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Real Love, Real Life
EP 2: Stay-at-Home Mom Turned Content Queen
How do everyday people turn TikTok into a six-figure business? Jasmine did it with zero budget, tons of heart, and a whole lot of authenticity.
After working exhausting jobs at Amazon and call centers and getting rejected from hundreds more, Jasmine turned to TikTok as a creative outlet. For two years, she posted consistently just for fun. No followers. No money. Just real, unfiltered life.
Then everything changed.
One honest shapewear review, complete with a before-and-after shot, went viral and brought in nearly $100K in commission sales. That single moment launched brand deals, paid travel, and a full-blown business that now supports her entire family.
“You’re gonna talk smack anyway… might as well get paid for it,” she laughs.
If you’ve ever dreamed of turning your content into income, this episode is packed with practical tips, real talk, and inspiration to get you started.
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hi guys, we're back. Welcome to real love, real life podcast. A lot of you guys have been asking me all about my social media growth. How does TikTok shop work? I'm spilling the tea today. I hope that you can take all of this information and really use it to yourself, you guys. There is money out there for everyone, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's crazy. I've seen it firsthand. Didn't really believe it at first. I mean I know you like started recording yourself and all that, but after years of hard work and then you see it pay off.
Speaker 1:It's truly life-changing and it's crazy, we're here what do you think like be on completely honest with me in the beginning, when I was like cooking and I knew nothing about social media and I was like trying to record, did you really think that we would be where we are today?
Speaker 2:Not really, because I mean, I was just working. Obviously, you know how to start the detail business to, you know, not only attribute from my trade job. So I was just so focusing on taking care of bills and providing for you guys. That it's not that I didn't pay attention to it, it was just like I know you like to do it, to express yourself and stuff like that. So I was just like holding it down, grinding while you're, you know, being yourself, and that's crazy. How being yourself has, you know, brought you to this big community. You know people supporting you being by your side through the ups and downs, even in times like this, where a lot of people are, you know, politically divided and from our culture standpoint, it's like, you know, we have ties over there, we have ties here, but you know we love, you know what this place has blessed us with and the hard work you put in for it to finally pay off and literally change our lives in real time. Yeah, it's unbelievable, huh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think when you say, like you know, just watching me, like be myself, I think that's like the first thing I actually had in mind to bring up. Anytime somebody asked me like what do I do first, or what, what do I record, I always say I'm like be yourself be yourself like there is somebody that's going to watch anything.
Speaker 1:Right, there's like people scroll all day for hours and hours and hours. People will stay for a cooking video, an asmr video, a otg video, like anything. There is something out there for everybody. If you just be yourself, you're going to find your community. People are going to, some people are going to love it, some people are going to hate it yeah but that that's like.
Speaker 1:I think that's the beauty of it all, honestly. Um, and some people also ask me, what about the hate or the negative things that? People have to say about you when you are being yourself and I'm like, well, that kind of comes with it. You know, I feel like if you're not willing to take some heat yeah it's, it's definitely not for you, because you have to.
Speaker 1:You have to take that like it's it comes comes with social media. There's a lot of mean people hiding behind a screen, um, but the people that are there for you and literally look for you every day, like those people, make up for all of the bad comments and all of the negativity in social media yeah so I know that you have some questions for me, so I'll let you get started.
Speaker 2:So I'm pretty sure the majority of the people are asking hey Jasmine, what were you doing before TikTok?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I get that a lot. Um. So obviously, right before TikTok I was a stay at home mom, but there's like more to that. So six years ago I came to arizona from mexico. I lived in mexico and as soon as I got here I started working at goodwill but the thrift store, but that was not. Obviously, that was not enough. I was making like 10, 11 an hour. Um, so I was like I have to, I need something else. Again, like we said in the last episode, my sister gave me a year to move out of her house.
Speaker 1:I needed to get the show on the road. So, I applied to Amazon. I was working at Goodwill during the day, Amazon at night Literally was a zombie. And finally, when I moved out, I got a job at this call center with like mortgage assisting. It was literal hell like obviously I was there because of the pay like a call center pays decent so it made up for, like my amazon job and goodwill yeah but it was a nightmare, like people are so mean yeah, there's some vicious people and and then you're dealing with the most important thing that like somebody has like other than like your kids and stuff, like your home, your mortgage.
Speaker 1:So when and they're not somebody's not calling a call center because they're happy if somebody's calling a call center. It's because there's a problem right, there's an escalation and so that was bad. Anyways, I got through that. I was there for three years maybe. Uh, I became a stay-at-home mom, but things got really tight and then I went back to Amazon for like two weeks and they only had night shift and it was. It was terrible.
Speaker 2:I couldn't do night shift again.
Speaker 1:I just, I just couldn't do it. So, um, then I was a stay-at-home mom again, but I was looking for jobs.
Speaker 2:Remember I applied over, like to over like a hundred jobs literally all day long home depot like I was like a work shift applying. They're like hey, I'm gonna pay you to apply for eight hours to ten hours a day I was.
Speaker 1:I was like on my laptop for hours and hours and hours a day. Nobody would call me and I didn't know why. Then now I'm like God had a plan for me the entire time Like and he probably knew like this girl is all over the place that if I give her a job she's going to stop posting or she's not going to post as consistent, and then she's not going to go viral, and then she's not going to live the life of her dreams.
Speaker 1:so he didn't let me get a job, which thank him, thank the lord um, and yeah, so that's what I was doing. I was doing a lot of warehouse and call center, all that just getting by until this hit off yeah.
Speaker 2:So would you say like basically, like the struggle helped you. You know, manifest all this Because obviously you're making, like TikToks are fun. But somewhere along the line you had to like be like OK, maybe I could try to make some money on this. Or like, how were you introduced to the TikTok? Shop like that or how to make money in general on TikTok, like how were you introduced to the TikTok shop, like that, or how to make money in general on TikTok.
