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This video discusses my business BEAN INSIDE CENTRAL. It will discuss my business partnerships, my ecommerce site. I will also show you how to make coffee at home. That is French press using coffee grounds from my website Bean Inside Central. Not only that I will also discuss my business partnerships and startup mistakes to avoid.
Please note this is based on my own experience and therefore information consumed here should be a lesson to all. Entrepreneurship is hard. You have to have determination and be consistent in all that you do.
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About
Hi I’m Toyin Carew. I’m an Entrepreneur and innovator in the coffee space my business BEAN INSIDE CENTRAL which is also here on Youtube. This channel is dedicated to all the trials, tribulations the ups and the downs of being an Entrepreneur with snippets of my journey.
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Disclaimer : All opinions are my own and based on my experiences.
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To all my new subscribers welcome. Now today I’m actually going to be talking to you guys about BEAN INSIDE CENTRAL.COM. Well if you’ve watched some of my videos. You will notice I was saying, Oh my business BEAN INSIDE CENTRAL.com Oh my business BEAN INSIDE CENTRAL.com.
Well some people might have gone and taken the initiative to go and check out what BEAN INSIDE CENTRAL.com is. Well today this segment is actually going to be dedicated to Beaninsidecentral.com. So I’m going to be talking to you guys about what BEAN INSIDE CENTRAL is, who’s on the team
And why we do what we do and. I’m also going to be talking to you guys about um some of the products that I sell and how to make a French press. One of the easiest speciality coffee to make at home. Okay let’s go.
Bean Inside Central is an e-commerce platform. It sells speciality high grade coffee. It also sells coffee tumblers, it sells face masks and it also sells face masks that you obviously put on your face and but I will showcase some of the products that are sold and later on down the video.
In 2018 and what I started off doing first off was obviously doing a lot of marketing and bill trying to build up my channel. Um which I did and then obviously i had trials and errors and obviously trying to launch a website using wordpress which never got launched
And another website using wordpress which never got launched it eventually got launched later on last year and prior to obviously me launching the channel back in 2019 and I obviously tested out um whether or not I would be able to sell coffee tumblers and coffee related products
And and I was able to do so. So I just thought to myself do you know what adding coffee to this is just gonna be in the icing on the cake. But at that time i didn’t actually have a coffee um yeah I
Didn’t have a coffee seller on board at the time so i think it was march 2020. I got contacted by a coffee seller in mexico via instagram he was like oh do you think you could actually help and
Assist me with promoting and selling my product So my coffee I want to be known to the world . I was like well yeah why not come bring it to me bring me the coffee. So he sent me my first batch of coffee. Now before I even decided okay this is
The batch I’m actually going to go with. I sent it to a few people to get a kind of an overall kind of view to see what people thought about the coffee and obviously some they liked and
Some they didn’t like so the ones that that was kind of popular amongst the masses of people that I sent it out to. Is the ones that I actually went with. I’ve done it for about a year um
And his and his coffee is very, very, very, very good um. So I’ve done that for about a year and um and all I did was try to build up my kind of presence on social media. So I started
With instagram. Building up my social presence at that time I hadn’t launched a website at all . Um I attempted to launch a website using WordPress but that obviously got canned. Um primarily because we was using. Um we was using a um a template called DOKAN. We was using a template called DOKAN.
And I remember when I was contacting these people um that had this template called DOKAN. Um there were many features that they did that dokan didn’t have that the template didn’t have and I thought to myself you know what I can’t deal with this. And this is obviously when I had
The issue with the developer taking it to India and all that malarkey so it just got canned. So I started it again and this time I went with I went with GO DADDY to be fair. I remember GO
Daddy. I spoke to Go Daddy and Go Daddy said they had like a little portal that you could go on and you could pick up a developer up there. So I tried again to obviously pick up
A developer up there and I fell into the same issues. And this developer was actually based in Romania. His name was Labici Danaut and he and I had the same issues with him. So the issues that I had with
Him was the simple fact that the smallest task was taking far too long to do and um every time he had like a deadline the deadline would be extended and obviously you have to bear in mind obviously when
You pick up a developer they work on a part-time basis. So like simple things were taking far too long to get done and the deadline was getting pushed back further and further and further. Constantly want to do screen shares but nothing’s never getting done. So I said I said to the guy he
Was based in Romania. Do you know what I’m not doing this. This doesn’t make any sense like it doesn’t take this long. I know that you know that you’re just taking the mick. So that project
Got canned as well. So it never got launched and then I tried it on my home turf getting somebody to do it um again actually tried three times to build a website using wordpress and they were dragging their feet and I didn’t understand why would you be dragging your feet.
