Small business in Ecuador - Manabi Market Business and Networking

Small business in Ecuador - Manabi Market Business and Networking

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some people once asked me if there were  tennis clubs here tennis where people can   play tennis i was out walking around yesterday  in the barbecue area notice there's a couple   tennis clubs over there one of them actually  just right up the street from the la cuadra   shopping center very active place lots of  looked like they were teaching lettuce i had   tennis lessons in there i found also discovered  that there was another place called the umena   tennis club which is a little bit further  away from the la quadra shopping center as   you're going out of town point it out on the  map here this circled here as you can see   and so when i got there i was just doing some  general footage on my gopro and i ran across   what's they called it a an event called the mona  b market business and networking fair so it's a   collection of people that came to this place to  set up a booth and to show what they were selling   and then introduce our business to the general  public i ran into a young lady named daniella and   i filmed all this on my gopro and i'm going to  share it with you now after this of course hey hello rocket chica hello there some kind of commercial new car   market step hello hi hi how are you  what's going on here thank you um this is   a fair a business and networking fair oh really  yeah i have a youtube channel and i'm kind of   doing some footage up here about this area that  place next door oh and i saw all the cars and   stuff and i thought i would see i'm nosy i  wanted to see what was going on all perfect   yeah i do i do my name is don shader  daniela nice to meet you good to meet   you um i can show you around okay if  you want do we get to eat too yeah   is it free it is free the entrance is free  actually like all the visitors oh this is   like a brand it's called yeah and they uh have  like this equipment to grill the the meat it's   like actually a special procedure really yeah  smells so good what kind of wood are they burning um i don't know the word in in english in spanish  all right i'll find out yeah yeah it smells good   yeah it does okay so um so this is i don't know  if i said this is not a b market yes this is like   our third edition it's a affair oh so you do this  every year oh thank you we do we have uh around 40   um brands yeah vendors brands here and we  have like also our sponsors okay here so   these are people that have businesses yeah here  now or they want to start a business no they do   they have been businesses already okay and they  wanna they came here from all over ecuador to   show their products here in manta and you do this  every year we do yeah this is our third edition so   we're really happy so it doesn't have anything  to do with tennis because we're at this um yeah but um no we're just using the location okay  okay they're sponsoring us they're sponsoring us   um they seem to be pretty popular ah  i know well we know each other here   you know like mata is really small so we get to  know each other so can you show me around let's go   all right i have i have a pretty good-sized family  likes this kind of stuff you know the people that   want to come here and people that are retiring  from the united states and they want to come   here and live like i did they would love this  yeah this is a really good school like space   yeah so as you see these are like many brands  that they come from all over the cuenca quito we have like accessories shoes we have okay now  wait a minute what did you call this accessories   like next necklace okay all right yeah jewelry  jewelry yeah exactly that's what i call this   audience i call them in spanish yeah we have  like chocolate like gourmet chocolate oh my god   and this is chocolate this is delicious yeah one  thing i noticed about you have to try it chocolate   perfect milk chocolate and dark chocolate this is  carolina the owner of oh wow i can have it yeah   you can have it it's free it's a sample it's  uh i'll tell people all the time they haven't   had they haven't tasted chocolate chocolate here  because i go to one of my favorite restaurants is   dolce camoso and they have the tiramisu and they  sprinkle this chocolate they pour this chocolate   on top of it yeah oh my gosh it's it's completely  different oh so also i always wanted to stir what brought you into this business how  did you how did you get started doing this   um we just look we just love it's just not me   we are three partners uh doing this  and we just love connecting people   we are we have different businesses ourselves but  um we love this we love connecting people we love   connecting brands with their potential client  with their potential distributor so that's what   we do we do it because of out of passion yeah  do these people have to pay to come to this yes yeah because yeah there's like a whole production exactly so um the entrance is for free so the the  public can come like the whole day today and the   whole day tomorrow yeah but yeah there's like  a fee to participate wow wow so these are like   as you see like different kind of like businesses  they have different kind of um segments of   businesses okay it's very very interesting this  is a pacific ocean they have like all these   tectonic solutions like like the houses  and buildings i wonder if they could build   soundproof windows for my bedroom we can ask  them yeah yeah i will before i leave yeah   yeah they probably could i bet you they