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Navarr Grevious & Mikael Pyles founders “QuickLiq‪”‬ · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: For these two gentlemen on my call today started in
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Speaker 1: and win the year. But next two guests on DeVore
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Speaker 1: Grievous and Mikale Piles. There two HBCU Grass and Fraternity
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Speaker 1: brothers Cafe Alpha side Fraternity to ink. You know I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna make a man. But you know I got love
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Speaker 1: for nat Level who found it quickly while attending Clark
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Speaker 1: Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia in two ten. The company
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Speaker 1: is a digital platform for wine, beer and spirit delivery
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Speaker 1: that operates out of Miami, Florida, and while and while expanding,
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Speaker 1: they will be in Georgia early one quickly. It's the
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Speaker 1: first black owned online alcohol marketplace and seeks to make
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Speaker 1: arder and alcohol easy and convenient while being committed to
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Speaker 1: growing the culture of drinking responsibily. That's always important, please
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Speaker 1: working to money making conversations. NEvAr Grievous and Michael Piles Piles.
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Speaker 1: That's your name, right, you did? You did? Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much so as to be well, you know, grieveous. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know I either work on that name. You know
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Speaker 1: that was a so HPCU guys, Atlanta, Georgia and uh okay,
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Speaker 1: you guys were concerned about liquor delivery. It's talk to me.
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Speaker 1: I'll started the ball well actually quickly suceptualized. In eleven.
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Speaker 1: It was right Michael I graduated from clark Man University,
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Speaker 1: was at a social gathering and everything was going fine
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Speaker 1: and well, and the party started to die down because
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Speaker 1: it was no more liquor available. And at the time,
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Speaker 1: my cow, myself, nobody wanted to make the liquor delivery.
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Speaker 1: And we just thought, what if we had a website
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Speaker 1: that we can go on and have all delivery on it.
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Speaker 1: We can call what the lit circuit deliver alcohol to us. Again,
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Speaker 1: this is in two thousand eleven, before its times, before
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Speaker 1: uh East door dash a police. It was a lot
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Speaker 1: of legality back in two thousand. So that's the party,
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Speaker 1: you know, died down and there was no solution. Fast
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Speaker 1: forward is when it became legal. Party companies like ourselves
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Speaker 1: partner with alcohol store or all sorts to make deliveries
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Speaker 1: and that's kind of what we started Hit the Running.
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Speaker 1: I live out here in Miami. We operate and headquarter
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Speaker 1: in Miami Beach. We started off as just an accohol
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Speaker 1: delivery and eighteen. But as we started to grow, as
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Speaker 1: started to change and start the partner with ross Here's company.
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Speaker 1: So now we're a full transparent Allline is a marketplace
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Speaker 1: for beer, wine and spirits. Now you know he did it?
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Speaker 1: All that information up either talking man. Now somebody coming
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Speaker 1: and talking north. But Carrio come out of the back.
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Speaker 1: Whoa man, y'all down? That was all those beautiful women,
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Speaker 1: y'all pick the right sitting to kick off this business.
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Speaker 1: Tell tell everybody starting in Miami down there, because when
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Speaker 1: I say beautiful women, you guys both know I am
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Speaker 1: not lying. Listen, listen. You know. The good thing is
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Speaker 1: my eyes are working, so you I can tell you, sir,
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Speaker 1: you are not lying. However, however, just as a copy
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Speaker 1: I am married, you know, so you know I look,
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Speaker 1: but don't test um starting in Starting the business in
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Speaker 1: Miami was really not only just a blessing for us,
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Speaker 1: but a no brainer business wise. Miami is a multicultural,
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Speaker 1: uh megaplex when it comes to demographics and age groups
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Speaker 1: and people through all different cultures and walks of life.
