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and then you can see the 
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Just some of them are in the 
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If you're not watching some 
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going on our YouTube channel or 
check out one of our socials to 

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see see the backdrop, but the 
products are beautiful. 

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How do you go about working out 
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you get into the region of like,
we're not the cheapest, we don't

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want to be the mega, mega 
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that balancing point per 
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Well, first of all, to me it's 
about value. 

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It's it's all about there's, 
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One is you have to keep an eye 
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charging for their products. 
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from 30 to 40% more, up to two 
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And so because we make all of 
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they're all uniquely ours. 
We designed them and we source 

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the leather, we source of all 
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brass, everything on it. 
We have as much control as you 

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can possibly on not only you 
know your cost, but also your 

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quality so you know what's in 
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So our goal from day one, I 
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the greatest value that I could 
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business. 
So you buy a $500 leather goods 

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products from us, I really want 
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product honestly for what you 
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What's incredible is that we, we
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know, but we have reviews all 
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you're way under pricing this 
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This is a $1500 bag and that 
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That makes us happy. 
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with the materials and then it 
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your craftsmanship. 
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manufacturing was I spent almost
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Gamble, which is I think one of 
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world. 
So what we learned was to do it 

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right the first time. 
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do it right the second time. 
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And then later when you deliver 
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customer, you know your, you 
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Of course, you know, the markup 
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to be able to deliver the 
services and everything that you

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get, you know, including, you 
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If the product ever fails 
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craftsmanship and that sort of 
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behind it and and either repair 
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What's amazing to me, Nick, is 
that when you look at huge, huge

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brands like Louis Vuitton and 
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Laurent or even Coach or any of 
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have lifetime promises. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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why would you not stand behind 
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What is the context of a cookie 
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What is a cookie banner supposed
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How is it supposed to work, and 
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I don't know if you use this 
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view, when I look at how they 
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they're not fit for purpose, are
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They don't really do what 
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We'll start with one simple 
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I think everybody agrees with 
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Everybody I've spoke to in 
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of the political spectrum all 
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consent banners are not 
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whatsoever. 
They're interruptive to the 

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customer journey people take, 
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want to go to. 
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consent in any way because it's 
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consent. 
So it's not even real consent 

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under GDP. 
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reject and manage, there's 
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should be, what size should they
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say people just trying to get 
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that that we share with the 
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that we made is that they are 
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making the individual safer 
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with the websites they're doing 
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they're engaging with content 
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So it's not serving any purpose 
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whatsoever. 
In fact, it's just annoying 

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approach to get in that balance 
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marketing trade association and 
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with customer first principles. 
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of the obligations of data 
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fact customer first principles 
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your customers doing and how 
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your customer, which is 
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anyway as a matter of course. 
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looking at the legislation as a 
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interpreted. 
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and adopted by the UK, says that
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designed to serve mankind. 
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fundamental right, Interesting, 
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other fundamental rights. 
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And it gives a long list, 
including the right to conduct a

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business. 
Does your e-mail marketing suck?

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Do you wish it converted better 
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for merchants, not marketers. 
What is changing in the? 

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Subscription space at the. 
Moment there? 

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What's evolving? 
So we're seeing a lot of 

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different things, right? 
You're seeing how AI started to 

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have an effect on the industry, 
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most industries. 
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important there is how you're 
using AI, but also more 

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customization, right? 
So how do you customize the 

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experience for the consumer to 
make sure that not only do they 

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subscribe, but they don't churn 
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retention problem. 
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changes. 
So being able to offer frequency

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opportunities based on what the 
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So let's use, for example, let's
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powder brand and you've got a 
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subscribe and save. 
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out twice a week. 
You know, just offering a 

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monthly subscription to a tub of
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because one individual might 
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tub of protein over two months. 
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at like Farmer's Dog, Farmer's 
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So when you sign up for Farmer's
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meals for your pet before the 
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churn and more customization and
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How's AI changing the e-mail 

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landscape at the moment? 
Or how should people be using AI

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Well, I just want to make one 
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welcome our AI overlords. 
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listening, I do welcome them and
wish them well as they don't 

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need. 
Imperial Guards. 

