like hello gorgeous people today i'm broadcasting live from my car you know i just had a thought and
i just wanted to make a video about this i hate tiktok and i hate youtube shorts i've done it a
few times and i hate the videos on there and i hate just kind of you know it just brings into
this weird mess of so-called entrepreneurial gurus that scare us because they're liars and
they're scammers primarily the people on tiktok saying oh you can make five to ten thousand dollars
a month doing this treating links posting stuff on perhaps bpt and turning out terrible articles
i'm sorry but you can't do any of these people know how to make five to ten quid of the month
doing anything apart from creating scam courses to luring vulnerable naive people who think that
they can make a hundred grand a year by treating links and stuff i'm sorry you can't and it's
unrealistic and they all they're doing is selling stupid bloody courses that cost hundreds if not
even a couple of thousands of dollars it reels me it's just it viles me that these people are
getting reeled in basically 2015 i set my own supplement ground and i know how hard it is
to set up a company you get an account rent your register that comes to your house you've got us
to ask for the keys of paying the techney just like it's never ending running your own business
and these people think that they can just lure people in and scam them and it just makes me
so much and it's tick tock but these are so much vulnerable and naive and oh my god
as i was talking about today i'm going to remember of two instances where someone two so-called
businessmen tried to scam me scam me the first time was when i was looking for a mentor
if you cast your mind back poor little naive sweet little me seven years ago looking for
business mentor i met someone i wish i could make his name actually at a private members club
in central london he arranged to meet me that's like the first red flag never never never there's
a private members club for men it was so it was opulent it wasn't like a seedy adult confess
it was really opulent like oh my god just there were it was called the the dutch one indian
oh my god i can't remember anyway all of the the staff there were dressed in naturally in white
and he felt i felt really quite small actually and he paid a fortune for these coffees that
we're having and biscuits and then proceeded over the next couple of weeks to bombard me with
messages as to why i should work with him which is what a mentor should never do and then secondly
the second anyway obviously he wasn't my mentor the second time i was in a scam was when i wanted
to grow my business especially in india oh my god just thinking about memories so with it really
works vitamins it could mess up to make companies we had a huge customer base in india but there
were two main problems that i had my hair doesn't look good there were two main problems that i had
indian customs took absolutely ages to to release my product because they were tablets
and secondly our customers were spending third customs fees of like 50 pounds 60 cents a pound
and the product itself is 90 pounds so it was actually a hefty customs fee so he told me he's
just going to be able to take this all away have a distribution network you pay upfront for the
customs but you'll just take the customs anyway and i said oh my god this is amazing he was excused
to me by a um a contact at a quite prestigious organization here in the uk so i just automatically
him and i there was just something that didn't feel quite right when i messed up with him for a
coffee my laptop wasn't logging on and i had made the presentation and my laptop just was not logging
on and he just started swearing and i could not believe that in a personal situation like man i
don't know he's like swearing and anyway i ignored it and then i also then it was fine he
presented a contact for me i was like this person looks good ask other people but you know interested
people does this contact look okay everyone agreed it looks okay and then i was getting ready to go
on holiday um so i was packing getting stuff ready for myself my husband blah blah blah and i just
thought i'm not going to sign this in a rush because i know know how important it's finding contracts so i took it on holiday and he emailed me no i emailed him to say oh sorry i've just
gone on holiday um i'm not i haven't signed it yet and he went back in capital but speaking to
me as if i was a small child why haven't you signed this in caps and i was like then i decided to start
googling reviews of this company which i had done before but i had found his sort of company based
in india had one star reviews and i thought that it's not the same company is it anyway
i then started digging deeper and i found one person that had um dealt with him before and
he was his customer i spoke to her on the phone oh my god i still remember this because i was
abroad in croatia and she said she spent seven thousand pounds to get something through customs
and it's not nothing happening and i was like this is a scam and i cut him off i went okay
i've got my past hurts thinking about it um he sent me really long emails long voicemails
i've got all of this by the way still i saved it um and it was really intimidating
so just it's quite a long story but obviously i did not but going back to tiktok these people
are actually really dangerous these people that you're already kind of in a vulnerable position
when you want to set up your own business because you're learning stuff as you go you're learning
everything as you go marketing everything to do with accounting just everything running a website
that makes it that's optimized you're in a vulnerable position and you're obviously exhausted
and probably understaffed and these people really get in and they try and get you to pay
for stuff that you don't need they kind of get you over a barrel whatever the phrase is
so just be extremely careful whether they're on tiktok whether they've been introduced to you
in real life i just just want to get the message out there because all of this stuff
dresses me up there's tons of and i don't want anyone i wouldn't wish my worst enemy that
especially the second guy well both of them really guys i'm going to love you and leave you
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