The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - TALLEY & TWINE WATCH COMPANY | BLACK MARKET w/ Karlous Miller

Episode Date: August 21, 2024

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So today, we got Tallien Twine. That's the watch company right here. by none other and Mr. Eric Haywood, how you doing, brother? Pretty good, pretty good, pretty good. Thanks for having me. Greatly appreciate it. No problem, man. It's your fault.

You should have been here. He should have been here. Looking at what you got over here, yeah, you should have been tapped in with the black market, man. How had all this come about? So my business partner actually started the company 10 years ago. My college roommate.

What is at? Portman, Virginia. That's where our headquarters is. Okay. So that's where he is. He's in our headquarters actually putting together while you're doing the grimy stuff that we got to do sometimes, you know.

Oh, actually build these watches? Yeah, we assemble watches. You know, we have 3,000 square foot warehouse and office space in Portman, Virginia, where we actually assembled the watches and ship them out from, you know, and I have the Atlanta office down here for our marketing and things of that nature sales.

Yeah, man, how did all this come about, though? So my business partner started it, you know, always been fly, always, you know, dressed well and was looking for a watch. Couldn't find one, right? Not one that spoke to him. Not one was good design at a price point that he can afford. And, you know,

wasn't imitating all the other watch companies out. Right. And then also, he didn't see himself in anything. He didn't see himself in marketing. He didn't see himself in advertising. He didn't see himself, the companies didn't speak to us at all. Right. So he found that it was an opportunity to actually create a watch company.

Started with a Kickstarter campaign, you know, $20,000, raised that, and we've been all bootstrapped from there. That's what's up, man. What you bring for us today? Yeah, so that's one of our newest drops, which is the White Panda. And what I say about drops,

I want people to think of Nike, right? You know, you come to our size, like, you know, hey, you know, stuff is sold out or it's intentionally sold out, right? Because when we drop things, we drop in fire every time that we drop something, right? Top quality. Top quality. That's our Tuskegee

Year. It's a collaboration with Tuskegee. year, man. Official license, actually, percentage of proceeds, go back to the Tuskegee Airmen. Now, see, that's dope as hell right there. That's dope as hell. When you can do stuff like that. Best, best-selling watch. By far, best-selling watch. Yep, that and that Juneteenth, you can't keep it in.

Like, this is a... That's a replica of the Juneteenth watch. Absolutely. That's hard. Y'all see that? Damn. So, man, what's been the biggest, like... Big is like influence for your business.

Like where has most of your traffic come from? Where have most of your customers and requests and all of that stuff? Yeah, so I will definitely like to credit. Randy Williams, I don't know if we actually call that. I always like to call out my co-owner. Randy Williams, he's a brandy genius. Really? The brandy genius, right?

He understands how to talk to our customers. You know, we have a lot of credibility in our community. Quality product, great customer service, just some of the foundations. just to get you there. And then it's elements of the brand, right? You look at our watch and it's like, oh, that's a dope watch. It's like, oh, Tally and Twine. What does Tally and Twine mean?

Tally and Twine, it's a cross street and it wants to dilapidated neighborhood in Portsman, Virginia. The neighborhood reinvested in itself and turned itself around. It's a testament that you don't have to finish where you started, right? So Tally and Twine is that guiding light

that we like to be for us in our community. Number seven, number seven is the only number on the watch. All of our watches. And you see that? It's the only number on the watch. All right? There's a number of completion. It reminds you to finish what you start. Right?

Once you start peeling back the layers of the brand, there's always an Easter egg getting there for you. Absolutely. Just like that Tuskegee watch. That is the actual plane that the Tuskegee government flu.

Those details matter. That's what So we're like, what was your involvement when the idea was brought to you? Like, why you instantly on board? Oh, yeah. So Randy was my college roommate. So we've always been entrepreneurs. Kicking ideas.

Kicking ideas. All we had different companies together. I had several companies before. He found his product market fit in his house, right? He started our first samples. Oh, okay. You know, then he started getting some tracks. And I was like, oh, okay, you really got something here.

And he came to the point. point that where it was, bro, you're a business guy, you've been a Fortune 100 for the last 10 years. I need some help. I don't know what I need help with. I don't know what it is, but come help me. It's something. It's something, right?

And I came and I really put structure around the business and put structure around our relationships and pull it into my network and, you know, started building the business. We've been growing at 150% year over year. That's what's up. And what year is this? And this is year 10.

Okay. Yeah. All right. All right. So what's the dream collaboration with, like is it trying to y'all want to work with? The dream collaboration. I mean, LeBron James, man. LeBron Jean, that's what's up?

You make him a championship watch. That's right. We have relationships with Steph Curry too and his investment company. But really, we invest in our community. However that looks like, you know, we are very particular who we do business with, how we do business with them because our brand really matters and people are people right you know things happen so we don't try to get like two in there with a particular company of your brand but of those opportunities for themselves we'll definitely you know look at those we've done some cool

collaboration so far with Orlando Magic you know we have Orlando Magic watch um we have a Tuskegee Airman watch we have some college universities that's dropping. We also have some organizations that's drop in too. I don't want to get too, you know, into the details on who those are, but, you know, they're relevant to the community. Well, what can we do one? We can. Let's do us a collab. That's why I'm up. Instead of the seven being the only one on that, we put the eight and the five on them. That'd be dope. That'd be dope. That'd be dope. Came from you. You heard it. Man, see, we put that together. You hate it.

