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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Peyton tells about Ali.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
So, Alie is one of my friends from back in college,
and I got on TikTok one day and next thing
you know, she has like a million followers on there,
and so I'm like following her. I'm like, what the heck? Girl?
So she's this huge content creator and she does like
a lot of the things on TikTok shop. So she'll
buy things on TikTok shop and then she'll basically post
videos about it and then you can kind of buy
(00:23):
from her little shop or whatever.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
But she also works for chicktock, actually works.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
For TikTok, like they fly her out. She does all
types of like content brand stuff. So she's really cool.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So we have questions for her about all the TikTok news.
Hey Ali, how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'm good, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
So you like get a paycheck from TikTok?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, So I've worked with them. Like I'm not a
corporate employee, but I've worked with them for over over
two and a half almost three years now. They've started
a couple of data programs inside TikTok that they've invited
me to like test out and try out. So I've
been working directly with them for about two and a
half three years now, so it's been it's been quite
a rid.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So what do you think about the ban and all that.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Honestly, it was absolutely terrifying. I was one of those
people who were like optimistic. I was like, this is
not going to happen, like and the thing is on
the TikTok employee side, it was all And I had
just got back from China. I was just in in
China with TikTok, and so I had just flown back
on I think it was like the sixteenth and when
I was there, I had dinner with the TikTok beauty
(01:24):
team and it was all like business as normal. There
was no mention of the band at all, Like everyone
was like tight lipped, seemed optimistic. And then I get
back home and then it actually happened. So it was
really like talking to see and it was just not
really expected from any of our side, whether it be
the creator side or the TikTok side.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So you, as a creator for TikTok for your own account,
I'm assuming if TikTok's flying you out to China, you
must make some serious bank as far as social media
goes right.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, So I have three accounts on TikTok. I do
like fashion and beauty and and they're all kind of
separate channels. I do TikTok Shop, like Payton said, and
I also do like some back end stuff advertising for them.
So I work more so like on the marketing side.
But I've just been in it for a while and
I'm like kind of deep in it to where anything
(02:17):
that's new in TikTok I'm kind of involved in, and
so with this whole band, like especially since I was
a beta tester of TikTok shop when that was a thing.
There has I've seen so many businesses grow from TikTok shop.
There's so many countless business that have started from working
out of people's garages and now they have these huge
warehouses that I've toured, and I've seen all the employees
(02:39):
that they're being able to hire because of TikTok Shop,
going from a two person team to over like a
six hundred person team, and then now they do like
ninety five percent of their business on TikTok in a
lot of band, So it's it's crazy, I think, not
only like if this band eventually does you know, seventy
five days from now does go into effect. Not only
(03:00):
is it affecting there's like one point three million content
creators that are on the app, but not only them,
it's affecting the businesses in their employees who started these
huge warehouses because the TikTok, Because what's going to happen
to them if TikTok goes away and they have to
fire all six hundred of their employees. And that's just
one business and there's over seventy million on the app.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I was kind of wondering about what you're talking about
because probably when they started investigating this, the TikTok shop
wasn't a thing like commerce when they're like, hey, this
could be a threat to national security, But now that
is generating cash. I wonder if they had the second guests,
like okay, whatever it was, it is sort of morphed
(03:41):
into something much bigger than that now where we're affecting
the livelihoods of thousands of thousands of people.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, and not to mention, they have TikTok has offices.
I think they have like six locations in the US.
There's one in New York, there's one in LA there's
one in San Jose. So they have all these like
corporate offices and they're beautiful. They're like, you know, fifty
floors high and they house all these corporate employees and
(04:07):
even them. I was talking to them the other day
and I'm like, so are you going to work on Monday?
And everyone's like, okay, Monday's a holiday. But Tuesday, like
we don't know, like do we show up to the office.
