 Hey, what's up? My name is Sonali, welcome to a new vlog. I literally just woke up. That's why my morning voice is still with us, but we want to get some smoothies this morning. It's pretty early right now. We aren't in Austin. We are actually in New York. If you guys didn't see my last vlog, definitely go watch that because that's a little bit more of exploring the city. Today's our last day in New York and I'm going to share a little bit more about why I'm here later. But first I saw like the New York version of the Haley Bieber Air Wand Smoothie at this place called Machia Bowl. So I really want to try it out on our last day. Yeah, chocolate is a good idea. Let's do a little taste test. I feel like this has a lot more strawberry than the Haley Bieber one from Air Wand. But let's try it. Kind of like the Haley Bieber one better. Both aren't like too sweet, but this one's... I like the Salina. The Salina one. I thought it was the same as the Salina one. I don't know, it's just like not really sweet at all. It's more like tart. And I know it has like healthy stuff, like sea moss and shit. So I'm not really sure what's all in it, but I don't know about this one, guys. I'm in the 60s Soho little lounge area, just kind of like running through my questions. I am going to New York next week with Amazon. And I'm going to be speaking on a freaking panel. And it's for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Currently it's this like intimate dinner and me and one of the other girls are going to have a Q&A panel talking about Amazon influencer program. And Asian sellers on Amazon. So I am just so freaking excited. I'm going to rewrite them or re-type them, I guess, on my notion just cause like it's easy to read for me. And then just put my answers cause I'm actually doing the panel with one other girl, which I'm excited to actually meet her. But it just like looks really cluttered right here. And just so small. I'm the type of person that has my text on my phone. So huge. And everyone like makes fun of me cause I'm like such a grimo with my texts. But honestly, it just helps me kind of even like memorize it and get it in my brain if you know the text is like this big. So just transferring everything over. But I don't want to memorize my script too much cause I'm just going to like stutter around my words a little bit. So I don't know, trying to find a happy balance. It's currently 2.30, the event starts at six, but I want to be there at 5.30 just to like try to take content before everyone gets there. So I'm getting a little bit nervous. Honestly, I thought it would be a lot more like stomach churning by now. So thank God that hasn't happened. Hopefully that won't happen. I'm trying to stay as calm as possible. I actually just took a nap so I could like be very calm and just like ready to do this. I still want to go over the questions like a billion more times. I have some stories to post and I also have deliverables for this whole panel thing. So I have to like look through the creative brief and everything like that. This is the dress I'm wearing right behind me. It's like this beautiful long maxi dress. It's from Rails. I just did my hair and I've been using this curler recently. It's from T3. Yes, T3 has a clamp on it. So I just did like the beachy waves and now I'm going to do my makeup. I'm really, really hoping I have a good makeup day because like three, how long have I been here in New York? I don't even know, but like majority of the days have not been great makeup days. So just really, really hoping that today is going to be a good one. I feel like my skin feels pretty smooth so we'll just have to like moisturize and make sure we start with a good base. But let's get ready. All right, I'm ready and God bless me with a good makeup day. My hair is struggling a little bit at the top because I slept in like freshly wet hair. I wanted to give you guys some of like my tips if you guys are new creators, I feel like that would be fun. These tips are in no particular order. I'm just going to say what I think. But number one is if you're on like a campaign with a brand, always be very like responsive number one and the number two just like not hard to work with, like make it easy for them so that they'll want to work with you again and again and again. Number two is to be nice to every single person you meet because you never know who they are, what kind of connections they have, who they know. And I know it's so intimidating going to like brand events for the first time but when you get those opportunities, you take them and you run with it because again, you never know like who you could meet, who's gonna be there and so definitely take advantage of all those opportunities when you get them. When working on campaigns, always under promise and over deliver, especially if you have time just like give them like one more asset, one more like really high quality photo or just like repost the TikTok onto Reels and they