I'm going to be honest with you. Yesterday I was walking around, doing my thing, and I noticed a star next to my name on Skool. I thought, "What the heck is that?" 😂 Had to look it up. Turns out, Crust & Crumb Academy is now in the top 1% of ALL communities on Skool. Not bread communities. Not food communities. All of them. And we're wearing a 5-star rating right alongside it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I basically Forrest Gumped my way into it. 🏃‍♂️ But here's the thing. I could be in here dancing a jig by myself and nobody would notice. This star doesn't belong to me. It belongs to every single one of you. Every comment you leave on a bake-along. Every photo you share, even the "ugly" ones 😄. Every time you answer someone's question before I even get to it. Every loaf you post that's a little better than the one before. That's what built this. Not me standing in front of a camera. You, showing up, doing the work, lifting each other up. 🙌 Congratulations to every community wearing a star or carrying a 5-star rating. It's rare air. And we're enjoying every breath of it. 🌟 380+ bakers in just over two months decided that a community built on coaching, not cheerleading, was worth their time. A place where "perfection is not required, progress is" isn't just a tagline. It's how we operate. 💪 Now let's get back to baking. We've got a bake-along happening right now. 🍞🔥 — Henry P.S. If you haven't joined us yet, what are you waiting for? ⭐ Crust & Crumb Academy — Where bakers come not to get likes, but to get better.

….𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬???.... SHOWING UP. Sounds too simple, right? But after organizing over 500 events in San Francisco, I can tell you MOST people don't do it. They talk about throwing parties. They plan. They dream. They make excuses. But they don't SHOW UP consistently…. ….𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬…. Showing up means going to that networking event even when you're tired. Following up with that venue owner even when they haven't responded. Throwing that next party even when the last one was rough. In nightlife and in business, CONSISTENCY beats talent every time. The people who last aren't the most skilled. They're the ones who KEEP SHOWING UP when everyone else quits. One of my early mentors told me: "Half the battle is just being there." He was right. ….𝐬𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐩…. "𝙀𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙮 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙪𝙥." — Woody Allen… I actually believe it is more like 100% 😉 Where do YOU need to show up more consistently?…waiting for your insights below…so comment… NOW 😉

I'm talking about my experience with this community and how it helped me go from 10 members to almost 50, with most of them coming from here. 1. Ask for feedback. At first I was just figuring out what I was trying to do, and my first posts were all about asking people for feedback. It turns out my message was far from being clear and I was really bad at selling what I did. After some honest and sometimes harsh feedbacks, I kept reinventing myself untill people finally understood what I was doing. If you can't explain what you do in one sentence, you need to improve your message. 2. Don't just post the same ad everyday. Be creative and test different things out. This place is perfect to test an idea you have, so give more than just a copy-paste of your about page. Talk a little bit about what you're doing, about the value you provide. Teach something. Make people intrigued. Write something that will make them interact with your post, like a question or a poll. Offer an opportunity so people feel like they have to join in order to take it. 3. Leave the CTA (Call To Action - requesting people to join your Community) at the end, not the title. Use the title to get people's attention, write a text that makes them want to keep reading and at the end make a CTA that will make them feel stupid for not joining your community. 4. Be consistent. People might need to see you more than once to be convinced. Post everyday, each time trying out something different, providing some valuable piece of content and a different perspective to the problem you're solving. Eventually people here will get familiar with you and they will want to join your community to get more of what you're posting. This is my community. You can get feedback on your community, website, profile, content or ideas. It's a great place to figure out your brand and get your first members. And to also help others do the same.