And I saw like a whole bunch of employees making
like final day at TikTok videos, and I'm like, we
can still hold out, guys, you are still going to
go back to work on Tuesday. It was really scary.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Hey, let me ask you this. My TikTok account got
deleted two years ago because I posted a video of
a guy bending over and showing his butt crack, and
they actually got rid of my account.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I think I have a bunch of haters anyway that
were complaining about everything I posted.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Since you're still high in the corporate world, can you
get it back? Can you talk at the end?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Could you talk about some connects for you. I'll get
some connects for you that they might not give you
back your last video, but they might give you back
your account.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I would love that if you could do that for me,
because I had like thirty to forty thousand followers I
was making I wasn't making money, but I mean I
was like making content and now I start a new one.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's like kind of depressing. Do you know what I mean? No,
it's like it's not the same.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Right, It's like there's lack of motivation to put work
into a posting a video.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
If I have five hundred followers, does that make sense?
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Absolutely, if you could help me, that'd be it was
under John J. Vans. That'd be great.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Thanks Jay, I'll put the in.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Okay, So what is.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
The biggest amount of money the largest amount of money
you've made in one month with millions of followers.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh, it's it's more than you could even imagine, just
because I mean I money. I don't make money off
of views per se, but I talk about all the
products that I love. And you know, this was last
year when TikTok shop first started. I think that's when
I made kind of my my bulk of money. But
I've been super smart with my money. I I know
(05:51):
that TikTok is not a for sure thing. So all
these people who are like, oh my gosh, like these
all these poor content creators like complaining about losing their job.
Of course, you know when you lose your job, you
don't have a backup right away, Like you don't expect
to lose your job like this. So I didn't have
a backup. But the money that I've made, I've been
really smart on investing, and you know, I have my
my money that I've earned make money because all the
(06:13):
people I've taught tons of people how to do TikTok
shop before all the people that I've taught, I'm like,
you never know how long this is going to last.
And I've said that for the last two years and
people would always roll their eyes at me. And now
you know my best friend Tory, and I'm like, see,
I told you, you never know how long it's going.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
To last, right kind of.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So I have my my biggest one is at Influenced
Queen's and then my food one is a Lord of Beauty.
So I have a couple that are different. But last
year was the year that I made the most into
stock shop. And I think that's because it was the
first year that it was really a thing and they
were doing crazy Black Friday sales. But you know Black
(06:52):
Friday I brought in for small businesses over two hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Girl, correct me, Yeah, I'm wrong, Like Dent, Like, aren't
you like the number one seller on TikTok shop, Like
you make the most revenue, Like you are the it
girl TikTok Shop.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I'm the number one TikTok shop affiliate in the user's.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Wow, that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Isn't that crazy. I'm like in Ali, Like we were
just in Mexico a couple of years ago and I'm
just thrown up tequila shots. Look at you now, girl.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I know it's like you never think and I've always
like had a hustle and a drive, but it's more
so like finding things, like seeing the next opportunity, and
a lot of people, like in the social media world,
are super like scared to dive into something new. And
this is a great example, Like you know, everyone was like,
what happens with the TikTok bands? Then I'm like, well,
I'll dive into something else. So it's all about pivoting
and finding you know, where people are going to social
(07:44):
media and not being afraid to like take that leap
before everyone else, because that's kind of how I've gotten
into it, you know, before the flood goes.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Respect the pivot.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Okay, I just started. I just started following you. It,
I just started following you. So you'll see an account
called jj tv Reviews five hundred and eighty nine followers,
and you're gonna be like, oh, I can't wait to
see these TV reviews. It was a small, short, little phase.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I went through all you've already done. I thought you
just started it.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
This month, I reviewed like two TV shows and I
was done. Look, that's very cool, Ali, thank you so
much for jumping on there with us and clearing it up.
I hope you're around in seventy five days.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I know, hey, And if i'm not, I'm gonna take
seventy five days. I'm gonna work as hard as I
can and I'm gonna figure it out in the seventy
five days. I'm not going down with the ship, Okay,
I'm gonna jump off before it's done.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, A very smart All right, thanks for jumping on
there with us.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Have a great day, no problem, you guys do. But
by
Peyton tells about Ali.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
So, Alie is one of my friends from back in college,
and I got on TikTok one day and next thing
you know, she has like a million followers on there,
and so I'm like following her. I'm like, what the heck? Girl?
