Social Media Madness

In this episode, we talk about how social media has changed over the years. While it’s helped businesses grow and reach more people, it has also brought a more negative and competitive side.

We also discuss the shift happening in local markets and small businesses, and ask the question many people are thinking… why is it changing? Join us for an honest conversation about the good, the bad, and what it means moving forward. 🎙️

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:42

Hi guys, welcome back to 702 Cheese Mill. Let's just get right into it. Sabrina, what's up? What's going on? Like, I don't live with you every day, but what's new? What's poppin'?

SPEAKER_01 0:51

Well, let's go back to the last event. It was a successful hot event. We had a lot of people say they were about to pass out on us. So we did change the time for our next event. The weather's so crazy in Vegas. It's like one week it's hot, the next week it's windy, and the next week it's cold. So like for March to be hot, it's kind of weird. And Marth March is my birthday month, too.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

It is her birthday. But I think on top of that, it was a successful event, not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

We put so much effort, we put so much work into it. They weren't promoting, but we still had those like couple of vendors that worked with us, so we did thank those people.

SPEAKER_00 1:32

But from there, the market and then the news that we weren't gonna do fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

Yes, which we didn't really announce why. I think it was a decision on our part because the contract It was a strong decision we made. And it was a sad, I mean we didn't want to move from there. We really liked the place, but seeing the contract and how things were gonna turn into, we didn't feel like it was the right choice anymore. I think at a certain point you have to have a business mentality and you have to think business like I think you have to think about the vendors, think about how what position we would put them in, and our whole goal is supporting uplifting small businesses. So we can't limit them now. That is true.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

I agree. But other than that, we had that that what else? We're working on our next market this month, but besides that we're gonna be on the news again. We're gonna be on the news again. And then we will be and then we're gonna be on a podcast on Saturda this Saturday because our things go out. I don't know when it's like actually going out. Yeah, I'm not too sure. So we're gonna be on a podcast too. But besides business, we're all business.

SPEAKER_01 2:46

Yeah, I mean the whole lives are we try to say like, oh, let's catch up, let's talk about like things that's actually going on, but everything is business. I mean, the only difference is my mom has a broken she has a fracture.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

She has a fracture. So from the last so okay. So from the last event, my mom that morning decided to do something and carried something by herself. She yeah, she wanted to be the Hulk that morning, and me and my sister told her, Do not touch them, we will do it.

SPEAKER_01 3:17

We always tell our parents, you guys are not young. Me and my sister are young, we will carry the heavy stuff. But of course they don't listen and everyone doesn't carry the heavy stuff.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

Yes, I do. No. For some reason I'm like for some reason on certain occasions I'm like two, three feet taller than her, and I can reach things.

SPEAKER_01 3:35

And I'm sometimes I feel like I shrink an inch into map is taller and I cannot reach things. And I'm like, it's like just right above you. Lift your hands. Lift your hands. Well, I said before I get random bruises on my body. What do you want me to do? So for some reason I have to carry things for her. Well, going back to the last event, it was like a very like unfortunate series of events that happened that day. The first thing being my mom, she like twisted her ankle carrying uh a prop. Yeah, she was carrying something. And we found out, she said it cracked. We're like, oh my god, how are we gonna do this? Then the whole event, she was like just sitting down basically on bed rest. Yeah. And then we waited a week and her foot started to push.

SPEAKER_00 4:24

She wanted to wait a week. And then I ended up, I was vacuuming, I think, and I moved the couch and I told her, Can you move your foot?

SPEAKER_01 4:30

She's been icing it. She's been putting it back.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

So I'm like, uh, this is not normal when anymore.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

And we're like, well, how long has it been? She's like, Well, I don't know, because I had a sock on yesterday.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

I do everything in the dark. And um, we're like, oh my god, your toes can be cold.

SPEAKER_01 4:46

Of course, what do we do? They went in fracture and they drove my dad drove her to the hospital care hospital hospital, and it came back that she has a fracture and she's wearing a boot. Yeah, so this happened. This is the first day having the boot, second day having the boot, and she doesn't like it. So I really don't see how she's gonna last six weeks. Yeah, six to eight weeks.

SPEAKER_00 5:11

So if you guys see in her boot, you guys know why you know why, or when we have the event. But other than that, I think that's been it. Just been just been busy. Busy have been busy, but we have been taking a little bit more breaks. So we've been watching movies.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

Yes, we actually we just saw a movie, The Primate. It was recommended by our team. Yeah, Daphne. She told us to watch it. It was pretty good. And it was good. My dad says no, but it was good. Yeah, it was good. And we want to start seeing more movies, we just never get the chance to.