Speaker 1:You know, when I was posting on TikTok, I never once You're going to think like, oh my, or people are going to think like BS. I was posting I didn't know how people like would get paid on it. I used to think that you had to be this like huge creator or, you know, like those influencers already with millions and they have like all these like sponsors and all this stuff. I thought that that was it. I didn't know that you could get like paid for views um, and I think.
Speaker 1:Well, my first, my first, like tiktok check was for views. It didn't have anything to do with shops, I don't think even.
Speaker 1:It was for views. I'm cutting up some limes I'm like making myself like a lemonade, I think and I was so emotional. I was pregnant at that time but we lost that baby. I was so emotional because my sister didn't come to my baby shower, so I had to get it out. I had to get it out and I start remember, I start ranting on the video and I'm like this is why I'm never gonna have a baby shower again.
Speaker 2:Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:And I'm like just going at it and then I upload the video and I'm like whoops, like yeah, I forgot about that video, that video. I go to bed and then I I wake up, you're working out of town and the freaking video has like two million views and I'm like overnight. Well, yeah, I'm like. Well, my sister saw that already, oopsie.
Speaker 1:Um yeah so and and then followers like I was I was getting so many followers of people were like don't worry, we're, we're your internet sisters now. And this isn't that like. I was just like. I was like Whoa, like what is happening? And a month goes by and I start seeing that there's like rewards which when I had hit 10k, yes, I had joined the creator rewards program, but again, I didn't know. Nobody taught me any of this. Tiktok was still kind of new, so I didn't know anything about this, I didn't google it anything. So like a month later, when I see payout on the 15th, I think I had made like eighteen hundred dollars which that was like crazy I mean, we did, we diy'd our backyard with that money that's true like that's.
Speaker 1:That's insane. Like it wasn't enough money to pay landscapers to come and redo our backyard, but, um, we had money to go and buy all the supplies and we put in the work, and we also made a video about that, which, by the way, got a lot of hate because it wasn't perfect yeah, it wasn't perfect, but um, and then I just I kind of started noticing like hey, like I'm, I'm being myself and it's, it's working it's paying off and then every month I was just getting like a little check again.
Speaker 1:It still wasn't like anywhere near what I make now, but it was like a little bit of money and I was like okay.
Speaker 1:So then I started understanding, hey, like you're getting some heat, but but you have your little starbucks money right there and stuff so then I started posting like literally like what would come to my mind, like I'd be in my car and I would be either upset about something or really happy about something, and I talk about it yeah, I talk about it like if I was talking to one of my friends, and that's how I started making money off views. Um, I think your video has to be over a minute long, yeah, um, then you start getting paid for every thousand views yep something like that all the qualifications yeah, you have to like meet certain stuff, uh, but that's one way to to make some extra cash, like on social media, like on tiktok um for views.
Speaker 1:So who cares about the likes? That's why it doesn't matter if people are hating on your video. It doesn't matter you stayed and you viewed it.
Speaker 2:You're paying me yep, if you stood, if you stayed for five seconds.
Speaker 1:Thank you thank you, even if you didn't like it.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry you didn't like it what were, like the first struggles you had on tiktok shop? Like obviously you started to like accumulate a little money here and there, okay, but like was there a time that you're like, even though you're making a little bit of cash, you're like this is hard. Like did you hit any bumps on the road?
Speaker 1:Yes, I feel like in the beginning people didn't really trust TikTok shop.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Until this day, I still feel like I come across people that are like oh, I've never bought anything from there, like I feel like they're going to take, like my bank information and this is like they don't know that it's like it's another shop, like that's what it is. But in the beginning people didn't trust it.
Speaker 1:So I was very discouraged in the beginning. I was like what is this? Like it, I feel like it was also making like my regular videos, like my non-shoppable videos, like it was making my views kind of tank and it was stressful. Um, obviously I wanted to succeed on TikTok shop, so I started posting like a lot of TikTok shop videos and then it was like some people were like, oh, all you do now is like post TikTok shop. But it wasn't. You know, I still I still post personal videos, um, cooking videos, things like that. Um, but people, you know I I started getting like some hate and some views were going down and, um, I think I was like in the beginning kind of like losing followers and it was a little bit discouraging. I even thought of getting out of the affiliate program thing, but thank goodness that I didn't and it worked out.
Speaker 2:So for someone to start up, how, like the trials and tribulations you went through, what game could you give them on starting up? Obviously, they're going to have struggles of their own, but if you could like get their foot in the door and they can start monetizing and stuff like that, what would your like let, uh, what would you? What advice would you give them?
Speaker 1:stay consistent. Um, don't don't let like the low views or the low likes. Things like that discourage you, Because sometimes people will watch your video and you'll convince them to buy it and sometimes those people aren't going to like or comment. Yeah, they're just going to go straight to buy it, they're all action.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, maybe like those likes that you have are like from the people that are already following you, and but they didn't buy. So what do you want? You want people to buy Right, like. So who really cares? Like sometimes? Sometimes I post to talk shop videos and they'll have like 20 likes. And then later in the day I'll go and you know you could sell 50 of those items. So I'm like it doesn't really matter, because either way a Tik TOK shop video disqualifies your video from um like the monetization.
Speaker 2:So either way, you got to pick one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, either way, like, even if your video like was a hit and you got millions of views on it, they're still not going to pay you for it because you made it an ad. Yeah, um, so just don't like, stop focusing on the views like, or the views, or the the likes, things like that just keep posting, you're gonna find your shoppers.
Speaker 2:So what would you say, like, how did you find that first product to pop off? Because I'm pretty sure, like sometimes I be posting videos and I don't ever make a sale on it. But you know, all of a sudden I sell a pair of headphones, but I've made that video six months ago, versus the last video of, you know, the valentino. I'm like man, that was a good video, but I didn't sell nothing but these headphones that I made. One video of six months ago made a sale today. So it's like, were you just like consistently trying new things, or did you know, like, what area to focus in?