could  because that looks like that's the type of   business they're in yeah they probably could  yeah i'm in a fairly quiet neighborhood but   every once in a while where do you live i'm  in torrey marina okay in uh lago okay yeah   it could be noisy yeah and i'm on the top floor  and the sound just bounces between the buildings   it comes right into my patio so but so now you  always have a good turnout do you keep track of   how many people actually come to this event we  try um we do have like um that's that's very um   fun that was something that we do we have uh  prices for the visitors yeah so in order for   you to register to be part of the you have to do  the registration okay so that's how we like know   how many people come through and how many people  you have the same pretty much the same people   every year that come here no different brands i  mean every year there are maybe one or two that   like love the the prayer so they come back like  haida this is her second time in manavi market   yeah and there's like another brand or two like  coming back because they love so when they come   here they come here and they set up these  booths and people come through and they buy   do you think do these people here have a chance to  open up a permanent shop here or do they already   do they already have one i mean um most of them  do most of them don't they normally sell online   but the purpose of coming here is to to see  that if the product yeah the product is like   good enough for the market and like test  it you know test that the potential client   if they like it and if they find someone like a  distributor here i guess they could like it ha   it happened before in the other editions sure  like people making businesses and i think you   already told me but when did you start this no  this is this started in 2017. this is the third   so what is the pandemic do to this thing it  was i think it was terrible for everyone it was   like like a bad bit hit for everyone so i i think  to be here is it's very brave yeah it's very brave   for us for them because even though we go we  went through we went through a pandemic we   went through a national strike here in ecuador  oh yeah like a few weeks ago i know i was here   um i was worried about getting food and and people  you know it stopped selling and stuff like and and   to be here for me is something very brave okay  so you weren't you weren't doing this during the   earthquake in yeah we did it like um a year after  that okay yeah so that was another thing that was   another big yeah so we always going through like  different like economy hits yeah that even though   people still like they don't give up no i i love  i love this word i know what the word in in spa   in english it's resilient it's when you go through  above everything yes so that's what i think about   ecuadorian entrepreneurs and businesses sure they  go like we surface through everything so this   space is for that for to to to make it possible  to reach out people who doesn't know your brand   right yeah so it's incredible yeah we're pretty  proud this is what we call networking we call   this networking i love that word yeah yeah you get  out get to meet people you get to meet your future   customers you know also you're going to have  music here also yeah yeah so this is like the   food part yeah so we have like and i think there's  some pizza there okay there's like healthy snacks   yeah and like now different things like the  shrimp society they sell like um you can try   it you can try it though yeah um i don't know if  you'd like shrimp i love shrimp i eat it all right   so they sell these like little bowls of  um of shrimps if you want to go i will i   will probably i'll do it after um yeah so it's  really good so if you want to try they sell it   they sell them frozen so you can like prepare  them at home is that what the little patty is yeah   i have some of those in my freezer that i got  from uh there's a lady here that sells frozen fish   okay stella's fish market she  sells to the different restaurants   and she has these little patties and it's  all shrimp they do too later and they have   like little bowls and they already have already  prepared so i can taste you can try it okay when does the music start it's today in the  afternoon in the afternoon yeah today at eight   is a live music but before that we have like  a wine tasting it's free as well oh my god   um and then before that we are um we have  the chitto veda fight yeah the ufc fight   oh my god people love it here oh really yeah  because he's from manavichito oh really i   didn't know that we are very proud of him oh  my yeah that's where they really fight yeah   so this is gonna be packed in the afternoon oh  my lord you're gonna be broadcasting it on the   screen there yeah yeah we are and just some  like an interesting fact they are giving free   water for everyone oh fantastic yeah i see their  trucks all over montana yeah yeah they're here   they sell the big bottles and then they also have  the little bottles so they do they sell the little   bottles in the grocery stores no i don't think  so i don't think so i don't know but they're   here with free water for everyone okay good yeah  that's nice yeah let's look around some more this is kind of like back home back in the states  the home is here now but i mean like what used   to be back home we we'd have these and oh my god  they'd be thousands of people in them you know and   it's a good way for a piece a business a new  business to get started yeah yeah that's what   like to get her name out yeah so this