WebIn this episode Mandy chats with her friend and fellow beekeeper, Wei Chow. WebImagine the pressure of carrying on your family business. You're with epic gardening.com and that entire brand and presence. Um, and you know, hopefully the site comes back. The campaign hook was pretty clever. Right, right. We told the press that people should turn on their heating this summer if they want to save money next winter, and we landed over 20 links in national and regional UK obligations for our boiler client. Mm-hmm. The author of Field Guide to Urban Gardening and creator of the website Epic I don't like the term, but that's sort of what you become. And he's like, oh, well you need a three pl third party logistics company. You can test it on all the express, whatever. That's amazing. So maybe I, maybe I could have. CCSO Case # 23-004089 Erron Randll Herndon, age 48 Charges: Possession of a Controlled Substance (Methamphetamine); Felon in Possession of Restricted Weapon; outstanding arrest Uh, and we have the education to bring them through the whole journey. Um, but that was 2017, I think I bought the site for like a thousand dollars and, um, I penciled out the RPM math and I was like, I think this pays itself off in like three months. While it may look like theres a lot of light, your plants need to photosynthesize, so if you can afford to, adding supplemental lighting will be crucial, and get the plants as close as possible to the window. We therefore advise the press with an expert commentary piece on behalf of our boiler client that people should turn on their boiler this summer just when the heat wave is in full swing. Right? Um, and then it'll show up at their door, they'll unload it and they'll slap all the labels on it cuz it was ready in box. Kevin: if you will. I'm so curious to hear what you're doing. Webdepartment of treasury austin texas 73301 phone number; wii sports club unable to acquire data; randolph high school track and field; huntley ritter parents Right? You know? I think we can build like the educational side of the company, which is all the content we're bringing on, like new creators, someone who's not just me on the camera. Um, you know, tactics have changed a lot, but at the same time, I've, I always find a lot of the basic store remain the same. And there you go. Mm-hmm. - Kevin Espiritu, Founder and CEO of Epic Gardening, on his early-career years During the time period after college, Espiritu and his brother started gardening I'm gonna, the revenue streams I have, I'm gonna just gonna keep pumping those. we did at Epic, or I did at the time because, you know, lining up product the year before a pandemic that just so happened to lock people into their homes where they would look for home based activities. No mucho despus, el mismo Seor Jess vino y ministr a otro joven y a Kevin tambin. It's less, um, it's less dense. Huge thanks to my co-teacher Anuka What a masterpiece pring building campaign with 20 links in big publications such as the Sun Express Mirror, Wells online and still landing. Yeah. Um, and so then you'd have the cash that you could then try to buy more, but you'd, you'd always have to play this game of like, okay, well I can't buy too far ahead because I can't just promise customers something that's coming in half a year. This was also the year Kevin decided to quit his job at a company called Book In A Box, founded by Tucker Max. Maybe it's time to, to go do my own thing. Certain, certain site owners don't agree with, which is valid, is, is I'm like, if you can't put your face on your business or you can't out your site, for example, to me, you do not actually have a resilient business. Vertical gardening is fantastic because it makes use of the Z axisyou can grow UP instead of OUT. In the context of blogs, I guess it's a little different right, though. What was. Jared: jump into the podcast, I wanted to let you know that today's episode is sponsored by Search Intelligence. Um, you know, I mean, within six months you had what Quadr, uh, no, 10 x pure income, uh, or your revenue from the site. So I mean, the ideal. It's now called Scribe Media. A follow up question. There's actually a lot of products in our, in our world as gardeners that you go to the nursery and you, you think you're doing like the sustainable act of growing your own food and stuff. So good to have you. Um, and if I can, like, I'm trying to get into the heads of some of the various people that are probably listening. Um, and so we sort of have a way to engage with our, our audience right at the point of starting seeds, right. 25 Feb/23. And that is functionally more valuable than my tips on how to grow tomatoes. Um, that. And so that, that sort of went to promotion link building. Uh, and there's so much, um, sort of copying and, and playing the same game by other people that I feel like at some point, The, like, the margins will start to get competed away in, in the whole space. He's got like three or four brands in the space. Along the way where you made those. Day. This case study highlights the fact that a clever hook can be applied to any insight or story to make a campaign more successful and more compelling to journalists. So I wrote like the first 400 in-depth gardening articles, right? I mean, if, let's say, you know, in my world you've got how to grow basil, right? Yeah. So basically from my early twenties, like 18 on, actually, I, I had been relatively self-sufficient. It'll, it'll be the packs with the illustrations on it. So every dollar I had to spend on product I was spending, and then I would list it on our store and I would say, you know, I have, I