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Hello

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How's it going?

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Hi

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How's your weekend?

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It's been okay. We've been extremely sick over here.

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Ugh, that's not fun.

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I know. The flu, RSV, and, um, ear infections.

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Ugh, all the big things.

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Yeah, so Brooklyn had it, she's five, then Channing had it, she's three, and they're still not totally over it.

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But then, like, I think I had one if not both in the mix, and so it's just kind of been hard around here, you know?

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It's really rough when everyone's sick. It's not fun.

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I know.

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How about y'all?

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I mean, we haven't gotten super sick yet, which I'm thankful for.

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Ugh.

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I always feel like I'm kind of waiting for it this time of year.

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So, and last year we all got very sick at the end of, like, all of January, we were all, like, one person per week.

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So, like, the whole month was just, like, sick.

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I'm like, I'm just scared it's gonna happen again.

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Um, yeah.

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Yeah, we'll see.

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It's kind of unfortunately inevitable at this time of the year.

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And especially here in Texas, like, the weather's changing, and it's, like, 100 degrees, and then it's 40 degrees.

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And then we have, like, cooler weather, and then it's humid and rainy, and, like, the allergies are already, like, cray-cray.

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But as far as just Texas weather, it's, like, totally bipolar, and I think that's kind of the joke, that Texas weather is, you never know what you're gonna get, that's for sure.

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Yeah, definitely.

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Um, so I don't, I don't know if we have a, I don't think we have anything scheduled, or I don't have anything scheduled with you.

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I can take a look here in a second.

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I say that, but I might be totally wrong.

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Um, like, I don't even, this whole week was, like, a wash, and it's, I'm finally, like, getting back to feeling better, and I did launch my product.

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Good.

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Which is exciting, but I'm wanting you to actually look at my, like, my PPC, because I am not totally, like, confident on that.

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I'm looking to see if we have a call, and then I can do that.

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I don't think I saw you in here anywhere.

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I think I was gonna get through the dilemma of my shipping situation, and all my packages that showed up, like, messed up, and damaged, and all the things.

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Okay.

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I still don't know what I'm gonna do about those boxes, because, like, the boxes, the cartons are, like, not salvageable, like, at all.

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Okay.

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Um, I don't know, but I think I had a lot of sales on the first day because of friends and family.

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Like, I had people coming out of, like, I had 35-plus shares.

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of my link. And it was like really overwhelming. And I just cried.

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That's so nice though.

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But as far as like, that first like two days, I am kind of just back to like, no sales.

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Okay. So, hooray for friends and family that love us.

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I guess I can share my screen though.

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Yeah.

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Okay. I just, I guess I'm not confident in the PPC yet. And so I just don't.

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Yeah, bring it.

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I don't know. Like, to be honest, I don't know what I'm doing. But I'm also

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scared to do too much because I don't want, you know, I don't, I don't want to pay too much,

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I guess, because I'm not like, but I know you're supposed to kind of hit it hard at the beginning.

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So I don't, I have a like rank, I guess, an exact match.

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I'm running. And you, if you just want to tell me like what to click on, because

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I really don't know if I did this correct.

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So I can actually request remote control. Whoops. I didn't mean to do that.

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If you don't mind, that would be great. So that you can kind of check out what I did

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and possibly what I, what you would suggest I do because,

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and I might have not put up the right, like, you know, default, like, like you're doing right now.

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Yeah. Some things that I like to look at,

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kind of the big things is budgets, whatever. Impressions are good. I don't really need that.

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I didn't do an exact match. I didn't do a campaign for like my actual TSCRK.

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And that might be a big no-no. And I'm happy to do that. But I just wanted you to look at what I have.

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Like, I know, Abby.

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What was the thinking behind that?

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Oh, nothing really. It's just,

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I thought I heard something saying that it's not necessary to have one for your actual TSCRK at

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first, but I mean, it's easy for me to do. I can, I'm, you know.

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How long have these campaigns been going?

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I literally created them last night.

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Okay. So they're just being started.

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Kind of just set your expectation. Like usually you want to give, the algorithm is definitely

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going to like be warming up over the next couple of weeks, like next week or so. So you might see

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these numbers shift in the next few days a bit and then can, and especially right now, like you're,

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it's a unique time because of Black Friday. So there's a lot of traffic, a lot of just things

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happening. But you'll see that this is probably going to shift over the next couple of weeks.

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These daily limits, is this like what you're comfortable spending? Like if it, if the budget

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is going to get maxed out per day, is this like what you're comfortable having them at $12?

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Yeah. I mean, if, if, if that is an area that I need to like bump up, I'm happy to,

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like, I'm happy to do that. I just, I want my stuff to be seen. That's my biggest thing,

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because obviously if your stuff is not being looked at, then you're not making sales.

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I mean, you can keep them there for now and just see how it does.

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If it, you know, if you get to a point where like maybe you're running out of budget,

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then maybe you can increase it. But there's a lot of things to look at

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with running out of budget. There's a lot of optimization opportunity.

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I did it to where Amazon, like whatever Amazon requested, you know how it, it shows like

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certain like amounts, I guess, per your product. I kind of left it at that, but like I said,

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I'm happy to do. Okay. So my TSCRK is actually kids play tent. But that indoor tent and kids,

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indoor tent, toddler play tent were like seven, higher than 7,000 search volume.

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Okay. I think you just need to leave it for right now. You need to let the hour.

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or them do a thing and not mess around with the bids

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or anything for at least a few days, if not longer.

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Really, the rule of thumb is to let it sit

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for a couple weeks.

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I never have that much patience, honestly.

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One thing you might keep a look at

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for this discovery campaign specifically

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is going to be the search terms over here.

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As more data comes in, you'll see you're gonna be showing up

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for some of these other searches.

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And some of these searches might not be relevant.

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Let's just assume Pump It Up Tent Girl

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was super irrelevant to your product,

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just has nothing to do with your product, really.

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Then you might wanna go in and add that

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to this negative targeting.

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Because if it's not relevant, but it's taking up ad spend

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and it's confusing the algorithm by you showing up

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like someone clicking on you, we don't want that to happen.

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So you might come in here and add them

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to this negative keyword list.

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But again, I think you need to let it run

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for a little while.

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Let it just gather data in general

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before you start making changes like that.

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I mean, that has nothing to do with my kids' play tent,

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to be honest.

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So if you...

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I would let it sit.

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I would still let it sit for a little bit longer.

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Just like, just let things sit for now.

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And then, whoops.

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Okay, and then...

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But I guess I wasn't too certain on,

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and it's okay if you like jump into somebody else,

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but the discovery one,

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I actually put a handful of my keyword list in there

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because that's what I know Abby said that that's okay to do.

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I think there were like four or five, so...

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Yeah, that is fine.

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That's good.

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Okay.

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Why?

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I noticed you have this auto campaign down here.

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Have you turned it on at all

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or are you just kind of waiting?

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I actually accidentally...

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I did that one

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when I was actually following a video with Chris Rawling.

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And then...

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I mean, is that auto campaign this...

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Does it look like it's the same as the other ones

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or should I go ahead and turn that one on?

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You can turn it on if you want.

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It's not gonna be the same.

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It's not the same type of campaign,

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so it's gonna be...

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It does a little bit of a different thing.

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But you could turn it on.

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I love that you're watching Chris Rawling's videos.

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Yeah, I will have to say it's...

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I was a little overwhelmed the other night

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when my husband came in

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because I was like his lingo...

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I mean, just like his terms and stuff that he uses,

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it's a little over my head at the moment,

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but I know his stuff is good.

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And I think the more I get familiar with these terms,

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like the easier it will be for me.

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But yeah, I mean, turn it on.

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And then I also was gonna ask you about the video,

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what you think about doing a video ad?

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Because I know Abby said if it's in your budget,

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they're great.

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Yeah, I would do it.

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Amazon algorithm loves videos.

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Okay, so add that one.

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You think my bids and suggestion...

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I mean, my default bids are okay where they are.

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Like you have to start somewhere.

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So I think they're fine where they're at.

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Just leave them.

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They're getting impressions, which is great.

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You're kind of at an interesting time for the Black Friday.

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So, you know, just kind of...

