2021 EP

[Tusk]

Tusk.  The idea is she purchases merch (say shirts) at X and sells it at Y for a profit.  She then makes money.  That is how it works.  That is Business 101.

Haley obviously is not broke.  She has income (from F is For Family, Spotify, Amazon, iTunes, private gigs, etc.) and she did release two videos in the past six months.  Producing those videos was not free.

But forget merchandise.  She could simply update her site with activity, recent photos, etc and put her latest video up.  Managing a web site is pretty easy to do.  I do it via WIX for some projects I am working on.  She does not need income for that.

I guess that is where frustration lies in that there are things she could be doing.  Why not a STAGE IT show to raise funds if she needs them?  What happened to her Subscription service—it says “Coming Soon” for at least six months?    Anyway, this is not a bash Haley text, just a hope that she gets back into the game a little more.

In ten years, when all was running as it should, did she ever do any of this?  She acknowledges she's not technically savvy, you can't assume she understands what you understand, we all have our strengths and weaknesses, technology, ie running a web site, is not hers.  Just because you might understand, doesn't mean she wouldn't get frustrated w/ it... 

Lest I remind you how difficult it was in the first place to get her on social media....We don't remember the silent times pre-PMJ when we had to rely on Casey's snapchats to get ANY news about Haley?  (Haley had snapchat too, but only her friends, family and associates could see it, not until she started doing Instagram more frequently did she start sharing stories behind the scenes w/ us)

My brother gets frustrated because I'm unable to do 'office work', I don't have the mental makeup to do what most office workers do, but give me something like doing recipes, crafting, design, doing something creative, then, yes, I can more than help you, but ask me to do spreadsheets on Quickbooks or other accounting software?  I'm lost.  That's why I'm responsible for the manufacturing part of our family business.  My brother on the other hand can't do what I do, he's great at administrative/office tasks.

We all have our strengths and weaknesses, NONE of us is good at everything.  Haley's strengths are Heavily on the creative side and we're well aware of where she's least comfortable...those who wonder why she's not active on social media have forgotten the months of silence after she was dropped from Interscope... Or maybe it was so long ago, some have forgotten.  At least she's active on Instagram, back then we got our social media fix via Casey's snapchat, for goodness sakes.  

Besides liking Casey as a performer, I will ALWAYS appreciate how he brought Haley to us via his social media, how he slowly pulled Haley out of hiding to perform small shows at Room 5/Hotel Cafe, until she got on her feet, then PMJ came along... You don't remember any of that?  Without Casey's help, Haley might have taken even longer to get going again and we'd get NO updates via social media because she just didn't do it back then.

She hasn't done Stageit since the October one in 2013, even then it wasn't a solo show, she partnered up w/ Casey, that's almost 9 years ago, clearly it's not something she likes doing, whether she needs the money or not.  

It's been TWO years of lost businesses, including any she had planned.  Her EP is delayed, anything associated w/ it (The Website, Merch store, fan club) has to wait, we have no idea what she's had to deal w/ because Haley's one of those that likes to put on a happy face.

From new fans I understand, but from fans who were around when we waited for Casey's updates to get ANY news on Haley AT ALL, I don't understand the insistence she do things she's clearly not comfortable doing ..... we've all seen it, so has she all of a sudden become a tech/web/sales wiz?

We love Haley for her singing, personality and performance ability, not because she's an incredible sales manager and a wiz at web sites....

Honestly, I'm not upset at anyone, just confused at the suggestions w/ our long history of seeing Haley as a public person and how she conducts her career.  I don't know what Haley feels or thinks, she's pretty private, but don't think for a second she wouldn't rather be out there performing and meeting us and singing her songs... posting this stuff assumes she's not frustrated how much the pandemic has affected her