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Speaker 1: So starting a business in a melting pot like Miami
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Speaker 1: proved to be very very successful. From us, not just
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Speaker 1: from a sales and revenue standpoint, but from a standpoint
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Speaker 1: of business analysis. A large part of what Quickly does
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Speaker 1: is trying to make the world of adult beverages more
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Speaker 1: convenient and accessible for our customers. So being able to
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Speaker 1: work with Hispanic customers and black and brown customers and
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Speaker 1: white customers as well, you know, all coming together in
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Speaker 1: Miami has been a great success for us to get
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Speaker 1: the business up and running and see how our products
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Speaker 1: interacts with people from all different walks of life, and
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Speaker 1: also international as well, because that's the beauty of starting
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Speaker 1: in Miami. You know, you have that Brazilian brace, that
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Speaker 1: Cuban base. You know, it's like, like you said, a
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Speaker 1: melting pot, but also domestically as well as internationally. It's
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Speaker 1: a great spot to go there. Now, you said thevar
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Speaker 1: you were already down there. Yeah, I didn't living in
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Speaker 1: Miami five years now, and so to launch it down there.
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Speaker 1: The whole concept of I want to step back for
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Speaker 1: a man, because I want to go back to twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty level and the HBCU experience, the black fraternity experience,
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Speaker 1: because you know, I remember making Silti fide problem member,
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Speaker 1: as you are problem members of Calfia side and the
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Speaker 1: thing about in you know, hpc USE somehow started getting
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Speaker 1: donations and people of corporate right corporations start recognizing the
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Speaker 1: need to connect whether diversity. How did that affect you?
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Speaker 1: And I'll let you start in the volu And definitely, Michael,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to hear your reaction to this as well
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Speaker 1: on hpc US and how it seemed to And it
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Speaker 1: was before we had a vice president elect in Kamala
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Speaker 1: Harris from Howard University, so this was this was momentum
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Speaker 1: before her. So talk about in the vault. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean that's the whole beauty is going to ABC. For me,
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Speaker 1: it's the relationships that you know, I established what going
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Speaker 1: to clark Land University and just you know, being a
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Speaker 1: part of Gap Alphacie. You know, I met other fraternity
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Speaker 1: brothers across you know, the US, and for us, you know,
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Speaker 1: just being able to extend, extend you know, our brand
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Speaker 1: and company you know as a whole you know, from
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Speaker 1: hpc USE establishment, it just meant the lock for us. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, um, just just to its found on that
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Speaker 1: as well. Coming from an HBCU background, it really fuels
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Speaker 1: our fire when it comes to starting this business, growing
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Speaker 1: this business, being entrepreneurs, and having a platform to really
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Speaker 1: inspire and motivate other folks that look like us, that
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Speaker 1: have similar backgrounds as us. I'm sure you know Sean
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Speaker 1: that you know, the black and brown community in business,
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Speaker 1: especially in the tech world, in the entrepreneurial world, we're
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Speaker 1: majorly underrepresented. And so coming from PARKT. Landing University, you know,
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Speaker 1: a HBCU that was founded on the principles of you know,
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Speaker 1: the Christian Church and the ideals of young black men
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Speaker 1: and young black women having all of the same opportunities
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Speaker 1: as as the as their majority counterparts. You know, it's
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Speaker 1: very important for us to reach back to the ABC community,
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Speaker 1: to the Greek community, to our communities that we grew
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Speaker 1: up in and show them that we can make away
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Speaker 1: in tech in business, and we've been able to do that.
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Speaker 1: You know, we're extremely proud of the fact that we
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Speaker 1: built quickly from the ground up without any outside or
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Speaker 1: private funding. We're completely self funded up until this point.
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Speaker 1: You know, we have women on our chief executive board.
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Speaker 1: You know, we have black people on our chief executive
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Speaker 1: board from an h b c U s and we're
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Speaker 1: just very proud of that because we don't see enough
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Speaker 1: people in the market that look like us, and we
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Speaker 1: want to change that. What we would change that now?
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Speaker 1: Now nov are he's been time over in China. Now
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out how he go over to Beijing.
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Speaker 1: He was h b c U beig now and I
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Speaker 1: amn't now now you you you're something else. Talk about
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Speaker 1: that experience because I always tell people, I remember when
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Speaker 1: I left my job and uh ibm to tell jokes,
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Speaker 1: you know, gonna be the next Adye Murphy. But it
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Speaker 1: was a lot of unknown to that and because you
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Speaker 1: don't know when you walk going to next year, you
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Speaker 1: don't know what no known a black man going to China?
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Speaker 1: Why me? Now, I'm very adventurous. I love you know,
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Speaker 1: trying something new, going somethingwhere else that I've never been.