So, like, what is you like, what do you want to do for the future? Like, how does this look, taking the brand forward? Yeah, so we're in the midst of scaling right now. You know, I always like to, you know, we need to be, we need to, our companies need to be multi-million dollar companies, right? Absolutely. You know, and we're scaling in certain ways. One is just meeting the demand that's already there.

Now that's see. Right, we have so much. Now you're in the door, now ain't they, they didn't bought all the product. That's right. That's right. It's there. So keeping up with the demand is one thing. Two, we have been doing more corporate sales, you know, which has been customizations and those type things.

That's been a big revenue driver for us. And then, like you say, partnerships, collaborations, things like this will give us more cultural credibility. That's what I was just about to ask you, man, for somebody who's watching this right now, somebody who might just like watches old school black dude might just like watches

why does he need to add this brand to the collection because of the brand right because of what we stand for right you know how many black on watch companies you know

how many black on watch companies you know have a June teeth watch you know Tuskegee Airman watch right we are made for us yeah right

when you wear our watch I guarantee you you get more compliments that you get from anybody any other watch you have all right is that because you're wearing it with pride it ain't totally to watch the watch it's super dope but it's it's what you exude when you wear the watch it means something to you know it matters to you have a story behind black watches matter black watch is matter you want you need to be a PR you're gonna be a PR walk any person I'm just figuring it out I'm still at a point in my life

while I'm trying to figure out what I'm good at yeah yeah well you know you know you I do that. But I mean, I ain't the best yet. I'm working on being the best at some shit. And it might be what you just said. I might need to be out here pitching products. You don't have nothing on. We're going to get you.

We're going to fix that. I did it on purpose. Oh, see. I did it on purpose because, see, look, I learned in business, if you looked like you needed, you'll never get it. I would have came in here with a big-ass watch. You wouldn't be like, Lowe's, we can get you a watch. Or you're going to be like, oh, you already got a watch.

You're going to move on to somebody who ain't got one. You need a watch. Most definitely. And then it would look crazy if me pitching my watch collab and if I got on a watch already. You are good at something. See?

Yep. One smart black boy. And now what can they purchase? What's the website? All the online. Tally Entwine everywhere. Tally Entwine.com. Tally and Twine on all the social platforms.

That's T-A-L-L-E-Y. Yeah. Y-N-D. Y'all got watches for ladies, too? Yes, we have women's lines. This is a woman's watch right here. We have about 46 millimeters of men, 41 millimeters of women.

Yeah. We have special bands for them. We have also special watches designed particularly for women. Can you go to the site and design you something? No, no. You got to get what we...

You got to get in touch with somebody. Yeah, well, you know, we join, man. You just don't customize and join you. That's aftermarket. No, no, no, no. Well, we have a model that we try to keep simple and lean, right? I want to get into the business, operations of it.

You know, being lean and being profitable is the most important thing. Yeah, man, to all the people who don't know, tell them how important having a nice watch is. It's a status symbol, right? But the flex is not how much that watch costs. The flex is what that watch mean to you, right? How that watch make you feel?

You know, can you identify what the company? Can you identify with Rolex? Can you really? Can you really identify with AP? I can't. You can't. I can't. I can't.

I can't. I ain't seen them out doing nothing. I don't know who the face of the brain or nothing. I heard it wasn't even a watch company. But, you know, you... It's a nonprofit organization. But that's a whole nother show. Yeah, they got...

It's a collaborative or some stuff. Yeah, the way that they put the business on paper so they can be profitable. profitable is correct correct it's not your typical LLC that's right but that's why we're here we're here to close that gap right right we're here to make stuff for our community and for everyone but no shame about for our community you know unapologetic about it well look bro I'm sitting here looking and I know that y'all see them on the table and all these these are nice quality watches nice leather bands and this is real it got weight to it too. So make sure you hit them up and support, man. Tally and Twine. Watch brand. I like that,

brother. I see why y'all can't keep this one. Yeah. Yeah. Tuskegee and the concept is so dope. And then y'all give it back, too. It means something. Yeah, man. So look here. We appreciate you stopping through here, letting us check out some products. I might have to keep these. I don't know, bro. You got to leave. Send me one of these. You want you? I know it's promo, but I like them. You like them? Man, send me one of them. Okay, okay.

We'll get you one made. And then you got to get back in touch with me about doing the collab with the 85 south. Oh, yeah, we're all over that. We've been talking to a team already, you know, so we are down that path. That's hard. I want to watch with the flip.

I want my shit to flip open. I can get my shit to flip over. Hey, maybe. I want to flip over the shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, man, I appreciate you stopping. Thank you so much. Let me check out the watches.

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