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Did you end up enrolling in the Vine program?

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I can't remember.

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You know, I did.

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And I don't know if that is actually set

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how it's supposed to be.

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I was told that it's just,

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it kind of is something internal with Amazon

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and Amazon handles it.

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But I don't think I've gotten any Vine reviews yet.

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That's fine.

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That's normal.

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Sometimes they don't all come back right away.

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Okay, it is normal

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because I haven't seen anything from that.

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And I was kind of concerned that something isn't right, but...

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You should be able to go in and see

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how many have been claimed.

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I can't remember where exactly.

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Yeah, I actually did 30.

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And I, as of yesterday, like it was still at zero.

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Okay, okay.

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I don't know.

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I would give it a little bit longer.

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They don't all get claimed right away.

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So I'd give it a little bit longer

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and then check back in maybe in a week.

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And then if there's still none,

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maybe reach out to support and say,

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hey, did I...

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I set this up wrong.

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Is there anything on your end that looks like I did wrong?

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But they don't all have to get claimed right away,

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so that's why I say to give it a little bit of time.

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And they don't all have to come back right away either.

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I did talk to Brittany and she told me

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that a few of hers got claimed like right away.

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And so I was like, man, with,

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especially with like the holidays coming up

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and that being such a,

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like I figured a few of them would at least be claimed,

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but.

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Yeah, Mikayla brings up a good point

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of there might be a limit

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on how many they can claim per month.

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So with it being towards the end of the month,

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there might be a lot of people have reached the limit

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and, you know, so maybe at the first,

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December 1st, you know, kind of check back and see.

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Okay, and so should I do one for my kids' play tent,

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like my TSC RK?

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Should I go ahead and do an exact match for that

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or just leave it?

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I don't know, what do you think, girl?

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It's up to you.

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I don't know.

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I just, I wanna like,

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I wanna see some cells.

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So yeah, I guess I should.

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There you go.

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Great answer.

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All right.

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Thanks, Gabby.

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Your hand, Melody.

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Mikayla, I wanna check in with you first.

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I know you hopped on first.

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I didn't know if you had any specific need for support

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if you're here hanging out with everybody.

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Nope, I'm just hanging out.

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Yep, I'm working on some things

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and yeah, so I'm just here.

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Alrighty, Grima, same as you.

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What are you doing?

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Hey, yeah.

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So Gabby, I just walked on,

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remember we discussed and I walked on those reviews,

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like all the discussion that we had around our PPC.

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I just, another thing I saw that is very interesting

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is now Amazon has just rolled out its new,

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they are also kind of letting us post a video

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for sponsor products.

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Yeah.

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So there is like, so I was really excited.

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So I created, like it is, I was reading about it

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and it is suggesting that you can actually have

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mini series of videos just to highlight your,

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I mean, points about your products,

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which is like different and which is like,

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which is standing out and it's like showing people

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that it is like how it is, you know,

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your innovation kind of a thing

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or also something that highlights your product

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or what pain points you are covering.

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So what I did, I created a tiny little video

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just for like bacon, you know, splash and, you know,

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and just like, it is like eight seconds.

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The minimum is like seven seconds.

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So I just posted on all exact match.

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All the exact match words that I have right now,

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keywords, I just did it this morning.

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It takes around 24 hours to 48 hours for this to see.

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I was trying to see how would it be displayed on the Excel.

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So I'll keep you posted on that because I just did it today.

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So how, they let you post five.

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Okay.

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For the same keyword, you can post five different things.

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So I already have like five different things in my mind

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what I'm gonna post.

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So I just, this one I just created

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because this is the most popular.

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People are like bacon grease.

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Bacon grease is the biggest pain point.

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So that was my first one, but I have others in my head,

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which I'm already, my mind is like,

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my head is spinning like so much with ideas

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and all that stuff.

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So, but I'm gonna keep you posted,

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but just wanted to, you know, bring this up.

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That's the thing I did this morning.

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So yeah.

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Other than that, I made those changes.

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I'm gonna let it sit and see, and I'll keep you posted.

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Cool.

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I love it.

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Love the action.

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Melody, do you wanna share your question or thought?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Hi, Abby or Gabby, sorry.

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That's okay.

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So Peter, what is your, what is our?

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Yes.

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Hi, everyone.

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I'm here too off screen.

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I normally can't join these,

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but the, our PPC campaign is clipping along.

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Gabby, thanks for your ongoing help with that.

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We had something happen just yesterday

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that haven't seen before.

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One of our campaigns went out of budget

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and we looked, it was a product targeting one

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with the bids up and down.

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And the conversion on that is just terrible.

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It's like the A cost is like something ridiculous,

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like, you know, 300, 400%.

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We've only gotten three sales out of it.

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The one keyword where we've gotten two sales.

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sales, we're just wondering if we should lower the daily cost on that and just kind of get

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the bids down because we're just not doing well with...

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And probably just generally an understanding of when you lower the bid versus when you

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lower the budget.

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Yeah.

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Well, have you guys already lowered the bid on it?

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No.

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No?

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I would try that first.

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Okay.

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I mean, you can do both.

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I don't know that it really hurts to do both.

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The thing with running out of budget, well, if it were me, I'd probably start with lowering

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bid first.

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Okay.

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Just see if that helps overall and then kind of reassess.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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By lowering bid, we started off just doing like 10 cents.

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It wasn't dramatic.

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It was like 10 cents.

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And we're also looking to improve our listing.

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We added another coupon.

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These are other coupon expired.

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And then...

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And over this weekend, a little bit different.

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We've had overall good conversion, but this weekend you said we had a lot more clicks

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without conversion.

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So, I don't know if that's just increased traffic and people just kind of looking right

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now.

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It's just been a weird weekend.

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Friday, we had no sales.

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Saturday, we had like six.

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And then Sunday, we had, I think, zero.

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Zero or one.

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So, it's just been like really hit or miss throughout the days.

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Mikayla, you want to expand on that?

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Well, I mean, that's from my business experience and also my personal life.

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I can tell you every app on my phone has a full cart of things and I'm not buying any

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of them until Black Friday comes and I see whether this...

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So, all of my carts are sending me notifications.

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Your cart's calling.

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And I think, you know, we're all kind of doing the same thing.

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I've definitely noticed that on my campaigns for sure.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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No, I figured some of that might just be related to different consumer behavior leading up

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to Black Friday too.

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Oh, so are you thinking that people are maybe clicking on our product but not necessarily

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buying?

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And it's either still in the cart or in other words, we shouldn't necessarily assume that

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it's always a scenario where they're buying the competing product.

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I mean, I'm sure there's...

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Yeah, not right now.

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I wouldn't say.

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I mean, I think everybody's doing that the days leading up to Black Friday.

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And it's a little bit different now because everybody runs Black Friday deals sooner.

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But I still think like in general, like our mentality is, oh, this is going to be a better

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price after Thanksgiving.

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So it's a lot of window shopping going on right now.

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Yeah.

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We're not necessarily planning on lowering our price though, but maybe we should plan

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on that.

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I mean, we have a pretty...

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Yeah, we have a coupon on there now.

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We missed the cutoff for the Black Friday, you know, whatever icon, we missed that cutoff.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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That's fine.

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You'll notice a similar behavior before like the prime big deal days and stuff too throughout

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the year.

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But like the whole week before, maybe sometimes as much as 10 days before, you'll notice like

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potentially you'll notice increased clicks and stuff like that, but it's not converting

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as well.

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People are just shopping around, getting ready for what they want to buy, making their list.

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So it is very normal.

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Yeah.

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The other thing actually may be helpful for the rest of the group or maybe this is second

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hand knowledge.

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Just last night, I did notice that under the customer tab within Amazon Seller Central,

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there's an option to do a promotion.

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So it was not where the coupons are.

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It's in a different part of Amazon Seller Central, which is kind of confusing, but there's

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the option to actually target customers that have looked at similar products as yours,

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but not made a purchase for anything or a specific promotion there.

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So I said, I did a budget of like $100.

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I say, okay, well, what can I lose?

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I'll try it.

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Has anyone had any experience with those?

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And so just to clarify, it's not in the coupon section.