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Speaker 1: And uh, for me, China was was open. Was an
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Speaker 1: open experience for me over my eyes because a lot
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Speaker 1: of things we say, for granted, you know, working uh
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Speaker 1: in the bathroom, eating is things that they don't have.
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Speaker 1: You know, these kids, they're kids when I say, fourteen
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Speaker 1: thirteen years old, working sixteen hour ships NonStop and scared
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Speaker 1: to speak to people. And you come here in America
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Speaker 1: where you know we're they're requiring about eight hour ships
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Speaker 1: or seven hour ships. Uh. And it's a lot of
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Speaker 1: things just say for granted. So that really shifted my
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Speaker 1: paradigm and just changed my way of looking at life,
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Speaker 1: and uh really allowed me to take a lot of
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Speaker 1: things that we take for granted here in the US
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Speaker 1: and to run with it, because you know, I not
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Speaker 1: to not to make that same you know, mistake that
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Speaker 1: I made her have to had that same type of
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Speaker 1: energy or I just want to carry an energy over
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Speaker 1: from China to uh to America, because like I said,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that we take for granted
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Speaker 1: that we could be you know, using to our full
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Speaker 1: advantage here. What when you say that take for granted,
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Speaker 1: you know, because you know, we take air condition for granted.
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Speaker 1: We take a toilet supposed to be a bathroom supposed
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Speaker 1: to be in your house. You know, you know what
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Speaker 1: what what what are some of the things if you said,
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Speaker 1: there's top three things that we take it that we
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Speaker 1: take for granted the United States that we should appreciate
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Speaker 1: more precise democracy? Uh, Like I said, one, like you said,
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Speaker 1: just the bathroom, the way we use the bathroom is
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Speaker 1: totally different. Uh. You know, the comfort. I just said,
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Speaker 1: it's totally different from the China experience and how you
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Speaker 1: use the bathroom, so I use the bathroom here in America.
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Speaker 1: That was just a totally high opener because, like I said,
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Speaker 1: I'm sanitary. You know, our work life schedule, you know,
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Speaker 1: we have work life balanced. Sword to say here in America,
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Speaker 1: where you know, work eight hour shifts, work four hours
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Speaker 1: a weekend, we think, you know, that's you know, good balance.
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Speaker 1: Whereas in China they're working sixty eight hour shifts like
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Speaker 1: it's the norm, and you know they're not even you know,
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Speaker 1: it's coming up for their breaks like thirty minutes. And
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Speaker 1: I go to some of these you know, some of
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Speaker 1: these places I was going to China. You know, these
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Speaker 1: their customers were scared to speed outside of you know,
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Speaker 1: outside of their work because this is what they were stricting,
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Speaker 1: you know, what they had to do. So that kind
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Speaker 1: of just my eyes is just like, man, those things
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Speaker 1: that we take for granted to work hours, how we eat, Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, shower like I said, they're taking showers outside
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Speaker 1: some of them in certain certain places. Uh. And then
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Speaker 1: also like I said, it's it's crazy because in China,
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Speaker 1: is is is a communes place, so you know, just
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Speaker 1: driving cars. They only can have, you know, driving cars
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Speaker 1: six days out of the week. Uh, the seventh day
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Speaker 1: they can't drive because of the population. So it's just
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Speaker 1: a lot of regulations that they have to follow on
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Speaker 1: the bide by that here in America week you know
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Speaker 1: obviously had a free the freedom do whatever we want. Wow,
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Speaker 1: now Mr Pie corporate man talking sir. So that's why
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Speaker 1: I love talking about because you guys, and that's why
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Speaker 1: I feel you guys are gonna be successful because I
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Speaker 1: always tell people, you know, when you've got people with
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Speaker 1: so many different unique ideas and you're willing to compromise
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Speaker 1: and combine those ideas because I look at the international flavor.
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Speaker 1: I don't getting the fall he's international flavor. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's just he's both of you guys went to the
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Speaker 1: HBU school and then you come from a corporate perspective,
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Speaker 1: you know that corporate breath. Explain how that's being an
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Speaker 1: asset to you and building out debuts in the quickly.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely so. You know, I was very fortunate to
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Speaker 1: be able to cut my teeth in the corporate world
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Speaker 1: working for large fortune fifty and fortunate one corporations such
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Speaker 1: as a young man because I started working in the
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Speaker 1: corporate world right out of college two years old. Um,
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Speaker 1: I got got into it and had a lot of
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Speaker 1: responsibility as a young man in a very big pond.
