Amy Kimball

You know, let's say that.

That's a big following and there's, you know, tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, you know, in play at any given time with brand deals, et cetera.

And so the idea that, you know, she should be, it's her sort of duty to platform small businesses and

The problem there is that she doesn't know you.

You know, she probably has a lot of people reaching out.

And what is at stake if she collaborates with people that she doesn't know and people that, you know, unfortunately, just by a nature of you're getting started and you don't have a huge portfolio is that, yeah, you don't have this huge body of work.

But then...

If it turns around and your values aren't aligned down the road and you know, and then you've got these posts that are collabed together.

There's a risk.

Then there's a risk involved there.

She doesn't owe you.

And I doubt that she was the only person that reached out to this influencer.

Yeah.

And you're not paying every client that you have.

No.

You know, it's like that's the exception to the rule.

The sort of strange irony of this is that at the end of the day, you did manage to get free exposure from this influencer.

Yep.

Yes.

It's not a matter of are you team A or team B?