is um  different kind of products like you see like   pigeons and like natural products and more jewelry  i wonder if they have one of these in size 13. i think this is this is their men free kids   oh 40 is the biggest oh yeah maybe  they'll feed you they might find   so they make all this yeah they make all  of this and they make this is natural   um soaps and yeah soaps like artisanal products we also really really like um things that are  done in ecuador we promote that a lot like   people to consume what it's made here yeah  i mean it's all we here can participate all   kinds of businesses but we do try to promote that  like to consume things made here made here yeah   yeah that's that's that's i mean we do the same  thing in the united states made in america you   know made made in america sold in america used in  america so this is something that i'm not seeing   around either this is like the best kind of like  pots really they have cutlery too yeah i think so   i think so yeah yeah yeah that's nice looking  stuff they're really good um like really good   makeup yeah yeah it's really good product where  do they sell it that's where do they sell this okay so if you are very interested  they can sell you here the pots but   they can also they can also like contact you go to  your house cook for you and show you how they work   yeah like if anyone likes to like to  test them because they're really good   sure yeah there's a off the wall question do  they have full cut resets asking if they have and like a chef's knife and then there's like a  yeah like a bread slice you know because i tell   people all the time it's hard to find good cutlery  he's like you know the best yeah he's the best   oh yeah yeah so there you go yeah yeah yeah  okay this is like the best of the best yeah yeah and my biggest problem my kitchen is having  sharp enough knives to work with you know because   they're they're i bought them at mega maxi and  they're cheap oh no that's terrible like make   extra effort so yeah this is like the best of  the best okay of course before i leave i want   to come back and get some stuff information  from us let me know and i'll help you okay   all right thank you all right glasses glasses  and as you see like they're like different   kind of waterproof cases yeah this is very  interesting because this is like the water filters   i have one of those in my shower you do i do  and for like the kitchen i have one in the   kitchen and i think it's about one of the  best investments yeah this is really cool   oh i know these people down here you do yeah  hi expat magazine yeah so yes you see it's like   a how a buyer it's your product yeah oh yeah  everything it's it's made here in soldier   essentially yeah this is what women buy stuff i  don't know mary meeting men maybe you like some   like maybe like a buttercream or something like  that what am i going to eat put it on my toes   or your hands or your like elbows or like  i don't know i know my dad used it for his   elbows so maybe for the elbows yeah i know that  you can take coconut oil and put it on your skin   um i don't know like it's oil it's oil so i  don't know if it's not yeah but you can like   go around and ask yeah i see somebody back there  that i know yeah yeah these are our friends yeah   we are doing organic yeah they have services  of like organizing spaces yeah yeah so they   help you to organize your spaces yeah and like  leave it like there's a pizza chocolate it's a   little bit soft so these are for our friends  from hayek's but if you yeah let's go talk to i know i know this guy back here carlos from blue  box and hi expat magazine how are you hello good   to see you good to see you my wife done i didn't  know you were going to be here we were i ran into   her on the street oh yeah yeah it's a great event  today here yeah yeah yeah and me working a little   bit high expert and bluebox here yeah yeah we're  waiting for the expert community to come to visit   these are super sponsors of the event i'm very  familiar with this magazine and we we really need   to get the word out about that magazine because  it's it's beautiful the expats that come here need   information yeah yeah exactly and the thing  i like about this magazine is you see real   stories in there about real people you know  so i think i'm going to be in audition number   10 i think definitely you will be and that's  one of our objectives inspiring and informing   expats you know like you say we need include  more information about ecuador show ecuador   to the expert community like today that's  the reason why we are here on this event   because in this event you can see different brands  different companies you know you can be familiar   with the business from manta and from ecuador  sure and good to see you here too yeah yeah   so you know i don't know if we talked about  this once before but what exactly is your uh   do you own this magazine or well with my partner  reporter partner marcos from equal assists   and this is like the way to say  thanks to the expert community   you know because both have business that works  with expats yeah higher percent of experts are   part of our business eco-assist works with a lot  of expats blue box works with a lot of experts now   together we start the magazine you know  and that's the reason why you see me all   the time with the magazine with blue box  with my friend from equal assist you know   so where do you get the magazine why now where  where do you get it i know it's in your office but   where where do people pick it up in england  from equest from blue box from