Anyway rick michael's question in a nutshell have you ever been tending to sell out you like you are the kind of guy that looks like you want to sell out bloody lutely i was waiting. For the knot but there was no knot absolutely not oh we added it in last minute i did two absolutely not um i think what michael's touched on there is he's asked the question. And it's not a question that it's a question i've been asked before in lots of different ways not a voice no not a voice note not unhave your say. But what i think he almost answered his own question there certainly from from he said it's great that i'm influential. Or whatever whatever that may be and people if i give it a rave review it'll sell off the shelves if i give it a terrible view it might not do. But i don't see that a lot in that i just like to give my own personal reviews and we've talked about reviews in the past anyway i think what he's touched on there though is the fact that what has potentially led to said success is the fact that i am not bought out i've never sold out i'm not paid by manufacturers. And i think i know that the audience know that. So it'd be silly if i ruined it like there's no need. For me to ruin that um i think again i've said it on the podcast before pretty much every brand every manufacturer at some point has either hinted. Or have actually put down some level of a hard would you sign full bag full this full dart and i know a few other youtubers have it's just not where i'm at with it i don't need to do it i don't want to do it. And i do believe like michael said i think people thankfully hopefully trust me trust what i say trust how i make the videos um i am honest in the fact of my holding game. And you'll see good shots bad shots as a review i'll show you what i find in my reviews and how i test equipment um so yeah i think i think to answer that question i have not been tempted to sell out because i understand that has led to the growth of the channel well you know what's interesting as well i think with it we know now that club reviews are a big part of the channel as the taylormade stealth drive has proved. But equally our biggest videos actually aren't always with clubs more like you know you playing with tommy fleetwood or sam horsefield etc but go on sorry but i don't think selling out is exclusive. For manufacturers well that's what i was gonna say as well even if you said right okay i'm to sign to x golf brand taylormade titleist callaway. But i'm then.
Never going to do club reviews again firstly people will be upset because they like watching the club reviews. But secondly i think there would still be some kind of level of people when thinking well okay you're not doing club reviews. But i subscribe to you because you were kind of that relatable guy now you're doing instagram posts every month about the new callaway driver. And how fast it is yeah you lose that we get other top rows. And we kind of accept off the tour pros because we know it's part and parcel of their businesses they get typically not always but they sign to a brand and then.
As part of that they have to do some promotional stuff some brands do about another taylormade to be fair actually killing it with some of their content at the moment all the guys just put on literally you can tell the manager put it just something like the new driver has given me loads of ball speed i love it thank you copying it yeah it's terrible. But i think you would lose that personally. But also i'm just thinking that it it not exclusive to manufacturers and you'll know this because you deal with a lot of this side of the business as well we're just talking brands in general but i feel like i'm very um conscious and aware of the brands that i associate myself with so in the past obviously brands like nike obviously garmin the technology i use uh i've been related i've been linked with luminar over in spain in the past um i've done deals with with um top tracer and the open and mastercard the brands that i genuinely believe in they like like or use them or whatever associated with yeah the brands that i i feel that don't that complement the business yeah the brand that i i'm hit i'm in. And also i'm very very conscious kind of going back to michael's point about selling out i could also sell out on content my content is outrageously expensive. And again i'm excluding manufacturers i'm talking about people big businesses putting big money deals down talking about um our guest is here i think okay talking about um this content is completely sponsored et cetera i feel like i'm super careful about that having said that if you want to sponsor the podcast email us it could be anything any old craft will do on the podcast podcast a different entity rickshaw's main channel it's clean cut podcast we'll flog beer mats paper you name it we'll sell it contact guy. And that's brought to you by uh rick shields beer mats that you can get these on there. For 10.99 a beer so yeah i think santa martin it's a great question. And i'd like to think that i'm aware enough of my own um growth. And how it's got there and i'm very very careful that a few wrong mistakes can easily make the stack of cards fall down [ Music].
