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Speaker 2: From a standpoint of technology, right, I'm interested in to
Speaker 2: know like how you guys are adapting to technology and
Speaker 2: how it's changing you know, your business models.
Speaker 3: That's you, Roy, that's me okay.
Speaker 4: So I consider myself the oldest one, yes, and as
Speaker 4: you know, older people don't like that stuff.
Speaker 3: She calls me for every thing. She had to help me,
Speaker 3: how did I get into the airport to go your ticket?
Speaker 3: But we have really we do lean into technology and
Speaker 3: AI and all of that. So one thing that we
Speaker 3: recently did was we talked about earlier y'all asked us like,
Speaker 3: how do we bring our brick and mortar our company
Speaker 3: to like our online so people when they walk in
Speaker 3: the T shop, we can say, what do you want
Speaker 3: your tea to do for you? What's the vibe, what's
Speaker 3: the flavor? All of these things? Where do you want
Speaker 3: to meet you? And we can talk about that. So
Speaker 3: now we have on our site just as simple as
Speaker 3: a little robot that says, okay, click these little buttons
Speaker 3: and it'll tell you the first five blends that you
Speaker 3: need to go purchase, and that has helped us. One
Speaker 3: has increased the cells so much we can go back
Speaker 3: and be like wow, like they actually bought this extra tea,
Speaker 3: and then offer another discount and leaning into it to
Speaker 3: allow technology to be a part of it and take
Speaker 3: things off our plate, because if we think about it,
Speaker 3: we've talked about staffing, we talked about operation and a
Speaker 3: y'all offers where you can take some of this off
Speaker 3: your plate so we don't have to build every landing page,
Speaker 3: we don't have to write every little description or do
Speaker 3: all the little minute things and online orders, click the
Speaker 3: buttons and use it. We don't need to email every
Speaker 3: person back. You have a little assistant right there that
Speaker 3: comes with your Gmail now if you're using Gmail suite,
Speaker 3: and they'll do it for you, like leaning into it,
Speaker 3: learning it and taking like just taking time to let
Speaker 3: allow those things and that takes up having to hire
Speaker 3: an extra person for it. That has really helped us.
Speaker 3: And then I just have to train her to know
Speaker 3: how those systems so that they're affective for us. So
Speaker 3: that's one way that we have used it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, and our whole team has they're all young,
Speaker 4: and we have Square and they teach me how to
Speaker 4: use the square. My team teaches the owner how to
Speaker 4: use the square and so the square.
Speaker 1: That sounds like Auntie.
Speaker 4: But then when I learned it, when I learned it,
Speaker 4: then they change something. Yeah, so weird. They moved the
Speaker 4: button this one right here, So I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: That's an update.
Speaker 3: So seriously, all the line would be out their door
Speaker 3: on Friday. It was me and her working. It's us too,
Speaker 3: because we let our team have summer breaks. We told
Speaker 3: them like y'all get y'all mental health. You want to
Speaker 3: take two weeks here, you want to take two weeks
Speaker 3: we'll be at the shot. So I made it. It
Speaker 3: was an update and she's like, I'm going to be
Speaker 3: on a register today. Okay, then Auntie, you you be
Speaker 3: on a register. I'm be in the back of the house.
Speaker 3: I'm making drinks. You're taking care of the people up front.
Speaker 3: She's like, well, can you come help me with the register?
Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh face, I got you with the updates,
Speaker 3: but knowing how, but it makes it fun and it
Speaker 3: really does grow the company because when customers walk in.
Speaker 3: One thing that surprised us was like they walked in,
Speaker 3: they saw both of us and it was like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, I'm star struck. And we're like, no, we're
Speaker 3: we out here hustling like we got it in us.
Speaker 3: You're gonna see us doing every position at this shop.
Speaker 3: Somebody want to call out, we are there to show up.
Speaker 3: So whether or not we use technology, some things we
Speaker 3: can't replace technology for. We can't replace our personalities. You're
Speaker 3: gonna get that, but we can't replace it. But you're
Speaker 3: gonna get us when you come to the shop. You're
Speaker 3: gonna get us on online and all of that.
Speaker 5: We're low tech over here. Well, I mean we have
Speaker 5: you know, like kind of the same like square point
Speaker 5: of sale system set up. We use the mobile ones
Speaker 5: for our you know, the pop up shops. At this
Speaker 5: point in business, in terms of technology, we're just trying
Speaker 5: to figure out how to enhance our data collection because
Speaker 5: we do so much service to community and we now
Speaker 5: have so many like funders and things with grants, and
Speaker 5: we want to be able to tell the complete story
Speaker 5: of our business. So it's really more like that kind
Speaker 5: of in like research and development right now, trying to
Speaker 5: figure out what tech, what things can we use to
Speaker 5: be able to collect as much data as we can
Speaker 5: to be able to tell a better story of who
Speaker 5: we are.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, I've become an AI bought. Some
Speaker 6: of my team members call me Kika bot. I love AI.
Speaker 6: I remember when chat GPT first came out, you guys
Speaker 6: know TJ, Me and TJ were on Zoom every single day,
Speaker 6: like playing with prompts like when it first came out.
Speaker 6: And so now she's like, hey, look what I did.
Speaker 6: I'm like, how the did you do this? So for me,
Speaker 6: it's it's helped. It's like the kryptonite that I needed.
Speaker 6: I think as human, this sounds so bad. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: Shout out to AI, shout out to Square. But it's
Speaker 6: actually made me like a super woman because the things
Speaker 6: I lacked now I can get from AI to attached
Speaker 6: to what I so like as a creator, I'm creative.
Speaker 6: I can create a business from scratch. Strategy, I can
Speaker 6: create from scratch. But how do I make sure this
Speaker 6: strategy is going to lead to millions? Oh that's a prompt.
Speaker 6: Make sure it leads to millions? And actually that's what
Speaker 6: I did. I built black Box franchising using chat GBT
Speaker 6: prompts and I reverse engineered. So this is how much
Speaker 6: I want to make the first year? Now, how do
Speaker 6: I do this? Give me all the steps? I follow
Speaker 6: the steps. We got there after four months and I'm
Speaker 6: not making this up. So it's like it's it's really
Speaker 6: helped me a lot.
Speaker 1: I don't want to sell.
Speaker 6: I feel like I'm on a commercial.
Speaker 1: It's my best friend. Is this really her? Me?
Speaker 6: Guys, I saw your shout out to your last episode.
Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, that's not her, this is not me.
Speaker 6: But no, I encourage everyone to embrace it because if
Speaker 6: you still don't know what we're talking about, it's already
Speaker 6: like kind.
Speaker 2: Of too late.
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