Send us a text 🎥 Do the Reels Collab - And here’s the reasons why you should. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 229 - Do the Reels Collab, we're hypin' up the marketing behind the Blind Baker Reels Collab on September 26. ✅ Register here: https://form.jotform.com/SugarCookieMarketing/blind-baker-collab🎥 This cookie collab is different from the others we've run this year for 1 simple reason: it's video-based. Instead of posting an image of a logo-turned-cookie for the Main...
Send us a text 🕸️ Stuck in the Websites - What to look for in a website builder. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 228 - Stuck in the Web...Sites, we (remotely - forgive the sound quality this week, kids - it was a learning experience) talk about the sunsetting of the baker-centric website host and builder, Castiron. 📩 Castiron sent this email to current users on Monday night with very little warning that there were problems in "paradise": Consider the implications of los...
Send us a text 🛑 Do Not Teach a Cookie Class! - (If you plan on making these mistakes) In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 227 - Do NOT Teach a Cookie Class (this way), Corrie and I list out the things we wouldn't do if we were getting into cookie classes (yeah, yeah - the title is a bit of a clickbait, but hey, we're marketers, right?). September in the Sugar Cookie Marketing group is all about Cookie Classes as we try out having a "monthly theme" focused on one topic (you can s...
Send us a text 👭 Podcast Guests! - Meet Heather Brookshire and Kim Sims. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 226 - Podcast Guests Heather and Kim, you asked for less Heather and Corrie, and now you get Heather and Kim! Close enough, right?! Heather and Kim are self-titled "ESBs" - emotional support bakers - and really break down the value of having a baking buddy to partner with, vent to, talk shop with, and have in your corner when Uber steals your order. 👋 Meet Heather Campbell...
Send us a text 💎 Diamond Demand - Sifting through the competition. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 225 - Diamond Demand, we're telling EVERYONE they need DIAMONDS right NOW. 💎💎💎💎 Just kidding - this is just an analogy, so before you make this into something it's not - we're not talkin' about the diamond industry or bl🩸ood diamonds - we're just comparing a not-necessary-for-life luxury good with not-necessary-for-life luxury bakes. And there's somethin' we can all learn from t...
Send us a text 💼 Main Street Money - Maximizing the main street cookie collab. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 224 - Main Street Money, the Main Street Cookie Collab is BACK and it's in two weeks on August 28th at 11:00 AM est. This is a fun collab because it incorporates so much "local" than our other collabs do. ⚠️ Keep in mind, this collab is on a Thursday, not our typical Friday - much thanks to my inability to read a calendar. ⚠️ Also, heads up - we've shifted the ...
Send us a text 💀 Business Victim Mindset - Be what happens to your business. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 223 - Business Victim Mindset, we are in the slowest baking month of the YEAR. Yep - last week of July / first week of August = the Google trends report where "sugar cookie" is least searched. Conversely, 📊 the end of the slowest month begins the uptick of our busy season - but that's not the point of today's podcast. We're focusing on the "hanging up of the apro...
Send us a text 👀 Reach Ain’t Errythang - Focus on metrics that make money. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 222 - Return of the Twith, the twin is BACK in business, and she means business with this week's topic: reach isn't everything. We played a clip from marketer David Glu, who lists how your audience's interactions might signal what your content isn't doing for them. 📈 Low Likes = Your content isn't relatable📉 Low Comments = Your content isn't thought-provoking 📈 Low ...
Send us a text 💵 Money Talks With the (older) Miracles. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 221 - Money Talk with the Miracles, Corrie's still outta commission, so we've got another Miracle sister as a stunt double - meet Ashley with YNAB.com. Ash is the older (and wiser) sister and also an employee of an app that helps folks manage their money. Now, this is not a sales pitch; that said, I do use the app (and pay full price - what happened to sibling hookups?!), and we're g...
Send us a text 👋 Ope, It's Amy! The mod team meets the mod team. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 220 - Ope, It's Amy!, we continue on our "regular scheduled programming" departure to introduce our first ever podcast guest - 🎂 Amy Russell of CookiesTakeTheCake (https://www.instagram.com/cookiestakethecake)! 💥 Now here's the funny part: Amy has been a part of the Sugar Cookie Marketing moderation team for like almost 5 years, and yet we've never met her before. Attempted ...
