The Sauce
The Sauce is for Skool community owners. Run profitable Meta ads to your community instead of relying on free groups and sales calls.
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How this community works
- Pricing
- $99 a monthWell above the marketing median of $49.
- Size
- 74 membersBigger than 15% of the marketing communities indexed here.
- Revenue ceiling
- $7,326 a monthIf every member paid the listed price. Free tiers, discounts and churn are not visible from outside.
- Platform
- Skool
- Category
- Marketing
- Last verified
- 8 October 2026
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- Small room, real price: 74 members at $99 a month is a business without an audience of thousands.
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About The Sauce
The Sauce is for Skool community owners. Run profitable Meta ads to your community instead of relying on free groups and sales calls.
Why you should join: Meta ads playbooks and formats, creative templates, the Flagship Framework, the 7-Day YES Machine, a DM conversion system and a weekly live call with Ryan Duncan, built for paid communities that would rather skip sales calls. Membership is $99 a month.
Tiers and products
Membership
Paid
Notes
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The one-liner
A paid ads playbook for Skool owners who want buyers without free groups or sales calls.
What they actually sell
The Sauce. (for Skoolers) is run by Ryan Duncan. Its own pitch: "Run Profitable Meta Ads To Your Skool Community." The public offer sits at $99 a month. It opens by rejecting the run-a-free-group-first advice, then lists playbooks, ad templates and a seven-day YES Machine. Inside sit 4 courses. The page does not spell out a money-back promise. The offer is easy to understand in one read, which is half the job of a sales page.
Who pays and why
Owners of paid communities under $297 a month who struggle to convert. The frustration is free groups and content that never turn into paying members. They pay for Meta ads playbooks, ad formats, creative templates and direct support. The emotional pull is being around people chasing the same thing, which matters as much as any single lesson.
Where the members come from
Ryan Duncan links out to YouTube and a website from the page. That points to members arriving through free content first, then paying once they trust the voice behind it.
What's holding it back
The audience is narrow, people who run Skool groups. That cap on market size limits growth.
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Call out the common advice your audience is tired of, then promise the opposite.
Would this work in another niche?
Yes for any platform with lots of small owners, such as Etsy sellers. Weak where buyers do not run ads.
Written 9 October 2026
Reviews
Aaron Ferrell
“One of the most efficient Skool groups I've been in. No 30 calls a week, no 90-hour course, just straight sauce in a punchy, compact format. Built for busy entrepreneurs and coaches who don't have hours to dig through content to find the useful part. One call a week. Simple and informative.”
Richard Griffin
“My experience with The Sauce ( for skoolers) has been fantastic. They will support you in any situation you choose. The Entrepreneurs is the way to go.”
Tim Atyeo
“⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This completely changed how I think about growing my Skool community. I believed I needed more content, a bigger audience and endless sales calls. Now I understand how the right offer, trial, About Page and traffic can create a far simpler and more scalable model. A genuine game-changer.”
Dr. Russell Beach
“great group for skoolers serious about growing their paid community. 2 things I appreciate about this group. First is no fluff. Straight to the point courses, packing high value. The other is the founders. I was struggling with simplifying a meta ads test and Ryan reached out & walked me through best practices. Saved me hundreds in wasted ad spend right there.”
richard-dale-6397
“A lot of success comes down to getting in rooms with Winners. And the winners are inside this group 👀 instant value as soon as I joined. If you are serious about Skool.. you’ll find the fastest way to grow your MRR inside 👌”
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