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Speaker 1: And what it what it taught me was a few things.
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Speaker 1: In order to make a company work and thrive, you
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Speaker 1: need collaboration, You need teamwork, You need a diverse set
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Speaker 1: of individuals with different backgrounds, just like you said, you know, Navarre,
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Speaker 1: bring something totally different to quick Lick than I do.
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Speaker 1: And that goes for all of the people on our
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Speaker 1: executive board and just on our team in general. And
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Speaker 1: another thing that getting my start in the corporate world
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Speaker 1: showed me was just to have polished and professionalism. You know,
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Speaker 1: for us as African American men really trying to revolutionize
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Speaker 1: saw you know, the ability to do curve side delivery,
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Speaker 1: online delivery. Have you know Amazon gonna be announcing where
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Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna drone in deliveries to people homes
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Speaker 1: probably in late What impact? They said? Time is everything?
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Speaker 1: Being able to pivot is everything. The covid situation with
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Speaker 1: the launch of your delivery of Quicklick, talk about the
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Speaker 1: advantages of that timing to the positive impact on your business. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so really it was divine time. And to say saying
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Speaker 1: true for I mean we you know said because exceptionalized
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Speaker 1: quickly in two thousand and eleven, it became mount in tea.
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Speaker 1: And when the pandemic happen, you know, hit us all,
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Speaker 1: you know, by a storm. We had to take a
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Speaker 1: step back. We actually shut down operations for two days
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Speaker 1: and kind of get an understanding of what was going
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Speaker 1: on with COVID where we had to put had to
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Speaker 1: make sure all our bluey drivers had mass and loves
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Speaker 1: of the time. But after we got a better understanding
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Speaker 1: of the pandemical was going on and really you know,
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Speaker 1: hit like a light slitch. It became a necessity for
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Speaker 1: all delivery. Especially with everything going on, Customers no longer
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Speaker 1: wanted to you know, make get up off their house
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Speaker 1: and go to the liquor story to get to the bottom.
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Speaker 1: So now having quickly got an option where you know,
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Speaker 1: they can select their best beer wine experience with just
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Speaker 1: a click from their website or from their phone, we
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Speaker 1: made that option and really you know, rambled. We had
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Speaker 1: to make some you know, maneuvers within our business model
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Speaker 1: for but that's the most part. They worked in our
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Speaker 1: favorite that were just divine time and the bus keeping
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Speaker 1: putting their head down. And now that when we looked up,
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Speaker 1: you know, it was just the perfect time and for
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Speaker 1: the pandemic that happening for Quickly, that's wrong. Now with
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Speaker 1: that being said, Okay, when I go to a website
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Speaker 1: that sales literally it says click right here. If you're
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Speaker 1: a team click you know identified. So my number one
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Speaker 1: thought is, okay, who do you don't buy in your
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Speaker 1: liquor that there's a question these deliveries. How do you
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Speaker 1: protect yourself? Mr Piles, Yes, sir so um, that's a
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Speaker 1: great question. And in this business, you know, age verification,
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Speaker 1: we call it age gating, meaning you know, if you're
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Speaker 1: not of age to drink, you can't you can't be
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Speaker 1: on our website, you can't get our product. We don't
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Speaker 1: even want to talk to you over the phone. You know,
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Speaker 1: Quickly has a huge corporate responsibility to make sure that
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Speaker 1: we are being gate keepers, um, to make sure that
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Speaker 1: folks of drinking age, not miners of drinking age, have
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Speaker 1: access to our products. So what we do is we
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Speaker 1: have lots of different age s gating sets in the process.
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Speaker 1: In order to order from myself as soon as you
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Speaker 1: go to our website or as soon as you go
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Speaker 1: to our act, it's gonna ask you before you can
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Speaker 1: even see the website, are you over twenty one years old?