will be so happy with it. They will definitely keep you in mind for future opportunities, which means more money for you. This is a really trust the process kind of moment going for those beachy waves. So we're gonna brush it out a little bit. Last night I was talking to my friend and telling her how nervous I was gonna be today and she was like, you know what, you should just like take a shot beforehand. I was like, that's not a bad idea. So I just put some dry shampoo even though it's not greasy I just knew like, I don't know, textureizer or something, something's going on. But anyways, we are about to head over there. My friend Laura was supposed to come with me but she got sick from, we think it's the espresso martini that we had last. Well, I didn't have that but her and her boyfriend had it. So yeah, I'm really sad about that but Ryan's standing in for at least the beginning part and hopefully helping me take some content. And I'm excited to meet Michelle. Also, I don't think we told you guys what we did last night. First we went to American Barn then we went to Comedy Cellar. Ryan saw one of his favorite comedians, right? Is he like top two or? Yeah, I'd say he's the real one or two. Really? What's his name? Sam Merrell. Like, Shane Gillis and Sam Merrell are top two for me. So, he was really excited when he came out there. Cause you don't know who's coming out, right? In Comedy Cellar. So it could be someone super famous which I guess he is kind of famous, right? Like I told you, you dropped in meaning like you shouldn't have been there. Yeah. Probably try on the material. Yeah, so insert clips from last night. I'm bringing, this is a big coach bag. I love it. I'm actually going on Amazon. Everything that I'm wearing today is from Amazon. Ooh, I'm not wearing earrings. Good thing I just checked that. I'm with Michelle. We're walking the street and she is on the panel with me. So, we're doing it together. We're both freaking nervous as shit. I can't even function. I know. I feel like I'm getting caught in my mouth because I'm like so nervous and my mouth is drying up. We have our man's leading the way cause we were like, we can't think. How about you guys just putting your maps. We'll follow you. So, we're headed over to Loom Studios. I just got here, guys. It's so loud. I'm at Loom Studios and we're about to walk in. It's 5.34. Four minutes late. Oh. Yes, yes. Yeah, I'll get you there. It's an all-in. Michelle. Michelle. Michelle. Michelle. So, we're done taking like the professional pictures. We'll let off it. The little crowns. Yeah. Yeah, that way. Can we get you? Can we get you? Can we get you here? Oh, I'm so nervous. Yeah. Oh, our mouths are so dry. I don't know why I'm so nervous or they're like, hey. Oh, my God, don't be nervous. Is that weird if you look at it? Cause it looks like we're too prepared. I like, don't think you guys should necessarily be working out today, maybe. Yeah. But it's nice to have the points. Yeah. To like, cleanse down if we like, you know. Yeah. I'm gonna get a final say on it cause I actually have it while you're out there. Cause it might just like, we're really like. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm thinking. So, maybe I'm happy about it. Okay. Okay. Then, I'm just not gonna. Okay. I love that. Don't touch it. Well, I have it on my phone. I made it from my phone. Me too. Oh, amazing. You can see that. How many people are gonna be here? 52, including you guys. And then one thing about the like 745 to 845, what does that mean? So, while we're having dinner, we need to submit the contract. Oh. It's gonna, like this is just like our rock schedule. Basically, like we're thinking if everyone's sitting, then that leaves you time to go take content. Like, I mean like, whereas if everyone's running around, it's like everyone's seeing pictures, everyone's better than like, your content's gonna look all really busy. Okay. So, that's just like a suggestive time. Obviously, should we take more time to look at the camera? Yeah, that's more discreet. Okay. So, much more discreet. I like that camera. All right. I'm gonna go through like, the Instagram stories is. So, it's been a while. It's been a while. Sony is so good. But then. All right. Yeah. Oh, I'm like a secondhand photographer now. At this point, I like learned I know like that. So, it's about it. But like, I know my way around final cut and this camera not pretty well. It's so bulky. Yeah, I kind of disappeared my purse probably. She goes. So, could my boyfriend stay for the panel or normally? Yeah. He's not sitting. But you can totally feel free to like. Pretty fine. Yeah. That's what makes very good. Yeah, good job. Thank you. Featuring all these ocean brands. Very cool. I've actually been using that brand. I can't pronounce them. They gave us an L. Yeah. It is. With a body wash. I like it. Zero. Something like that. So, I'm excited to see all the other products too. Testing. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Amazon's AAPI Heritage Month Dinner. Girls, how you feel it? So nervous. I know that Martin is about to come out of my test. But apparently we're going to be sitting down and be pulled up from our tables. And I just feel like my heart is freaking pounding. But it's going to be okay. I feel like, hopefully. Yeah. The moderator's going to help, I think. What? The moderator's going to help you a lot, I think. Okay. Hopefully. Do you need some conversation, yeah? She's like an Amazon live purpose. But now I have to film my deliverables. So we're going to be filming what these products over here are on them. Famous life. I don't know if it looks psycho, but it's okay because we're at an amateur event. And this is from Amazon, so I will only get for you guys. Your shoppers a piece of mine when they do shop for me. I feel that because whenever my followers come to my storefront, I feel like they're always in a bind trying to get an outfit for the Friday up. And so I really try to only add majority products that are prime. Because a lot of the trendier pieces are not always prime. How do each of you strategize for those different platforms? It's not like I started with you. Okay, so we all know that TikTok is better if you do short form content. And especially for my Amazon try-on hauls, I really try to make it as short as possible. I have two tips for you guys. One is to add a photo of the product that you purchase, like the online picture, crop out the name and the style. And so that way, when they want to purchase it, they go into your Amazon storefront. So that's tip number one. Tip number two is to kind of put a little teaser clip in the beginning. So let's say you're unboxing your new S-mini skirt and you're wanting to do a styling video. So you'll film the unboxing, but take that little style clip the two seconds before, put it in the beginning, and that kind of captures the audience's attention. And that also just kind of increases your watch time. I hope you're taking notes. Yes, please. For YouTube, I kind of just dive into more detail about the product, how it fits, how I'm styling it, maybe like a couple of ways to style it. And then on Instagram, like she was saying, I kind of go more into those everyday products. And then starting out with five to 10 folders and really building out because once you promote it, then they're more likely to maybe even bookmark your page, follow your page. You didn't know you could follow Amazon storefronts and kind of get updated there. So just really build it out before you start promoting it. And then another tip I have for you guys is to post shoppable content. I feel like I kind of, sometimes it goes under the radar for me too, like I can forget about it, but nowadays there's this thing called Creator Ads. I'm not sure if you guys know about that, but I just found out about it. And so basically if a video doesn't perform well on TikTok, then bring it over to Amazon and it could get pushed for Creator Ads and then you can make commission on there. You heard it here first. Partnerships, you guys know, like once you complete your deliverables, they pay you a flat fee. But for Amazon influencer program, there's really no cap for your commission. I would say give yourself a goal to make out at least one Amazon product a day on Instagram stories or TikTok. And that will kind of just get you and your followers used to using the links, clicking the links, and also it can kind of educate your followers on how to use your storefront or kind of make it known that you have a storefront. I mean anything else you would love to add about being a part of the Amazon influencer program or I think just being consistent is really important. I mean if everyone says that, I mean if you look up just content creator tips, they're just like be consistent, but it's so important to do so. And I think it's really important to make yourself a checklist because we have so many platforms these days, like now Lemonade is coming on and I'm like, okay, we have enough. But it's important to make that checklist so that if you have time in your day and you can do a little bit more, kind of go down the checklist, maybe you posted 10 Instagram stories and then maybe do a TikTok and then maybe upload that TikTok to Amazon storefront. And everyone good, let's give them a round of applause. My smile is hurting, my cheeks are hurting. We'll see. Thank you. You're drawing a bunch of those iPhone videos. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. You want this? I thought I would be relieved. I thought I would be relieved like once I got out there, definitely wasn't. My voice was like, yeah. But it's over, we did it. We can say we did it. Met so many awesome girls. We got to like really know everyone and just really get to know them. Yeah, and it was fun. Cause I feel like I know, but I guess I didn't. Cause I was like, wait, I don't know how to you. Yeah. But I met the guy from this summer, I turned 30, his whole brother and we got a photo together. So that was cool. It is 10 PM. I feel like my brain is just like fried right now because I was just talking to so many people and it was so much fun meeting all these girls. It's so funny though, because I follow a lot of these newer people on TikTok and they all have names that aren't their actual names. So I was like, I don't know your name but like I know of you. And so I was like, what's your name? So it was really cool to meet some more people. I met a girl that I followed for so long. Her name is Charlene. She's really good on Instagram stories. And that was really fun because she was like, oh my gosh, wait, I know you cause she follows me back. And then I met this other girl named Karen. I think that's how you say it. Again, the TikTok names like look crazy. So I'm just like, I don't even know how to pronounce these names. But she was so, so sweet. And she was like, super nervous. And she was like, thanks for saying hi to me cause I was so nervous. The Amazon panel went well, I think, I don't know. Like I'm seeing videos and I'm like, I don't think I want to watch them but I am very excited that I was able to cross that off my bucket list. And I could say I was on a panel. So I wanted to do a little unboxing of the goodie bag because you guys already know Amazon hooks it up if you guys watched my LA vlog. Okay, so I first saw that this was in like the back room with the products. And I was like, I really hope they gave us more of this stuff because it's so good but it is super duper pricey. I want to say this is like $200. This little cream right here is $200. The serum I used, I looked it up the other day. I was going to, you know, share it on stories but it was like $200. I was like, damn, it's good. But I'm like, I don't know if it's $200 is good but I'll keep you guys updated on that, of course. Granola, cinnamon shy, okay. I'm going to get it back into my health, you know in fitness journey because grad season is over. I really don't have any more excuses and that's how I kind of got exercise throughout the weeks was like my photo sessions. So now that I don't have that, I got to get my butt back into shape and I'm excited to be eating healthier. So I can try to incorporate this stuff. This is coffee better for you, Candy. This is all you. Coffee? Yeah, so it's coffee better for you, Candy. A light chewy snack made with real coffee and milk. Ryan will probably like that. I do not like coffee, unfortunately. Ooh, they gave us a little Venus floor little rose. I don't want to unwrap it just yet. That's cute. What is it? It's like those roses that are like last like a year or like more, I don't even know. How do you get that home? What'd you say? How do you get it home? They packaged it. That's why I don't want to unbox it. Yeah. I'm gonna take it home and see if it lasts. Okay, this is another one of these. So wasu. I think that's how you pronounce it. You guys know in the LA vlog, I was like having a little hard time pronouncing this, but this is the activating serum. This isn't the one I've been using, but I feel like this is going to be a good one too. Ooh, we got a boy smells candle. I like this. It's petal. It's like a- Smelly boys? You can smell it, Ryan. Ryan and I love to smell candles. What do you think? It smells like a rose scented candle. You might smell something you have. I don't want to do this. Remember when I had that Kendra Scott candle? It was like roses. Smells similar, but this smells a little bit less, which honestly is good for me because I, hell yeah, this is it, guys. This is the serum that I was like, I really hope they get this to me because I've been using this. It's the concentrated ginseng renewing serum. So this stuff is good. And I think that's it. It came in this cute old bag. And that was our day. And now we have to pack up because our flight is at like seven, maybe 6.55 in the morning. And so I want to be packed, ready to go. And yeah, I mean, I'm excited to go home. I like to travel. I think I like the idea of traveling, but at the end of the day, I love going back to my own apartment. I always say if I could transport myself back to my apartment for the night, I'd be totally okay to travel. But at the end of the day, I'm missing my dog. I just saw a dog on the street and I was like, wait, I have a dog at home. I'm so sad, but we'll get to see you tomorrow. So no big deal. I'm very, very thankful for this experience and just my relationship with Amazon. And thankful for you guys because none of this would be possible without any of you. So I wanted to give you all a virtual hug and I'm gonna go ahead and end the video here. I hope I got enough footage, but I just really wanted to capture this for memories for myself because this is a big milestone for me. So if you guys wanna see more content, you can go follow me on Instagram and TikTok. Both are so underscore gnarly without the G and I will see you guys in my next video. Bye.