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EXCLUSIVE Business Trainings & Tutorials for Bakery & Sweet Business owners



Register for the Annual Holiday Sales Open House





Need help boosting holiday sales in your baking & sweets business? Register for the Sugar Coin Academy's Annual Holiday Open House. Learn tips and strategies to producing your most profitable Holiday Sales season ever!


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Learn how to run a profitable sweet business!





The baking & sweets industry is full of invaluable resources to learn how to bake, decorate and do amazing things with sugar. However, there are very few sweet peeps talking about how to run the business side of the sweets business. That's where the Sugar Coin Academy comes in!


Join the Sugar Coin Academy and start learning how to think like a true business owner. We understand that most bakers and sweet makers accidentally find themselves owning a business after friends, family and co-workers began requesting cakes, treats and sweets...and next thing you know you are getting paid to create delicious desserts for birthdays, weddings and holidays. However, after the first time you realize that you severely undercharged for your work or once you develop a strong desire to create sweets full time, it will become obvious that you need help understanding the fundamentals of business such as accounting, contracts, customer service, marketing, & branding.


The good news is...you've found the right place. Sugar Coin Academy will help you understand elements of business that aren't usually taught in the Sweets Community. Get ready to open your mind and think differently about how you conduct business in this industry. If you follow the guidance provided and incorporate what you learn in the trainings, Sugar Coin Academy will teach you how to run a profitable baking/sweets business and become a pro at stacking #SugarCoins!



About Sugar Coin Academy





Sugar Coin Academy is a collection of bakery & sweet business trainings created by Culinary Mentor, Chef Amanda Schonberg of Chef Schonberg's Sweets​ and Financial Analyst and Sweet Business Coach, Cydni N. Mitchell of Sweet Fest.


Within this online academy, designed with Bakery & Sweet Business owners in mind, you will gain exclusive access to video trainings and industry insights.


This video is a snippet from a Wine-down Wednesday session with Chef Schonberg and Cyd, Your Sweet Business Coach. Become a member of the Sugar Coin Academy view the entire training.


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Features & Benefits





Below you will find descriptions of the Sugar Coin Academy components, features and benefits. Content in the academy are both pre-recorded and conducted live. Live trainings will be announced to academy members in advanced via social media and email.



Marketing Monday



Learn how to propel your business to the next level by understanding the basics and methods to successfully market your business. Join Chef Amanda Schonberg as she gives tips and tricks on how to improve your marketing strategies. You will learn key principles that will help build your marketing confidence. From the basics to platforms and policies, this series is the perfect solution to help you form a marketing plan for your baking or sweets business.



Wine-down Wednesday



Join Chef Amanda, your Culinary Mentor, and Cyd, your Sweet Business Coach as they discuss real issues & topics submitted by Sweet Peeps just like you. This set of trainings are filmed live on Periscope, but the recordings are EXCLUSIVELY available within the #SugarCoin Academy. Previous topics include Business Taxes & Deductions, Professionalism, Conducting Business Online, and the Pros & Cons of Not Having a Website.



Exclusive Monthly Recipes



This series of videos & tutorials will showcase Chef Schonberg's delicious, tested and proven recipes. Each recipe is specifically chosen in a way that helps streamline the menu development process for your sweet business. Recipes will also relate to monthly & seasonal themes to help you plan ahead for major holidays. One new recipe will be added to this course monthly.



Monthly Accountability Call



Each month we will have a monthly accountability call to discuss that month's trainings and provide extra guidance on how you can take those teachings and apply them in your baking & sweet business. These LIVE calls are private brainstorming sessions and are designed the help you implement the training material into your business and assist you with operating a more profitable and knowledgeable baking, sweets business.



Tech Tuesday



Running a business online can be challenging, but there are tons of apps and systems that can make running a business much sweeter. Discover mobile apps and online business tools that will help make business processes such as invoicing, online marketing and selling online much simpler. We will discuss topics like techniques for selling through email marketing, how to design professional looking social media flyers, and little known places for selling sweets & treats online.



Transformation Series



Every now and then, the inspiration for a mini-masterclass series will strike and either Cyd or Chef will be motivated to share their thoughts and knowledge on a business topic, such as Social Media marketing, Rebranding, and methods for increasing sales. The "Business Transformation Series" are filmed live using our webinar platform and are EXCLUSIVELY available as part of the Sugar Coin Academy.



