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here's another day in the life of a
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freeze Drive business owner I'm David
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and I have a freeze drrive business here
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in Idaho if you're familiar with this
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YouTube channel you know it's all about
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freeze drying freeze drying as a
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business and there's a Valentine's Day
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event over at a winery here in the
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boisey area and this Winery has bought
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from me for a long time and so I wanted
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to make sure I supported them for their
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kind of local Valentine's Day bizaar so
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they're going to have music they're
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going to have all types of activities
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then they're going to have some vendors
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inside which makes it kind of nice
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getting out of the elements here in
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winter time all right so since this is
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such a small event let me just show you
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the kind of the key things that I've got
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as well as I don't really have that much
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product I I don't see it being a a a big
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seller type of event just more of a way
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to get kind of local branding and local
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awareness but also hopefully make a
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couple hundred bucks maybe worth my
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while so most of you are familiar or
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you've purchased these These are from
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Costco you can get these types of totes
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and it's a really great uh little tote
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to put all your product in now as you
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can see here I've got ice cream ice
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cream sandwiches I can do that because
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I'm in a commercial kitchen and if you
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want to explore that then get into a
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commercial kitchen and you can get into
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the TCS types of items so I've got ice
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cream I've got ice cream sandwiches and
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then over here I've got some caramel
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M&M's that I'm going to do this was a
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big hit in the holiday time so I've got
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that these totes are collapsible and it
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makes it really nice to where when I'm
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at the event I've got my table set up I
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can actually slide these underneath my
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my little tablecloth and it makes it
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just really nice to be able to carry a
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lot of products and not have these big
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totes all the time now speaking of
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things to put into your booth and at
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your table I'm not going to have a big
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canopy this is an indoor event so I've
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got a table here and then I've also got
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a pegboard that I use and I'll show that
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to you when I get to the event of how I
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arrange it I I've also got some other
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videos that I've shared about events and
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showed what type of peg board I've got
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it cost me about $150 to get it off of
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Facebook Marketplace somebody else was
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selling who used to be a vendor and so
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that's a great place to find uh used
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products as well so let me just show you
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what I've got here so this is a folder
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that I've got all of my menus from the
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holidays now I'm just going to keep the
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prices the same I know that there's you
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know some holiday specific Graphics but
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you know I didn't want to have to
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reprint any types of uh printed items
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now one other thing that I always bring
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with with me is my sellers permit as
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well as my food establishment permit
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just because if there's any questions
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that uh someone has about my business or
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anything like that it's just always good
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to kind of have documentation that you
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have credibility about your business
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especially when you're selling food
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items so that's what I've got there let
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me let me show you what else I've got in
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this uh more supplies
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tote so in here I'm actually going to be
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bringing some samples and so I've got
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different samples of my blueberries
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pineapple things like
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that um I've also got some freeze-dried
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strawberries and if you're wondering if
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these get soft they don't actually um
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you can actually use these for the
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entire day um and usually I sell out of
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all the stuff anyway that I'm sampling
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now I've got some really cheap plastic
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bags to put the products in I would
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advise having these for your customers
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they're always looking for ways to carry
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it around especially at a
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Bazaar I've got my microphone for any
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type of video capture that I want to do
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on my phone if you don't have one of
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these wireless mics these are really
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handy this is what I'm using right now
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with my phone is I've got actually a
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microphone right here and I've got a mic
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thing that's attached to my iPhone that
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I'm shooting this on this is only about
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I think 20 bucks on Amazon I'll put a
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link in the video description here if
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you want to buy it this has been really
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handy it's wireless and it comes with
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two mics so uh pretty long lasting it
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lasts probably three hours the mic so so
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it just charges from a you a regular
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just kind of USB and micro USB so that's
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what I've got there and let's take a
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look at this so I've got my my uh fabric
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that is my tablecloth for my business
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freeze dry Depot I've got a charger for
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my phone I've got some wax paper that I
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use for uh putting samples on I didn't
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have any sample cups at this time so I'm
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just going to use wax paper to put it on
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and I've also got some hole a hole punch
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so that I can put it the bags and punch
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some holes in the bags so I can hang it
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now this is more of the business side so
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I've got my business cards here and if
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you haven't purchased business cards or
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you're looking for a way to design them
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that's really easy I use zazzle.com it
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they usually have great discounts and
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they also offer some free shipping if
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you get above I think like 75 or $100
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worth which is really about 300 business
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cards worth I give a business card out
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to every single customer and it has my
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website address on it as well as my
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Social Links and my email and phone
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number so just really good way to
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connect with customers I've got pins in
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here I've got scissors extra batteries
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screwdriver and I've also got some tape
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so a lot of good stuff to put into your
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bag hey one other thing too is if you're
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not familiar with square this is a
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square reader and there's a lot of
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different other payment systems that you
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can use I've just found that square has
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very easy to use and this one comes one
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with a component where you can put it
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into your phone um I think like iPhone
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11 or higher and then also it has a card
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reader which has been really nice I
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rarely actually use the one that goes
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into your phone I just use the chip
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reader because it's easy and uh it's
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easy to transaction all connects to an
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app on your phone and if you want more
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information about the square payment
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system I've got a link in the video
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description where I've got some links to
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buy this reader off of Amazon but you
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can also buy the whole Square app and
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all the different types of components
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through square.com all right I'm going
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to pack all this up we're going to leave
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and go to the winery and I'll shoot some
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video of how I'm going to do the setup
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there all right we're here at the Indian
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Creek Winery this is the local vendor
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that I have selling a lot of my products
