Hi, Marine team. So my name is David and I'm in the UK right now.

I would please need some advice with wooing influencers.

So I'm a sports artist and a few years ago I did a project where I was painting athletes and movers of all kinds.

And then before I would paint someone, I would DM them ask them for the permission.

Then usually after they saw it, they loved it, asked if I could send them the painting.

And most of the times I did.

And after I sent it, a lot of the times there was like just dead silence or it's not even that they didn't

share it or anything sometimes they even acknowledged that they received it like sometimes i didn't

know if it got lost in the post um and it left quite a bitter taste in my mouth so i know there's

potential there i know there's other artists who've done

similar things and like one of the, a big athlete picked it up and, you know, it really kicks

out of their career and I know there's a lot of potential there. I've just for like two years

held myself back because I just, I don't want to put myself in that position where I feel like

I'm not taking advantage of because I initiate it but I wanted to I don't know be reciprocated or I don't

know just feel like it's worse because sometimes I'd literally go into minus like only have I

spent a week doing this but then I'm paying my last money to ship it across the world to you.

And, yeah, I just felt a bit disappointed by my efforts.

Yeah.

What advice you have.

Of course.

I have so many things to share.

I can see Licia coming at it.

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