Speaker 1:Well, I was consistent. And then I my first, my first, I would say like sample, because you can get samples. Um was OQQ, yeah. So they were sending me. I always say I'm like that's the first brand, that like believed in me. They would send me things and I wouldn't make a sale.
Speaker 2:But I think they just kind of knew when you're like basically like a no name yeah.
Speaker 1:They saw something that, like they saw something in me that nobody else did, and they were sending me a couple things nothing, nothing. Um, they send me this bodysuit. I literally have it on right now what a coincidence not this one, but, like you know, this same style yeah uh, and I make a video. I made a video in january about Kind of same, like you said.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Nothing, okay. You know I was it wasn't new to me Like I would post things and it wouldn't even get likes. It wouldn't get nothing, no sales, okay. And then in May, one day my phone starts getting all of these notifications. It was like May 20th.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And my phone's getting all of these notifications. It was like May 20th, yeah, and my phone's getting all these notifications. That video that I had posted in January was getting all kinds of comments likes all of this stuff.
Speaker 1:People ask me for the size and I was like, oh my God, I need to get my butt into one of those body suits and go and do a comment reply. So I heard those do really good, the comment, the video comment replies. So I I think it was like the day after that I, I get ready, I didn't have anything to do, but like I curl my hair and I do my makeup and I record myself in the bathroom and and I'm talking about the body suit, and you know, it's this size, this this and that I post it again that day.
Speaker 1:No sales, but OK, you know, the first video from January was getting a lot of traction.
Speaker 2:I was like OK maybe we're getting somewhere.
Speaker 1:I go to bed on like May 21st or something like that, and then I wake up the next day and that video, the video, the comment reply had like two million views.
Speaker 2:Dang Overnight.
Speaker 1:Overnight.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:And the other one had like one million views.
Speaker 2:Wow so.
Speaker 1:So I was like OK, and that video again was it was old, it's kind of like what you're saying, like it was. It was months old. It's kind of like what you're saying, like it was, it was months old and I I didn't even know like really how to maneuver like the tiktok shop, like you know, all of your like analytics, all of that. So I I go, I find that and I have like four thousand dollars or something in there. Remember I came to the back.
Speaker 2:I thought it was running to the back and I was don't get excited.
Speaker 1:I was like, but TikTok is saying that I just made $4,000. And you looked like you didn't know what to do. You were like, is she pranking me? And I was just like refreshing it and refreshing it and like sales and sales and sales. It was crazy. Eventually the bodies had sold out.
Speaker 2:I sold it out, wiped them out clean. Yeah, every size, every color every size every color, from c to signing c sold out baby sold out.
Speaker 1:Well, um, I mean, that's when, oku, like, they flew me out to la and um with a plus one and everything, which, by the way, I didn't take you, um, but your sister gotta go. Uh, that was my first time on a flight, by the way that was crazy, huh yes, and it was paid by OQQ. Shout out to wow um, so yeah, that was wait.
Speaker 2:That was your first flight ever, or no?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, that was my first flight so not overnight success, but success.
Speaker 2:But like two videos hit and now you're flying to LA.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What a plus one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they paid for everything Like they. And when we got there, princess treatment Dang, there was a rack of clothes and were like oh, both like your sister thought it was like just me, so she was just standing right there and they're like oh, like you know, get stuff.
Speaker 2:They gave her like a little luggage when you got that little orange briefcase thing. Yeah, that was awesome gave her one they definitely like, made it special for you guys because, I think that wave, that when that hit like they were going crazy oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 1:It was insane. People were commenting like please let me know when they're back in stock.
Speaker 2:This isn't that so that was for a while too. People were like are you guys back in stock?
Speaker 1:yeah, till this day, so you can go on your thing and see, like at the end of the day it'll show you everything you sold, how many pieces, um, what's your commission, what was your GMV Like the total amount of like sales, and you can see exactly what video made the sale to this day, uh, over a year later, that video still sells. It has sold every single day for over a year, that's crazy saturday and sunday, like it does not every single day it has made sales you need to go make another video yeah, that's funny okay.
Speaker 2:So obviously you're like you, your experience. You've been in the game a little bit. Now, looking back, what mistakes did you make and the lessons that you learned that you can tell people like hey, don't go this route or avoid this.
Speaker 1:I would say Stop caring what other people think. I think in in the beginning. That's what was stopping me in the beginning. I didn't want to go all out there like I had already made bodysuit videos, but I was making the video with the bodysuit already on it wasn't catchy. It wasn't like okay thanks you have a bodysuit on, like there's scroll, um, then that video, the one that till this day still gets me paid um I, I was I can never say the word vulnerable vulnerable yes, I literally like I showed um my skin.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I was changing and I have the bodysuit up here and you know, I'm showing my stomach and I'm like, hey guys, it does this. And then people are like wow.
Speaker 2:Like minions Wow.
Speaker 1:Yes, like that. But so when I looked back, I really really like to look at, like my analytics and stuff like I, I want to know exactly what I did that caught your eye. Um, I go back and watch my hooks, stuff like that, and so you'll see that I do a lot of repetitive stuff but, those are the videos that like I'll sell, like I maybe it's so annoying to some people.
Speaker 1:Or sometimes, when I like you're scrolling and I overhear like my videos, I'm like, oh, like, turn it down. I cannot like hear myself because I'm like guys or there's just no way yeah but like again it's.
Speaker 2:It's what's making the money yeah, that's what draws people in yeah, it's.
Speaker 1:It's that initial like catch or maybe. You know, the first thing you see when you're scrolling is like a big old stomach. It's like whoa, like now you have to stay.
Speaker 2:Where'd it go.