top dental   from la volera the indian restaurant you know  many many places we are we are trying to put in   more places like mega maxi but uh probably soon  you know and also is it's important to know that   it's a free magazine it's a free magazine  a free magazine a good quality of magazine   thank you yeah yeah i love the images and also  from salinas in salinas you can pick it up   oh yeah we have in different places you know follow our facebook page or instagram  page and you will see where okay where   you can go i'll put a link  to that in the description   i can send you the information okay yeah that  would be great i mean people have heard me talk   about this magazine before but i never really went  into a lot of detail about it you know because   usually when i'm running across it's because i'm  already talking about something else you know and   so but that's good this is great this is what  the expats need you know they we need something   like this and it's all in english obviously what  do you think about the magazine though i love it   i love it and i'll tell you another thing i  really like about i want to show this here's   this is one thing it's i don't know if my camera  can pick it up it's a super quality mag yeah yeah   and and it's like it's very well done and it's it  even smells good i love it i love it it's really   good it's good quality it's a great magazine  so and the material and it is very good too   i know what mark bradbury is part of this yeah  there he is right there yeah will you marry me look at this good looking guy yeah i have seen him  yeah i have seen his like big billboards oh yeah   have you seen him in person no no he'll he'll  make your heart melt oh really oh he'll pull on   your heart tug on your heart strings you know  he's quite a handsome man it's kind of like   this stud right here you know take one for you  sir all right yeah i don't have this one yet so   and everybody that comes here will take a  magazine right so we have some roses for the   people we invited to the expert community to come  music on the night vanilla yes wine wine yeah wine   tasting wine tasting yeah i already told don like  all the activities we have here and like we tell   him a little bit about mana market so it's a it's  a really nice event yeah you know one thing not   to change the subject but a lot of people don't  know that ecuador is a huge exporter of flowers   you know and roses in particular yeah i  did i didn't know that until i came here   probably we can include an article about  the roses too you know and people can   know a little bit more yeah yeah i've  seen you know some documentaries on tv   actually about the export of the roses out of  ecuador and i thought i didn't even know that so   all right well good i'm going to leave everybody  alone there's look at here here he is right here   come here look at this stud oh  he's going to the ladies first   we are running the video this is marcus  we're doing work are you ready right now   we're live right now we're going  home youtube we're talking about   high expect tack blue box insurance equal assist  yeah sure where your ear is ringing a few minutes   ago because i was talking about you oh really  that's right that's why your ears were ringing so   but uh plus good to see you good yeah i  referred somebody to you just this morning okay   i did i gave him gave him a link to your place  they they contacted uh some of our friends in   cuenca about the visa and they never responded  so i said well we'll take care of this right now   okay so i was saying them your way  thank you thank you for coming look   at this guy you know what he's taken okay so  i won't go there don't get too excited okay it's good to see you all right thank you it's  good to see everybody i'm gonna leave it there and   and i wish everybody please i  will i'm gonna walk around people   yeah another night come come the night yes for  the wine testing i'll sleep at night or tonight so let me ask you when the music plays is it going  to be loud a little loud a little outside but i   like this a little loud i know how that goes i  heard it last night 2 30 in the morning you know   it's not that late though it's at 8. oh  okay well good i'll be sound asleep by then   all right appreciate it thank you i'm gonna cut  it off there all right i wanted to stick around   a little bit longer and film some more stuff  but i had one battery with me for my gopro and   it was running low the music was getting loud  and it was going to be kind of hard for me to   film because of the not some not because the music  was loud but because it's copyrighted music and   i just can't have it in my video i don't want to  be in trouble by the copyright police at youtube   so i had to stop anyway it was a very interesting  day i mean i met some nice people and i had had   some good talks as you can see and i ran into some  people that that already knew carlos from blue box   insurance and then marco's from equosus and carlos  was there representing the high expat magazine   so i hope you enjoyed it that's  all i had to share for today   my next video is going to be an interview  with a spanish teacher here in mancha   and then when that video is done i'm  going to take a break for a while   so don't everybody start writing to me  and say no where are you where are you   i'm going to take some time off from the channel  rethink about some things that i want to do and   um take it from there okay so thanks for  watching and i'll see you on the next one ciao so you

2022-08-20 21:04

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