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It's weird.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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So maybe Melody will report back on if we see any uptake from that.

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Hey, could we ask a quick KDP question as well?

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It's PPC related.

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Yeah, it is PPC related.

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Yeah.

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We just started our PPC for KDP last night or yesterday as well.

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There's like a little error pop up message on our KDP dashboard that it's not delivering

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because.

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India is not set up. But our PPC campaign is just for the US. But the reason why it

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has me scratching my head is we've gotten zero clicks. Well, we did get like 40.

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But it's been within the last, it was what, 24 hours ago?

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We started the campaign within the past 24 hours. Yeah. I don't know.

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It does it take a day or two to trickle or? I mean, I would assume so I don't know for sure.

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So but you're saying you're wondering if the air is affecting the PPC?

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I'm wondering. Yeah.

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I don't know that it would. I mean, have you reached out to support yet about whatever the air?

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I should. Yeah, I'll do that. Try to try to do that this afternoon.

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Yeah, I would reach out. I don't know if that would have I've just

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genuinely not heard. Try asking the KDC specifically.

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And just see if anybody knows, but I wouldn't necessarily automatically think so.

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Okay. Yeah. I think someone on the call here mentioned that it sometimes does take 24 to 40

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hours for it to kind of trickle through. Yeah, you definitely want to give like

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anytime you're doing anything that's gonna affect the algorithm, give it some time to like,

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warm up, get, you know, that kind of thing.

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How's everybody else doing?

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I had $1,000 day yesterday. So I was excited. I sold 44.

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So it's happening. Stuff's happening. Exciting.

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Before Black Friday, too.

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But I did decide to do the Black Friday deal. And just speaking to that, you know, it is $245

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to do it. So, you know, it was like, I had to really plan my inventory, because it's not worth

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doing it if you're going to run out of stock. And then just be because that's what happened to me

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last year, I launched and I didn't have that much at Amazon, I thought the AWD stuff would move over

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faster. So, you know, I paid all that money to do the Black Friday deal, and I ran out of stock.

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And then all over Christmas, I didn't have a prime badge, I was showing delivery dates after

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Christmas. So this year, I was definitely planned a little better. And it's, you know,

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worth it since I have the inventory. So that's also something to think of, too, when

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getting looking at those deals, like how much they cost? And like, do you have the inventory

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to even make it worth it? To take advantage of that?

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Lisa, can you remind us what your product is?

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It's my little cookbook stand.

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That's right. Thank you. I always

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I can remember everybody's products.

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Lisa, congratulations. Can I ask a follow up question? So how far in advance do we have to

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sign up for Black Friday or anything like that? Because is it I didn't know that we have to sign

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up for that. Is there a cut off? Do they send emails or notification about it? How does that

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work? I'm curious about that.

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I definitely got emails like I signed up like it was it was available to sign up for in September.

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So and that's under your you know, when you go to advertising, and that's going to be under

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I want to say promotions, manager promotions. No, no, that's it's not promotions.

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It's emails leading up to it. And usually, you know, it's about

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it's a price discount, because there's different ones you can sign up for to like Black Friday

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also has like lightning deals and things like that, too. And it's all kind of like you really

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need to just like, you know, like, look at like, do I even have the image because I didn't do

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Prime Day because I was like, I was like, there's, I was like, if I do Prime Day,

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that costs a bunch of money. And then that's, I'm not going to have the inventory I want for

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Black Friday. So Prime Day.

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So do they charge extra to sign up for these?

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Like, Black Friday is $245.

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Okay.

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But it starts November 20. And it goes through Cyber Monday. So it's a long promotion. And you

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get that badge on your listing the Black Friday deal badge. Now also to like leading up to that,

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because the minimum discount you have to give is 20% to even participate.

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So leading up to that, I had to like put my price higher and then I could only run coupons

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so that that way my Black Friday price wasn't gonna like break the bank, you know?

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So there is a bit of strategy that you want to exercise going into something like this

494
00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:27.980
because it's expensive, but it's worth it right now, like I feel like I'm like patting

495
00:30:27.980 --> 00:30:28.720
myself on the back.

496
00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:34.940
I think I planned appropriately, so yeah, so that's a it's a good feeling.

497
00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:37.860
But yeah, I can see my competitor doing that.

498
00:30:37.980 --> 00:30:39.280
Then I was looking for this.

499
00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:40.620
How do they do this?

500
00:30:40.660 --> 00:30:47.080
Then I couldn't find that I had the, you know, this thing available, but now this helps.

501
00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:47.900
Thank you so much.

502
00:30:47.980 --> 00:30:48.640
For next year.

503
00:30:48.840 --> 00:30:52.800
Yeah, it's in there under price discounts and I do believe we get emails and stuff too

504
00:30:52.800 --> 00:30:58.140
and then obviously like if you're listening to seller Bradley on Helium 10 or something

505
00:30:58.140 --> 00:31:01.180
like they're getting, they're kind of giving you those notices, but you can go in there

506
00:31:01.180 --> 00:31:05.020
and check too because that's also where you sign up for Prime Day.

507
00:31:05.860 --> 00:31:06.820
Okay, great.

508
00:31:07.280 --> 00:31:07.760
Thanks.

509
00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:13.140
And just as an encouragement, if you don't do it, you're still the traffic is still gonna

510
00:31:13.600 --> 00:31:15.220
be, yeah, free traffic.

511
00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:22.180
Like I on my Prime Days, the last ones that we had, I didn't sign up for the deal, but

512
00:31:22.180 --> 00:31:27.980
for me, I had my highest selling days those days I had like 600, $700 days, which was

513
00:31:27.980 --> 00:31:29.800
the highest for me by quite a bit.

514
00:31:31.280 --> 00:31:36.240
So, you know, like normally I was doing somewhere between two and 300, so like it doubled that

515
00:31:36.320 --> 00:31:37.200
for me.

516
00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:40.200
And I didn't have that.

517
00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:41.640
I just have the badges and it paid.

518
00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:42.300
I had it.

519
00:31:42.300 --> 00:31:46.500
I have, I pretty much regularly have a coupon on, but you know, so there's still a lot of

520
00:31:46.500 --> 00:31:50.760
traffic and if you're ranked, you know, pretty high on some of your campaigns and keywords

521
00:31:50.760 --> 00:31:53.320
and things like that, you're going to get a lot of extra visibility.

522
00:31:54.040 --> 00:31:54.480
Yeah.

523
00:31:54.480 --> 00:32:00.540
I think I put on the coupon and I am getting my target, you know, that we discussed even

524
00:32:00.540 --> 00:32:01.780
higher than that.

525
00:32:02.120 --> 00:32:05.440
So it's, yeah, but I was just curious how this works.

526
00:32:05.760 --> 00:32:06.060
Cool.

527
00:32:06.460 --> 00:32:06.940
Thanks.

528
00:32:06.940 --> 00:32:07.720
Yeah, no problem.

529
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:09.680
Kate, how are you doing?

530
00:32:09.820 --> 00:32:10.960
How are you doing since last week?

531
00:32:20.460 --> 00:32:21.640
Did you say me?

532
00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:23.020
Yes, I said you.

533
00:32:23.140 --> 00:32:23.960
I asked how you're doing.

534
00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:24.460
That's how I'm going.

535
00:32:28.800 --> 00:32:34.400
I'm trying, I am pretty frustrated just with life in general right now.

536
00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:40.660
So it took a lot just to get here today, but I was like, get in the room, someone kick

537
00:32:40.660 --> 00:32:43.400
you in the butt a little bit gently.

538
00:32:45.700 --> 00:32:47.480
Yeah, I think I'm just dealing with a lot.

539
00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:53.880
So it's, it's a bit emotional and a bit like hard to keep on top of things.

540
00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:55.980
I feel like I'm spinning my wheels a little bit.

541
00:32:57.160 --> 00:33:05.740
I did work with my PPC managers and just was like, all right, let's try to shift this and

542
00:33:05.740 --> 00:33:06.460
this and this.

543
00:33:07.360 --> 00:33:14.480
So we made a couple adjustments, haven't quite gotten them all done yet, but yeah, it was

544
00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:16.340
like the next day we got the most sales.