It doesn’t make any sense. They said to me just go with the flow. When they said to me go with the floor I knew instantly something was wrong. So I was thinking why because they were saying to me they wanted to create a site and then create
Another site. Why would you create two sites for for one for one one person that doesn’t make sense. So you create a site within a site for what reason they just said to me just go with the flow. Sometimes you just don’t need to ask questions. NAHHHHHH stop right there
And the reason why i’m saying to stop right right there because it’s my name that’s on the paperwork. I just don’t go with the flow so I think this is another reason why it’s taking me so long to kind of put BEAN INSIDE CENTRAL out there and then everything else like that
Because it’s just me one and obviously my business partner’s a silent partner. What I found with the developers is like the third the last developer that was based here in the uk. Um the one before that built this site i find that why do you want to build a site within the site
And then you’re telling me to go with the flow that made me realize that okay do you know what something’s off and that project is gonna get canned because i don’t know what you’re doing
Um because what you’re saying to me doesn’t make any sense and this is one of the reasons why as an entrepreneur I had to learn the basics. People said why do you want to learn how to do this
Why do you know because if anything goes wrong with the website. I can say okay do you know I need you to do this or I need you to do do this this is why I it’s important that when
You’re obviously building a website you only have one person doing it because if anything goes wrong you can go to that one person. But if you have four or five six seven people trying to build or help you build a website essentially there’s a saying that so that got canned and um
After that i just thought to myself let me just concentrate on social media . Build up my social presence and just to get a feel for how people like coffee as I was doing that,
I also started to feel.. so it started to say to myself do you know what try and see if how people um react or take to the coffee products that you wanted to sell so I would go and make coffee
Products and i started off got the patterns up on everything on them and and it worked so after that i thought to myself do you know what having coffee to this kind of whole tumblr type thing that i’ve
Got going on coffee related products things that i’ve got going on it’s a big game changer i’m calling a lot of different establishments and saying look i’m a coffee supplier i sell
Coffee i can send it to you in the kilos and how much you go through in a month how much you go through any annually do you go through 20 kilos. a month do you know what i mean just to try to
Get a general consensus and it was like yeah this sounds really brilliant some of them had contracts running running already with other coffee companies but they were due to expire so i thought okay you know what let me wait for that expiration date for some of these contracts
And then i will revisit that in the new year situational bubble that everybody’s found themselves in globally i basically tried to rethink where i wanted to go so everything that i wanted to do initially
I’ve had to strip it down to the bare minimum of all my ideas and basically put it into one so at the moment it’s just an e-commerce store it’s a very very basic very very simple website however
That will change um in due time to do now is actually show you guys the platform how it what it looks like how it works and yeah i’ve been BEAN INSIDE CENTRAL
And i just want to make it abundantly clear to you guys we do not work with um any uk us european or uk us european or australian coffee roasters we’ve never worked with anyone um besides the coffee roaster in mexico so what happens is
You will land on our home page so this is essentially our homepage um we talk about um this page is obviously for coffee lovers coffee enthusiasts coffee geeks and just people that are new to coffee don’t really know what the big hype is about coffee
And um yeah so this is about so this is the home page you land on this page and this is essentially the home page and when you get onto the homepage it basically is talking to people that are coffee lovers coffee enthusiasts and people that don’t know much about coffee and
What want to know what the big hype is um it’s your neighborhood coffee shop online and selling convenient coffee so that could be french press chem x v60 blends and v60 blend so all these all these three things that i’ve mentioned french pro chem x and this v60 blends are equipment
Used to consume coffee and these equipments make coffee taste different obviously depending on what kind of brewing method you are actually using but i will obviously explain that in another video um i didn’t mention that we obviously worked with a coffee seller in mexico we use his coffee
And we are also using um we’re also promoting or we’re going to revisit or promoting um the coffee seller in indonesia so the one call to action is by now so if you click on this screen i’m
Obviously looking at it from a um from a laptop so it’s obviously going to look like this and we’ll see look at it from a modern mobile device oh ios or android is obviously going to be different so
We’ve obviously got the tumbler and the cool and the course grounded coffee we got the coffee scrub we’ve got we’ve got the shemix ground coffee so when i’m talking about chemex when i talk about french press when i talk about v60 aeropress these are all brewing methods in which you can
Use to consume your coffee okay um i just want to make a note to you that bean inside central does not sell coffee beans online it doesn’t do that so we don’t sell coffee beans online but we do sell coffee beans but not online um we sell convenience coffee because online is all
