u/Competitive_Cancel33

Do you automatically disqualify a promoter if they’re using ai flyers?

Such a new phenomenon now that chat can generate some shoddy looking flyer that looks better than what some people used to be able to do themselves on canva.

I’m a designer turned creative director turned business owner so I do have a lot of complicated feelings about ai. I also know how much design services cost and empathize with the allure of using an ai one.

On the flip, it’s hard to believe someone who’s a legit businessperson could look at an ai flyer and say “yep that’s good”, when it looks exactly like 1000s of other flyers currently being generated and littering the internet. Don’t even get me started on why designers are needed in the first place and all of these flyers are actually awful in their own regard.

Anyway, original question- I’m so tempted to just automatically declining a fair for doing this. Then I turn around and see other more legit small businesses doing it too. Design services are expensive. Teaching yourself design basics and canva in an afternoon is free. But if you claim to support makers, why are you not even second guessing about these awful flyers that are doing nothing but diluting your brand trust?

I hope we see the end soon. I hope ChatGPT is still learning from real world design and not itself because if the latter, this world is about to get so much less aesthetic and more tacky lol.

I’m in SoCal and have done a few successful events for the city. I’m now branching out and seeing what’s worth going to next.

I’ve come across almost a dozen promoter/organizers who’s social media is suspect:

-only AI generated images soliciting vendors, never any actual fair footage or promotion to the public

-never any real location info when asking for vendor applications, just a city name

-almost all of them infringe Disney or other IP in their themes/ai artwork/ blatantly encouraging vendors to theme their booths around stolen IP

-when I ask questions about any actual details I’m given one word incomplete answers.

Obviously I won’t be applying to any of these anymore nor attending them. But what’s with this? Are these just former MLM girlies who think they found a new hustle?

What are some ways you’re able to deduce if an event is even legit before you ever even consider checking them out?

I just recently discovered that the IE has these everywhere, all the time. From regular church parking lots to breweries and downtown Riverside etc. thanks Instagram suggested posts.

So I’m intrigued which are the best for kids to take the family to spend an hour where the whole family can have fun and not so stuffy just for adults stuff?

Been in business a year, have incredible organic feedback about our product (featured by influencers of 1m+ followers without any outreach compensation etc).

Two weeks in May we ran a campaign that brought us lower AOV than normal and now a large percentage of those buyers are asking for refunds for the most asinine reasons. One bought a bundle and somehow thought it was supposed to be one thing. Others leaving 3 star reviews because they didn’t read the description or look at the photos but end their review with “but I’m planning to buy again. Another seemingly has no idea how to even use the straightforward (think it’s simple as a paperweight) product they willingly bought. Many folks demanding refunds for these crazy reasons that are most definitely subjective and not based on the product or experience at all. And our first complaints in a year.

Normally I’d take some of this as feedback and improve which I probably will still do. But to me it feels I was thrown into some crazy low IQ audience pocket. These are the types of people I see in screenshots on r/depop, some I feel making a real lifestyle out of ordering and then generating false complaints.

I’m not surprised, since the fb app itself is an actual wasteland. Who’s even there anymore who has a brain? Unsure.

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this. We’re going back to in person sales, this was the final straw after a super shitty 6 months of low roas.

Is this something you’d ever write in a thank you card to a 7th grade boy?

Because my son’s teacher did.

If I’m playing Spotify and I swipe to pickup a passenger, the uber app blasts my music out of my speakers and I lose control of the music volume.

I’ve disabled every audio cue I can find in the driver app to avoid this conflict and it still does it. Has anyone fixed this issue for themselves with some settings somehow?

Every weekday I get at least one ping to a dialysis center or hospital or planned parenthood and it’s always a reserve ride I get as a normal ping. Passengers name is usually all caps. No photo. I show up and there’s no live passenger pin, I wait the five minutes. Half the time no one arrives. The other half they do and it’s someone I’m really not comfortable driving due to the fact that their condition required a driver, from a medical center. And this is a service you can pay for, not through Lyft.

When I start the ride Lyft puts up a notification that says do not deviate from the route or stop anywhere. Meaning this is either a fragile passenger or a contracted ride through the medical center.

As a matter of principle I don’t support this. Medical transport services exist for a reason and they make far more than we do for a reason. This is an agreement Lyft has with the provider or the insurance company, and they don’t even tell us about it.

I want to opt out but with my luck the ai support will shadow ban me in some weird way. Absolutely sucks.

In ABO to start fresh after being off for a few months I’m trying to give the algorithm the right amount of creative.

$50/ day per ad set abo
3 ad sets- 1 ad set per angle/ concept / audience
3 ads per ad set- the same ad with a different hook 3x

Is this too much too launch? Or instead Should I go 1 ad per adset to kickstart learning and then only swap in new hooks to test against once I get some results?

What’s worth turning on?