545
00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:20.820
And then after that, nothing was like, wow, this is such a crazy ride.

546
00:33:20.820 --> 00:33:28.980
And then just trying to gain some traction, just like put a bunch of stuff up, like downloads

547
00:33:28.980 --> 00:33:36.440
and stuff up on, on Facebook just to try to make some quick wins to pay the bills.

548
00:33:36.780 --> 00:33:40.080
And I'm getting a ton of hits, but no actually conversions.

549
00:33:40.340 --> 00:33:41.920
So I'm like, what am I doing wrong?

550
00:33:42.180 --> 00:33:42.440
You know?

551
00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:44.120
So it's just a ride.

552
00:33:44.260 --> 00:33:48.620
Were you able to get on any of the workshop calls to get some feedback on those?

553
00:33:49.520 --> 00:33:57.280
I didn't this last week, but I should jump in the group, in the inner circle group to

554
00:33:57.280 --> 00:34:02.220
get some feedback or hop on one of the coaching calls.

555
00:34:03.380 --> 00:34:09.440
I think we have tomorrow and Wednesday, I know Thursday is obviously canceled and get

556
00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:10.179
some feedback.

557
00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:13.400
Megan, you Clyde, Steven, all of them are great.

558
00:34:13.500 --> 00:34:14.960
You know how it is.

559
00:34:16.659 --> 00:34:21.760
Are you deleting things off of your plate in this time of overwhelm?

560
00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:24.620
Heck no, I've added more.

561
00:34:24.940 --> 00:34:26.239
So that's a great idea, right?

562
00:34:27.139 --> 00:34:31.120
No, I think at this point, it's just keeping afloat with what we're doing.

563
00:34:32.179 --> 00:34:36.840
And so like, it's a little bit of like looking for opportunities for income.

564
00:34:37.179 --> 00:34:38.679
So then it adds more.

565
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:43.520
And then I'm not sure if that's good or bad, because I mean, we got to pay the bills at

566
00:34:43.520 --> 00:34:44.219
the same time.

567
00:34:45.500 --> 00:34:50.760
Yeah, it can be hard, but definitely use your discernment and see what you can delete off

568
00:34:50.760 --> 00:34:51.280
your plate.

569
00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:56.760
Even if it's a small chore, a small thing, just let some things go to the wayside.

570
00:34:57.280 --> 00:34:59.980
Or see who can support you and delegate.

571
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.400
eight or ask for help or things like that.

572
00:35:03.400 --> 00:35:05.740
When you feel like you're starting to drown

573
00:35:06.340 --> 00:35:07.660
and forgetting your name,

574
00:35:07.660 --> 00:35:10.520
I know what it's like, I've been there many times.

575
00:35:11.220 --> 00:35:14.820
So just encourage you to let some things get pushed off

576
00:35:14.820 --> 00:35:16.820
to somebody else or whatever you can do.

577
00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:20.060
And I know sometimes that there's limited options.

578
00:35:20.340 --> 00:35:25.100
So you just gotta do the best you can, but we love you.

579
00:35:25.160 --> 00:35:26.980
We want you to be, we want you to be okay.

580
00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:30.100
Aw, thanks, that means a lot right there.

581
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:32.140
Yeah, and I'm not giving up.

582
00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:33.200
I'm just like, oh man,

583
00:35:33.220 --> 00:35:35.140
I gotta get out of this tailspin somehow.

584
00:35:36.740 --> 00:35:36.980
Yeah.

585
00:35:38.580 --> 00:35:40.640
I used to say the needle is moving

586
00:35:40.640 --> 00:35:42.200
with or without me at this point.

587
00:35:42.300 --> 00:35:43.960
I'm just hanging on for dear life.

588
00:35:48.120 --> 00:35:49.640
Yeah, that's a good one.

589
00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:51.880
Yeah, I dropped my,

590
00:35:51.980 --> 00:35:54.520
I'm gonna be dropping my price pretty much

591
00:35:54.520 --> 00:35:57.520
because I don't know, I was like trying to strategize,

592
00:35:57.720 --> 00:35:58.540
but I think getting on a call,

593
00:35:58.640 --> 00:36:01.580
maybe getting some other opinions other than just,

594
00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:02.840
I don't wanna like self-sabotage,

595
00:36:03.100 --> 00:36:04.800
but I'm like, I don't even care right now.

596
00:36:04.820 --> 00:36:06.100
I just need things to move.

597
00:36:06.180 --> 00:36:08.720
Like, let's just move something, you know?

598
00:36:08.720 --> 00:36:08.860
Yeah.

599
00:36:09.640 --> 00:36:10.860
Yeah, we want things to move,

600
00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:12.200
but it is good to get some feedback

601
00:36:12.240 --> 00:36:13.780
on some of those lead magnets

602
00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:15.720
and listing and all that stuff too,

603
00:36:15.720 --> 00:36:19.220
to make as good of informed decisions as you can.

604
00:36:21.200 --> 00:36:23.040
So I think that would be a good place to start.

605
00:36:23.060 --> 00:36:23.940
And again, you can post,

606
00:36:23.940 --> 00:36:25.480
you don't even have to get on a video call.

607
00:36:25.700 --> 00:36:26.420
Like if you can't,

608
00:36:26.460 --> 00:36:29.600
you have the luxury of being able to post and get feedback.

609
00:36:33.300 --> 00:36:34.980
Cool beans, thanks guys.

610
00:36:39.060 --> 00:36:39.500
Yeah.

611
00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:44.560
What else today, guys?

612
00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:48.500
I was just gonna speak to Kate,

613
00:36:49.340 --> 00:36:51.020
but I mean, to everybody really.

614
00:36:52.060 --> 00:36:53.740
I feel like, you know,

615
00:36:53.740 --> 00:36:55.300
I've talked to some of the inner circle girls

616
00:36:55.300 --> 00:36:58.300
and then I was just on the Monday mindset call.

617
00:36:58.820 --> 00:37:01.280
And I feel like, like what you're feeling,

618
00:37:01.520 --> 00:37:02.660
and we had, you know,

619
00:37:02.660 --> 00:37:04.080
in our inner circle call last week too,

620
00:37:04.120 --> 00:37:05.840
what you're feeling is like very much like,

621
00:37:06.140 --> 00:37:08.340
we're all feeling that, that strain.

622
00:37:08.940 --> 00:37:13.360
This time of year is famous for that, you know?

623
00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:16.040
And it feels like, it feels like, you know,

624
00:37:16.120 --> 00:37:19.840
having a business should make the holidays feel lighter,

625
00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:24.120
but it doesn't, it feels heavier and that's okay.

626
00:37:24.380 --> 00:37:25.980
And, you know, we just keep pushing forward

627
00:37:25.980 --> 00:37:26.760
and keep moving it.

628
00:37:26.760 --> 00:37:28.320
But I didn't want you to think like,

629
00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:29.680
you're like the only one feeling that.

630
00:37:29.680 --> 00:37:34.280
Cause I mean, I've been in this for two and a half years now

631
00:37:34.700 --> 00:37:36.360
and, you know, still feeling it.

632
00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:39.260
Like it's still, there are still days where it's like, wow,

633
00:37:39.260 --> 00:37:41.500
it would be easier to just walk away and do nothing,

634
00:37:41.700 --> 00:37:45.160
you know, but if it was easy, everybody would do it, right?

635
00:37:45.160 --> 00:37:46.340
That's what I always tell myself.

636
00:37:46.340 --> 00:37:48.860
If it was easy, everyone would be doing this.

637
00:37:48.860 --> 00:37:51.660
So, you know, I've made it this far.

638
00:37:51.860 --> 00:37:53.220
You only fail when you give up.

639
00:37:53.260 --> 00:37:54.620
So just keep pushing.

640
00:38:01.780 --> 00:38:02.600
Bye, Lisa.

641
00:38:02.900 --> 00:38:03.800
Go buy your turkey.

642
00:38:06.600 --> 00:38:08.260
What are everyone's Thanksgiving plans?

643
00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:13.680
Anybody want to share?

644
00:38:14.680 --> 00:38:17.760
I mean, I could give myself a pat on the back for that.