About convenience and we sell convenient coffee online on the go because we don’t believe that um we think it’s is it life is easy there’s no need to make it complicated a lot of people obviously like using equipment to obviously ground their coffee and everything else like that
However essentially that is not what we’re doing here um so once you click the page um the buy now you end up on this page and we have a small selection of coffee we sell coffee grounds we do not sell coffee beans online
Um the only reason being that we don’t sell coffee beans online um because we’re all about convenience we live in a world where people want convenient things so why make life complicated when it doesn’t necessarily need to be so that’s why we saw coffee grounds online
But we do sell coffee beans but you obviously have the emails pertaining to coffee beans now let’s move on so so these are some of the products that we have obviously we have coffee scrubs um to obviously put on your face we’ve got the shemex coffee grounds we’ve got coffee tumblers um
We’ve got yeah we’ve got coffee tumblers what else do we have we have face masks because obviously even though um we’re getting back to normally slowly but surely it’s obviously important that we still keep ourselves safe so we obviously got your face masks we’ve got the v60
Um grounded coffee we’ve got the shamix grounded coffee and most importantly of all we have coffee tea bags yes you can get coffee in tea bags so we do have the coffee tea bags and um it’s green coffee tea bags and it’s all about um helping people or showcasing to
People that you can actually lose weight by taking green coffee tea bags so that aids in weight loss so obviously your call to action obviously once you’ve added stuff to your basket would be just to add and then press continue and then obviously here the coffee menu extras
This is showcasing coffee from indonesia um this is from an individual by the name of ratchat um yeah so he sells raw coffee beans obviously you got to um roast them yourself however we can roast um coffee for you but that will obviously be a special
Order you will have to email us in pertaining to coffee beans because we’re all about convenience um we do sell to not only individuals but we do sell to establishments um yeah we do so to establish establishments as well obviously these are social media handles at the
Bottom we’ve got facebook instagram twitter tick tock youtube we’re gonna add a couple more um i like to run down the line um such as twitch i think it’s very important to add on there
Um so when you go up here to the three lines you’ll see um a drop down menu and we’ll have a list of um tabs the first tab’s about us obviously about us talks about who we are and we are a company that thinks that technology is key technology is the future
And technology is definitely the future especially um we believe that technology is the future let me just leave it at that let me not just go into too much detail but we believe that technology is the future um we obviously showcase you some of our
Coffee products it’s obviously showcase you some of the coffee extras um the coffee and the coffee shop blog so basically i’ve i’ve written blogs um pertaining to my thoughts on the coffee industry in particular coffee shops and what i think of them and whether they’re a thing of the past so
To have a reason of that and tell us tell me what you think you can um tweet me on twitter at bean underscore inside um i’ll talk about coffee and technology i think technology is a very imperative
Very very imperative to have um in this day and age um and it’s not just necessarily building python or anything like that building frameworks such as jajango or just building yeah it’s not necessarily just about building frameworks it’s about incorporating the new technology so at
The moment there’s new technology so coffee um there’s new technology being built all the time um especially in the crypto space um but yet again i’m not gonna go into too much detail but technology it will be a game changer for the coffee industry okay so that’s those are my
Thoughts um anyway let’s move on i’ll talk about the terms and conditions of the website um please do have a read of that it tells you everything that you need to know at the time of purchase um
And most importantly of all we’re on most important of all we have decided to be on whatsapp um the reason why we decided to be on whatsapp this is our whatsapp telephone number should you wish to talk to us about any products or anything called the platform do um download whatsapp and
If you’ve got ios in your app store google play store download it onto your phone store this number because this is our business number and you can obviously chat to us about the some of the
Products we have on our platform um yeah okay so that’s that done and our email address our email address is a team at being inside central.com i can’t log into it now because i’m not actually
Logged in um by on my laptop via my work email so the email address is 18 as in the film a team at well don’t say if it is in the film but the um the website our email address is 18 at being
Inside central.com so should you wish to talk to us about anything um related to coffee or anything of that nature do give do drop us an email um yeah so as you can see the website is static but obviously we that will change soon and we’ll obviously move it to
It being a more dynamic website um obviously if you scroll down to the page if you scroll down to the page we’ve got our if you scroll down to this page you can see the cookies and privacy policy
It’s there the terms and conditions they’re about us on telephone number on whatsapp and our email address which is a team at bean insidecentral.com um we can obviously be found on company’s house um yeah at least these oh sorry these are our social media handles they are facebook instagram twitter
Tick tock and youtube we are looking to have more social media platforms such as discord twitch um yeah there’s loads of social media platforms because i did explain in one of my videos that the people that use a one platform might not necessarily use another
