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I have to say, the fact he took the award video down kinda surprised me.
I just can't fathom how stupid Pan was thinking that this stunt wouldn't turn sour, you could see it from a mile away. And the thing is, prior to that awards video being posted, his whole product line had sold out within a day or two! To then go on and do that video like that was pretty foolish. Perhaps he was/is so blinded by his 1.04+ million subscriber popularity that putting his own products in first place would be accepted and embraced by his viewers?
Thing is, that awards video would have been shot before the unveiling of his product range, he had a choice in how that video played out, and plenty of time to consider how it would be received. In that I mean perhaps NOT including his products for this years awards. Or perhaps withheld the awards until the end of the year, giving his products a chance to get into customer hands. Or perhaps withholding this year's awards or even not continuing with that format at all for obvious conflict of interest reasons.
Don't take the above to mean that I begrudge the man's desire to promote his business, that's not what this is about. Rather, he blindly expected viewers to ignore the elephant in the room, either knowingly or unknowingly. Instead, now he has a massive public relations problem that could have easily been avoided.
In any case, I guess he got a big dose of reality.
There is something else I have noticed in regard to The House of Rags, which launched in tandem with Pan's product reveal. One of the figured heads, known as Jamie the Cleaner, rose to such prominence via The Rag Company. His channel and social media efforts led him to becoming a "Gram-bassador" (a brand ambassador that is chosen and sent a bunch of free towels and products to feature in their videos and social media), who then went on to win "Gram-bassador" of the year. He has also been a guest expert on the TRC Q&A Podcasts, as well as co-host of the annual TRCMA trade show. That also led to P&S creating a short run of his Bead-Maker/Dream-Maker concoction called "Clean-Maker", which had his logo put onto the bottle and marketing material as well as trip to see it being made. So, TRC built him up and opened doors for him to prosper.
Looking at the House of Rags webstore, there is a lot of brands missing in action..........................
You would assume that Jamie's TRC connections would have meant TRC towels would be in the store. But no, they chose Autofiber.
You would think Jamie's connection with P&S would mean that it too would have featured, but no. Unless they are sourcing the house brand from P&S.
And on that house brand, called "Detail Co.", well in addition to the "House of Rags" store name, both are far too similar to The Rag Company brand.
Listening to the most recent TRC Q&A Podcast, when the House of Rags topic was brought up as a question, both Levi and Anthony very quickly changed the subject, and the tone of their voice was sus too.
Something is sour is going on with the whole House of Rags and Clean by Pan thing. I get the feeling a lot of people have been put offside through all this.
I just can't fathom how stupid Pan was thinking that this stunt wouldn't turn sour, you could see it from a mile away. And the thing is, prior to that awards video being posted, his whole product line had sold out within a day or two! To then go on and do that video like that was pretty foolish. Perhaps he was/is so blinded by his 1.04+ million subscriber popularity that putting his own products in first place would be accepted and embraced by his viewers?
Thing is, that awards video would have been shot before the unveiling of his product range, he had a choice in how that video played out, and plenty of time to consider how it would be received. In that I mean perhaps NOT including his products for this years awards. Or perhaps withheld the awards until the end of the year, giving his products a chance to get into customer hands. Or perhaps withholding this year's awards or even not continuing with that format at all for obvious conflict of interest reasons.
Don't take the above to mean that I begrudge the man's desire to promote his business, that's not what this is about. Rather, he blindly expected viewers to ignore the elephant in the room, either knowingly or unknowingly. Instead, now he has a massive public relations problem that could have easily been avoided.
In any case, I guess he got a big dose of reality.
There is something else I have noticed in regard to The House of Rags, which launched in tandem with Pan's product reveal. One of the figured heads, known as Jamie the Cleaner, rose to such prominence via The Rag Company. His channel and social media efforts led him to becoming a "Gram-bassador" (a brand ambassador that is chosen and sent a bunch of free towels and products to feature in their videos and social media), who then went on to win "Gram-bassador" of the year. He has also been a guest expert on the TRC Q&A Podcasts, as well as co-host of the annual TRCMA trade show. That also led to P&S creating a short run of his Bead-Maker/Dream-Maker concoction called "Clean-Maker", which had his logo put onto the bottle and marketing material as well as trip to see it being made. So, TRC built him up and opened doors for him to prosper.
Looking at the House of Rags webstore, there is a lot of brands missing in action..........................
You would assume that Jamie's TRC connections would have meant TRC towels would be in the store. But no, they chose Autofiber.
You would think Jamie's connection with P&S would mean that it too would have featured, but no. Unless they are sourcing the house brand from P&S.
And on that house brand, called "Detail Co.", well in addition to the "House of Rags" store name, both are far too similar to The Rag Company brand.
Listening to the most recent TRC Q&A Podcast, when the House of Rags topic was brought up as a question, both Levi and Anthony very quickly changed the subject, and the tone of their voice was sus too.
Something is sour is going on with the whole House of Rags and Clean by Pan thing. I get the feeling a lot of people have been put offside through all this.
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