645
00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:20.180
Cause this is the first year we're not hosting

646
00:38:20.180 --> 00:38:21.480
in a long time.

647
00:38:21.480 --> 00:38:23.920
So I did take something off my plate.

648
00:38:24.140 --> 00:38:25.620
I am not making the turkey.

649
00:38:26.100 --> 00:38:28.940
We are going to someone else's house.

650
00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:33.700
I don't have to worry about fixing up the house or anything.

651
00:38:34.540 --> 00:38:38.420
Yep, just plop some sides in the carryaway thingamajig

652
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:40.040
and off we go.

653
00:38:40.740 --> 00:38:41.440
That's amazing.

654
00:38:41.580 --> 00:38:42.440
I love that.

655
00:38:42.700 --> 00:38:43.320
Good job.

656
00:38:45.660 --> 00:38:47.120
What about everybody else?

657
00:38:50.940 --> 00:38:51.460
What are your plans for Thanksgiving?

658
00:38:50.940 --> 00:38:53.180
Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving.

659
00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:55.360
We're getting to go with family.

660
00:38:56.440 --> 00:38:56.660
Yeah.

661
00:38:57.180 --> 00:38:57.700
Yeah.

662
00:38:57.700 --> 00:39:00.100
It's the first time in several years, actually.

663
00:39:00.620 --> 00:39:01.120
Okay.

664
00:39:01.540 --> 00:39:02.640
Since we moved to be close to family.

665
00:39:02.940 --> 00:39:03.540
So we're excited.

666
00:39:03.740 --> 00:39:04.460
The kids are excited.

667
00:39:05.620 --> 00:39:05.880
Yeah.

668
00:39:06.300 --> 00:39:06.820
Yeah.

669
00:39:07.560 --> 00:39:08.320
That's fine.

670
00:39:09.040 --> 00:39:14.000
I do have one quick thought on the KDP PPC,

671
00:39:14.240 --> 00:39:15.720
if I can ask that now.

672
00:39:15.900 --> 00:39:17.700
I don't even think we need to look at it.

673
00:39:17.700 --> 00:39:19.480
So Camden in her course recommends

674
00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:20.800
starting with a broad match.

675
00:39:24.700 --> 00:39:28.580
And I'm wondering if we should also put in an exact match

676
00:39:28.580 --> 00:39:31.020
to just get a little bit more visibility

677
00:39:31.680 --> 00:39:35.060
on the keywords that we know we want to rank on.

678
00:39:35.700 --> 00:39:38.480
Because her method is kind of more like,

679
00:39:38.660 --> 00:39:41.280
put it out there and see what's,

680
00:39:42.300 --> 00:39:45.300
it's more of a discovery, of course, a broad match.

681
00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:46.780
Yeah.

682
00:39:46.780 --> 00:39:48.320
And just realizing like,

683
00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:51.220
we're probably going to spend three more doing that

684
00:39:51.220 --> 00:39:54.600
and like probably get the data we want,

685
00:39:54.720 --> 00:39:56.060
but it's going to be a slower start.

686
00:39:56.340 --> 00:39:59.980
So just wondering if we should dig into an exact match.

687
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:07.760
a little bit too for that. Well, I mean, it's up to you guys. I like your line of thinking, though.

688
00:40:08.080 --> 00:40:15.580
I mean, I think that your logic is sound, if that helps at all. Yeah, no, I appreciate that.

689
00:40:15.980 --> 00:40:20.840
Yeah. And I think that it is, it's good to remember that people have different strategies.

690
00:40:21.620 --> 00:40:27.280
So yes, when I have a different strategy, you are more than welcome to do so. Right. Well,

691
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:33.040
my sense is like, not just different people, but like every different product and the types

692
00:40:33.040 --> 00:40:38.740
of keywords that you want to rank on or that are a good fit for your product. You know,

693
00:40:38.740 --> 00:40:42.260
some of them are going to be much more broad, and some of them are going to be more specific

694
00:40:42.460 --> 00:40:51.800
and tailored. Yeah. Hey, Gabby, your input on going back to some of the Sophie Society trainings

695
00:40:51.800 --> 00:40:57.900
in the KDP course was really helpful. I reviewed some of those, the one specific with, I think,

696
00:40:57.900 --> 00:41:07.540
Chris Rawlings. There is one on actually getting, measuring the data. Is there a download somewhere

697
00:41:07.540 --> 00:41:15.600
in Amazon Seller Central where you can get all that data, like the total sales and things? We're

698
00:41:15.600 --> 00:41:23.220
particular format or? Yeah, so there is in phase four, there's, I forget which lesson it is,

699
00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:29.000
but there's a lesson on like downloading certain reports. And also, it comes from Chris Rawlings,

700
00:41:29.220 --> 00:41:36.060
too. So you can do a search on there on like his YouTube video for like reading different reports

701
00:41:36.060 --> 00:41:43.280
and things like that. But yeah, there's both. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Yeah, Casey, it depends.

702
00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:48.740
So probably what you're talking about is creating a new one, like what Michaela said for your

703
00:41:48.520 --> 00:41:54.980
TSCRK. You can add to existing ones to have like a multi-keyword exact match. But I think

704
00:41:54.980 --> 00:42:03.400
what you're talking about is to create a new one. Okay. Okay. Yeah, because there's two keywords

705
00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:11.700
that I didn't use as far as like not doing my TSCRK. I did, I think I put those, like I plugged

706
00:42:11.700 --> 00:42:17.540
one in and hit add and then I plugged another one in and hit add. So I might have done that incorrectly.

707
00:42:20.740 --> 00:42:30.960
Okay. I'd have to probably see it, but. Okay. If you like drop me a screenshot. Okay.

708
00:42:32.580 --> 00:42:38.780
So just create this other one that I'm gonna add as a new one. Okay.

709
00:42:41.180 --> 00:42:50.020
Thank you. Hey, Gabby, would you mind sharing that Chris Rawlings video where he's talking about

710
00:42:50.160 --> 00:42:56.900
these reports? You said we have it on our phase four or is there a YouTube video separate? Because

711
00:42:57.100 --> 00:43:03.980
I have no clue how these reports work. So I just want to get, you know, more visibility,

712
00:43:03.980 --> 00:43:11.600
have more authority over them. Yeah, I don't have them saved. But in phase four, we have,

713
00:43:12.140 --> 00:43:16.620
again, I forget what it's titled, but in phase four, we have a video, a lesson on like downloading

714
00:43:16.620 --> 00:43:23.580
business reports. And then also you can do a search on Chris Rawlings' YouTube channel of

715
00:43:23.580 --> 00:43:28.020
just like the different like videos and like different business reports, search term reports,

716
00:43:28.180 --> 00:43:33.460
all of that. There's a couple of different ones. It's not necessarily all in one.

717
00:43:34.080 --> 00:43:41.760
Yeah. Yeah. I know. Search term reports, I'm getting better at those. But then the business

718
00:43:41.780 --> 00:43:48.400
reports and all those analytics, I still have to venture into. So it'll be good learning over there.

719
00:43:48.560 --> 00:43:56.800
Yeah. Thanks. Anybody else want to share their Thanksgiving plans? Hey, Nicole.

720
00:44:02.340 --> 00:44:08.960
I have a question, actually. Okay. Do you know if there's any sort of integration with

721
00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:17.800
Square card reader and emails? Like I have that festival, this crash fair next weekend.

722
00:44:18.400 --> 00:44:22.880
So customers info, I would love to like add to a workflow or add to some sort of mailing list or

723
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:26.780
just collect their emails. I'm pretty sure it has to be manual. But I was wondering if any

724
00:44:26.780 --> 00:44:33.580
one had heard any sort of easy way to transfer stuff. I have no idea. I think that'd be a

725
00:44:33.580 --> 00:44:39.200
question for Megan. If you post in the group or get on tomorrow's call as well, the Tuesday call.

726
00:44:39.300 --> 00:44:46.760
Oh, there's still. Okay. Because I have no idea. Add to that, Gabby. I just did an event

727
00:44:47.080 --> 00:44:55.740
last month and I collected so many emails by doing a giveaway. So I had like a raffle thing

728
00:44:55.740 --> 00:44:59.340
that I did and I did it just because this was like a very small community.

