How I figured this out
Hi, I'm Abbey.
Full-time teacher. Mom of twin toddlers. Owner of the Lab.
I posted. Then I posted more.
For years I did what everyone says to do. Commented, went live, the whole thing.
Then I'd check my Stripe app at the end of the day. Nothing.
People posting way less than me were making sales.
Then I flushed $100 a day down the toilet.
The first ads course I bought said spend $100 a day. So I did. I had no idea what I was doing and the money was just gone.
Every course after that felt like it was written for agencies with big budgets. Not for a beginner with a product and real limits.
So I put it off. For a long time.
Then I got tired of waiting and figured it out on my own. Lots of expensive mistakes. And here's what I found: most of what those courses teach is way more complicated than it needs to be.
The setup that actually works is small and boring. One campaign. One ad set. A couple of ads. Leave it alone for 3 days. Read the numbers. Fix the one thing that's broken.
Then I filled my own Skool with it.
When I opened my group, I used that exact setup. Ads did the work, on days I didn't even pick up my phone.
Then Skool owners kept asking me the same question.
"I built it. Why is nobody new joining?"
They had the group. They had the About page. They had no way to reach anyone who didn't already know them.
That's why the Lab exists. The plain-language version of this I wish someone had handed me before I spent that first $100 a day. Built for people whose group is already open and just needs people in it.