SPEAKER_00 5:42

So So we we've been taking out a lot of our me time. Yeah, we've been trying to. But going into this episode, Sabrina, I have a question for you.

SPEAKER_01 5:52

No, let's just let's just get into it. Yeah, but let's just say what's going on. Okay, so we're just gonna say it. Social media is fake sometimes. Everybody is successful all the time, everybody looks happy and everybody everybody's business is always thriving, but that's not always the truth.

SPEAKER_00 6:13

I can agree. I think, for example, like us as a market, people see our markets online and think everything is smooth. I mean, we've seen it with the messages, how people act, um, the comments we get. We've seen um I mean vendors think that we have the time in the world to be answering messages. But we're running a social media platform.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

Yeah, not only that, we're we're a market, so we're not gonna go and put blast everything on our social media of everything that's always going wrong. Yeah. Because what does that do? It's only gonna draw more negativity to our market.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

When we're just trying to be a positive market, I think that's where it's kinda hard running a business page like we do, is because you kind of have to think of a balance. You have to think what's professional but what's personal.

unknown 7:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

And it seems like a lot of people like personal, but we can't get too personal. It's like a very thin line that you don't know what to do. Yeah. And that's something that I think we've had issues with since day one has been social media. Social media, I think, when we started was harder than it is now. We can't we can't compare, I think we can do a comparison.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

I honestly think that social media has changed. It has from the first time that we started doing mark markets, hosting markets, to now. I mean, I feel like there's so much so much differences going on. I mean, so much drama, so much bullying that's going on that it was not like that when we first started. I mean, if we're gonna keep it real, we're still looking for a location.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

Yeah, and not everybody knows that because we're not open about that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 7:51

We're not gonna post our mom's foot is fractured. I mean, it's just little stuff like that that we're not gonna always post. Like our main goal is about vendors, supporting vendors, uplifting people.

SPEAKER_00 8:02

So why are we gonna always post about problems? Yeah, problems and negativity, and that's where I think that's where we started this podcast was to kind of like go off of social media and kind of just rant on the podcast, yeah, instead of being personal on our page. Yeah, because not everybody we have to remember, not everybody is following us because they're vendors. A lot of pretty much all of our followers are also people.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:31

And I really doubt the people want to see that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 8:34

Yeah. I feel like not only that, you have to keep business and pleasure two separate things, and that's what we're trying to do here.

SPEAKER_00 8:42

But I think social media also there's a lot of like like a bunch of little things in the middle, like people assume a lot of things about us based off social media. And that's I think that's something that happens with everyone is you see all these pictures, you see all these things that are going on with these people's lives, and you're like, Oh wow, they're doing really good.

SPEAKER_01 9:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

But you actually don't know the truth.

SPEAKER_01 9:05

Yeah, you don't know what's actually going behind the scenes. I mean, just like we're saying, I mean, we're posting that our markets are doing good and this, and we are they are doing good. We're really happy, grateful for it, but I mean we are struggling in other ways that we don't really get into it.

SPEAKER_03 9:22

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

But not even that. There's like a social media versus reality, and that's basically like this topic.

SPEAKER_01 9:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:29

Is there's the social media side of which you see it, but there's the reality side.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

And I think that's where like this it's where we get confused. Like, how are we supposed to say drama, talk about drama without crossing the line and offending anyone? Yeah. Because the last thing we want to do is like create drama or or anything like that. We try to stay neutral among everything. We try to be in our own place and our own path lane, but at the same time, I feel like I think sometimes you have to I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 10:03

I feel like that's a sensitive topic. Because I feel like I don't know. After like two years, I think we've learned that we have to put our foot down now.

SPEAKER_01 10:12

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 10:13

Like we're not gonna deal with bullshit.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

Well, of course, yeah. We're not gonna freaking let people step all over us. We've learned the hard way, how we've been taken advantage of. People have talked down to us, so we know we know better not to let that happen again, and we'll speak on it, but at the same time, why are we gonna go and involve ourselves in drama that's not ours?

SPEAKER_00 10:35

Yeah, and not even that, it's like this is all so like Sabrina was saying, it's just changed so much over the years. I feel like people are becoming more disrespectful. It's like high school all over again. Yeah, but it's all through social media. Like it's kind of sad how it is nowadays, like how bullying is. And everything has been about bullying throughout these whole years and about how we shouldn't be teaching our kids that and that's one thing I think me and my family we stay strong on is bullying. We're not gonna do take any type of bullying harassment, we're not gonna take any of that shit.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

And we've we've honestly we've kept that that moral that we have and value we've had, and we put it into our market. We do not allow our vendors to disrespect us or each other. Because we're a community and we're gonna stand up for our vendors, our team members, everyone that shows up to our market, we have each other's backs. We're not gonna turn on each other because that's I mean, what would why would we do that? Our whole place, our whole market is about having fun, supporting each other, a place to get away from real life troubles.