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during the spring summer and fall months
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they've been fantastic and they've
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basically bought all my products since I
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started selling wholesale so I want to
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contribute to them by attending this
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Valentine's Day bizaar and they've got a
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bunch of tables and it's going to be a
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really cool event but this is the winery
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and so I wanted to just kind of give you
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a view of what we're experiencing here
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so that if you're not from Idaho well
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this is a taste of what we have to offer
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here wine is actually becoming very
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popular here in the boisey area there's
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an area called Caldwell Idaho they got a
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bunch of Wineries and so we're really
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starting to kind of grow in that
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segment one of the cool Parts about
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being a local business is it doesn't
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really matter how big or small you are
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you get to do the things that you want
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to do and one of the things that I like
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to do in my business is really help out
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the people that are buying from me
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because they helped out at the very
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beginning and this is a really cool
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Winery now it's not as big as some of
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the big wineries in Idaho but it's ran
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by a local family husband and wife and
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they do a lot of cool events at this
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area they've got great shade cover so in
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the spring the summer they've got all
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types of bands and wine tastings and all
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type of events so this is a great event
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that's part of the thing with running a
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business no matter whether you're in
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freeze drying or something else you know
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you get to be in the driver's seat of
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where you want to be to Showcase your
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business what you want to sell and who
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you want to be your identity because
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that's what's really going to matter and
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especially when we're seeing a lot of
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people get into the freeze drying candy
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business specifically it can seem like
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it's a very saturated Market and that is
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partly the case because there's a lot
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more competition there's a lot more
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people doing it it's very easy to get
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into it right we all have to just buy a
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freeze dryer and then we can put in some
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Skittles and we can start selling it
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because you can be in cottage food for
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pretty much any state in the country but
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the thing that's going to really
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differentiate you is what type of events
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you do who you're making connections
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with who you're building relationships
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with and you can build that for however
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long you want to you can grow your
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business to be a full-time job where you
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have employees you can do it like me
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where you have a full-time job but you
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also are doing this on the side and just
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having fun with it it can be whatever
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you want to do be so let's take a look
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inside of the Indian Creek Winery and
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I'll show you what it's all
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all right so we're at the booth and I
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wanted to show you guys the Square
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Reader so this is the square reader and
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then when you open up the app to be able
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to transact all of your different items
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that you're going to sell before the
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event you're going to want to put them
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into different categories so I've got
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candy fruit ice cream and Taffy because
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I had different types of Taffy flavors
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at one of the larger events this past uh
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holiday season but it's very easy Once
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you categorize it you're going to select
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the item and so when someone says Hey I
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want those Charleston shoes you're going
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to select the item it's going to be
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added to the card so then you review the
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sale and then if you set it up
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beforehand it can actually do your state
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tax for you and so that way when the
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customer is charged it's actually for
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$9.54 it collects that tax for you so
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you don't have to have that at the very
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end you charge it and then it says tap
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so they would tap tap their credit card
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and that's easy as it is and then they
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can either get an email receipt or you
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can do also a text receipt but that's
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how easy this report is and then also at
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the vent you can see how you're doing it
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so let's go to more then you can go to
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reports and you can see in sales how
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you've been doing already today so I've
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already sold four average sale prices
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has been uh two items each and I already
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made that much today already so that's
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how easy the Square Reader is so if you
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want learn more go ahead and go to the
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video description of this video and then
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I have some links to square as well as
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process I leave when I'm hungry and
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D if Moon I don't kill me live Till
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die we're a couple hours into the
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Valentine's Day Bazar that I'm here at
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the Indian Creek Winery here in Cuna
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Idaho I hope you've really enjoyed this
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video of My Life as a freeze Drive
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business owner it's really started to
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fill out here there's a lot of cars as
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you can see in the distance in their
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parking lot here's the winery where they
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make all and get all the grapes and
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things like that and then here's the
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back side of where all the stuff is
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happening like I showed you you know
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they have blue grass what an awesome
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band I actually to fun fact about me is
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I actually grew up playing the fiddle I
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played in the National oldtime Fiddlers
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contest in Weezer Idaho I actually
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placed fourth place in the small FR
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division played for about good 10 years
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just uh can still pick it up can still
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play a couple songs but just not as
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polished as I used to be and I actually
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played the banjo too and uh man hearing
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that bluegrass music man it just makes
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me want to get back into it again I was
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telling my wife who's here as well that
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maybe I should just start getting
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lessons again and start picking that up
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because man it's just I love bluegrass
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it's just a Soulful American type of uh
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genre of music well I hope you have
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enjoyed this day in the life like I said
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and uh if you are starting a freeze
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drying business try to support your
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local community and give back just like
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everyone is to you you and uh you know
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try out these different events small and
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large this small event that I've been
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doing here in just in a few hours I've
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made a couple hundred bucks probably
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about $311 last time I checked and so
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it's brought you know what you know
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maybe $100 an hour which is totally
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worth it for just getting out there and
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getting your brand exposed and if you're
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going to do a small event like this it
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actually could benefit you over the
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larger events because everyone's here
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for a purpose so everyone's taking a
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look at every single individual vendor
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and I've noticed that really almost I've
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made a sale on every single person
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that's come here so hey if you like what
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you're seeing and you like kind of
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seeing the intricacies of My Life as a
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free strip business owner here in Idaho
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I encourage you to take a look at the
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next video coming up which is going to
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be another episode that I shared earlier