So she's this huge content creator and she does like
a lot of the things on TikTok shop. So she'll
buy things on TikTok shop and then she'll basically post
videos about it and then you can kind of buy
(00:23):
from her little shop or whatever.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
But she also works for chicktock, actually works.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
For TikTok, like they fly her out. She does all
types of like content brand stuff. So she's really cool.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So we have questions for her about all the TikTok news.
Hey Ali, how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'm good, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
So you like get a paycheck from TikTok?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, So I've worked with them. Like I'm not a
corporate employee, but I've worked with them for over over
two and a half almost three years now. They've started
a couple of data programs inside TikTok that they've invited
me to like test out and try out. So I've
been working directly with them for about two and a
half three years now, so it's been it's been quite
a rid.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So what do you think about the ban and all that.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Honestly, it was absolutely terrifying. I was one of those
people who were like optimistic. I was like, this is
not going to happen, like and the thing is on
the TikTok employee side, it was all And I had
just got back from China. I was just in in
China with TikTok, and so I had just flown back
on I think it was like the sixteenth and when
I was there, I had dinner with the TikTok beauty
(01:24):
team and it was all like business as normal. There
was no mention of the band at all, Like everyone
was like tight lipped, seemed optimistic. And then I get
back home and then it actually happened. So it was
really like talking to see and it was just not
really expected from any of our side, whether it be
the creator side or the TikTok side.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So you, as a creator for TikTok for your own account,
I'm assuming if TikTok's flying you out to China, you
must make some serious bank as far as social media
goes right.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, So I have three accounts on TikTok. I do
like fashion and beauty and and they're all kind of
separate channels. I do TikTok Shop, like Payton said, and
I also do like some back end stuff advertising for them.
So I work more so like on the marketing side.
But I've just been in it for a while and
I'm like kind of deep in it to where anything
(02:17):
that's new in TikTok I'm kind of involved in, and
so with this whole band, like especially since I was
a beta tester of TikTok shop when that was a thing.
There has I've seen so many businesses grow from TikTok shop.
There's so many countless business that have started from working
out of people's garages and now they have these huge
warehouses that I've toured, and I've seen all the employees
(02:39):
that they're being able to hire because of TikTok Shop,
going from a two person team to over like a
six hundred person team, and then now they do like
ninety five percent of their business on TikTok in a
lot of band, So it's it's crazy, I think, not
only like if this band eventually does you know, seventy
five days from now does go into effect. Not only
(03:00):
is it affecting there's like one point three million content
creators that are on the app, but not only them,
it's affecting the businesses in their employees who started these
huge warehouses because the TikTok, Because what's going to happen
to them if TikTok goes away and they have to
fire all six hundred of their employees. And that's just
one business and there's over seventy million on the app.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I was kind of wondering about what you're talking about
because probably when they started investigating this, the TikTok shop
wasn't a thing like commerce when they're like, hey, this
could be a threat to national security, But now that
is generating cash. I wonder if they had the second guests,
like okay, whatever it was, it is sort of morphed
(03:41):
into something much bigger than that now where we're affecting
the livelihoods of thousands of thousands of people.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, and not to mention, they have TikTok has offices.
I think they have like six locations in the US.
There's one in New York, there's one in LA there's
one in San Jose. So they have all these like
corporate offices and they're beautiful. They're like, you know, fifty
floors high and they house all these corporate employees and
(04:07):
even them. I was talking to them the other day
and I'm like, so are you going to work on Monday?
And everyone's like, okay, Monday's a holiday. But Tuesday, like
we don't know, like do we show up to the office.