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They're part of the River 
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Us. 
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I think AI and e-mail is coming 
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We've we've been talking about 

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the tools for years now and 
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this with AI. 
Look how much more productive I 

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am. 
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distrust of is this a real 
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Is, is Nick even a real person? 
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somebody designed or? 
Someone took that much nonsense 

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on a podcast for so many years 
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It's a training model right 
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we're getting back into kind of 
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just the next extinction event, 
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So if we keep having these 
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think I'm on my fifth one by now
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You know, when you lose tracking
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adding promotions tab. 
It's the end of marketing as we 

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know it and AI sorting in, in 
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what we know. 
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know, e-mail still has the top 
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it will continue to be the most 
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talking to your customers, 
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providers are using it, and then
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using AI to view your content, 
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fear. 
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into, you know, the basics that 
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the first points we're we're 
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how, and I assume that's what 
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like an AI filtered world. 
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people now, how does AI actually
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Like is it in the spam filter? 
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people's inboxes? 
Is it there like loads of us are

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starting to use the functions of
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this person. 
It reminds you to do things like

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And you're like, Oh yeah, I sent

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You know, I sent that contract 

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They still don't sign it. 

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with. 
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specifically when brands are 
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communicate with customers is 
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Yeah, absolutely. 
So there, there are more AI 

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tools that we're we're seeing 
evidence of in the spam 

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filtering and that's really more
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So they're using these tools 
just like we are to be better at

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their jobs. 
They're better at detecting 

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what's spam, who's an engaged 
contact, who is doing something 

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crazy, and they need to protect 
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the inbox from these senders. 
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just you doing the right thing 
and those best practices that we

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through, what people are afraid 
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the growth of the the next level
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prioritization. 
Things are moving around in the 

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You know, there are Gmail app, 

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You know, there are Superhuman, 
there's all sorts of these 

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recipient wants to see. 
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hey, we're going to apply our AI
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And then for Nick's inbox, what 
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hasn't gotten paid for, right? 
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Hey, contract lapsing. 

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right? 
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It's it's going to be a little 

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bit more in terms of your 
previous engagement, right? 

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The machine learning of when you
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opening it? 
You're clicking it, you're 

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responding to it. 
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and into the inbox. 
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And then it's going to try to 
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terms of clear call to actions 
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Discount expiring now, discount 
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That's right up at the top or 
Bill due today, right? 

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And this is, these are for all 
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Those are going to get moved to 
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catch your attention. 
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be more explicit feedback is 
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primary, well then they're going
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They're going to move that up 
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emails landing in the inbox, if 
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then how are you going to get 
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Now the the knee jerk reaction, 

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and I know you were thinking 
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going to put a lot of misleading
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today, you know, but try to 
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that argument with, it's the the
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We'll learn from you quickly. 
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some some bad decisions and work
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than ever to do that. 
We've had plenty of conversation

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in the past about how to rebuild
your vacation. 

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So but yeah, there's that's the 
the unknown, but it's really not

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that. 
When you think about those three

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factors, it really doesn't get 
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Right. 
I'm going to jump straight in 

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with the big hitter. 
People have probably seen this 

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in the title. 
In nine months after you started

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the business, you were doing 
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How on earth did you scale to 
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Well, a lot of things. 
I would mainly say we just have 

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a really good product and our 
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other factors as well. 
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So you've, I mean, we'll talk 
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You've obviously got some 
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talk about that sphere. 
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more later in the recording. 
Let's let's talk a little bit 

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later about the meta ad side of 
things. 

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And but I mean products, for 
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of case like you got not you got
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$400,000 of revenue coming in 
people buying your products. 

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Firstly, what is the product? 
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$70,000 you spent in product 
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credit cards, told me through 
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unwisely you might have spent 
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was the development to get the 
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Yeah, I mean, I don't think I 
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So to get it launched, I was 
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I had no idea what I was doing. 
I literally just, I went on to 

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Google or I, I think I asked 
Chad GBT like, Hey, how do I 

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make padded apparel? 
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should message manufacturers on 
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So then I went on to Alibaba and
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jacket and I just like messaged 
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you make this? 
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prototyping process turned into 
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of product iteration anyway. 
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manufacturers sent us products. 
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that I told those 3 
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fix this and this and send me a 
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until I had a product I was 
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Even though we have a new 
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after a year of product 
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wasn't absolutely amazing. 
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China. 
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grind man since the beginning. 
I really, really have not done 

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it in a smart way at all. 
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in the beginning I thought it 
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know, 20,000 bucks to get this 
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that I had. 
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expensive, started to get into 
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to keep on funding the 
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And then my dad came in as an 
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And it just ended up costing way
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this products off the ground. 
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products when I was spent my 
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product development in the 
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But I was already in so deep. 
I was like. 

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And I. 
Can't click now. 

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How do you put my whole savings 
on the line? 

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I need to make this real. 
Was that the main reason that 

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stopped you quitting then? 
Was it just like I've spent so 

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much money, I need to make that 
back now? 

