Um, and then check. So, yeah, we were writing checks and doing PayPal weekly, manually. So we were creating the spreadsheet. It was all just running a spreadsheet, copying and pasting making formulas across, you know, so we ended up having nine weeks of sales, and then tying those all into a master spreadsheet. So the customer or the business owner could see what they were at and like where we were at, and that helped us to hold ourselves accountable. I sent out a BombBomb video every week. I don't know if you're familiar with that, but it's just a video email. So I sent those out to the businesses every single week with updates on what was happening, how they could help, how they could share more, if they could post videos or testimonies for us thanking us, just to help. Kind of, you know, feed the beast of the social media world. And they could see where they were at. So if I missed a payment or, you know, cause there were so many people, they could be like, “Hey, I never got that payment.” And then that held me accountable. But it was really fun just keeping them in the loop every week and sending him videos and getting good feedback from them. But, yeah, the payment thing was a beast. I ended up three weeks, four weeks in I had my bookkeeper take over because I couldn't keep up with it myself. I was doing it all myself. So she started running all the reports, I'd send her the spreadsheet, you know, the export from Shopify was sales and she would put it all in this fancy spreadsheet that talked to all the other sheets and the spreadsheet and, and made it look correct. Or made it, made it correct? Marshall Atkinson Not “make it look correct” It was correct. Jarrod Hennis Correct. Yeah, no. Yeah. I mean, cause it was, yeah, I was like looking at stuff and I was like, cause we overpaid a couple of people, not a ton. Some of those were just the checks and balances. Halfway through this campaign, I found out there was a Shopify plugin to do affiliates and it would have solved this whole problemmade everything automated through PayPal. Marshall Atkinson Oh, man. Did you, did you switch to that or are you still haven’t done it? Jarrod Hennis I haven't done it yet because it was too far in where I'd have to go back and have everybody sign up. I'd have to export all this data in. So if I started again, I would look into something like that or an InkSoft solution or Printavo Merch or something like that. That would be a little bit more automated because really another, not to jump back and forth, but keeping track of how many shirts we printed. Cause we were printing while we were still selling them because we wanted to get these shirts out. Cause you know, we're a manual shop, like to get 10,000 shirts and 400 different designs all at once. Like still printing them. Cause you know, we can only print so many per hour and then still trying to piggyback off our work and customer stuff still to keep the cash flow.
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