It might be time to add another traffic source. Pinterest can send people to your: 👉 Skool community 👉 Etsy shop 👉 Amazon content 👉 Website 👉 Blog 👉 Products 👉 Lead magnets That's why I built Pinterest Skool. I'll help you build a Pinterest traffic system instead of just randomly posting Pins. Join for $7/month. https://www.skool.com/pinterest/about

No matter where you are in your bakery journey, I have you covered. Launching your first location? Wanting Growth? Ready to exit for maximum value? Each of my programs is built to put profit in your bank, not theory, not fluff, just profit generating systems that work. Want to see exactly where you stand? Comment "YES PLEASE" below and I'll send you my calendar link for a free assessment + full report. You'll walk away knowing: Your biggest revenue bottleneck right now The single lever that could 11X your bakery Your exact next move (with numbers) Launch. Grow. Exit. Let's find out which path puts the most money in your pocket.

I was talking to one of my clients this week about why her posts weren't landing in a community she'd joined. She was posting good stuff. Nobody was replying. The problem wasn't the posts. It was that nobody in there knew who she was. @Heather Wilson also agreed. Have a look at the feed in The Skool Classifieds (this community you are reading this in), and you'll see it. People turn up, post about their own thing, and leave. Post and ghost. Then they wonder why 2,000 members scrolled past it. It's the same in every other community I'm in, and it was the same in mine before I worked it out. Think about how it works in a room. If someone walks in, talks about themselves for two minutes and walks out, nobody follows them to the door. But if they'd spent twenty minutes talking to people first, they'd have half the room listening when they finally said something. A feed is the same room. It just moves slower. What I'd do instead is pick the communities where the members might plausibly want what you do. Not every community you're in, the adjacent ones. Then spend 5 to 10 minutes commenting on other people's posts. Not "great post". Something that shows you read it. Five to ten posts. Ten minutes. Do that for a couple of weeks before you post anything of your own. Two things happen. People recognise your name when you finally post, so they stop and read instead of scrolling. And a fair few of them turn up in your comments, because that's what people do when someone's been showing up in theirs. Works the same way here as it does anywhere else. Classifieds, someone else's community, your own. Nobody replies to a stranger, and ten minutes a day is what it costs to stop being one. The faster version of this is turning up live. If you want to see who's running events across Skool this week, that's what Skool Events Daily is for.