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Speaker 1: That's the first step, and then you can you know,
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Speaker 1: once you verify you are, you can go ahead and
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Speaker 1: browse our inventory, see what you like to order, and
19:14
Speaker 1: before you check out, you have to verify again. And
19:17
Speaker 1: then before our delivery drivers give you the bottles, they're
19:22
Speaker 1: gonna check your I D. So we have at least
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Speaker 1: three steps in our age verification process at all times.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome. Now, so I'm about to talk about coming
19:32
Speaker 1: to Atlanta. I gotta go to the single gul here.
19:34
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sir, you you showed me the ring. So
19:38
Speaker 1: this I know this February campaign and got nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with you. That's all of all right there, that's
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Speaker 1: all I think that for a fact, it would look
19:51
Speaker 1: to because Atlanta. You know, you guys are coming to
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Speaker 1: uh Atlanta February with a campaign called shoot Your Shot.
19:57
Speaker 1: I I it sounds like a lot of and the
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Speaker 1: campaign and getting eyeballs and getting engagement is always the
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Speaker 1: key to make it the happ But talk about the
20:06
Speaker 1: shoot your Shot campaign? Yeah, So like I said, we're
20:09
Speaker 1: assigned to the extends to UH Atlanta. You know, Mi
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Speaker 1: Tell and I both want to Clarkland University, So Atlanta's
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Speaker 1: home for us. And we thought of a dope marketing campaign.
20:18
Speaker 1: Caned shoot your shots amountain time's day? Now it's shoot
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Speaker 1: your shot. It's not just to shoot your shot. You know,
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Speaker 1: you got the girl or the girlfriend and the girls
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Speaker 1: you're gonna maro and there's all sue your shot at
20:30
Speaker 1: businesses and you know, companies and industries that you probably
20:32
Speaker 1: want to you know, you know, pay way for it
20:34
Speaker 1: getting or get into UH. So it's more. It's much
20:37
Speaker 1: more than just shoot your shot for amount of time's day.
20:39
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's the campaign that we're running. Were we
20:41
Speaker 1: sending out emails marketing the last to get the customers engaged?
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Speaker 1: Uh And like I said, we'd love to shoot our shot,
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Speaker 1: you know, in the Atlanta basket and see what transports
20:51
Speaker 1: for me. It's awesome. I there, I'm just gonna let
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Speaker 1: you what they sent me. The ball is at the
20:55
Speaker 1: top of February quickly. Would want to shoot your shot campaign?
20:59
Speaker 1: Were you encourage supporters to send their favorite beverage to
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Speaker 1: their crush and on their crush, not business, not cousin
21:08
Speaker 1: their crushed and on our Valitiz's day Quickly has been
21:11
Speaker 1: operating in South Florida for over a year and we're
21:13
Speaker 1: launch of fishing in Atlanta and February. You know, I'm
21:17
Speaker 1: having fun with you guys, and like I said, I'm
21:19
Speaker 1: just bringing that up and just having more fun. But
21:21
Speaker 1: when I see a good campaign and we know that,
21:24
Speaker 1: and then the month of February especially, valortized that you
21:27
Speaker 1: can't find a restaurant, they also die if you don't
21:29
Speaker 1: have a restaurant on the day of you trying to
21:31
Speaker 1: take your girl out, you can stay home with your girl.
21:34
Speaker 1: And now we're being able to realize that putting that
21:37
Speaker 1: campaign out, what can I do for you? I love
21:40
Speaker 1: to be able to put you on my social media
21:41
Speaker 1: or you're putting banners. What marketing techniques are you using
21:44
Speaker 1: not only nationally because you know, but also in the
21:47
Speaker 1: local Atlanta market that I can help you out with. Oh,
21:51
Speaker 1: that's that's really really great. We would really appreciate that.
21:54
Speaker 1: You know, one thing that we really utilize in order
21:58
Speaker 1: to connect with customers and spread our man says far
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Speaker 1: and wide, is our social media. So we would encourage
22:04
Speaker 1: you as well as all of your followers of your platform,
22:07
Speaker 1: to follow quick Lick on Instagram at quick lick Underscore.
22:11
Speaker 1: We can also be found on Facebook, Uh get quicklick
22:15
Speaker 1: and look on our website www dot gets quick lick
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's www dot get quick lick dot com.