SPEAKER_00 11:43

But I feel like social media is also changing what a market is. Yeah. It is well get into that. What do you mean? So I feel like social media is changing the picture of how we're marketing. A market is community, and that's what 702 Market is all about. Community, uh businesses, safe space. But social media is changing that so much. I feel like it's becoming like these markets are not becoming a market anymore. It's all about money at the end. It's all about money at the end. It's all about, oh well, let me create one post and I'm not gonna do anything other than that.

SPEAKER_01 12:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

And but then I'm gonna have the vendors pay like an extreme price. Yeah. And that's where social media it's like, what is mark like it's changing markets. It's is, it's affecting markets, it's bullying too. Like, if you have something to say, it say to the face. Why are you hiding behind a fake account? Yeah. And we've seen that with our market, we have seen that. We have gotten a lot of threats from fake accounts.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

Like I said before, you guys don't know what we're going through. You don't know the comments that we get. I mean, we recently got a comment that, well, why are you leaving Fantastic? Is it because you're illegal? Yeah, it's because oh, you guys are illegal, ha ha ha. Yeah, so it's like girl, no, I know it they've people used uh social media as a coward, a coward way of going through life, and we disagree with that. I mean, we're we are the type of people to fight our own battles to go and stand up for what's right and wrong and we'll post about it. Like if we disagree with we recently posted about a sta uh comment that we got that was very disturbing to us because of what's going on. Oh, okay. Yeah. I was like, which comment with what's going on in the world right now? I mean, most of you know about ice. Most of you know people are like dying because of it. So why would someone just throw a comment so lightly? Like it's nothing.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

Yeah. But like Sabrina said, getting those comments, it's kind of like it's sad that social media doesn't of course it's a fake account. Yeah, it's a fake account. So it's it makes you think like who's behind these fake accounts? Like, how do you have the time? Yeah, we kind of have an idea, but it's kinda sad, like you spend your time behind a fake account.

SPEAKER_03 14:06

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 14:07

Like, that's not a life. Yeah. Like it's not like the life to live, and that's where it seems like social media has impacted.

SPEAKER_01 14:15

It's all about negativity now, and they hide behind they try to portray themselves as positive people when really what they're doing is creating negativity.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

Yeah, and that's something that we strongly stand on and we're just not gonna let happen.

SPEAKER_01 14:31

And honest, I mean, we've gone through like a week of negativity. We felt like someone put bad juju on us. Yeah, honestly. It felt like we weren't getting the answers we wanted. We weren't getting like any replies back, any calls back, and it just felt like everything we tried to do, it kept pushing us further. We weren't getting ahead of what we wanted. So we went through that phase and it felt very draining. It feels like it just feels like you're not getting anywhere.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Anywhere. But let's go back to that topic because you said you're gonna scare our people. You said we're looking for a location. Yes. So we are, so let's let's kind of clear it up. So we do have locations. We're we can't announce one yet, but it's coming soon. We're excited about that one. But and then we have Calabunga that we were finally able to figure some out figure some stuff out. Calabunga was able to figure it out. Happening in October, so we have some plans. But we are looking for a location to replace Fantastic. So if you guys have any ideas, actually, just hit us send them our way.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

We've had vendors like actually like comment and send us messages like here's a location, here's another location. We're called calls.

SPEAKER_00 15:48

Like vendors are helping because they're like, we need another market.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

Yes, they're like right now, we're trying to get every other market that's in town, but we really want you to be back because we know that we'll get the the customers and your demographic, our business fits your vibe. So we're like we're really stressed out because we know we have like a lot of people depending on us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:10

But like going back to what you just said, the whole bad juju and everything. I think we s are strong on that kind of stuff. We believe that kind of stuff. But I think also like you can get bad juju from social media. No, you can. Like social media and reality. It's like you can get it from both. And I feel like social media when you start getting a lot of people have told us though, like once you start getting bigger and bigger, you have a lot of haters. It's all that's getting more eyes on you. So I think it's not only social media versus reality, but I think it's also the pressure of social media. Um, I would say when I was young and still to this day, I'm not really a social media person. Yeah. I'm like, I think you more are. Like you're more like, oh followers, I need to get this many followers. For me, it's like if I have a hundred followers, I don't care. Like I post once in a while on my personal page, but it's never been like a big issue to me. Like other people, like it's like, oh my god, like you have to. But for I think as a business and as a market, we do have that pressure of social media. I mean, do you disagree or agree?