Send us a text 🤒 C is for Cancer - A health update. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 219 - C is for Cancer, we pause our typical marketing podcast to talk about health - specifically as it relates to Corrie's cancer diagnosis and her upcoming surgery that'll have her outta commission for a few weeks (yes, you're still stuck with me, Heather). Today's podcast was a departure from our typical marketing content. It's a way to raise awareness that cancer doesn't judge, it doesn't ...
Send us a text 🤑 Mid-Summer Membership Sale - The first-ever mid-year Cookie College sale. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 218 - Mid-Summer Membership Sale, we cover this month's Mid-Summer Membership sale starting July 27 - August 2, 2025. This 7-day sale is the only one we've ever run before the Vendy Blendy (I cried just typing that - 🥲 how is this year goin' by so fast). 🤑 1. The Details This is our first-ever Mid-Summer Membership Sale - typically, we run a B...
Send us a text 📹 Video Marketing - For local, small cottage bakeries. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 217 - Video Marketing for Local Small Bakeries, Corrie wanted to talk about the wild world of Reels. Well, Reels, TikToks, YouTube Shorts - you know, vertical video. A topic made all the more important by Meta's announcement last week that all videos uploaded to the Facebook platform would now be categorized as Reels, thus shutting the door on horizontal videos (* Lives are s...
Send us a text 🖼️ Take a Stab - At a cookie collab. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 216 - Taking a Stab at a Cookie Collab, and Sugar Cookie Marketing Cookie Collabs are BACK IN BUSINESS. You can check out the details in the event listing for the SCM Cookie Collab: Meet the Baker 2025! here. But allow us to spend this week's podcast and newsletter walking you through the Collab 101 basics so you can get the most from the easy-to-join Instagram cookie collab. Long story....
Send us a text 🤖 AI-AI-Oh Yes - Ways bakers are incorporating AI. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 215 - AI-AI-Oh Yes, we read a thread asking bakers how they're using AI in their bakery business. The answers should inspire you - from streamlining workflow to helping write compelling copy on social media, AI has entered stage left, and it won't be leaving anytime soon. If you're a late adopter to this new tech, you're not totally alone, but we predict (hot take) that the bakers...
Send us a text 🔄 Pivot Pivot Pivot - What to change when nothing's working. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 214 - Pivot Pivot Pivot, 😖 we talk about what to do when you're doin' it all and all of it doesn't seem to be working. 🛞💨 Nothing is more frustrating than spinning your wheels and making no traction. So what do you do when it's just not working? Here are some things to attempt before you start screaming into the void. See - sometimes we might be doing "all t...
Send us a text 🛑 Hit the Breaks - How to take big bakery breaks. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 213 - Hit the Breaks, we cover the fact of life that just sometimes, along your business journey, you need to take a big break. If you've listened to past podcasts, you know we're anti-"big break" when it comes to marketing because it's really hard to stop and start marketing when funnels are long and competition is well, competitive. However, the beauty of being your ...
Send us a text ⏰ 1-Hr Admin Tasks - Setting up time blocks for tasks. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 212 - Admin Hour, we break down four different "admin hour" frameworks you could spend each week pluggin' away at to be a better baking business. "Admin Hours" are groupings of tasks that take up an hour spent on one specific aspect of your business - social media, bake prep, customer management, and inbox management - the four frameworks we cover this week. By spending...
Send us a text ↩️ Luxury Refunds - Refunds are a business strategy. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 211 - Luxury Refunds, Corrie wanted to recap yet another reminder on why luxury bakers should consider luxury refunds. 🤔 What's a luxury refund? It's the baked-into-the-price guarantee that if something goes left, the baker will make it right - and typically that will be through a refund. Per the twin, we can't claim 💰 "luxury brand and thus luxury pricing," but claim 😭 "...
Send us a text 💸 Selling in Community Groups - Turn groups into lead gen powerhouses. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 210 - Selling in Community Groups, we are talking about the same topic we presented this past Tuesday at What's Popping Con (a convention for Cake Poppers). This content is all available on our website by clicking this button - it's a lot of info and free templates, so click here to snag that stuff while it's still posted. If you're already thinking, "There are...
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Genna Cate Barnes
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