Business Term of the Week



These trainings were designed to help give bakers and sweet makers a solid understanding of important terms that are commonly used when conducting business. Since the sweets industry is full of accidental entrepreneurs, the goal of this set of trainings is to help the Sweet Community get a better understanding of the ins and outs of business and to gain knowledge about how these terms can impact or help grow a successful business.



Exclusive Member Discounts



Get ready to save even more money! During the year, both Cyd and Chef host trainings outside of the Sugar Coin Academy. As a member of SCA, you will receive exclusive member only discounts and receive special pricing for those classes & trainings.



Academy Training Clips & Mini Lectures



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How to Impress Your Clients



Coconut Ciroc Samoas Recipe



Cream Biscuit inspired Cake tutorial



Keeping up With Cake Trends



Freebies for Newbies





For those who are new to business or new to the Sugar Coin Academy, we have provided few FREE downloads and trainings to help you see what we're all about. Click through the buttons below to check out our FREE downloads, FREE lectures and FREE guides to help you learn more about us and more about growing your business! When you're ready to become an official member, we'll be right here waiting for you!



Monthly Business Audit


It can be easy to get wrapped up in the everyday tasks of running a business, that we forget to take time & reflect on the overall direction of our business. So, we came up with this Monthly Business Audit to help you see the bigger picture in your business. Download and fill out a copy of this form each month to help you analyze your business growth and discover areas of improvement.

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Ingredient Costing list



The foundation for setting a price for your baking and sweets items is understanding your ingredient & supply cost. Download this checklist to help you stay organized in the kitchen and on top of your cost. This document was created to support students in our FREE Cake & Sweet Treat Pricing Support group. If you need help with pricing your sweet menu items, we invite you to join the group!


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Learn 10 Tips for creating a successful Sweet Business!





Are you new to the sweets business and need a bit of help getting started? Register for this FREE business training where you will learn 10 great tips to help you create a successful baking & sweets business.


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News & Updates for the Sweet Community



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Three tips For summer business growth




Summer is a great time to be more social in your community. Since children transition from being in school to out of school; this often results in an influx of summer activities for both little ones and parents.


Aside from children, summer is also usually a time when corporations schedule more team building activities. How can your business benefit from the summer wave that sweeps through your community? Continue reading to learn 3 tips to help you boost your brand awareness during the summer months.

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Three Tips to Better Cake Pricing




"How much should I charge?" No matter where you go in the Sweet Community or what group you are in on social media, these words are something that you are bound to hear. Sometimes it's amazing to think of how many people struggle with pricing their sweet treats and cakes. However, I can understand why this topic is so popular.


For starters, when we talk about pricing our cakes we are trying to place a monetary value on our final work product. However, from a caker or baker's point of view it really isn’t work. It is our art.

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OVERCOMING FEAR AND TAKING THE LEAP




So have you heard of my friend Fear? To be totally honest he really isn’t my friend. However he is something that comes around often. Or maybe it’s a she? I am not actually sure, but what I do know is fear is something that creeps up ever so often. Honestly, I wonder if fear is a psychic? Because it seems that every time something is on my mind, fear just comes around as if it is reading my thoughts. “ You're not good enough” ,“ You know what such and such will say”,“What gives you the right to try that?” and so on and so on.

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WHY RESOLUTIONS DON'T WORK & HOW TO CHANGE IT





New Year, new you...right?


Yep, we have heard it all before. It's that time of year again when there is a certain feeling in the air. It’s like the clouds of darkness suddenly change to the clouds of clarity and everyone has this razor sharp image of the actions they want to accomplish for themselves, their business or their brand.


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CHECK OUT WHAT SWEET PEEPS ARE SAYING!





Real feedback from bakery & sweet business owners who've attended
trainings taught by Sugar Coin Academy Instructors.



