has shared a tearful video about how influencers aren’t promoting her clothing brand after receiving free PR packages despite not paying them for promotion. On Monday night, Skye took to her IG Stories to share some behind-the-scenes challenges she faces running her business, Good People Apparel, that she shares with fellow influencer Tori de Jong. “I just want to jump on and talk to you guys about business and just kind of show you the reality of it. And just talk a little bit about how fucking hard it is to run a business and you know even for me, being an influencer or someone with an audience, it’s fuckin’ hard,” she began.
(Image Credit: Instagram / Skye Wheatley @skye.wheatley)Big BrotherShe went on to say the reason she was so upset is that she had promised a bunch of people free tracksuits from their collection but due to the loss of funds from sending out PR packages and freebies to influencers, she couldn’t afford to fulfill those promises.(Image Credit: Instagram /Good People Apparel @goodpeopleapparel_)“I just got off the phone with [business partner] Tori who was like ‘babe, you can’t be sending out these free tracksuits’,” Skye told the camera. “So now I’m like gonna have to tell the people that I said ‘yeah I’ll send you a tracksuit’, ‘actually sorry, we’ve already spent 20k in sending PR packages out to people that don’t fucking post because they don’t appreciate the product’.”
Not long after Skye’s vids, IG gossip page Dutch Minty noticed that influencer Indy Clinton had shared a couple of posts on her IG Stories wearing a Good People Apparel tracksuit.
1/2(Image Credit: Instagram / Indy Clinton @indyclinton)
2/2(Image Credit: Instagram / Indy Clinton @indyclinton)
“Please don’t just send something, hope that I post and then get annoyed if I don’t post. I appreciate you wanting to send me things but save your money on postage ,” Indi concluded. Although it seems like Indy’s post is clearly referencing Skye’s rant, Skye doesn’t think the two correlate.(Image Credit: Instagram / Skye Wheatley @skye.wheatley)When asked if Indy’s Story post was about her, Skye responded: “I don’t think so she’s my friend! I’m with her 100 per cent. It is hard when brands EXPECT you to post for free like we are also running a business.”
“Please don’t just send something, hope that I post and then get annoyed if I don’t post. I appreciate you wanting to send me things but save your money on postage ,” Indi concluded. Although it seems like Indy’s post is clearly referencing Skye’s rant, Skye doesn’t think the two correlate.