Speaker 1:Now I have to stay and figure out, like you know, what happened next. Or I mean I showed the video to my sister when it was like first going viral and she started laughing and she was like I showed it to, um, her husband. She showed it to her husband and she's like I want one. He's like you don't need one. She's like 110 pounds, she has no stomach like at all, she doesn't need anything that snatches her up, and and he started laughing and he's like yeah, jasmine is doing exactly what she's supposed to be doing. You don't need one and you want one.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So then I was like okay, like perfect, so yeah.
Speaker 2:What kept you consistent? Like obviously you've seen a little bread, but it wasn't obviously like I can take them out of work Not yet. Yeah, well, for one, I like it it yeah I really like what I do you like posting, like I love it, whatever it is, you could be cooking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you could be in the parking lot of what is it sprouts yeah, eating the sushi like eating a sushi I'll just pop my tripod out, like anywhere I I really like at this point, like I I still get looks, or you know, dirty looks stuff like that, but at this point it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter like I'm doing what I love, I'm getting paid. You know, I, I took, we took our, my dream vacation last year. Um, you know, like I wouldn't have been able to do all that if I still kept caring what people think about me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Like you're going to talk smack anyways, I might as well get paid for it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not only that, like I feel like too at work. Obviously we work in the trade, so everybody's like a hard ass, so it's like I never really the only people I knew that took vacations to like Hawaii are like the foremans and they've been there almost 20 years and so like when you did make good money and you know I was going through the struggle at work when I quit and all that um like, imagine, like, because you know all of us, you know we make good money in the trade, but obviously not money to, like you know, take your other significant other out of work. Yeah, and trying to focus more on, you know, the entrepreneur side and making it happen, because I think people get offended when I tell them like it's easy showing up to work.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Versus. Let me line up the work. Make sure there is work. You know X, y, z, you just have to come and do X.
Speaker 1:Absolutely Like, let's say, when I was working at Amazon, you throw your freaking shoes on and go and yeah, you're pushing and lifting and all this, but that's easy. You're doing no offense to anybody that like works at Amazon, but you're you're doing robotic stuff to anybody that like works at amazon, but you're you're doing robotic stuff and and to do this daily. Daily I'm there. Like sometimes I'm up at night like what I have this to post tomorrow? Um, how do I want to like show it? Uh, or what am I cooking tomorrow? I already people are begging, like are asking me for new recipes. So I'm right there thinking like what?
Speaker 2:am I going to?
Speaker 1:cook tomorrow? What am I going to show them tomorrow? What am I going to talk about tomorrow? Because every day, like I kind of want, I want people to like be able to look up my page with like a purpose.
Speaker 2:You know, like oh, she's not just like.
Speaker 1:You're not just a gimmick. Yeah, like to actually, because I do like. I do get a lot of messages of you. Know, people like you're inspiring or you know how do you, how do you do it? Or I look up to you, so I mean I show you those messages all the time yeah, people are like they look up to you and it still warms my heart.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you obviously like especially going viral. Some people go viral for, like you know, dumb things or they did something you know good, there's just you could go viral for whatever. Yeah, but, like you said, you were vulnerable. You know you got to go through the grind of no views. That's why, like you know some guy you know I follow and he's always showed love on my lives, always comments on my posts. You know he's always supporting me and one day I had seen him live. So I was like you know what he's always on my live and he gives. So I was like I jumped in his and I think he had like three people and we know the feeling everybody that goes live. Like you, you gotta be like cool, calm and collected, cause like like, we all want to be acknowledged. So it's like one person in there, then it drops to zero, then you're just like man, this, this, I'm not, I can't do this. And I told him I was like hey man, cause he was feeling like I guess, like insecure a little bit and he was like kind of wanting to like get off because you know it's not going. You know what I'm saying. And I told him I was like, if you can't, like, go through one person watching you, then my philosophy is you don't deserve 100 people watching you. And he was like you know what you're right, bro, thank you, you know like. You know what You're right, bro, thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, and you know I gifted him back because he's always showing me love and, like now he's getting traction. His views are going up. Yeah, you know, to some people 30 cents might not be a lot, you know, but 30 cents could turn into 30,000. So it's like another guy at work, he's going live playing video war zone. He's like, hey man, that's why I said the 30 cents, because he's like. He's like I made 30 cents on live and some guy literally chuckled, like, and then I was like, hey bro, I said the same thing. I was like 30 cents could turn into 30,000. And that guy, you know he didn't say nothing after that because you know it's like, it's true, it's like, let me see you post some content, yeah, and when you get 20, uh, 20 views only, or two likes, let's see you stay consistent.
Speaker 1:So so when I was um like not viral yet, I think I had like 9 000 followers. We were having dinner one time with certain people that we don't align with anymore and, um, somebody in on the table in the table asked me uh, how many followers do you have now?
Speaker 1:because I've always like, I've always posted since like yeah well, for like two years at that time, like I hadn't been posting and you know nothing yet, um, I had got to like 9 000 followers and to me that was amazing. I mean standing in a room with 9 000 people yeah, exactly and um her mom get chuckled, like you said and said and how much does that get you paid? Yo like how much does 9 000 followers get you paid? And I said nothing. Nothing.
Speaker 1:I do it because I I really like it I really like it and, you know, she just kind of like looked at me like over her shoulder, like she didn't like that, but I almost felt like she was kind of making like fun of me. Like you're like, okay, you have 9,000 followers, so what, like, what do you have to show? For it and I was doing it because I liked it.
Speaker 1:I still do it because I like it. But now this is like what what I get for being consistent and and putting good content out there. I show good stuff, like I don't promote trash, like I promote things that I use every single day Clothes, jewelry, makeup, that I love. Household stuff because I'm still like a stay-at-home mom, things for the dogs. I show things like that and people might think how does she have 10, 20 items like to promote every day at this point? She's just promoting anything. No, you could literally I'm drinking some water right now. I can, I can promote this if I'm using this microphone.