729
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:07.960
lots of old ladies type thing, you know. But I did, just like I printed some on Canva,

730
00:45:09.660 --> 00:45:13.140
some coupon, you know, promo that they could fill out and they just gave me their email.

731
00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:17.880
And then at the end of the day, I just drew one. It was a really small event and I wasn't expecting

732
00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:23.500
a ton of sales. So that gave me a win, even if I, you know, I did make some good, you know,

733
00:45:23.500 --> 00:45:29.300
I make good sales, but I got probably, I think I sold maybe like eight or 10. It was like I said,

734
00:45:29.300 --> 00:45:34.260
very small event, but I collected like 25 or 30 emails. So that's awesome. So you had them

735
00:45:34.260 --> 00:45:38.820
write them down and actually did the, the rap board there. Okay. Yep. So that at the end of

736
00:45:38.820 --> 00:45:41.560
the day, I just pulled a raffle and then the rest of them, I just got their emails.

737
00:45:42.180 --> 00:45:45.760
I know I can do like a QR code for people to scan people just like at the end of the sale,

738
00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:49.120
they don't want to fill out anything else. So I'm like, what's the easiest way? So maybe I'll

739
00:45:49.120 --> 00:45:58.280
have to, I did too. I used, I use Stripe is integrated into my Shopify. And so if I had

740
00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:03.160
anybody that just wanted to pay credit card, I just took their credit card from them and I

741
00:46:03.160 --> 00:46:08.440
filled out the information as if I was purchasing it on Stripe. And then I just asked them for their

742
00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:14.920
email address. So as I was filling it in. Okay. That's okay. Cool. Thank you so much. That's

743
00:46:15.220 --> 00:46:22.360
helpful. Giveaways are great way to get contact information. Oh yeah. And I have like, I have so

744
00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:26.500
many cards I want to get rid of. Perfect. Or like, give me your email address. I'll give you a card

745
00:46:27.060 --> 00:46:31.800
right now. There you go. Thank you.

746
00:46:35.120 --> 00:46:38.740
All right, Casey, can you repeat your question? I see the screenshot.

747
00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:48.260
Repeat it one more time for me. For my exact match campaign I'm doing, I plugged into

748
00:46:48.260 --> 00:47:00.680
two keywords that had a search volume of like 7,000 or more. Okay. And those are the ones that

749
00:47:00.680 --> 00:47:07.020
are showing underneath that, like where that screenshot is. So I don't know if I should have

750
00:47:07.020 --> 00:47:11.520
done those totally separate and different campaigns. Cause I plugged them both in

751
00:47:11.520 --> 00:47:20.500
to the same campaign. Not necessarily. So there's definitely a method to the madness with like

752
00:47:20.540 --> 00:47:27.260
having multiple keywords in an exact match. What's nice about this one that you incidentally did is

753
00:47:27.260 --> 00:47:35.160
that they both have the same like root keyword of tent. So when you have multiple keywords in

754
00:47:35.160 --> 00:47:39.440
an exact match, a lot of times you want to group them with that similar root word. So I think

755
00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:45.760
that's a good start. I think with your TSCRK, we probably advise you to do a single, like do it by

756
00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:52.060
itself so that you can like be very clearly understanding how it's performing, how you're

757
00:47:52.060 --> 00:47:56.140
performing on that keyword. But there's not a right or wrong answer. It's just different ways

758
00:47:56.140 --> 00:48:02.460
of doing it. Okay. So I'll just leave that and then do a separate one for just my TSCRK.

759
00:48:03.200 --> 00:48:09.640
Yeah, that sounds good. Thank you. Yeah, no problem. And then I'm going to share what I'm

760
00:48:09.640 --> 00:48:15.760
doing for Thanksgiving because I'm really excited as you guys can tell. Really I just, so I love to

761
00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:23.280
bake, but I just never bake just time bandwidth. Also I can't eat constant baked goods all the

762
00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:27.040
time. I like, I literally can't keep dessert in the house. Like I literally never buy dessert

763
00:48:27.040 --> 00:48:32.100
unless I know I'm allowing myself to eat all of it in one sitting. It's a very strict boundary. I

764
00:48:32.100 --> 00:48:39.720
otherwise I will be 600 pounds and I'm not joking. But I started following this new Instagram page,

765
00:48:39.960 --> 00:48:44.840
this girl who works at an inn up in Michigan and she's the baker there. And I'm obsessed,

766
00:48:45.180 --> 00:48:48.840
like extremely obsessed. And I was like, you know what? I'm just going to go crazy baking

767
00:48:48.840 --> 00:48:54.380
for Thanksgiving. So I'm literally baking four pies, cinnamon rolls, and like a cobbler.

768
00:48:55.160 --> 00:49:00.560
And it's way too much dessert for the size group that we have. But I just like, I'm decided I'm

769
00:49:00.560 --> 00:49:06.820
going to just choose to ignore life's problems and just be in the kitchen and bake this week.

770
00:49:06.820 --> 00:49:14.380
I'm just choosing to do that, putting my stress aside for a couple of days. So it's going to be

771
00:49:14.380 --> 00:49:20.040
good. Even the baking will be therapeutic. Yeah. And then also what's your address again?

772
00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:24.440
And I'm letting my husband clean up the kitchen.

773
00:49:26.960 --> 00:49:33.560
Oh, yeah. It'll be like aromatherapy to like, I can smell that in my mind. I'm like,

774
00:49:35.560 --> 00:49:41.520
yeah, I'm really just gonna go crazy. We're making I'm making a apple pie, pumpkin pie.

775
00:49:41.940 --> 00:49:46.720
Obviously, I'm doing a cherry and rhubarb pie for my dad because no one ever wants

776
00:49:46.720 --> 00:49:52.420
cherry pie. And I was like, well, we'll do it. And then I'm doing pecan pie because my husband's

777
00:49:52.420 --> 00:49:55.300
you have to make pecan pie. And I'm like, I don't but I will.

778
00:49:57.240 --> 00:49:59.820
And then the cinnamon rolls are for me and the cobblers for me.

779
00:50:01.040 --> 00:50:06.320
Are you doing, like, baking the crust, buying the crusts, because it feels like a lot.

780
00:50:06.940 --> 00:50:08.020
I'm making the crust.

781
00:50:09.020 --> 00:50:11.700
I love to go all out on things like that.

782
00:50:12.100 --> 00:50:18.080
I'm kind of a snob with certain things, and I'm just like, if I'm going to bake it, yeah,

783
00:50:18.080 --> 00:50:18.380
all in.

784
00:50:18.500 --> 00:50:19.480
I mean, not always.

785
00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:23.000
I've definitely bought pie crust before, but sometimes when I really want to be all in,

786
00:50:23.140 --> 00:50:24.720
I'm just like, yeah, I'm nerding out.

787
00:50:24.900 --> 00:50:26.400
I'm just going hard.

788
00:50:27.100 --> 00:50:32.320
And, like, the next day, coffee and pumpkin pie for breakfast is my favorite.

789
00:50:32.380 --> 00:50:34.600
See, for me, it's coffee and cinnamon roll.

790
00:50:34.900 --> 00:50:35.920
I'm not a big on pie.

791
00:50:36.380 --> 00:50:38.920
I just, it just doesn't really do it for me.

792
00:50:39.140 --> 00:50:45.420
I like a French silk pie, like chocolate, but, yeah, I was like, I can be happy.

793
00:50:45.520 --> 00:50:51.780
And the cobbler I'm making is from a recipe of a book that I have, and it's like a chocolate

794
00:50:52.180 --> 00:50:56.040
cobbler with, like, the recipe has, like, plums and peaches.

795
00:50:56.040 --> 00:51:00.080
We couldn't find any peaches right now this time of year, so we're just doing plums only,

796
00:51:00.180 --> 00:51:04.940
which honestly is my favorite part of the, like, the fruit part, and it has, like, it's

797
00:51:04.940 --> 00:51:08.640
interesting because it has mint in it, and it also has, like, coconut in it, which you

798
00:51:08.640 --> 00:51:15.360
would not think works, but it does, and I don't even like coconut, and it all just somehow

799
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:16.700
comes together very beautifully.