SPEAKER_01 17:28

I think now that we have uh 37, 38, I believe. 37 or 38,000 people watching us, it feels like it's a lot of eyes that are watching us. I mean 39.7. 39.7. How to look at almost to four wow. Wow. Okay. We should do like a giveaway or something. That's what I'm thinking. Okay. Okay. I just oh my god. I just spoiled it. Wow, that's uh that's crazy. I feel like um we have a lot of eyes on us. I mean, we get almost six hundred to eight hundred people viewing our stories individually. Yeah. So it's a lot of pressure on what we're doing, what we're saying, because we of course we don't want to offend anyone. We don't want I think on my way on my way of thinking, I've made many mistakes of spelling errors. Yeah, people are quick to jump and be like you spelt it wrong. They're quick to jump and correct you, but they're not quick to like and comment. So it's like it makes me feel like defeated, like, I made a mistake. I have to re like re-edit it. And it's always something I have to keep in mind now, because I'm it's me who's writing each caption. It's me who's posting each story or doing stuff like that. So there's that way of pressure, but then also pressure of consistently posting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:53

I feel like if we would go quiet for like a week, people would be like, Are you okay?

SPEAKER_01 18:58

Yeah. Cause they know. I mean, we've gotten so many vendors feedback saying you guys promote so much. So I look out for your reels, or I look out for when you're gonna post, you guys are on top of your game. So like I have to keep that reputation.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

But I feel like I don't know. It's hard because the pressure of it also is like not getting help. I think the pressure of social media too, where there's those days where I'm like, Sabrina, like, don't post today. Like fuck it. Like they're not helping. Why are we doing it? Like, that's the pressure of social media too.

SPEAKER_01 19:33

Yeah, like it's it's it's a hard situation because as event promoters, it is your job to promote the event. I mean, that's I think that's like what goes into the licensing. That's the way you get a license is you're now like legally allowed to post. Which of course we have the event promoter's license. And so I promote the event like crazy because it is my job to do it. But also I feel like it would help ten times more, and we explain that to our vendors if they promote on their end too, because yes, we have almost 40,000 people on our audience, but you guys have a thousand people on your audience. Imagine combining that.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

Yeah, you guys have different followers to what we have. And my like on another episode, I think we said like it can reach that one person who then it'll go to another person and another person. It's a chain reaction at the end. And I think that's another like the pressure. It's the pressure of well, you guys have the followers, you guys have the fan base, you guys should be the ones promoting, and that's another pressure on us. I think that it is.

SPEAKER_01 20:43

I mean, but there's like social media, there's so much that goes into it when it comes to the algorithm, keeping up with trends, making sure that you're really like catching people's eyes. I mean, one event flyer will do really good and the other event flyer might not do good. So it's like what really makes people happy.

SPEAKER_00 21:02

But going on a deeper level, I think the pressure of social media, it does affect us as well. Like it's not affecting us like how would you say it? Like, it affects us personally as well. It does have effect an effect on us when a a flyer doesn't do good, when a post doesn't do good. Like we get down by it and we're like, damn, like what should we have done better? Or what are we doing wrong?

SPEAKER_01 21:25

We always question ourselves like what are we doing wrong and what can we do better? Because that's the type of people we are. We like to learn and do better.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

So it does affect us personally as well, but we also have that pressure of showing like what our market brings. Like we don't want to always show that we're six the markets are a success. We want to show also like okay, maybe it was slow on this one. And that's where we get to our vendors and say, guys, it was slow on this one. Like we see it.

SPEAKER_01 21:56

Yeah, like this last event we had to it was. like a dramatic drop I think the weather really affected the the event because it was freaking it was just hot that day it was we were all like struggling with the pressure of social media I know we finished the last topic already but just like explaining the whole point of how social media presence really helps our market thrive I mean I feel like we we have really thrived from social media without our Instagram I mean we wouldn't exist yeah so with those almost 4000 people watching us they're really supporting us helping us grow and we couldn't do this without you I mean that's why we really push on our vendors make sure to tag us and we'll reshare it make sure to always post and promote the event on your social media because it makes a difference it really does we feel like if we all work together we all put our hands in we can make this whole market bigger than it it could be we have a vision and we want to we want it to to happen and we need your guys's help.

SPEAKER_00 23:19

That's like I'm saying the whole thing we say in the group chat but next subject social media drama because it goes from I mean it's different points there's this the bad of social media what we've talked about the pressure of it there's the reality and social media but there's also no but let me guess the bad of social media I feel like markets have become a competition.

