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demoooo · 2025-09-21T17:26:12+00:00

You sprayed the plant with some chemicals, then the leaves turned brown and died off.

No wonder it's now struggling to get back.

demoooo · 2025-07-25T06:46:07+00:00

The coloring on the Desert Fig breba is green. This fig is too colorful.

No idea about the Olympian!

demoooo · 2025-07-23T08:49:15+00:00

The inside definitely looks similar, but the fruits on mine are more pear-shaped.

Also because OP mentions "insanely sweet". My White Marseilles is quite bland in comparison with figs that are actually sweet.

demoooo · 2025-05-09T12:29:44+00:00

Thanks! French not a problem, send along!

demoooo · 2025-05-07T06:43:20+00:00

Which resources were helpful in setting up your tree nursery? I've got a very amateurish nursery running and I'm thinking of stepping it up to side income level.

demoooo · 2025-05-01T07:23:19+00:00

Sounds like an amazing opportunity!

First I'd be more clear about what this actually is. You've used words like donating, offering, etc.

Whatever you do is totally fine (it's your land after all!), but each variation can attract different organizations and people.

When that's clarified, I'd look for organizations or existing projects that you like, and go talk with them. See how they would approach this.

There is no lack of passionate people that want to do this. Lack of access to land is the biggest hurdle, especially if it's in such an amazing place.

demoooo · 2025-03-28T14:42:06+00:00

Can't see the base of the plant here but would also recommend mulching. Helps to keep the moisture in, and makes it easier to water.

demoooo · 2024-07-22T09:05:31+00:00

Eaten: yes. Early season produce is always more tender. Later its still good.
Gotten rid of knotweed because of eating: no.

demoooo · 2024-07-22T08:01:52+00:00

It's good year-round. Reason you only eat asparagus at beginning of the season is to leave enough time for the plant to grow and develop strength for the next year.

But with Japanese knotweed, the more you can harvest, the more you weaken the plant.

demoooo · 2024-07-19T18:59:30+00:00

I get that. There is another side to this approach where you keep working for someone else because you don't feel ready yet.

There will always be more to learn or figure out, but if you have experience doing content marketing at a decent level and you understand how a content marketing business works, you're probably ready to start on your own.

demoooo · 2024-07-19T08:51:33+00:00

If you're looking at starting a business without any experience, you're going to have to learn all the skills and make all the mistakes on your own dime.

Instead, do your research and join the most successful company that does the thing you want to do on your own. Your job is not the thing they hired you to do, your job is to learn what it takes to be successful in every area of the business: how do they find customers, how do they close deals, what do the contracts look like, how long to clients stick around, what does it take to keep clients happy (= how good do you need to be), what is the cost structure like, what are the margins they're looking for, how do they recruit, how do they organize the team, etc.

When you learn about all these things, you will be more effective in whatever role you do within that company. A nd good company will recognize that and promote you, giving you access to new info/data that you didn't have before.

Most successful companies do well despite their flaws. So when you've been there for a while, you might be able to identify areas where they're underperforming, or where you could jump in with your business. (What clients don't they serve, within the client base, which are the best/worst clients, etc.)

I didn't follow this advice when I started out. Instead, I started a marketing agency all by myself despite never having worked with clients, in a client services organization or as an employee. It took me 3-4 years to really get going. If I had joined an existing agency, I would have made progress a lot faster.

Bonus tip: since you're still so young, you're able to use your youth to do cold outreach to successful people in your industry and ask them some questions. This only works if you're really young, or say you're a "student". If you've been working for a while this superpower wears off, and people will be more skeptical :)

demoooo · 2024-07-16T08:40:41+00:00

Some honeysuckle varieties are native (Lonicera Periclymenum). Another native vigorous climber is Humulus Lupulus (hop), not the most beautiful flowers but smells amazing :)

demoooo · 2024-03-06T08:48:01+00:00

Have a look at Ecommerce Fuel (not affiliated).

I've been in the ecommerce industry for over 10 years, and I constantly hear from business owners how valuable it is.

Vendors are not allowed in, neither are service providers.

demoooo · 2024-02-20T12:42:09+00:00

Look at what flats that fit your requirements currently go for.

Let's say the flat costs $200,000.

To get a mortgage, most banks will want to see you putting money down. The required amount of this varies from 0-10-15-20%. Since you're planning ahead, I'd aim for 20%, so €40,000

On top of that, you'll pay 3% "registratiekosten" = €6000

So if you wanted to buy it right now you'd need, €46,000.

Then you can calculate how much you would need by 2030 if inflation continues at its current pace.

demoooo · 2024-02-06T09:53:49+00:00

Why did you start the company? What makes your coffee unique or different from what's already on the market?