800
00:51:18.900 --> 00:51:20.820
Sounds delicious and amazing.

801
00:51:20.820 --> 00:51:25.940
Yeah, I was gonna say, take pictures, like, I want, like, a whole feed, a whole video

802
00:51:25.940 --> 00:51:27.500
blog, or whatever you want to do.

803
00:51:27.580 --> 00:51:29.220
Share your cinnamon roll recipe.

804
00:51:29.220 --> 00:51:35.260
I love cinnamon rolls, too, but I, when I make them, they're always too dry, and, but

805
00:51:35.260 --> 00:51:42.120
man, I worked at a coffee stand for a long time, right across from the bakery in the

806
00:51:42.120 --> 00:51:45.240
farmer's market, and cinnamon roll day, I was a goner.

807
00:51:45.300 --> 00:51:49.380
I was like, you may as well just drop it off over here, like, so good.

808
00:51:49.980 --> 00:51:52.800
Yeah, you gotta have enough butter.

809
00:51:54.580 --> 00:51:56.680
Gotta have enough milk in the beginning, warm milk.

810
00:51:58.280 --> 00:52:02.260
Yeah, make sure they rise long enough.

811
00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:08.320
Kind of an important one, but what's great about cinnamon rolls is that even if you don't

812
00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:13.340
let them rise long enough, they're still delicious, you know, like, the texture's not

813
00:52:13.340 --> 00:52:16.240
right, but who cares, you know, just eat them.

814
00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:18.280
That's what I love about cinnamon rolls.

815
00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:22.100
They're good even when they're not good.

816
00:52:24.020 --> 00:52:25.460
I really want some right now.

817
00:52:29.960 --> 00:52:31.280
My husband was concerned.

818
00:52:31.420 --> 00:52:34.840
He was like, I'm worried that you're doing too much, because we've just had a lot going

819
00:52:34.860 --> 00:52:38.680
on. I was like, yeah, I think that would be true pretty much any other time, but I'm

820
00:52:38.680 --> 00:52:42.300
just deciding to ignore everything, and so it'll be good.

821
00:52:42.520 --> 00:52:43.480
And I've got a strategy.

822
00:52:43.580 --> 00:52:45.700
He was very concerned. He was like, what about the pie?

823
00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:48.580
Like, when are you making the pie? I was like, Ryan, I got it under control.

824
00:52:49.400 --> 00:52:51.420
And if the pies don't turn out like.

825
00:52:52.860 --> 00:52:54.220
You can probably still eat them.

826
00:52:54.900 --> 00:52:57.000
Yeah, oh, they'll turn out, but yeah.

827
00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:58.580
Oh, so then what's the problem?

828
00:52:59.140 --> 00:53:02.200
Yeah, it's just like it just creates busyness.

829
00:53:02.600 --> 00:53:04.600
Yeah, we've just had a lot going on.

830
00:53:04.860 --> 00:53:09.960
But yeah, I'm like, I just need something to pretend everything doesn't exist.

831
00:53:10.560 --> 00:53:12.720
It's the it's the procrastination production.

832
00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:16.540
You'll be like, oh, I'm just baking pies for fun and all of your great ideas are going

833
00:53:16.540 --> 00:53:19.900
to pop out then. So we have a notebook or your phone or whatever next to you.

834
00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:22.260
Good to go. Absolutely.

835
00:53:24.300 --> 00:53:25.260
So funny.

836
00:53:26.480 --> 00:53:28.040
Are any other questions?

837
00:53:28.180 --> 00:53:30.340
If not, I'm going to ask another Thanksgiving question.

838
00:53:33.640 --> 00:53:37.220
I'm just OK, sorry, I don't know.

839
00:53:37.120 --> 00:53:39.140
Sorry. Go ahead, Melody.

840
00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:41.820
No, that sounds great, by the way.

841
00:53:42.060 --> 00:53:43.460
I'm excited that you're getting to bake.

842
00:53:43.460 --> 00:53:49.060
I totally understand the like needing to put the stressful stuff aside and do something

843
00:53:49.060 --> 00:53:50.220
therapeutic and fun.

844
00:53:50.880 --> 00:53:58.360
So but my question was actually about if there's any consideration for any other day

845
00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:02.500
that office hours could work or if we're pretty much like always going to do Monday.

846
00:54:03.400 --> 00:54:05.260
There is room for consideration.

847
00:54:05.560 --> 00:54:09.040
I had done Monday because that was when I changed it a little bit ago.

848
00:54:09.100 --> 00:54:10.980
That was what works mostly for everybody.

849
00:54:12.340 --> 00:54:14.580
But there's definitely room for feedback.

850
00:54:16.360 --> 00:54:20.480
I can always put up another vote, another poll, and everyone chime in again.

851
00:54:22.060 --> 00:54:24.400
That would be great, because Monday is really hard for me to make.

852
00:54:25.840 --> 00:54:26.800
Yeah, absolutely.

853
00:54:29.580 --> 00:54:31.440
Thank you. Yeah, no problem.

854
00:54:34.140 --> 00:54:38.820
OK, my next Thanksgiving question is what's your favorite Thanksgiving dish, which I know

855
00:54:38.820 --> 00:54:42.500
is not an original question at all, but do we ever get tired of that question?

856
00:54:45.180 --> 00:54:55.040
You don't see. Anybody, anybody mashed potatoes, OK, size, I'm actually don't hate me.

857
00:54:55.240 --> 00:54:57.120
I don't love Thanksgiving food.

858
00:54:57.180 --> 00:54:59.600
I just kind of like could do without turkey.

859
00:54:59.820 --> 00:54:59.980
So like.

860
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.100
I would love like a steak instead.

861
00:55:02.720 --> 00:55:04.640
I just want to hang out with friends

862
00:55:04.640 --> 00:55:05.780
and eat delicious food.

863
00:55:05.900 --> 00:55:09.080
So my friend's actually gonna make a shepherd's pie.

864
00:55:10.680 --> 00:55:11.860
And his sister was like,

865
00:55:11.920 --> 00:55:13.220
that's an interesting choice

866
00:55:13.600 --> 00:55:15.800
considering you're making English food for a,

867
00:55:15.800 --> 00:55:17.220
so we went to like a whole political thing.

868
00:55:17.300 --> 00:55:17.840
It was really funny.

869
00:55:18.340 --> 00:55:21.420
But so we're gonna have, yeah, shepherd's pie.

870
00:55:21.520 --> 00:55:23.920
But then there's also gonna be probably a pumpkin pie

871
00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:24.600
or an apple pie.

872
00:55:25.240 --> 00:55:27.760
I feel like shepherd's pie is not that far off

873
00:55:27.760 --> 00:55:28.700
from Thanksgiving food.

874
00:55:28.700 --> 00:55:30.780
It's the same vibe, I feel like.

875
00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:33.040
It just, the meat is like totally,

876
00:55:33.220 --> 00:55:35.900
I just like, I'd rather have all your desserts

877
00:55:35.900 --> 00:55:37.340
the next day and leftovers

878
00:55:37.340 --> 00:55:40.300
than have like the Thanksgiving sandwiches the next day.

879
00:55:40.620 --> 00:55:41.080
Yeah.

880
00:55:41.080 --> 00:55:43.000
But that's me.

881
00:55:44.120 --> 00:55:44.740
Fair enough.

882
00:55:45.500 --> 00:55:48.940
So yeah, we are also putting an Indian spin to our dish.

883
00:55:49.000 --> 00:55:51.460
We are taking to our friends Thanksgiving.

884
00:55:52.100 --> 00:55:57.880
So yeah, I'm making, I'm baking like a savory puff

885
00:55:57.880 --> 00:56:01.360
kind of a pastry with like a chicken,

886
00:56:01.820 --> 00:56:05.020
which is flavored with Indian spices.

887
00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:09.100
So it will be a puff pastry

888
00:56:09.100 --> 00:56:11.460
with the filling of like chicken

889
00:56:12.800 --> 00:56:15.020
marinated with Indian spices.

890
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:17.860
So that's the take, Indian take.

891
00:56:18.580 --> 00:56:20.720
What's it called, what you're making, what's it called?