Speaker 1:you can promote this like the clothes I'm wearing the clothes I'm wearing, me, what you oh, you, yes literally I got that outfit on the tiktok shop. I got here yesterday. Me too. All of this, except for my shoes, are from the TikTok shop. My jewelry is from the TikTok shop. Clothes, the bodysuit, that hydro jug is from the TikTok shop Everything.
Speaker 2:We're all decked out in the TikTok shop.
Speaker 1:So it's like. It's not that I'm just like promoting anything at this point. I'm promoting things that we use on a daily basis.
Speaker 2:And that's what separates a lot of people in this world is actually actually practicing what you preach, not just trying to be a snake oil salesman and just be like you know what I mean. Just selling whatever, because people are not dumb Like. Oh yeah, they can sniff you off from a mile away.
Speaker 1:I was going to say too that they can sniff you out from a mile away. Like I was gonna say too that, um, sometimes people ask me like for advice, and you know I'll see their message, and I'm like, okay, you know I have some time, so I'll go on their profile and I see like a shop video and I'm just like walking backwards and I'm like you sound like you're trying to shove that down their throat like yeah like you need to take it down a notch, like it not too salesy, but like also not so casual to like where you know you don't seem like you're selling it, so like be confident in what you're promoting be confident.
Speaker 1:Learn the product first of all me. So when you get something from not everything that I promote from the tiktok shop is a sample or like is a pr. You know I do.
Speaker 1:There's stuff that you have to buy I buy and there's also refundable samples, not just yeah, so it's like hey, like um buy it, but if you sell two, you'll get your money back you'll get reimbursed yeah, so you there's like all that sorts of stuff, um, but I think that some people are just like way too salesy, just too robotic sounds like a script. Be yourself learn the product and hey, if you don't like it, you can tell tiktok that you didn't like it yeah, yeah. I've done it a few times. I get some trash products.
Speaker 2:You got to give them the truth, because how are you going to get good reviews if it's not a good product?
Speaker 1:Yeah, or I have things that don't fit me, like it'll get here and it doesn't stretch, and I'm like, well, what do I do now? So you know, you can go on there and it says like report a problem. And then it has all these buttons and I'm like it didn't fit me and they're like okay, thank you, move on. But some people it's just like maybe I can make a sale out of that.
Speaker 1:It's like no, you don't have to like relax. So that's where I feel like some people are way too pushy. It's like it's not organic anymore. Um yeah, I, I always tell people, be yourself and learn the product.
Speaker 2:What are your tips?
Speaker 1:for going viral On a shop video or on a regular video, or both.
Speaker 2:Um, I'm pretty sure they want to know it all. Okay, so for they're getting free game right now. So you guys soak it up like a sponge. Because that's the difference too in this world, guys, there's trailblazers and there's gatekeepers. Oh yeah, we've struggled a lot in our life because there's a lot of vicious people in this world. Yeah, there's not too many people that are going to. And just like the good book says, it's like you're going to be judged on how you treat people that are not convenient to you.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So speaking of vicious people, we'll get to like how to go viral in a moment, but speaking of like vicious people, I actually got a comment today on my second account, because I do have a second account. Again, you guys like you can have unlimited accounts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, go and get it Go and get it Like I'm thinking of opening up my third one. So I got a comment on my second account. I opened up a package in my car yesterday and since I already had this product before, this was my second time buying it, you know I showed it. I didn't have to learn the product. I opened the package and I knew everything about it. So I open it and it's these sandals and I'm raving about them because I love them. Um, it's my second pair and I'm so excited about them and that video is actually doing really good right now. It's it's actually been making some good sales on my small account. So everyone's asking the size and, oh, what color is that? Oh, like, people are asking questions like about the product and the product is selling. Well, here comes a negative nancy to drop her two cents. She was like these are actually.
Speaker 1:She was like replying to people's comments saying these are actually 29.99 on amazon and it was showing that the sandals that I was showing were 31 dollars. But there's actually two types of sandals they're the regular and they're the wide. So the regular obviously cheaper, probably less material. So the regular are on TikTok shop 2699, amazon 2999. Wide, $31 on TikTok, $35 on Amazon. Now I had time today. I go into both. I have two phones and I'm like comparing prices and I'm like there's just no way, like she's over here trying to get people to not buy from me.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Um, when I?
Speaker 2:it's clearly cheap cheaper on the tiktok shop and I'm getting commission and you could get coupons on there you're trying to stop my bag, lady like at this point.
Speaker 1:So I I try not to respond to the bad comments. I try to focus on the good.
Speaker 2:You gotta have control, because you know me once you better not let me hop on your life, because I'll be, I'll go to bad. I I'm debating.
Speaker 1:Yes, so I respond with a comment reply and I'm holding my phone and I'm comparing prices and I'm just like I was just going to keep it like with facts, with the prices and stuff. But then I'm like you know what, what you put into this world, you get out. You're being so mean right now, like trying to take money, like from me. You know like I make commission and you're taking the time to respond to people to tell them that it's cheaper on another site, like why, why would you do that?
Speaker 2:it's like going to a dealership and be like just go buy a used car or something like like first of all, you need to mind your business. You're not even shopping, like okay, if you want to go shop it on another site, you can go shop at another site or they have their choice to go buy it, spend where money wherever they want at least if it was cheaper.
Speaker 1:Okay, I get it yeah, she's trying to be a hero over here, trying to save everybody a buck, but it wasn't. It was actually cheaper on the other one, but she wants to take people somewhere else because she probably can't stand the fact that I'm gonna make commission on it like no, instead of being if. If you used all that energy you're using in my comment section and put it to use for yourself on something you think is better or something you could literally be on tiktok shop right now making money, but you're wasting time being a hater.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you just.