22:23
Speaker 1: We're gonna be doing a very strong media push on
22:28
Speaker 1: our social media platforms, especially Instagram. We're gonna have some
22:32
Speaker 1: creative stories, some fresh content, some interactive content where people
22:36
Speaker 1: can see, you know, recipes and how to engage with
22:39
Speaker 1: our campaigns like shoot your shot and so if you
22:42
Speaker 1: can follow us, you know, repost something that we're doing
22:46
Speaker 1: on our online platform, that would be a huge, huge boom.
22:49
Speaker 1: But you're gonna start to see a lot of great
22:52
Speaker 1: content coming out of the end of this month as
22:55
Speaker 1: we get into February, which is not only the launch
22:58
Speaker 1: of Quicklick in Atlanta, which we're extremely proud and excited for,
23:03
Speaker 1: but also Black History Month. It was it was actually
23:06
Speaker 1: a strategic for us to pick in February because once again,
23:10
Speaker 1: you know, we always want to illuminate the fact that
23:13
Speaker 1: we are a black owned company, you know, operating as
23:17
Speaker 1: a bootstrap, self funded organization. And this day and time,
23:22
Speaker 1: and so we want to pay homage to the people
23:24
Speaker 1: like Dr Martin Luther King into all of the great ancestors.
23:28
Speaker 1: You know that that led the way for us to
23:31
Speaker 1: be able to have a business in a platform like this.
23:34
Speaker 1: What is it important? You know? We uh one man,
23:38
Speaker 1: If you don't understand what each month means, you have
23:41
Speaker 1: you know, you have a Father's Day, got Mother's Day
23:43
Speaker 1: coming up, got Easter, and one of those days in
23:45
Speaker 1: a marketing has to be a tool you used to
23:49
Speaker 1: you know, gain leverage for your brand. You know, you know,
23:51
Speaker 1: Mother's Day, Father's Day, Black Music, Moth in June, all
23:56
Speaker 1: those days means something. So now, strategically, when you guys
24:00
Speaker 1: are sitting down looking at your calendar, how did y'all
24:02
Speaker 1: look at strategy? Like like I said, like you just
24:05
Speaker 1: told me Black History Month. I just talked to Navarre
24:08
Speaker 1: about the Valatives Day. So real, there's two things going
24:11
Speaker 1: on there. You locked strategically in Black History Mond, but
24:14
Speaker 1: you're taking advantage of the relationship. February is also known
24:17
Speaker 1: as a relationship month. So how do you look at
24:20
Speaker 1: strategized and moving forward? You got Miami on lock. You're
24:23
Speaker 1: about to move to Atlanta, Old stomping grounds or fraternity
24:28
Speaker 1: brothers are gonna come to your aid or alumni alumni
24:31
Speaker 1: from from that whole Spellman More House, Clark, Atlanta, It's
24:36
Speaker 1: gonna come to your aid. What's the what's the future
24:38
Speaker 1: of Quickly in the southeast part of the country. Absolutely
24:43
Speaker 1: that that's a that's a wonderful question, and it was
24:45
Speaker 1: actually you lead right into where I wanted to go
24:48
Speaker 1: with the relationships. One of the biggest differentiators for a
24:52
Speaker 1: Quickly versus our competitors is that we are a lifestyle brand.
24:57
Speaker 1: What that means is we go the extra mile to
25:00
Speaker 1: truly connect with our customers and our brand partners and
25:04
Speaker 1: our account partners in a very local and organic way.
25:09
Speaker 1: We don't operate like just a corporate business. Even though
25:13
Speaker 1: I have a corporate background, you know, that's not who
25:16
Speaker 1: we are. We came from the HBCU World Clark in
25:19
Speaker 1: Landing University, where our bands were. You know, you go
25:23
Speaker 1: to homecoming to watch the band, not necessarily the football game, right.
25:27
Speaker 1: We come from the background of having that flavor, that coolness,
25:30
Speaker 1: that slag, and that's how we brand the company as well.
25:34
Speaker 1: So to answer your question, and from a strategic standpoint.