892
00:56:21.440 --> 00:56:23.580
So normally we make it with potatoes.

893
00:56:23.640 --> 00:56:25.400
I'm also making a vegetarian version

894
00:56:25.400 --> 00:56:26.520
because I'm vegetarian.

895
00:56:26.520 --> 00:56:29.440
And for my friends, I'm making it the chicken version.

896
00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:33.060
So we have it, we eat it in India.

897
00:56:33.160 --> 00:56:34.560
So it's like a puff pastry.

898
00:56:34.740 --> 00:56:37.880
Like we get those pastry sheets, right?

899
00:56:37.880 --> 00:56:40.000
So in those pastry sheets,

900
00:56:40.220 --> 00:56:46.780
I'm gonna make my own minced chicken, you know, filling,

901
00:56:47.200 --> 00:56:49.180
which will go in those pastries.

902
00:56:49.320 --> 00:56:52.780
And then I'm gonna make those, you know,

903
00:56:53.520 --> 00:56:57.500
those with chicken and with potatoes and peas with some,

904
00:56:57.580 --> 00:56:59.980
yeah, so two versions, yeah.

905
00:57:00.340 --> 00:57:02.560
The only reason I ask is because the baking book

906
00:57:02.560 --> 00:57:04.160
that I have, she's Indian.

907
00:57:05.160 --> 00:57:07.220
Not assuming that it's from the same regions

908
00:57:07.220 --> 00:57:10.780
or anything like that, but like I'm best with her

909
00:57:10.780 --> 00:57:11.800
in all of her stuff.

910
00:57:12.320 --> 00:57:15.260
Yes, I mean, it is more like,

911
00:57:16.660 --> 00:57:21.060
like I would say a marination of Indian and Western

912
00:57:21.060 --> 00:57:23.180
just to get a fusion dish out of it.

913
00:57:23.620 --> 00:57:26.500
I wouldn't say it's like a typical Indian dish,

914
00:57:26.760 --> 00:57:29.800
but I'm trying to do something fusion, yeah.

915
00:57:30.560 --> 00:57:31.840
Love it.

916
00:57:35.540 --> 00:57:36.180
Yeah.

917
00:57:37.420 --> 00:57:40.940
Besides the dessert, my favorite, so it's stuffing,

918
00:57:41.140 --> 00:57:43.120
but not the way most people make stuffing

919
00:57:43.120 --> 00:57:46.240
because it's the most, the way that a lot of people,

920
00:57:47.360 --> 00:57:50.460
maybe they're all white who make stuffing this way.

921
00:57:50.460 --> 00:57:54.000
I don't like, and so the way my family makes stuffing

922
00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:56.180
is actually really good, full of a lot of flavor.

923
00:57:57.260 --> 00:57:59.540
That's my favorite dish, but it has to be specifically

924
00:57:59.580 --> 00:58:01.640
the stuffing that like my mom makes.

925
00:58:03.960 --> 00:58:05.260
What's in it?

926
00:58:05.780 --> 00:58:07.740
So it's not just like a lot of spices.

927
00:58:07.980 --> 00:58:12.380
It's got like good sausage, like pork sausage.

928
00:58:13.420 --> 00:58:14.760
We use cornbread.

929
00:58:14.920 --> 00:58:18.360
We don't use the box, lots of butter.

930
00:58:19.440 --> 00:58:22.520
It's just like really good.

931
00:58:23.560 --> 00:58:27.160
I'm slowly getting converted into Thanksgiving.

932
00:58:28.080 --> 00:58:30.800
And then my cousin's mashed potatoes are pretty good.

933
00:58:30.860 --> 00:58:34.520
She makes like a garlic something mashed potato

934
00:58:34.520 --> 00:58:37.240
that are also very delicious.

935
00:58:38.960 --> 00:58:42.320
I really don't care about turkey, but it's fine.

936
00:58:42.320 --> 00:58:43.880
I gotta eat protein, so I'll eat it.

937
00:58:47.680 --> 00:58:50.480
Hot dog buns, okay, I can see that.

938
00:58:51.540 --> 00:58:52.960
I can see it, I can see it.

939
00:58:53.040 --> 00:58:57.120
They're kind of sweet, so it kind of gives it like sweet.

940
00:58:57.620 --> 00:59:00.740
Yeah, but I'm very particular about who makes my,

941
00:59:01.720 --> 00:59:05.280
you know, like I like so-and-so's mac and cheese

942
00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:07.760
because she makes it with like four different cheeses.

943
00:59:08.260 --> 00:59:11.500
I make, you know, it depends on who makes what dish.

944
00:59:12.900 --> 00:59:13.860
You don't touch it.

945
00:59:13.860 --> 00:59:14.640
You don't touch the others.

946
00:59:18.280 --> 00:59:21.900
I love Thanksgiving food and I love leftovers.

947
00:59:22.300 --> 00:59:23.980
And I don't normally love leftovers,

948
00:59:24.240 --> 00:59:26.040
but it's like Thanksgiving is the only time

949
00:59:26.040 --> 00:59:27.200
I do like leftovers.

950
00:59:28.100 --> 00:59:31.860
But I think, you know, like you go through the whole day,

951
00:59:31.940 --> 00:59:35.060
you eat all the fun stuff, but then the next day,

952
00:59:35.140 --> 00:59:37.980
my family's always made like a turkey noodle soup.

953
00:59:38.060 --> 00:59:39.900
And it's my favorite.

954
00:59:39.900 --> 00:59:44.040
They use, the secret is using pickling spice

955
00:59:44.040 --> 00:59:47.560
in a spice ball when you're, like before you add the noodles.

956
00:59:47.620 --> 00:59:50.040
If you put the noodles in and it absorbs that spice,

957
00:59:50.160 --> 00:59:51.000
it tastes really weird.

958
00:59:51.300 --> 00:59:53.900
So you have to take it out before you put the noodles in,

959
00:59:54.080 --> 00:59:56.180
but it is like, I love it.

960
00:59:56.180 --> 00:59:58.480
It's like my number one comfort food.

961
00:59:59.120 --> 00:59:59.980
And for all.

962
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.960
mamas that have younger ones, mine are older now. But something

963
01:00:04.960 --> 01:00:08.260
that became really fun for us is now I'm like, Okay, what's

964
01:00:08.260 --> 01:00:11.660
your favorite dish, you get to make it. And so that's kind of

965
01:00:11.660 --> 01:00:13.860
what like, since we're going somewhere else, I'm like, Okay,

966
01:00:13.860 --> 01:00:16.640
what makes it Thanksgiving, that's what you're making for

967
01:00:16.640 --> 01:00:19.900
taking to our friend's house and stuff. So that's been a lot of

968
01:00:19.900 --> 01:00:23.260
fun is getting to hear like, you know, what's going to be missing

969
01:00:23.260 --> 01:00:24.580
if you don't make this?

970
01:00:25.340 --> 01:00:28.060
Oh, we need more of that attitude in my family.

971
01:00:31.640 --> 01:00:36.120
My cousins, like adult children are like the most spoiled ever.

972
01:00:36.620 --> 01:00:39.680
And I was like, I'm not making what I normally make. If they

973
01:00:39.680 --> 01:00:43.260
want it there, they can make it. And then I got it. I got

974
01:00:43.260 --> 01:00:45.680
crickets. There's no response that so you know how they're

975
01:00:45.680 --> 01:00:46.320
feeling about that.

976
01:00:50.940 --> 01:00:53.860
Anyway, all right, guys, I have to get to my team call now. But

977
01:00:53.860 --> 01:00:57.360
I hope that everybody has a wonderful Thanksgiving. If I

978
01:00:57.360 --> 01:01:03.080
don't see you between now and next week. Yeah, I'll put out a

979
01:01:03.080 --> 01:01:07.260
vote for potentially new office hours. So be on the lookout for

980
01:01:07.260 --> 01:01:09.840
that this week and maybe go vote if any other time would work for

981
01:01:09.760 --> 01:01:16.420
you. Yeah, that's about it. Okay. All right, folks. Thank

982
01:01:15.920 --> 01:01:18.680
you. Bye. Happy Thanksgiving.