Speaker 1:But that was my little rant about like vicious people. Now we can get into how to get viral. So I feel like I posted for like a good two years. Nothing happened, never went viral, and then once my first video went viral, it was almost like it's calming.
Speaker 2:It's a snowball effect.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't say like you know, know, all my videos go viral. But it's more likely for something to pop off I probably have like a video a week or every two weeks that go viral, and by viral I mean millions of views.
Speaker 2:So that's a technical term of viral right it has to be over a million views, so at least two, three times a month.
Speaker 1:I have a viral video like. We're talking like millions of views, so my most viral video has almost 30 million views, which is this body suit. I didn't make money off the views, but I would say that I made close to a hundred grand off these body suits.
Speaker 2:Wow yeah, mic drop.
Speaker 1:Mic drop, yeah, mic drop, mic drop, okay. So I would say again the video, that shoppable video that has the 30 million views, I say girl, and I back up and I show my stomach, not encouraging everybody. If you're not comfortable showing your stomach, you don't have to, okay.
Speaker 1:You can show something else, um, but I'm like girl and I step back and I show my stomach and then I go into the next clip and I'm clipping it down and then I'm like where did it go? And I do that every so often when I feel it myself dang houdini's back nothing yes and um that it catches a lot of attention. So I do that a lot with body suits or shape wears, because I do have quite some videos with like viral that have gone viral with also shape legs, which is shape wear.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I do a lot of that, and sometimes when I post a video that's not like that, they're like um, like I don't want to be rude. If you're not comfortable, it's okay, but on the next video, can you do and they'll send me like a little clip of like what I usually do? Because that's the best seller, Like they know. Like if Jasmine pops that stomach out, we're making sales.
Speaker 2:So it's always moneymaker, it's the.
Speaker 1:It's the moneymaker. Yeah, people, I had somebody ask me are you going to get surgery? I think they were thinking like this girl's making all this money, she's not getting surgery. What's happening? Remember we met that lady at the TikTok event and she's like that's the worst thing you can do right now. Do not get rid of your fupa. She's like not anytime soon. So yeah, like not getting rid of my foops anytime soon. Um, but I I do want to get healthier, but I don't want to lose the fupa.
Speaker 2:Okay, I want to be able to keep making like, um, you know, the body suits there's a lot of women that can relate and you know they don't have a friend to be like.
Speaker 1:Hey, try this whole qq or thousands of dollars to get surgery. But if you want to go out and you want to feel good for a little while. Throw on the dang bodysuit. Exactly, that's $30 instead of 30 grand. And you're going to feel good and then you can go home and take it off.
Speaker 2:They're $30,.
Speaker 1:You said they're three for $30.
Speaker 2:So basically, you're going to save a thousand percent.
Speaker 1:Yes. So I would would say first of all, you need to focus on your hook, yeah, um, you need to have a good hook to go viral. Do not start your videos with good morning or sorry. Do not like. Start your video calm and collected. You need to go like full force, like run into your camera or something good morning vietnam you need to start full force.
Speaker 1:Like the first three seconds are the is the only chance you get if you do not make someone stay for the first three seconds, you lost them already you lost them.
Speaker 2:You didn't set the hook.
Speaker 1:The fish got away yep, so that's literally so. First three seconds is crucial yep and then I also notice that my videos that are about 30 seconds long yeah are the good ones. You want to keep it like short enough to like you sell them quick.
Speaker 2:Short and sweet.
Speaker 1:Short and sweet, but also not like. You don't have to. It's not a race.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But that's why I'm saying learn the product. So you're not just standing there thinking, what do I, what do I say next or what do I do now? That's why you have, if you ask for a sample, you have 14 days. 14 days is more than enough time to learn a product, to use the product, to get familiar with it and then say if you like it or not and if you want to recommend it to people Exactly. So, yeah, so learn first three seconds hook, learn the product, keep it 30 seconds-ish and sold.
Speaker 2:Simple as that Simple 30 seconds can change your life. Yeah, wow. So if somebody asks you how long did it take for you to see the bread? About two years.
Speaker 1:I would say I posted consistently for two years before I saw any money.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and like not everybody, somebody might take longer. But for you to give like encouragement for somebody, what do you think if they follow like those guidelines that you give? You think it'll take somebody else two years well look, or or your game. Would like put them on. If they execute that, stick by it. How long? How realistically? How long?
Speaker 1:it took me two years to make money, but I didn't know any of this stuff. So I feel like if you get to creating content and you are yourself, you're keeping it short and simple. If you're on shops, if you're familiar with the product and it's a good product, like that, that's it. Like nobody taught me any of this. I learned this along the way and I think that's why it took me so long.
Speaker 1:But if in the beginning, also in the beginning, like you know, tiktok again, it was very new things like that, especially tiktok shop yeah, it was so new, they were almost kind of just testing it out and there wasn't a lot of like you couldn't go back and look at like, really like your, your.
Speaker 1:Now it'll tell you exactly the moment it'll write you where somebody's clicked on your cart so it'll be like at, in this second, these many people clicked on your cart so you can go back and see all of that. Now you can go back and like look at all the analytics. You can go back and see anything at all the analytics. You can go back and see anything you want. They make it so easy for you now, but it takes time, it takes patience and, like you know, and and people again, this is hard. People have to. People think it's you know what.
Speaker 1:I'd rather just keep putting my shoes on and driving to work every day because it's a, it's a routine. They already know it's, they're comfortable with that, even if it's not what they want to be doing. Um, it's what they know and I don't blame them because that's what I did for a very long time. But it's like if you take the time and you study Tik TOK and and all that, like you, it's almost like you hack it. So when I learned Tik TOK, it's almost like you hack it.
Speaker 1:So when I learned TikTok, I took that. You know people don't really like Instagram. They're like in a fight with it because they're like I can't crack Instagram. I've had my Instagram for like six years, never got over to 300 followers and every day when I would check, I'd lose like two or three followers.
