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well hello there how are you today it has been a while and i've just been busy with so many
things that i haven't wanted to make as many videos but every now and then something pops
up into my head and it says matthew you know what that's right you should make a video about that
so today i'm going to tell you a very big secret something very important because if
you're going to be getting into reptiles buying them selling them or just enjoying them you need
to do this one thing okay are you ready do you want to have a successful business here it comes
don't sell anything no don't sell anything don't send anything until it's been bought
how is that golden rule for being a successful business person
if you go into a store do you get to walk out with anything before you buy it no that's called
stealing but for some reason in our industry we have people that make deals with other people
because they're just i don't know desperate to get money they just want the sale so bad so they're
like hey yeah you know what you want to buy my snakes off me please just like you know we'll
we'll do a we'll do a payment plan and i'll send them to you does that make any sense at all sorry
but i just think that it is pure stupidity and it costs time and money and friendships and just
everything can get messed up i don't know about you but i've always kind of believed that i don't
first of all i just barely get by okay i don't make a ton of money or anything i work full-time
for youtube for a whole thirteen dollars a month i run a hair salon and it's been hit hard by kovid
for two years and i have a reptile business but i don't really like selling animals i like selling
them to the right people i don't like pushing them on people so that's why my business when
it comes to the reptiles is not doing as good as it could be but i just look at it like eventually
this is gonna grow more and more and why am i playing with a makeup brush and eventually
i'll be selling a lot more animals but then i don't want to produce as many animals so then i'll
charge more and produce less and get make sure that the animals have good homes and provide like
a level of something like a level of goodness that like people will want to buy my animals because
they know that i literally hold them and spend time with them but back to the issue yes no
distracted add at its finest i haven't made a video in a while sorry not sorry just me okay so
i have a rule that i go by i don't give anybody any money unless i'm willing to lose it so i don't
loan any money to anyone i just don't do it first of all i don't have it so it's like if i don't
have money it makes it easy because i can't give you money if i don't have any i'm in a bit of debt
myself right now so if you want to help support me join my patreon coming soon if i get that
organized even with your friend you just say your friendship is to value to me too valuable to me to
give you money because if i give you money and you don't pay it back then you know we can get into a
fight and friendships are lost the only time that you would ever pay for an animal before you get it
is if you're importing or exporting so if you're going to be importing an animal usually you're
going to be paying the importer to bring them over but you got to be careful with that too
like my first year in the reptile business i got scammed by a rat breeder where near north rodents
i bought rats off him he was fine and then all of a sudden he told me i'm not accepting credit card
anymore can you please e-transfer me and i already did business with him so i e-transferred him
like 600 bucks or something and i never got the rats and that was the end of that then there was
another one plain ranger and he goes by all sorts of different names and he pretends that he's an
exporter or an importer of like green tree pythons and really nice animals and i i wanted some so
i gave him like 900 bucks to bring me some green tree pythons and that was just half of
what i was gonna pay once i get them so pay half and then the other half when you get it and
that was terrible like so my money was taken so i learned my lessons from that
but recently there's a breeder that has basically been going through a hard time tried to like make
it as like make it on his own as a successful breeder and whatever and then covet came and it
yeah he got all these animals and it's another thing i'm going to talk about that i'll make
another episode on the way to kind of build a reptile business but lots of people come into this
and like i never came into it as a business it became a business slowly but people think that
they can just buy into the business they can just buy a whole pile of animals and then they're going
to be able to sell it but they're not because they don't have the reputation so you need to
build a reputation i build a terrible reputation reputation for myself for behaving like an idiot
but uh i figure that some people understand the difference between acting and reality if you see
mel gibson go shoot somebody in a movie then you see him in person and say that guy's a murderer
like no so but people see me doing something stupid and then i think
i'm stupid and they don't realize that it's just an act i'm actually brilliant
you have to build a reputation and when it comes to the animals i have a very good reputation
anyone that has bought an animal off me has had a wonderful experience i don't sell sick animals
and i don't i'll do a payment plan but if you want to do a payment plan with me you're gonna pay me
until the animal is fully paid and then i'll ship it to you so that was just the main thing we got
sidetracked we got to spend some time together how nice was that lately i just been crazy distracted
trying to get the salon up and running again so trying to figure out how to advertise for the
salon and get that busy i've also been obsessed with uh building drones or flying fpv drones so
you can see i'm learning how to design drones and build them in like 3d models so i'm learning
something called fusion 360. so i've just been obsessing over drones and flying them
and it's awesome you basically take a vr goggle you stick it on your face and you fly a drone
with a camera on it you get to see everything and experience flight it's amazing fpv drones
and i have a whole drone channel which i've been posting on more too so you can check that out like
go watch this video right now because it's super exciting and fun don't send anyone any product
until you've been paid for it sell it first and then send it over and then you don't have any
of these problems because it's just like this then the whole community has to hear about it
and we have to hear grown adults arguing like children with each other which basically is is
this community all the time oh i'm better than you oh you do this oh you do that and all the nonsense
and it's just so much drama tell me what you think if you're not subscribed welcome to the channel
subscribe right now and we can be friends forever and i'm going to be making a video about bioactive
setup which i like it's a big one so i don't want to sit and edit it so i've been lazy around
on that but i'm also going to make a video on how to you know the steps that you got to take
before you know breeding animals and starting a little business what are you interested in
more do you want to hear more about growing a little reptile business or do you want to learn
how to do an easy bioactive setup let me know tell me how you're doing say hello wonderful