25:37
Speaker 1: We're always looking at how can we transcend just the consumer,
25:43
Speaker 1: the normal corporate consumer interaction and truly differentiate ourselves from
25:48
Speaker 1: our competitors. Well, one of the main ways we do
25:51
Speaker 1: that is by having the shoot your shot campaigns, which
25:55
Speaker 1: resonate with people whether you're in a relationship or single
25:59
Speaker 1: like my man in the bar. You know. We we
26:01
Speaker 1: also look at the calendar, like you said, Roshan in
26:04
Speaker 1: every quarter, we're looking at what's going on, you know,
26:07
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? What what are things that can connect quickly
26:11
Speaker 1: on a real visceral level with our customers because that's
26:16
Speaker 1: the thing about the alcohol industry, and that's why we
26:18
Speaker 1: love it. Alcohol brings people together, whether you're celebrating, whether
26:22
Speaker 1: you're commiserating, you know, whatever you're going through, you can
26:27
Speaker 1: have a libation as long as you're doing it responsibly,
26:30
Speaker 1: and we want to be a connector for that in
26:33
Speaker 1: a in a responsible way. I love because a quickly
26:37
Speaker 1: is not about color. You know, you know, you can
26:40
Speaker 1: every month, you know, uh st Patty's Day. Okay, that's right,
26:46
Speaker 1: that's on your that's a great liquor drinking muk okay.
26:49
Speaker 1: And so that's what I love about it when you
26:51
Speaker 1: look at the diversity and the and the potential explosion
26:55
Speaker 1: of this business, especially COVID. A lot a lot of restrictions,
26:58
Speaker 1: the curb side lifestyle, the touchless delivery, contact delivery, that's
27:05
Speaker 1: people are seeking. Now. I know when I get my
27:08
Speaker 1: car washing, I just drive right on the I just
27:10
Speaker 1: hit my credit card. I don't let nobody come in
27:11
Speaker 1: inside my car no more. And we know that lifestyle
27:14
Speaker 1: it's not going to change, you know, with the vaccination
27:17
Speaker 1: raid and even after you get vaccinated, they tell you
27:20
Speaker 1: still wear a mask, so that means that a lot
27:22
Speaker 1: of procedures are gonna be It's it's I'm just I
27:26
Speaker 1: just want to say congratulations, you know, because a lot
27:28
Speaker 1: of good ideas, the other people tend to get them,
27:32
Speaker 1: and you guys are saying at the cups of a
27:34
Speaker 1: great idea, not just a good idea, a great idea.
27:37
Speaker 1: And I'm just letting you know I developed money making
27:39
Speaker 1: conversations because to me, speaking to YouTube or like you're
27:42
Speaker 1: the stars. You always see your people on the big screen.
27:46
Speaker 1: But you know, you make, you pay taxes, you employ people,
27:49
Speaker 1: you keep this company moving, and more important, as black men,
27:53
Speaker 1: you make us proud and don't stop hanging out in
27:57
Speaker 1: chime with Noval. You know, no, but thank you for
28:04
Speaker 1: coming on Money Making Conversations man. But again, I'm very honest.
28:07
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28:29
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28:41
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28:43
Speaker 1: which you say. Man, thank you, because if we're just
28:45
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28:50
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say, you know, first and foremost,
28:52
Speaker 1: thank you so much for taking the time to speak
28:55
Speaker 1: with us. You know, I have seen your your your
28:57
Speaker 1: videos and heard your podcast and senior reach with folks
29:02
Speaker 1: like Steve Harvey and Stephen A. Smith, And it's just
29:05
Speaker 1: amazing to be in a position to speak to such
29:08
Speaker 1: an accomplished and decorated brother like yourself. So thank you
29:11
Speaker 1: so much for this platform. You know, we're at the
29:13
Speaker 1: point in this company where we're trying to grow this
29:16
Speaker 1: thing big, you know, like I said, we're trying to
29:18
Speaker 1: grow a legacy with quick Lick. And even though we've
29:21
Speaker 1: been self funded to this point, now we are actively
29:25
Speaker 1: and aggressively looking for investor partners to invest in this
29:28
Speaker 1: company because we want to take this thing to the
29:30
Speaker 1: next level. Not just in Atlanta, we want to go
29:33
Speaker 1: We want to cover the whole Southeast. We want to
29:35
Speaker 1: get out to the West Coast at the end of
29:37
Speaker 1: this year. So we have dreams of grandeur and people
29:40
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Speaker 1: like I'm beyond greatful. It allows at his platform to
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30:08
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