Speaker 1:So I started using the same thing, the same thing I was doing on tiktok I was I started taking it over to instagram and and I also on my instagram they have a lot of on the stories. They have a lot of things to keep your followers engaged yeah, the question box, the polls, things like that. So I started using that a lot. I I started taking my short videos over to instagram, even if they weren't the most aesthetic all of that. It was just the real raw me like you get on tiktok, which you know.
Speaker 2:You go on instagram and it's like everybody's fancy over there oh yeah, if you're not in a g-wagon, what are you doing you?
Speaker 1:got money on instagram like it's just people posting like there's starbucks and this, that. So I took my real self over to Instagram and this started. I started posting consistently on Instagram in February of this year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1:So from February to now um I've gained like 50, 50 000 followers on instagram wow by just again being myself, which before I wouldn't do that I would post once a month yeah, you were scared to be yourself.
Speaker 1:I was scared because people that I went to school, that we went to school with and stuff would like follow me, and which they probably follow me on tiktok. But it's almost like TikTok because I started there, it was my safe place so I could be myself and you know, you don't really, I don't know, but until one day I was like you know what? Like, no, if there's money on TikTok, there has to be money on Instagram.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, so I took it to Instagram and again, like I said, frombruary to now I've gained over 50 000 followers and I have like some um, I do have like collabs that I do too like on instagram. You know, some brands give me discount codes, things like that, um, so I've made my my little money on instagram too. I've slowly, like started merging onto Facebook too. Dang, I made my first whopping five bucks last month, dang.
Speaker 2:On.
Speaker 1:Facebook, which I'm so proud of.
Speaker 2:That used to be gas money, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I mean, I've had my Facebook for 10 years and I never made a dime out of it. So too.
Speaker 2:I feel like that's like the hardest one. Like you know, instagram's like pretty popular, yeah, and people like you know make money on there like influencers and all that. Like you can make money on Facebook.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah. That's crazy, you can make money off views, too, on Facebook and I think Like your posts or your stories. I think your posts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, obviously people comment your reels like your videos, videos, stuff like that. So I don't know.
Speaker 1:I remember I deleted facebook well, you should make it again because so I even got this notification the other day, and it said that it gave me a notification that one of my videos excuse me was doing really good. And it said if you, if I got like I don't know how many reposts and how many I don't know what I was um, I could get five hundred dollars wow yeah, so like they throw like all these little things and like there's these little like emojis with like the celebrate and stuff, and they're like congratulations, jasmine, like you're real got to this.
Speaker 1:So I'm like, oh my God, I started like getting, um, you know, comfortable now like posting on these other apps, and I'm starting to see now, like you know, doors are opening. So my next move is I'm moving to. We're moving to Snapchat.
Speaker 2:Oh man.
Speaker 1:Which I have no idea what I'm doing over there. I've never really used it like that.
Speaker 2:I was watching a video that there's like good money on that. I'm like people love to watch you and like Snapchat's like in real time, so it's like people are always on the Snap.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't have to wait for me to edit a video, exactly so. I heard that Snapchat pays for your stories. Like every story you post. Well, like, depending on, like, your views and stuff. That's what I've heard, but we'll have to get into that.
Speaker 1:If we go viral over on Snapchat, we'll let you guys know and we'll make a whole other video on it. But yeah, yeah, there's, there's, like, there is money out there. You guys like on social media like you have no clue. You can get money from views, you can be getting commission, you can like, you can do so much. Again, like I said, like there was a brand that flew me out to la how many times did we travel? Last year, tiktok invited us out to seattle, new york, california. Um, where else did we go?
Speaker 2:miami we went to. Miami was this year.
Speaker 1:We had, we had to cancel it, though we had um, we were invited to dallas, but we had to skip that um, we were, we were outside last year we definitely got out the desert yeah but yeah, I feel like, especially like, like I'm obviously in the trade, you know it's, it's, it's a tough, tough job, it pays good.
Speaker 2:But you know, I feel like you know I've always kind of been the black sheep, so like I've always put in 10 times the amount of work but never been acknowledged. Because, you know, people are haters everybody loves you to your competition. Or you know, people are haters, everybody loves you to your competition. Or you know, yes, and I feel like, obviously you know I've quit work to help you and all that, and like for this place, like for your hard work to pay off for that, but also my hard work when you're like grinding, like it all pays off and I think for a lot of people they're happy to see that because you don't see too much couples nowadays sacrificing for each other and helping each other. Because, like you said, when you started making that bread, a lot of women would have been like, hey, 4g's, you know what? I don't like you, no more.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or they would have kept it a secret.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they would have kept it a secret. And they would have kept it a secret. Yeah, they would have kept it a secret, and and it's like they would have just started plotting how am I gonna make this grand escape because I'm starting to make money?
Speaker 1:or they would have took that and, like you know, went and just like for themselves. Or, like I said, never like, said like a peep. But I feel, like you know, since the beginning, like I feel like we've seen a lot of like potential in each other and I feel like anything that we want to do, we encourage each other. Like when you wanted your detail business like I, I didn't have a job but I had a home depot credit card and I went to home depot and I got you like power washer the power washer and some stuff from home depot because, like it was, I was like that's what he wants to do.
Speaker 1:When I was like recording content, you were probably like what is she doing now? Like you, you you believed in me when I got into like a photography for a little bit yeah, I even helped you with the wedding remember yes, yes, the wedding. Um. So I feel like just couples just don't want, they don't want to do that anymore.
Speaker 2:It's yeah, they're not going all in with each other it's just like, hey, let's stick to what we know.
Speaker 1:Drive to work every day, do this like. Come home, make dinner. Like you're telling me that I have to go clock into work every day for eight hours, drop my kids off at daycare, come home and make dinner and call that a life.
