If you're a bakery owner I will help you increase your average sale by 10%+ and build a team that runs without you. GUARANTEED. Here's how it works: 1. You apply to join the Bakery Sales Accelerator (message me direct or comment GUARANTEE) 2. If you are accepted, you receive the 3 step framework and a program built for bakeries, and their sales team 3. 3 months of direct mentorship with weekly coaching calls to implement it 4. If you complete all the required program action steps and haven't seen a 10% increase in your average sale or monthly revenue, I'll keep working with you and your team for free until you do I take all the risk. After generating $50M+ in bakery sales over 28 years, selling my business for 7 figures, and spending years studying how to turn average staff into extraordinary staff, and then building a sales team full of extraordinary staff, who turn every day into something amazing in your bakery, and have customers as raving fans, I feel very confident I can help you do the same. Want to get more information? Apply here OR message me Guarantee and I'll send you more info. PS: Why do I have such a strong guarantee? I don't want your money unless I know I can help you. This guarantee holds me accountable to only accept people I know I can help. 🚀Launch is just 1 week away!

The vast majority of community owners treat YouTube as the destination. The goal becomes views, watch time, and subscribers. But if you're running a Skool community, YouTube isn't the finish line. It's the road that leads to one. The problem isn't getting views. It's that views don't join communities. People do. And there's a gap between someone watching a video and someone deciding to click a link, enter their name, and show up somewhere new. Closing that gap is a design problem, not a luck problem. Here are seven mechanics that close it. The first is gating a resource inside your community. You build something genuinely useful - a template, a framework, a checklist- and you host it in your Skool classroom. You show it in the video, explain exactly what it does, and tell viewers where to find it. They want it, they join. Simple transfer of value. The second is making your live events only accessible through the community calendar. You mention in the video that you run regular sessions, and that the details live inside Skool. If they want in, they know what to do. The event isn't the product. The access route is. The third is treating YouTube as the case-study layer of a deeper curriculum. Think of it this way: the video shows the what and the why. The community holds the how. Viewers who want the working method join to find it. YouTube becomes the window display. Skool is the shop. The fourth is the comment-keyword approach. You ask viewers mid-video to comment on a specific word, and an automation sends them a direct link to a relevant community thread. One comment, one link, no friction. It also drives engagement on the video while it's doing it. The fifth is the case-study format. You feature a real community member, show their result, show their profile, and show what they contributed to get there. No pasted testimonial. The viewer sees proof inside a living community. That's a different kind of persuasion. The sixth is the forum continuation. You go deep on a topic, then tell viewers the live discussion is happening inside a specific thread. You're not withholding the value - you've already delivered it. You're extending it somewhere better than a YouTube comment section.

Many years ago, life looked amazing from the outside. But inside, I was a complete mess. - Managing 2 bakeries: wages, rosters, orders, stocktakes - Training and supporting 100 staff - Caring for 2 young children - Being there for my husband - Serving customers counting on me for their daily bread - Supporting elderly parents It was overwhelming. Every time I think back, I have to pause and let the turmoil in my stomach settle. There was no time left for me, life was totally out of balance. Then came that moment where driving off the bridge could have solved it all, but that was when everything changed. I refused to accept that life had to be this hard or that I should dread each day before it even started. People needed me. I set out to learn how to do it all and have balance. I attended every conference, read every book by successful entrepreneurs, and began weaving together habits, rituals, time management, spiritual practices, meditation, vision boards, gratitude, and life principles. Little by little, life transformed. I discovered I could not only meet my responsibilities but also pursue what made me happy every single day. I captured this journey in my book, Simple Soulful Successful: A Mum-preneur’s Journey to Daily Happiness through Business Balance and Rituals. It became an #1 International Best Seller and has touched thousands of lives, including mine. Now, I’ve created a community: Simple Soulful Successful. Each day, I will share a quick tip, habit, or idea to uplift and inspire you-a minute or two to brighten your day. In 2018, I posted every day on gratitude for 365 days on Facebook, and it changed my life. Here on Skool, I want to help you do the same. Join us for just $5 per month and start transforming your life today: https://www.skool.com/simple-soulful-successful-1208/about

A few members in my community have been asking me why their The Skool Classifieds posts aren't getting clicks. I've been answering them individually in DMs, but I figured the answer was worth sharing more widely. Here's what I've been telling them. Step one: write your title like a YouTube title, specific, outcome-led, and clear enough to make sense without reading the body. Step two: open your first paragraph by naming the exact problem your ideal member is sitting with right now. Not your solution. Their problem. Step three: deliver one complete insight in plain language, something they can actually use, whether they click your link or not. Step four: close with a single CTA sentence that positions your community as the natural next step for someone who found the first three steps useful. The join link goes after the CTA, on its own line. No pitch. No feature list. No "we help people do X." Most of The Skool Classifieds posts read like brochures. They open with the community name, list what's inside, and close with a link. Technically correct. Nobody clicks. The problem isn't the CTA - it's that the reader hasn't been given a reason to care yet. Try this: stop writing so much about your community. Start writing the kind of post your ideal member would have found useful, even if the link wasn't there. If you want to go deeper on turning your Skool community into consistent revenue, that's exactly what we focus on inside the Skool Monetisation Lab. https://www.skool.com/skool-growth-lab-2540/about Des Dreckett - Skool Monetisation Lab

Have you checked out the calendar lately??? You'll definitely want to because not only are these 4 amazing new sessions listed there, but there are others that are coming up soon that you won't want to miss! On May 27, I'm teaching "Now What?" - a session dedicated to helping you create an intentional and strategic classroom for your Skool community. As an award-winning educator with a Skool community devoted entirely to teaching people how to create high-impact online courses, I can't wait to dive into this topic and help you decide the best way to get real results for your members. I expect this will be the last time I offer this session for free... On May 28, @Katya McEwen is teaching "How I Made $8,580 in Six Weeks" - I built a Top 1% Skool community — twice — using one repeatable method: Mini-Project Magic™. In this session, I'll walk you through the real numbers, the real timeline, and the exact framework behind my most successful launches. In this hands-on workshop, you'll gain clarity on what could be your own mini-project — and exactly how to monetize it On May 30, @Lydia Lowery Busler is teaching "Calm Your Nervous System in 2 Minutes" - Every day, our nervous system tries to regulate itself. Restlessness, distraction, and anxiety are all symptoms of nervous system dysregulation. If you don't feel calm, focused, and rested each day, this short masterclass is for you. By the end of this session, you'll be able to bring yourself to a relaxed state in just 2 minutes. On June 16, @Traci Poe and @Liisa Reimann are teaming up to co-host "Step Up to the Mic: Find + Land Speaking Gigs" - Speaking gigs help you get seen, build trust, and attract opportunities. Learn how to get visibility, pitch yourself with confidence, create a speaker one-sheet that opens doors, find the right stages, and show up with authority. Please check the calendar for the exact times in your timezone, and click Add to Calendar so that you don't accidentally double-book yourself!