Become a member







~ EXCLUSIVE Access to the Marketing Monday Recorded Trainings ~

~ EXCLUSIVE Access to the Tech Tuesday Recorded Trainings ~

~ EXCLUSIVE Access to the Business Term of the Week Recorded Trainings ~

~ EXCLUSIVE Access to Wine-down Wednesday Recorded Trainings ~

~ EXCLUSIVE Access to the Business Transformation Series Trainings ~

~ EXCLUSIVE Access to the Sugar Coin Member Only Monthly Recipes ~

~ EXCLUSIVE Access to Monthly Accountability Conference Calls ~

~ Sugar Coin Academy Member Only Discounts ~

~ FREE Membership Thank You Gifts ~



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Ready to learn how to Run a successful Sweets business?





There's more to growing a baking/sweets business than making a delicious & beautiful product. You also need to know how to reach new clients, price appropriately, make a profit, and cover yourself with a contract when something goes wrong. You won't learn everything overnight, but you at least have a resource that will help you get there one step at a time. Join Sugar Coin Academy today and begin learning how to grow a successful sweets business & begin collecting major #SugarCoins!


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Meet the instructors





Cydni N. Mitchell


Sweet Business Coach




Cydni N. Mitchell (a.k.a. Cyd) is the founder of www.thesweetfest.com, a global online directory designed to connect Sweet Lovers with local Sweet Makers. Since its launch, Sweet Fest™ has experienced a phenomenal 800% growth on social media without the use of online advertisements.

As a former Apple, Inc. employee, Cyd has drawn on her background in technology and analytics to develop her own proven strategies for growth on social media. As a result, she has been able to pass on the "secrets" of her success to sweet entrepreneurs via conference discussions and online webinars.


By trade, Cyd is an accountant & financial analyst with a Masters from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Cyd has worked closely with many of the Sweet Makers on her site to help them develop and successfully implement their own social media marketing strategies, re-branding initiatives, business plan remodeling, and more.


There are tons of resources available to help sweet entrepreneurs develop their baking talents, but the goal of Sweet Fest® is to help Sweet Makers with running the business side of their sweet businesses. Cyd's philosophy is that there "must be a balance between a delicious product & a solid business/marketing strategy. No sweet business will be successful without having both in place." Cyd & Sweet Fest® are here to provide you with the keys to obtaining that balance and ultimately be successful in business.


On a personal note, Cyd is a self-taught web and graphic designer. She resides in Atlanta, GA where she enjoys binging on Hulu & Netflix, trying out new sweet spots in the city, and spending time with friends & family.

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Chef Amanda Schonberg



Certified Chef & Culinary Mentor





Although raised on the west coast of the globe Amanda Schonberg is no stranger to the South. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana Chef Amanda Schonberg has a great love for regional desserts. After having a longtime passion for food and wanting a career change she began her culinary training for Culinary Arts and Occupations at Baton Rouge Community College in which she completed in 2011.


Having a strong desire to serve and help others she participated in many organizations and events to better her studies during her tenure. While enrolled in Baton Rouge Community College she ran for office in which she was elected by her student body as the college’s Student Government Association Treasurer in which role she served diligently during her tenure. Her senior year she applied for the Sterling Forbe’s scholarship given through the culinary arts program to an outstanding senior who embodied the goals and dedication as the person it was named for in which she won.


Equipped with her administrative background and new career path she immediately went into food service management. She has managed and worked for Fortune 500 companies such as Sam’s Wholesale, Chartwells’s Dining, and Great American Cookie Company.After managing a few companies within the retail food service industry she soon decided to embark on her own culinary path. In 2015 she started Chef Schonberg’s Sweets; a desserts catering company specializing in old fashioned desserts with a new flair.Her unique approach to taking standard desserts and adding a unique twist to them quickly became popular. She has catered to celebrity artist such as R-n-B group Mindless Behavior, Food Network's Gina Neely, Juvenille,Brian Mcknight, LSU athlete’s and a host of others. She has been featured in local publications such as DIG Magazine,Moving Forward and Livingston Parish News. Her recipes and work have been featured in national magazines such as American Cake Decorating and Southern Celebrations Magazine and televised on news channels such as FOX media.She is also the 2017 winner of the Baton Rouge Wedding Industry Awards for best desserts/sweets.She assist others who need help starting their business locally by offering private classes to guide them as well as to others online through social media.


Chef Schonberg enjoys reading, traveling and spending time with her husband. She serves on the Advisory Committee for the college she attended in which she helps to serve with providing input in today’s culinary atmosphere. She continues to work and grow her business while living in Louisiana and strives to provide sweets for the soul.


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