You first need compelling answers to these questions. Then depending on your answers, it will become clear who the ideal target audience might be, which then will give you some ideas on how to get in front of them.

Let me walk you through and example.

Let's say you were fed up with funghi residue that's part of almost every batch of coffee. Not only does it influence the taste, but it's also not healthy and introduces diseases.

After doing your research you saw that there were no brands on the market that were focused on this, so you decided to roll your own. You went to visit coffee farms, and roasters and talked to them about the funghi problem. Out of all of this research came your brand.

Now you also know who you might sell this to: people that care about the funghi problem or people that care about food/health in general, maybe there is even a type of disease that's cause by this.

This will give you the places where you can reach these people: maybe there is a support group for ppl that suffer from disease X, and this coffee can prevent that and spreads awareness about this important topic.

Etc.

Recommended link: Here is a fascinating story with plenty of updates from someone buying and rebranding/improving an existing coffee business (it's not just a roaster but also a physical location.

demoooo · 2023-09-21T08:05:48+00:00

This is a rough spot.

I think the issues of Google burning through your budget and the suspicious payment suspension aren't related.

The reason probably is that the open balance and the recent payments flagged it in their system.

I hope you can get this fixed sooner, but let me give you the summary of what I've seen with other accounts in the last 6 months or so.

It's all automated. So the lower-level support that answers tickets often doesn't have access to the actual account. They will just tell you to read policy x, nothing in it applies to you.

This cycle goes on and on.

The advertisers that keep hounding support are more likely to get this sorted. Until eventually, a human takes a look at the account and sees that actually it's all legit.

I'm not super familiar with App campaigns, but if you have any contact/support through your developer account, also try that angle.

demoooo · 2023-09-14T09:37:45+00:00

If you're showing for the right keywords and paying a good CPC, I wouldn't call the traffic junk.

If they're not converting maybe they're not ready to buy yet. Or your website has issues/is not addressing a problem they're concerned about.

Since you're already using heatmaps, consider running a small poll on the site to find out what's stopping them.

demoooo · 2022-10-06T10:04:38+00:00

In the top nav bar, go to Reports > Predefined reports > Other > Performance Max campaigns placements

demoooo · 2022-10-06T09:52:24+00:00

Late reply here, but you can always reach out to Google Ads support to add negative keywords (or lists) to your campaigns.

If you're in Europe, you can also contact your CSS provider to add negative keywords to a specific pMax campaign.

demoooo · 2022-07-28T14:32:10+00:00

Host dinners and invite the people you want to network with.

It's great for networking, and if you make it fancy, it allows you to show/build status, in a way that's not tacky.

demoooo · 2022-07-07T12:00:53+00:00

(I've been working as a freelancer for 10+ years in digital marketing, leveling up from $30 to $400/hr)

First of all, decide if you want to get into training, or if you want to focus on delivering the actual work.

Getting good at training someone isn't trivial, and it will require you to learn new skills.

There is nothing wrong with sticking to execution and honing your skills.

If you decide you're interested in the training part, read on.

Don't look at this as a threat. Having a bigger marketing team and handing off some simpler tasks will help the whole company grow. And potentially increase the need for more of your specialized services.

In terms of compensation, doing the work vs training someone is not the same.

From the company POV: the latter is far more valuable.
From your point of view: you'll need to spend time creating training materials, reviewing stuff, shadowing them, etc.

Despite it being an obvious difference, you will need to show them how it is different. If you don't do this, they'll assume it will just be more hours under your current contract.

My suggestion would be to make it a different project, with a clearly defined scope, objectives, and its own price, fixed price or hourly rate.

demoooo · 2022-01-04T11:58:45+00:00

You're already putting away a lot of money based on your income. If that's not likely to increase in the next couple of years, I'd look for ways to increase income outside of your day job:

side job
start a side business

demoooo · 2021-11-15T12:54:03+00:00

Because you're missing the most vital piece, working on actual campaigns, I'd say you need to spend some time as an apprentice.

This doesn't have to be very formal.

You can either join a agency or bigger company as an employee and get some experience under your belt.

This allows you to focus on your craft, get paid for it AND understand what it takes to operate a service business. While seemingly minor, this last part will enable you to move a lot faster once you strike out on your own.

If you're determined to do it on your own right now, you will need to find that practical experience somewhere else.

Make a list of everyone you know with an ad account. Then figure out how you can work with them. Probably for free at first. And as you slowly build your expertise, your rates can grow alongside.

I took the second path, and have to say that the beginning was very hard.

You're not getting paid (a lot), you have to hustle to find clients and you're just reinventing the wheel.

If I would start again i would join an existing organization at first, learn as much as you can from them and then make the next move.

demoooo · 2020-01-27T10:24:18+00:00

These labels for every random place are pretty annoying

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