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Like, I mean, it's the worst 
gambling strategy ever. 

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It. 
Was like a certain cost policy 

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yeah it's like all these other 
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years old and they're 
corporately ran and or this like

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startup floor riders by riders 
making these cool like Instagram

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and Facebook ads. 
I mean, if you're a mountain 

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biker scrolling on Instagram, 
you've never in your life seen 

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an ad for padded apparel on 
Instagram until you've like seen

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our brand. 
But every single mountain biker 

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I've talked to now is like, oh, 
I see your ads all over my 

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Instagram. 
It's cool because we've been 

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like the only one that kind of 
touching this Meta ad space 

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because these other companies 
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But like they literally do like 
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sponsor a writer. 
Very old school style marketing,

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right? 
Which is good. 

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But you know, we kind of have 
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old school style marketing, 
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customers so far. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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I mean it obviously has looking 
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what have been some of the 
challenges going in nine months 

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up to $400,000? 
Like what have been some of the 

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issues with like warehousing, 
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like dealing with customer, you,
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customers to hundreds and then 
thousands of customers. 

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How have you guys managed to 
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new things that have come along,
new challenges that must have 

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come along like week by week? 
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I think we have had issues with 
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you just mentioned. 
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Yeah, being like a true first 
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I'd have 0 experience with any 
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So for example, like we were 
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this like warehouse that we kind
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we like drive to the FedEx store
manually. 

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And then then we were like, oh, 
we should get a three PL. 

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So we literally just like Google
three PL. or #gbt and just like 

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talk to the first one and like 
send them products. 

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And then we ended up wasting 
$50,000 on that three PL. 

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Sheesh free nightmare when we 
finally got a warm intro. 

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And like now we're in a good 
three PL. shout out ship Nomad. 

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But anyway, it's like, yeah, for
everything that you've 

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mentioned, it like truly is an 
AB test. 

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Sometimes we get lucky on the 
1st test, sometimes it's a big 

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waste of money. 
Honestly, you have, I, I've 

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worked with thousands of 
businesses, like I honestly have

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never met anyone even close to, 
to your personality type rate. 

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And the way you approach it. 
It's, it's almost like a, let's 

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just spend some, let's just 
spend some money or do something

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radical that could destroy the 
company and just kind of see 

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what happens. 
I, I, I love, I know you spoke 

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about this from a creative point
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you guys are taking that to the 
core of the company where 

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they're playing safe and secure 
with their Meta content. 

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They also will have these long 
drawn out board meetings going, 

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OK, should we invest $50,000 in 
testing this new 3 PL. solution?

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You know the finance director is
going to go right? 

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I've got a long list of demands.
You guys have already spent the 

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50,000 and found Chip Nomad and 
found somebody who actually does

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it well and does what you need. 
Yeah. 

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Is that your approach to 
everything so far? 

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Like, and it's fine if it has, 
but like have you guys, have you

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guys had to take like, I don't 
want to even say a more serious 

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view because if it's working, 
what you do is working. 

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But have you guys had to take a 
more considered view and 

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actually take a step back on 
things and go, this isn't 

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working or a certain thing we're
trying to achieve at the moment,

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It's not working. 
We need to think about this. 

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Or has it literally been a sort 
of let's just do it and see what

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happens in in like every 
approach? 

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I think we're starting to 
transition into that second 

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thing you're talking about like 
right now, now starting to get 

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at scale and we like have 
employees. 

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To lose them, haven't you We're.
Starting to do things a little 

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bit more properly. 
You mentioned Kickstarter. 

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Tell me more like is that every 
time you've got a new product, 

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is that where you push it 
initially to get those 

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pre-orders and start getting 
some, some cash in and awareness

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on it? 
Yeah, Yeah. 

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I think awareness bit is really,
really big and and also I think 

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it's a really good process 
actually. 

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Like As for us, like we're 
sitting now doing I'm doing a 

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Kickstarter. 
I'm actually filming right now 

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in my living room of a doe 
that's like a rising. 

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So I can use that into the. 
So we're like, we're we're doing

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a video where we're really 
explaining the product into 

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detail, but also having it 
catchy enough for it to be a 

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meta ad afterwards. 
And and then we're also doing a 

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page explaining that you're 
doing Kickstarter. 

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Like, what is this product? 
What why is it amazing? 

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And then doing different and 
pledges or like, you know, yeah,

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how we're going to sell this 
off. 

452
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And it's such a good way to also
show like, OK, this is a 

453
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product, this is what we're 
doing. 