Speaker 2:That's tough.
Speaker 1:I like no. Well, I mean, I hope that one day you don't have to work construction anymore. That's why you got to post your content.
Speaker 2:I know I'm trying.
Speaker 1:Yes, I know.
Speaker 2:But that's the thing. It's like now that, like you're doing good, like now I can go back to the trade and just like I mean just naturally. You know I work hard. So it's like now, like one of my favorite quotes, like Maverick says, I'm re-engaging, like I'm about to show back up and I'll work everybody, you know, respectfully, like hey, just like my dad taught me he's like you, show up and show what you're made out of. It might offend a lot of 90 of the guys next to me, but where it really matters is the people who are in charge and you know you've seen them take care of me. I've gotten the company truck before you know raises here and there, but when I wasn't all in, you know, I kind of gave it, gave it up and kind of one foot in, one foot out. But now that, now that like you're good, you're stable, like now I could go back, dominate that area, because I've been doing it 10 years. So it's like a walk in the park.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And you know what I mean. Two incomes are better than one and, like now we can just work towards the life we want. You know, before we were just fighting for the life we kind of didn't want, you know. So that's why we tell people like, that's why you have to, your youth is the best thing you can have is you have to work. You have to work hard to get ahead, because if you fight for what you want now, you're gonna have the life you want later, instead of fighting for the life you don't want later. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:So it's like the fact that we can, like we're on the same page, going all in One kind of, is, like, you know, stumbling. We're there to pick each other back up. You know we also have to be examples for our kids because you know our parents come from, you know my mom's from Mexico. Your parents are from Mexico. You know they're hard workers. But hard work only gets you far in this life, you know.
Speaker 2:And for you to basically like, hack the matrix, like you're literally the one that got sent to change the generations that come after you, like, and that's why you have to go through those hard times, because people are like, oh, she's not gonna amount to nothing. She didn't finish high school. You know we have big hearts so we're always, you know, emotion in our heart, on our sleeve. So, like you know, a lot of people don't believe in us and that's why God blesses you like that, because there's no other way. How did you go? Like you're telling me all that happened two years posting not a dime. Then you start going viral. You took me out of work, like we traveled so much and you can't make this up.
Speaker 1:It doesn't make sense how I applied to literally over a hundred jobs and I didn't get one call back literally and quick little backstory. So, um, about 10 days before I went viral, you got laid off or fired I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2:Well, I had gave back the company truck and I'm I'm union. I'm hardcore union, so I gave back the truck in good faith. They're trying to force me to do something I was not obligated to do. I was well within my rights and I basically got threatened to be fired until I was like you know what that's why I'm in the union got. I spoke to my business manager. He called the boss. It got worked out 30 seconds later, but by the time I got home I was still dealing with that and obviously you're my best friend, so you knew something was wrong yeah.
Speaker 1:So it was literally like days before it happened. Again I'm stressing out, I've applied to, I've applied everywhere. I even went down to Home Depot and like talk to like the manager, literally almost like begged him for a job. At that point I think I had applied at Starbucks. Like it was like getting so out of hand, like I would take anything at that point, like I wanted to help you so bad because I saw you so stressed out. And and then you come home and like tell me, basically like you don't have a job.
Speaker 1:I felt like literally, like the world just like came down. I had to go lay down, like I thought I was gonna pass out. I was like there's no way, like there's no way that I'm not getting a job and this guy just got fired. I have to go lay down and then obviously, like luckily your work situation got um resolved and all that. But again, I feel like god did that because he already knew, he was already there Preparing your table.
Speaker 1:Yes, and he knew that I was going to need you because you took a break from work to help me, because it got so overwhelming. Our house was then filled with packages. After I went viral, like our hallway was like you couldn't even walk in the house. I was getting so much pr. I was getting like so many samples, so many everything I I needed you to help me with the kids to keep organized, to literally not lose it. So I think like overall, like the, the message I would say here, like I hope everybody like learned from us, or learned from this.
Speaker 1:But I think the most important thing is take a moment and and like, listen to what god is trying to tell you. If you don't believe in god, like, listen to yourself, like your spirit, whatever, like you know, take, take a deep breath and and realize, like, what, what? What is happening? If something isn't, if you're forcing yourself like in a lane, you're probably not supposed to be going that way. It's probably like, hey, like you know me, I was getting so desperate for a job, but maybe god was was just telling me hey, girl, slow down, slow down. Like there's something else for you, like right around the corner.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:And, like you, like, yeah, maybe he didn't have to go down like that, but maybe that was again God trying to say hey, your wife is going to need you in a few days, something big is going to happen and you're going to have to leave work, so we just made it a little sooner. Like you know, you have to listen to all of that.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:So, you know, maybe you think that it's social media that you want to do, maybe it's podcasting, maybe it's like something else. I just like sleep on things and really like see what it is Like. I should have known better. I should have known better that that's why I wasn't landing a job. Something was going to happen, but obviously I couldn't, you know, I couldn't put my finger on it. I was just so stressed out and so overwhelmed. But look what happened days later my life changed days after that.
Speaker 2:So we're really grateful for TikTok. We hope it stays around. And basically the message for today guys, believe in yourself, trust in your intuition, walk by faith, not by sight, and whatever you put into this world, you get back. Those are just fundamental principles of this universe. So you're seeing it live in real time, jasmine's life transforming and hey, she's here to pass the knowledge. And we, we believe in you guys. You know messages comment, you know if you need support, we're here for you, but we truly believe in you. Keep hitting it hard and one day it's gonna pay off. So, yeah, much love to you guys. I love you guys for watching us and always being there with us through the ups and downs, and we truly believe in you. And hey, put in the work and you're gonna see the true fruit that you bear and man life's a blessing, no matter what absolutely.
Speaker 1:Thank you, guys. We'll see you next time. Bye.
Speaker 2:Bye.