We had the good fortune of connecting with Ja’Mari & Marcel Douglas and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Ja’Mari & Marcel, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
We came to our mom and told her we wanted to open a business after seeing the success of her business ( Over the top Miami Treats). We decided we wanted to sell icey’s because we always have them at our birthday parties. Then we got a logo made with our faces. Then, we decided to name each flavor after our favorite characters. From there we open our business on April 2019.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
What set us apart from others we try to bring different things to our company we have loyalty cards ,souvenir cups, if you follow us on Instagram you get a free topping on your icey, we host raffles on Instagram and Facebook for our customers can win a free event . We are proud that we only been in business for 1 year and 8 months we now have an ICEY cart and a website . It has been a smooth road for us so far. We open during the start of practice for football season of 2018 We sponsored my 6U team and booked some parties. We also booked parties from friends, family, and Instagram. Challenges was this year because of the pandemic a lot of people was not having parties optimist football season was cancelled. So we came up with a plan to have prepackaged iceys . Now that we have to social distance are iceys will still be at the drive by events . This year was a lesson dealing with Covid-19 just always be prepared.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
Since this is my kid business fun for them is going to Dave and Busters ,Chuck E Cheese out to eat and to the movies . Most likely we will end up at Benihana or Red Lobster.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
We would like to Shout out my parents and grandparents for encouraging us and helping us start our business. Also shout out to all of our customers.

Website: Www.jmiceys.com
Instagram: @jandm_iceys
Facebook: @jandmiceys

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