454
00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:44,040
Then we have a sales channel, 
but what you also have, you're 

455
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going to have other people look 
at it, be like, I can sell this 

456
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in my store, but I can sell this
and this and this. 

457
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And then before we even push the
button on production, we of 

458
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course have a number of how many
people, but we maybe also have 

459
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some kind of retail order that 
will go into that bunch. 

460
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So it's, it's just a really good
way of not having yeah, of 

461
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putting too much cash into 
something that you don't really 

462
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know is going to fly or not. 
And then suddenly you're sitting

463
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down with stock or you're paying
for all this stock that is 

464
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sitting in a warehouse 
somewhere, and you're just like,

465
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OK, I have 10 years to like, get
through this. 

466
00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:25,960
Yeah. 
And there's again, just for the 

467
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time we won't talk about today, 
but there's a whole, there's a 

468
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whole like archive of strategies
of how to get rid of some of 

469
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that old stock. 
But it is it's discounts, it's 

470
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giving some of it away like in 
if it was going to drive profit,

471
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it would have done that in the 
1st place. 

472
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,240
Well, I love the fact you guys 
are using Kickstarter to pre 

473
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,360
empt that. 
I think one of the interesting 

474
00:23:41,360 --> 00:23:43,840
things you've mentioned as well 
when it comes to stockists. 

475
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So doing wholesale with some of 
the products is the better you 

476
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:47,920
position. 
Well, the better. 

477
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,200
Firstly, like this is a product 
people want and we check the 

478
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data and people do want this 
product. 

479
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They're engaging with this 
thing. 

480
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,360
So we're going to make some of 
them. 

481
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,480
And then running a Kickstarter 
with good content that helps the

482
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next person along in the chain 
who's going to sell it to the 

483
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,400
end customer in through 
wholesale or retail. 

484
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,720
It gives them so much more to go
after because you've got to 

485
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,280
think how many products they're 
finding, seeing, being pitched 

486
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,880
to all the time, saying you 
should stop this because you 

487
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,240
know you're going to get a big 
order if you stock my product. 

488
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:16,760
They're getting that all the 
time. 

489
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,480
So the better the content and 
positioning and hey, look, 

490
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,400
people are buying this like 
crazy from us and you can stock 

491
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,800
it in your shop as well. 
It starts to build such a better

492
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:27,800
profile to make that a success, 
doesn't it? 

493
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,760
Which also helps you long term. 
Then if even if you guys 

494
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,120
struggle to sell it, having at 
least one stock is selling it. 

495
00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:35,720
Well, you could say no, we're 
happy to give you a bit more of 

496
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,120
a discount on that. 
We're struggling to sell them, 

497
00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:39,160
but you're selling loads of 
these things, so why don't you 

498
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:40,760
just take all of them? 
Yeah, yeah, they're fine, 

499
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,440
especially if there's a better, 
better margin because I know I'm

500
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,680
selling them. 
So I think that it gives you so 

501
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,720
many more opportunities on that.
Do do you find it's better then 

502
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,240
to design with a better brief of
we know people are interested or

503
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,120
going to buy this product or, or
we we know people bought lots of

504
00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:55,920
that product and were close 
enough to the data and the 

505
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,160
customers on the ground. 
So now designing actually I've 

506
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,880
got a better brief going the 
next version or the next thing 

507
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,560
I'm designing, it's going to 
really help people and I've got 

508
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,320
data to support that does that. 
Would you say as a designer, 

509
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,160
that helps you kind of narrow 
yourself down into, yeah, this 

510
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,800
is, this is, this is a good 
thing, and therefore it's easier

511
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,760
to design rather than just a 
blank piece of paper? 

512
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,360
Definitely, definitely, yeah. 
Because we're always that we 

513
00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:20,520
have new ideas constantly. 
And I think what is actually 

514
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,080
what we what I've seen the last 
couple of months is that now 

515
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,600
when we're back in our designing
phase and we're figuring out, 

516
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,320
oh, we could also do like a land
mower that could do this and 

517
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:31,840
this and you could grab the 
snails. 

518
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:35,480
And you know, we have all these 
weird, weird I design ideas and 

519
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,600
I think that all of this, all 
these ideas, they just like they

520
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,040
make us figure out a find new 
ideas, new IT. 

521
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,120
So it's such a good way for 
actually, you know, people to 

522
00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:47,640
say, OK, stop. 
No, actually that one I would 

523
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,720
buy like these are really funny.
But no, you know, so I think 

524
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,640
it's a really good way to, as a 
designer to be a little bit 

525
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,720
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