SPEAKER_01 23:43

Yeah I feel like markets are competing with each other at this point. And that's not how it should be when we started doing markets that's not how it was it wasn't like that. Like w there's the OG markets that we have that we know in Vegas and we've never compete with them we've never stepped on their toes or even thought about it. But for some reason now it's like everyone's turning on each other.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

Not even that I think the whole with social media comes a lot of people stealing ideas and not giving credit.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

Yeah I think that's like a sensitive subject like I feel like we put so much work and effort and brainstorming goes behind everything that we do.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

I mean let's say the tote bags that was I'll give you props that was your idea's yours yeah tote bags was my idea everyone does tote bags every I mean it's not ours but we are the ones that did the giveaway with tote bags. With the vendors yeah so that was on us and we did that first but then out of nowhere we see more people doing other ones doing more markets doing it so we're like okay that's fine we're all about sharing ideas we're all about uplifting each other.

SPEAKER_01 25:00

Give the props to the difference is if you're not following us and not giving us credit it's kind of like weird.

SPEAKER_00 25:08

Yeah another thing I think would be the um official vendors I think last year people started doing that other markets and we're like what the hell like we started like what's next you guys are gonna make a market guide? Yeah if you guys to take a market guide and start creating that give us credit because that's like straight up copying and we'll probably put you on blast for that now. Because that's we were the first ones to do a market guide.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

So if anybody touches a market guide we will put you on blast this time.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

I think that you guys need to follow us and you guys need to give us credit because that's what we'll do back. If we're planning to take an idea and put it on our market we will follow you guys to make sure you guys know it was your idea we'll maybe ask permission like are you okay with it or we'll credit you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Because that's the right thing to do but when you guys are watching behind but not even that it's not the same thing like that goes in our market not even if you copy off of our social media page if you copy off of our actual in our actual market that means you're like going and secretly being a we post everything like we've seen so if somebody starts copying the stuff that we have in our like the props are ours. Well not only the props if they start copying activations no one can steal our shopping cart because that's ours.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

Somebody wants to do a shopping cart like us we're gonna put you on blast too and we're we're really we're okay with sharing I don't want it to come off the wrong way with we're okay with sharing ideas. We're okay with that we know that everyone's gonna pick up another idea and make it their own but at the same time just give us credit follow us it's just kinda it's just really weird to us if you're not following us but you're taking our ideas it just feels like you're being a snake. Yeah but it also goes to the fact of um but we also pay attention to all the fake accounts that exist maybe you're watching off your grandma's Instagram I don't know we just know that everyone's gonna be watching us we know that we just ask for for credit. I mean it kind of makes us feel down when people are constantly taking ideas because then it's like damn why can't everyone just be original I mean everyone's market is authentic to them that's your personality that's your it's your market to create it's just like us we're trying to be authentic by adding these new things by always posting being creative being um we're always brainstorming new ideas to make our market better stand out because we never want to be like other people yeah but when we see like other markets doing what we're doing it's like okay now we're competing like no we need to all make our own ideas put the effort in guys make your own new official vendor some crap that you guys can think of that makes your market stand out too like that's what it all comes down to but it also like I was saying the people watching our stories but not following kind of thing.

SPEAKER_00 28:16

Oh yeah or not showing support like watching behind a watching behind a secret account. Yeah so it's kind of like why why are you wasting your energy like we don't have the energy to be doing that.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

Like might as well just support us follow us. I mean we've gotten comments before that we and I think we've addressed it that we don't follow everyone every vendor that we have and we've addressed it like and we're starting to try to s we're starting to follow more people because we understand to a to a degree of what this person was saying but at the same time we can't follow everyone because we don't want it to show favoritism to some people the last thing we want is to cause friction amongst vendors.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

But that goes into social media social media does cause a lot of shitload of drama not gonna lie I mean you heard it we have drama on our end with fake accounts I mean has it ever caused drama what do you mean do you think um that social media has ever caused drama with us as a market uh yeah I think that one time that we talked about we were involved in drama our name was out of people's mouths. Yeah so that is one thing um I don't think anything recently thankfully knock on wood knock on wood we don't want any we don't want to be in any drama last thing we want is to be a part of that so we have I mean we see we hear yeah everything we hear I mean we see things but at the same time we have vendors that come tell us like did you hear what happened and we're like oh shoot like that's like that's not how the community should be at this end of the day we sh like I said before we should be supporting each other uplifting each other but it's turned into a whole market war it sounds like but but besides that I think just social media in general just causes too much too much drama it's less there are certain way that somebody can come off on a certain post and somebody might take it wrong. Yeah or you have to be like very careful of like what you say I think.

