How Tequila Is Made - Behind The Scenes With Tequila Herradura!
We had the opportunity to get a private tour of Casa Herradura, the place where all Tequila Herradura is made. It was such an incredible experience and there's way more to it than we could have ever imagined!
If you're curious to know how tequila is made, this video is for you.
Watch the full video below:
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@sharingeverybite (Maddie)
@shenanigator (Jordan)
(and Laska the Siberian Husky)
Hey guys. You’re videos are getting better and better (I’ve been watching without commenting for ages. Sorry). This one was particularly interesting.
Could I ask that you include mention of Steemit in your videos? It would be awesome if you could encourage your growing audience to come and check out our platform here.
Hey @mazzle, thanks for watching. This was one of our favorites yet! We started Tangerine Travels about 4 months ago and one of our primary goals with it is to grow Steem, so that's absolutely at the forefront of our minds.
We're doing some things already to grow Steem:
If you read our earlier posts, both on here and on my personal @shenanigator account, you'll find a few where we talk about our plan to grow Steem. We talked about how we first need to build a stage from which we can promote it.
We're at a little over 8,000 subs now and socialblade predicts that we'll hit 100,000 in about 7 months (using a regression formula). Assuming we keep doing what we're doing, and YouTube keeps promoting our channel, in less than a year our audience (to whom we can promote Steem) will be more than 10x the current size. With that said, YouTube likes what we're doing, and they're promoting our channel like crazy on their website, so we don't want to switch too much stuff up.
On most videos (but not sponsored videos), we could probably start asking people to join us on Steem. But we do have to be very careful with it and make sure that we're doing it in a way that doesn't mess up our audience retention numbers. Because if a lot of people start clicking out of our videos, audience retention goes down, and YouTube will stop promoting that video.
I see the challenge. What about links in your info section below each video? Can you utilise that for links to your Steemit profiles?
Keep doing what you're doing though. You're making awesome progress.
Hey, one last question. Do you currently make more money from Steemit in comparison to YouTube? Are you living off your Steemit earnings?
We do have links to Steemit in our description below each video, but we've found that stuff in the description is pretty useless unless you're actually asking your audience (in the video) to go look for it.
For example, we had an Airbnb link in the description for a couple of months and didn't get a single person signing up through our link. That was until one day, when we told them about it in a video, and that same day something like 20 people signed up through our link.
Right now, we make nothing from YouTube. We've been waiting for monetization approval for a while now which would allow us to put ads on our videos.
We recently launched our Patreon and now make about $200/month from that.
We make a little bit of money from Amazon Affiliates.
We make a little bit from people reaching out to us wanting to donate via PayPal.
We haven't done any paid sponsorships yet, but we're starting to get a lot of requests to advertise product/services. These sponsorships will probably soon be our biggest revenue source. For this particular video, we reached out to Herradura, they gave us a free tour, and permitted us to film (almost) everything. However, they didn't pay us anything.
Wow. That’s quite a few different revenue streams. So you’re not converting your Steem and SBD to Fiat then?
We're not converting any to fiat when the prices are down like they are now. We converted some when the prices were higher, but we're hopeful that soon we won't have to rely on Steem at all and be able to power up everything we earn before long.
You may notice that we recently started a power down but that power down isn't for the purpose of selling steem.
OK cool. Mostly asking because I'm wanting to find people who are living off their Steem earnings.
I'd love to put together an article where I discuss what they did to achieve it and how much work they put in to maintain their income.
I didnt watch the video, but ....
I like your name
Hey @walden! You should watch the video :) If you remember us from the steemcleaner's chat channel back in the day, we're @sharingeverybite and @shenanigator. It has been a long time but we had quite a few interactions in that channel.
Waaaw tequilla !! I mean good work guys ,such a good idea .
Thank you :) Which part of the video did you like most?
All of it, i loved the idea of making such a video ,so lives the ideas !
Waaaw tequilla !! I mean good work guys ,such a good idea .
woow! i love tequila hehehe
Love you all
Hey Maddie, Jordan and Laska! You had fun in the tequila Herradura company, watching tequila being made was so cool. Thank you for sharing!
Congrats on the 10K btw
It was a really great experience and we'd highly recommend it! We're not quite to 10,000 but we're starting to get close. Thanks for watching :)
this is pretty awesome information, now i got stuff to talk about on tequila next time we go drinking.... yesssss!! thanks for sharing
Props for Jose for the tour!!!
Thanks for sharing!! This was inspirational in such a divine way for me because I love high quality Tequila!
Jose was awesome! We were fortunate to be given such a great guide for the tour. Thanks for watching :)
I thank you guys for sharing this video to us. We've been given a great chance to have a visit in the factory. I've learned a lot from this video on how tequila is made.
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Like i said on YouTube, i am absolutely impressed by this. Each stage and process will always impress anyone. The environment is really warm and friendly, these kind of atmosphere makes it easy for people to work and enjoy working.
Your tour buddy is really an impressive man too. He took his time to explain everything you need to know. I really admire Mexicans as i see they are always willing to help, at least majority of them.
Maddie's sister was a little bit quiet today, is she good? I noticed she enjoyed the tequila tasting too. I already know Jordan's favourite, which one is Maddie's favourite?
Reserve my bottle for me, hahaha the longer it stays, the better, just that it won't be in that barrel, but then, i look forward to mine. I hope i won't pass out if i take a sip. Alcohol isn't for my system hahaha particularly 55%. I did terrible several years ago when i took a wine with just 16%...now imagine 55%. Hahahahaha
I am really glad you guys enjoyed your day. Days like this will always get you fascinated to explore even more. Thank you for sharing this. This opened my eyes really to the processes involved and to know that nothing good comes easy.
Considering that’s where all the world’s Tequila Herradura is produced, we expected it to be much busier. Maybe there are certain days of the week when it’s not nearly as calm there?
Her sister is just fine. Herradura gave Tangerine Travels this tour for free, so we wanted to give them a video that’s typical Tangerine Travels style and not introduce a guest in our video that they didn’t know about.
Our tour guide Jose was really great, he certainly added to the experience!
Hahaha at 55%, just make sure you don’t drink a lot of it, otherwise we might get some crazy Olawale Steem posts 😉
Hahahahahahaha crazy Olawale Steem post made me laugh out loud. Hahaha that would be something.
Wow...free tour! That's so amazing and it is totally understandable why she couldn't feature much.
I really look forward to your next trip there. I am really excited about it already.
Thank you for always giving us the best. You guys are impressive.
We think it's going to be a lot of fun to take the train there. There will be drinks on board the train, food, live music, a tour of the facilities, and some other things! It's pretty expensive, so thankfully, they've offered to give that one to us for free as well.
I say free, but a lot goes into making these videos, so I suppose we're paying for it with our time.
Wow! Free also? That's so perfect. Wow!. A big thanks to them.
Hahahahahaha. Yes, time is money and the efforts you put in there is always admirable. You guys are really devoted and i really admire you both.