And I saw like a whole bunch of employees making
like final day at TikTok videos, and I'm like, we
can still hold out, guys, you are still going to
go back to work on Tuesday. It was really scary.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Hey, let me ask you this. My TikTok account got
deleted two years ago because I posted a video of
a guy bending over and showing his butt crack, and
they actually got rid of my account.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I think I have a bunch of haters anyway that
were complaining about everything I posted.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Since you're still high in the corporate world, can you
get it back? Can you talk at the end?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Could you talk about some connects for you. I'll get
some connects for you that they might not give you
back your last video, but they might give you back
your account.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I would love that if you could do that for me,
because I had like thirty to forty thousand followers I
was making I wasn't making money, but I mean I
was like making content and now I start a new one.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's like kind of depressing. Do you know what I mean? No,
it's like it's not the same.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Right, It's like there's lack of motivation to put work
into a posting a video.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
If I have five hundred followers, does that make sense?
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Absolutely, if you could help me, that'd be it was
under John J. Vans. That'd be great.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Thanks Jay, I'll put the in.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Okay, So what is.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
The biggest amount of money the largest amount of money
you've made in one month with millions of followers.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh, it's it's more than you could even imagine, just
because I mean I money. I don't make money off
of views per se, but I talk about all the
products that I love. And you know, this was last
year when TikTok shop first started. I think that's when
I made kind of my my bulk of money. But
I've been super smart with my money. I I know
(05:51):
that TikTok is not a for sure thing. So all
these people who are like, oh my gosh, like these
all these poor content creators like complaining about losing their job.
Of course, you know when you lose your job, you
don't have a backup right away, Like you don't expect
to lose your job like this. So I didn't have
a backup. But the money that I've made, I've been
really smart on investing, and you know, I have my
my money that I've earned make money because all the
(06:13):
people I've taught tons of people how to do TikTok
shop before all the people that I've taught, I'm like,
you never know how long this is going to last.
And I've said that for the last two years and
people would always roll their eyes at me. And now
you know my best friend Tory, and I'm like, see,
I told you, you never know how long it's going.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
To last, right kind of.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So I have my my biggest one is at Influenced
Queen's and then my food one is a Lord of Beauty.
So I have a couple that are different. But last
year was the year that I made the most into
stock shop. And I think that's because it was the
first year that it was really a thing and they
were doing crazy Black Friday sales. But you know Black
(06:52):
Friday I brought in for small businesses over two hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Girl, correct me, Yeah, I'm wrong, Like Dent, Like, aren't
you like the number one seller on TikTok shop, Like
you make the most revenue, Like you are the it
girl TikTok Shop.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I'm the number one TikTok shop affiliate in the user's.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Wow, that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Isn't that crazy. I'm like in Ali, Like we were
just in Mexico a couple of years ago and I'm
just thrown up tequila shots. Look at you now, girl.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I know it's like you never think and I've always
like had a hustle and a drive, but it's more
so like finding things, like seeing the next opportunity, and
a lot of people, like in the social media world,
are super like scared to dive into something new. And
this is a great example, Like you know, everyone was like,
what happens with the TikTok bands? Then I'm like, well,
I'll dive into something else. So it's all about pivoting
and finding you know, where people are going to social
(07:44):
media and not being afraid to like take that leap
before everyone else, because that's kind of how I've gotten
into it, you know, before the flood goes.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Respect the pivot.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Okay, I just started. I just started following you. It,
I just started following you. So you'll see an account
called jj tv Reviews five hundred and eighty nine followers,
and you're gonna be like, oh, I can't wait to
see these TV reviews. It was a small, short, little phase.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I went through all you've already done. I thought you
just started it.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
This month, I reviewed like two TV shows and I
was done. Look, that's very cool, Ali, thank you so
much for jumping on there with us and clearing it up.
I hope you're around in seventy five days.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I know, hey, And if i'm not, I'm gonna take
seventy five days. I'm gonna work as hard as I
can and I'm gonna figure it out in the seventy
five days. I'm not going down with the ship, Okay,
I'm gonna jump off before it's done.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, A very smart All right, thanks for jumping on
there with us.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Have a great day, no problem, you guys do. But
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