SPEAKER_01 30:29

I think it's scary because you have to watch your back on who's your true supporters and who's not out to support you. Mm-hmm like the evil uh snakes that we have you know I think that's the part that we have to watch out for and just make sure we don't have any evil eyes on us wishing us wishing downfall on us. But I think that's a sad thing also that it's created is we've seen it how because we have a platform because of this because of that how people used you also yeah I think that's what it's showed also is we've had a lot of like give an example we've had a lot of people that don't even follow us ask for a shout out. Yeah and it's like we're not gonna shout you out. Like how is it fair that you're not following us supporting our market but we're supposed to support you. I mean it has to work both ways guys just like um we've run across we've had a lot of vent sorry to cut you off we've had a lot of vendors that don't even follow us that's what I was gonna say is that's something that we've also started new.

SPEAKER_00 31:30

I think the middle last year is you're you need to follow us now. Because how are we gonna give you a spot in our market from if you can't give us the respect of following our market.

SPEAKER_01 31:40

I think it has to be fair and a lot of people don't have that mindset. They think that they can do things and expect things but we're not supposed to be expecting nothing back. Yeah so I think that's And it's so minimal as a following like we're not expecting you to give up your life give your life to us. Yeah I mean it's it's a simple thing.

SPEAKER_00 32:01

Yeah but I think that goes into it but also us having a big following just a lot of people like writing on it. Like they'll support you but once you have like a bad sell day like they're gone. Yeah. Like for example on our street closure on our very first street closure a lot of people try to write it and try to get in okay after like years of not being in our market.

SPEAKER_01 32:30

Oh okay I was confused what you were talking about. Yeah I think that um I think it's not really fair. It's like once we did the street closure a lot of people wanted to support us now. Mm-hmm a lot of people were popping up oh let me be a part of it let me be a part of it. We were like but where have you been? We already have a a set vendor that's been loyal to us and does the same thing as you so we're gonna go for someone who's loyal instead of someone who's just popping up because they want to now.

SPEAKER_00 32:57

Yeah because what now we have the followers and now we have a bigger platform a bigger platform and we're doing a street closure now you want to hop on the bandwagon.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:07

Like that's not how it works in our mind.

SPEAKER_01 33:09

That's just how people are in general though people start to kiss other people's ass and not be not be actually genuine about it. Yeah. And like these are not genuine supporters and we don't want that. Yeah. We've always said we want actual supporters we want people who actually love us the way that we love the market. Mm-hmm. Because we love our vendors we love the people who support us and we want that same energy back. We don't want people who are just kissing our ass because they're a vendor.

SPEAKER_00 33:38

And that's what we've seen through social media is the comments things like that and yeah that's social media I guess that sums it up.

SPEAKER_01 33:49

That's how social media is at the end of the day I think that like going into a lighter subject I think this like today's topic I think because everything that's going on right now with social media the things that we've seen it's really brought like a a cloud over us. Yeah like it's it's it puts an effect on you like it's makes you feel sad that this is how social media has been changing and how the market community and vendor community is changing too and seeing that vendors are not supporting each other and it's become a competition it really like affects us. It just makes us feel like we're not doing our job on the market community. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 34:40

I agree I mean it is a sensitive topic social media overall is just a sensitive topic because that's what runs the world now is social media. But I think also like Sabrina was saying it's just so much that goes into it like yeah we're a market maybe we don't answer you in a certain time frame but we're busy with our lives as well but we also see like what's going on.

SPEAKER_01 35:07

We're a small but mighty team it's just the four of us we're not a corporation or we don't have um employees working for us 24 hours that can answer them yeah I mean people do say like we run it like a corporate I think we've gotten the phrase that we're like a well-oiled machine. Yes we got in that yes and we like to go by that because that's it's professional it's the way that we want to stand by but at the same time it gets stressful because it's just the four of us replying to everything.

SPEAKER_00 35:36

Yeah we're like a company. We run it yeah it is true we run it like a company because it is it is our business it's it is ours but it is kind of like Sabrina was saying it does put a cloud over your head like seeing everything that's going on social media right now and like yeah we don't follow that many people but we hear a lot. Yeah for some reason we're always in the loop yeah we know about every loop everything so we know what's going on we hear everyone's stories we even if we might not follow you back we know what's going what's going on we get a lot of DMs that tell us oh did you see this did you see that like kind of updating us with the drama and we like I said before we try to stay as a as a non-party yeah like nonpartisan no what is that word like nonpartisan I think like we like to stay as as the background character yeah like neutral we don't want to be stepping our toes in there saying hey this that but not even that I feel like why would we add royal to the fire or what's that word but not even that why would we step into something that doesn't involve us yeah I feel like we're just adding at the end of the day we're worried about our market how to get how to make us shine instead of worrying about everybody else we're not we're worried about we're concentrating we just don't have the time right now to be doing that but when you start hearing this kind of stuff and seeing these kind of things you're just like damn like it's really changed and it makes you like we want to go back to how it was before it was markets doing everything the right way markets um supporting each other markets supporting vendors because that's the whole point and but also vendors. And vendors markets it's just vendors customers vendors being and customers being more like I don't know what the hell's going on. It's like I don't know that energy forgotten about how people forgotten about manners or respect.