have a thousand units of whatever this product is. Yeah. I have full faith his site will come back. , what, what did you do to get the site going? Yeah. That's more resilient, right? But then, you know, 2019 was the year that everything really changed for the business, cuz I decided at that point I had been on Instagram long. And there are some companies in our space that do that. Mm-hmm. Before we. WebKevin Espiritu began his business Epic Gardening as a way for him to present gardening information in a more modern, updated way to friends and family. , um, you know, people, I guess my first question would be for the person who's listening, who, who doesn't really, you know, want to get into investment, who doesn't really want to get into product. This was about 10% of all the recorded Espiritu's in USA. Mm-hmm. Jared: Mm-hmm. I mean, that's, to me, that's enough to, to live on as far as my own personal goals at the time. If Amazon changes a commission tier, like they did by the way, in, in 20, um, 20, they cut gardening from eight to 4% and I lost 35 K a month immediately. And so I was like, you know what? Yeah. Um, and there you go. Kevin Espiritu YouTube Star #231141 Most Eric L. Espiritu Villanueva, age 24 Charge: Theft II . Um, and, and there you go. Actually, my cousin runs a fishing site and he offers a product that's done pretty well for him. I hope this video inspires and shows you what's possible with a clever hook. If you want similar link building PR campaigns for your website, head to search dash intelligence. They'll handle the receiving. For me. What are all the steps involved? Copyright 2023 S Media International Corporation. A Visit to the San Diego Home and Garden of Kevin Espiritu. Sign Up. Well, uh, it's, we'll stay tuned for that one. So I believe in 2017, I think at that time I switched to Zoic from Aen. RankIQ Review: Is This AI SEO Toolset Worth Your Time and Money? Right? Yo. So these basic, basic things I didn't know. Espiritu has been gardening since he was a child, and he created the channel in 2013 to share his love of gardening with others. Kevin: products maybe? or. Webkevinpclml (@kevinpclml) | TikTok kevinpclml kevinpclml Seguir 321 Siguiendo 52 Seguidores 753 Me gusta Recreando experiencias en pequeos cortos Videos Me gusta 3047 Momento historico que vivio MEGADETH en el Nippon Budokan de Tokio #davemustaine #megadeth #kikoloreiro #martyfriedman #thrashmetal #lml #tokio 102 Here's where to make the cut, right? In 2016, he went from $400 to $4-5k a month from ads and affiliate earnings on his blog. Uh, and then when I bought the, the container, so I bought a shipping container, like I said, for 35 grand. That's crazy. And it was ad sensee, I believe, still at that time. So it's interesting cuz like I, I had, I went full-time on a site that technically existed for a few years but had just languished, right? And so you, if you're getting into the commerce of, I don't know, let's say carpentry or something like that, um, you wanna offer something. Kevin: say to that person? It's, you don't have to buy that much of it. Right? No, I was almost like a kindergartner in the world of commerce. I was like, Hey, I. I think probably around 10 million uniques a year. Yet the company has, you know, has grown so much. Resource: Kevin www.sandiegohomegarden.com Like, he's a really good example of it because he's, he knows what he has. Mm-hmm. I would click on it. For me, space requirements are the biggest gauge to which method you should use. Um, final question on that, maybe flipping gears, but putting, putting yourself in the shoes of, of a listener that perhaps. Where are we going as a company? Or better yet, imagine being the 4th generation to work on the family farm, which one day, will be yours. The author of Field Guide to Urban Gardening and creator of the website Epic Gardening first began using a hydroponic system in his apartment in 2011, and has since grown to be an expert in urban gardening (and expanded to a beautiful urban farm). Yeah. Facebook gives people the power Facebook Email or phone Password Forgot account? WebKevin Espiritu is the founder of Epic Gardening, a multi-platform online gardening education company. And, and not get boxed into that. WebWelcome back to Creator Spotlight, a show where we sit and chat with todays top Web Creators to see what it takes to thrive online. , uh, then joined a, a publishing startup at a company called, it was called Book in a Box at the time. Arizona Republic. Maybe that's the better. Kevin: Have insights into that. . Into a variety of social media channels, including, uh, YouTube, TikTok, uh, Instagram. Otherwise you just dropped the ball. . Like, I know a guy, uh, I think his name's Mike Niche twins or something on Twitter. So like, I'm, I'm never doing that. You start looking at your net income on that and your take home and you're like, still, it's not, there's still a lot of jobs that comp to that pretty even evenly and actually offer you benefits in retirement and stuff. How do you choose between a raised garden bed, a hydroponic system, or a vertical garden? He For sure. Yeah, exactly. Most people on YouTube would be happy to have 200 subscribers, Kevin Espiritu is closing in on two million. All right. It's, it's actually not that valuable for me to continue writing as it is for me to figure out how to get more people to, to read, to read it. Go claim your free content today. Was it, yeah, yeah. or. It's a great way to put it. It sounds like you had a cool thing going with, uh, scribe or what, you know, what they were called for time. 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