All righty. Welcome back to another episode of The Rock Your Brand podcast. Today we are going to be talking about a very, very serious topic.

And it is one that well has been being talked about out there in the

Etsy community but also in the print on demand community and I wanted to

address this I also wanted to talk real talk meaning, you know, Chris and I, we do have trainings around ETSI.

Do we still believe in ETSI? Yes, but are we going to sugarcoat things? No. So we don't want to be well we don't even like to

Classify ourselves as ETSI gurus, but we do, you know, we do have some experience and we have generated a significant

amount of money. I say, we, my wife included included and we are thinking to ourselves what does this mean for

Etsy and the future and is this the death of of Etsy is it the death of ETSI? Is it the death of e-commerce? Because well, I mean, some would argue and say print on demand, yeah, that's part of e-commerce but what about like Amazon they came in and took out a lot of e-commerce websites and businesses or did they I don't know

but what we're gonna do today is we're going to we're going to get to it. We're just going to talk about this openly, honestly, but

also I want to let you guys know I'm giving you a heads up that this is yeah

There is some things happening, but do I look at this as we're just gonna jump ship this is a bad thing?

No I actually think that there's a lot of good in this.

And I've talked about this before because we've always had times when we were selling on Amazon

for several years and there was always always talk of well

Amazon is well it's not what it used to be or Google isn't what it used to be or YouTube isn't what it used to be and then some would argue and say well it's actually better so that's the conversation we're going to have

today but more importantly we are going to be talking about what kind of steps we are taking and are we going to be

jumping ship and I'll tell you right off the off the bat here, no we are not jumping ship and I'll tell you right off the off the bad here. No, we are not jumping ship but we do have a plan and we are going to walk through that plan. I also want to hear from you. I actually did a poll I've got some numbers here that I want to share with you, but I did a poll here on the community tab inside of YouTube and it's pretty interesting, but I would like to know from you right now in the comments, let us know, are you feeling as though your numbers are lower than last year. Just let me know,

show a hands. Let me know in the comments. If you're watching this on the replay, you can always chime in and let us know in the comments. We'd love to hear from you too.

So with that all being said, I've got a lot of notes here that I want to go over because like I said I I spent a little bit of time here going through this for ourselves

but also to kind of like relay this message back to you so you can decide. Is it time for you to hang it up or is it time for you to double down and get down on it as cool and the gangs would say or that they said I believe it was. So Chris Chris why don't you get in here with me and let's start this conversation

you can't say get down on it and then bring me in the room while I'm over here dancing to get down on it.

Sure we can't.

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