SPEAKER_01 37:35

That's a whole different topic yeah but like that's um I think that we just need to be better do better guys what is going on you guys need to do better. Like we need to be peaceful and hold each other's hands and be a community.

SPEAKER_00 37:49

Yeah but let's do a little bit of confessions right now let's get back into it.

SPEAKER_01 37:55

Have you ever posted something just because you felt like you had to I think just because I had to yeah if it's for like a trend like a trend that I don't really care for the song but I know it's like trendy and maybe other people will like it. I try to be unbiased when it comes to the my dad say no but I try to be unbiased when it comes to the music I pick 'cause maybe I don't like it but maybe someone else will like it. But if I know that person has a controversial background mm-hmm like let's say R. Kelly I'm not gonna freaking play R cry you know?

SPEAKER_00 38:30

Yeah. But yeah I have. Okay. I think I can't really speak on that because I don't really post. But I feel like I was telling Sabrina I feel like I have neg like I don't know when I have an idea. I'm going I don't know I don't know what I'm going through. She's going to like an emotional situation right now because I feel like I was telling Sabrina I'm like I feel like it's not it's our like not TMI it's our weekly weekly bloodbath monthly blood blah what's it called monthly bloodbath or what there's like a phrase that people call it like the wrench entering the demons entering us right now but I told Sabrina like I feel like when I post okay I think when did it start the very first time the it was last year.

SPEAKER_01 39:18

Last year are you sure? Yeah it was last year.

SPEAKER_00 39:20

Last year um I told Sabrina I was gonna help her with posting so I think yeah I was creating videos but every fucking video I was putting out there got like like what 10 likes? Yeah so um I told Sabrina last year I'm not touching posting because I feel like when I post things it does not do good. Have you ever wanted to take a social media break?

SPEAKER_01 39:42

Yeah like for a month for a month I mean being on social media it's all fun and games until you have to actually like constantly think of ideas and post and be on times and make sure you're posting at the right time the time frame what days are the best days to post and that freaking algorithm that I don't even know what that word means yet. It's just a bunch of stuff that goes with it that's stressful. I think that a month would be cool but I know that's not possible.

SPEAKER_00 40:15

Almost though well we decide in November we're done we're we're not done like with 702 Market but we're like done that month early in March.

SPEAKER_01 40:24

But yeah I think I wanted to take a social media break too you're not even no with messaging yeah I mean the messaging it comes in waves we notice that there'll be days that it's really quiet and then days that everyone is a blur everyone's awake everyone's asking questions in the group chat.

SPEAKER_00 40:42

Like for example we start this group chat for our events but sometimes we don't want to be a part of that group chat anymore.

SPEAKER_01 40:48

Because we're like do we have to be in it honestly we feel like we don't even exist sometimes to people like we send out this message with detailed detailed information and it's like they don't get that information somehow maybe it gets lost in transit.

SPEAKER_00 41:03

It doesn't get to their phone yeah I don't they're just not getting it so and then there's those nights that vendors just want to talk.

SPEAKER_01 41:10

And we're like what the hell don't like don't they have to be asleep? It's 12 at 12 at the n in midnight.

SPEAKER_00 41:16

Yeah like go to sleep or why aren't we worried about what calls to do right now just call each other just text but not in the group chat.

SPEAKER_01 41:24

No but I like the group chat because there's those people that let's party let's get ready for the rodeo and I like seeing those messages but at the same time we get those messages are like well I didn't sign up for an umbrella. Yes you did yes you did but then they're going back and forth no I didn't your application says this and they're arguing with people in the group chat so there's that downside but we actually just started a channel. Yes oh my god the channel that was something yesterday yesterday I got this bright idea let's do a a channel and I searched it up what it means I created it I'm like okay let's do this I posted it and it says you're supposed to like not everyone gets it so it's like a private little like private club and I was excited we can invite our vendors and have selective vendors be in it.

SPEAKER_00 42:14

And then no Sabrina's getting it already and I'm sitting there on my laptop and she's like she's like posted and I'm like how did this vendor like it already I'm like wait a minute how did I get one like if I haven't shared the link with no one so I start going number starts going up let me check right now actually it started going up and then I'm like wait Sabrina it shows that it has 32 views now Samantha we have 155 members wow that's pretty good but who are they we can't see we can't we can't see we have things like 328 that's crazy I'm getting anxious like oh my god everyone's seeing it how are they finding the Sabrina's like wait why do we have like 40 members already working on the city members and I can't find who they are and I'm like so I'm freaking out and then I search it up and I guess it sends an odd Instagram sends an automatic leak and I'm so dumb you guys are probably like yeah we got it but I don't know I I mean how am I well I went on my I went on my personal and I'm like wait it shows right here personal page 702 Market uh did a broad a broadcast or something and I'm like it shows right there Serena so I'm like okay and we were deciding should we keep it should we not but it's still there you know we're supposed to be gonna keep it but other than that geez man the things we go through I feel like at some times we're not we're not educated on social media like we sound so we see vendors and they're like yeah there's a vendor group chat there's a this that and we're like what yeah we're like what the hell can we do how can we not hear about this bro like we didn't even know that existed but there's also those things where like like our podcast we're still trying to figure it out we don't know we don't even know like what to be talking about at this point.

SPEAKER_01 43:58

We like what's gonna make you guys happy We don't.

SPEAKER_00 44:00

Just it's just everything. We're like we feel like we're old. Sometimes it does feel like we're out of touch. Yeah, because then vendors are like they abbreviate things and we're like, what the hell does this mean?

SPEAKER_01 44:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:12

I do that a lot. I'm like, what does this mean, Sabrina?

SPEAKER_01 44:15

No, Samantha's always asking me questions like how do I do this? I mean, on the maps. She's trying to search up on Google on maps on iPhone and she didn't know how to get rid of labels. And I'm like, just give me it. Like at this point. Just there's moments I'm like busy and she's like, I don't know how to do it. I don't know how to do it. I'm like, just give me the damn phone. Like, I'll just do it. That's social media. That's how it is. That's just how technology is.

SPEAKER_00 44:50

We can't say social media is all bad. It is good too. It helps, it has helped us achieve what 702 Market is now. And that's something that we can thank our Instagram for and what we can thank our TikTok for. And because of social media, we built such a strong community of women, of girls, of what we've wanted. And that's something that social media has brought to us. So it does bring the negative, it does bring the positive. And I guess from the negativity, we get positivity. And that's something that we can be thankful for. And that's something that a lot of people should know is yeah, social media might be po negative at times, but it can actually help your business grow and it can help it bloom if you're doing the right thing. Yeah and you're promoting it the right way. And that's where this episode was about is social media. The negative.

SPEAKER_01 46:16

And that's what we try to do for our market.

SPEAKER_00 46:18

But that's what we can say at the end. Social media isn't perfect, but it's helped us build something that we are extremely proud for. We're extremely grateful of. And that's something that you're gonna constantly see is probably by the end of the year our goal is to hit even more followers. Yeah. That'd be amazing. And that's why we want to do a huge thank you to everybody who follows the podcasts. Most likely you've heard the podcast because of social media, because of our Instagram.

SPEAKER_01 46:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:52

And yeah, just a huge thank you to our followers, our supporters who are constantly supporting us and following us. And probably a thank you to our haters because of you guys. We're gonna keep growing. We're not gonna stop because you guys want to steal our ideas, because you guys wanna send negative energy to us or send negative messages. You're not gonna stop us. You're gonna continue seeing us flourish and grow. And we just want to keep it real with you guys.

SPEAKER_01 47:22

Tell you guys what's actually going on. This is a a personal side to us. We just that's what we want is create a a relationship with each and every one of you. See the true us.

SPEAKER_00 47:33

Yes. But again, we're not a fantastic anymore, so we won't be March 14th, but we will have one March 28th, which is our big rodeo thing. The day before my birthday, so it better be a good event. And you guys better be ready to party. That's it. Yes. Because Sabrina's gonna be drunk.

SPEAKER_01 47:52

I don't think legally I can be drinking. That's what my dad told me last time.

SPEAKER_00 47:56

Like our workers or us cannot be drinking on the job. But yes, come support us, come support our vendors on March 28th from 5 to 9. And yeah, come ready in your cowboy boots because we're gonna be wearing some. It's gonna be a rodeo theme to remember.

SPEAKER_01 48:15

Like what's a catchphrase that rodeo people? We've been seeing some good ones, not gonna lie. It's gonna be a yee-haw. What is a rodeo phrase? Okay, absolutely. We'll we'll think of some of the things.

SPEAKER_00 48:31

Yes, catch us March 28th, and thank you again. Bye.