So the more platforms you’re able to put yourself on and manage the more likely you are to garner and attract a different audience from your usual um from your usual um so i don’t know so basically we’re coming on these social media platforms but we are moving
We are also going to put ourselves at some point on other platforms social media platforms because we think that it’s very important that and you diversify and not put all your eggs in one basket so um yeah so that is what essentially what we are doing um we do have facebook but like
I did say my other video um we obviously have to sort that out um but yeah that is that’s our page it’s a very simple website it’s not a blog i need to reiterate that it is not a blog
It is an e-commerce platform it’s just a static e-commerce platform at this minute in time um yeah so this is our website and what we’re gonna do we’re going to add more um products to the platform so that will be done um as well so this is the platform and in a nutshell
So who’s on BEAN INSIDE CENTRAL at the moment it’s just myself and my business partner is a silent partner he doesn’t really get involved unless there’s an issue or something of that nature but me predominantly i’m the one that
Is doing everything i just go to him to touch base if i don’t understand something or or he could better explain something to me so yeah so just the two of us do i did outsource my um videos to my to a videographer who’s a freelancer and he’s absolutely brilliant um
But um due to covid and cost of prices having to pay bills and everything else like that. I had to strip that back um and sort out my priorities so any work that needs to be done we outsource it so
For our business pay for our youtube channel we’ve got BEAN INSIDE CENTRAL and obviously the videos that were done there i’ve obviously put them together but it’s a videographer that comes in he does all the edits and everything else so we don’t actually have a permanent person
On board everything is just we just outsource um yeah because we can’t afford to have people in our books that’s just too costly too many overheads that we do not need especially when you’ve got
To pay bills so now and what do i do on a daily basis so my day sometimes consists of social media now i’m having trying to outsource my work and wait for someone to actually get back to me as
I’m saying this to you but um with social media i try to i try to do it myself as much as i possibly can all my videos that i’ve put out on youtube i’ve done myself i’m telling you this now i did
Not know how to film how to edit or anything like that i’m still a work in progress um but i like it and i enjoy it um i had to learn final cut pro in a week because i thought to myself i’ve done 21
Videos i saved myself two grand because i forced myself to learn how to do final cut pro just like i’m going to talk to you about i’m going to show you the products yeah this cup’s amazing um keeps it smarter about half an hour it’s still really hot
I’ve made this messing around on my phone doing different things and it’s still looking good and it’s quite filming um keeps it warm especially when i’m busy and i’m chatting with people or i’m serving drinks it’s
Keeping my drink warm. BEAN INSIDE CENTRAL is where i got this cup from and what a brilliant discovery I got this cup from BEAN INSIDE CENTRAL and what i think of the cup i think the texture
It’s very smooth on the outside is amazing and um it keeps the coffee very warm at least from now on great service what i think of the cup is it’s really good because it keeps the coffee warm
And do i recommend it yes i do because it’s not the normal cup you just can’t buy out in the amount of retail stores it’s unique and it’s got a really good shape to it it’s easy to handle good afternoon everybody my name is sidoni koloko from sido hairspa the mask that
I’m wearing is from BEAN INSIDE CENTRAL a lovely soft mask that is protecting you from any virus you know from this time around everybody should be wearing masks and then i choose to wear this one because it’s the best one i’ve been wearing since i’m start wearing masks
I’m going to show you guys how to make a french press now before i do i’ll show you guys how to make a french word this is how not to make coffee if you’re going to get coffee grounds right
From your local from your plug bean inside central dot com you do not boil i’ve seen people do this they boil the kettle once the kettle’s finished boiling obviously essentially open up their bag i’m just going to open up a bag for you now oh chad they open up their bag
Get a spoon they open up their bag they get a spoon and what they do is this i’m having speciality coffee like this and i’m telling you this now this is how you do not want to be doing your speciality coffee why should you be having the granules of the coffee
Like this when you have say for example you decide to buy nest cafe coffee the gang the granules melt inside the hot water speciality coffee doesn’t do that so it doesn’t matter how much you serve it the granules are not going to go away because this is not how it’s meant to be
Consumed if you’re having speciality coffee it’s an experienced i’ve seen a lot of people do that so essentially that’s not how you do it basically what you need to be doing is have a french press so this is essentially what a french press is you can pick up one of these bad
Boys and add stuff but this is essentially what a french press is there’s obviously different um uh variants of french press but they all kind of do the same thing not all they all do the same thing
Okay so you do not experience speciality coffee like this you do not pour it out like you’re having a cup of nest cafe coffee at home and then just pour in here do not do that please because you’re just messing up the whole experience speciality coffee is an experience right
Now that we’ve got that clear i’m going to show you how to make speciality coffee let’s go okay so now i’m going to show you how to make speciality coffee let me just roll the not have to let me show you how to make this
Coffee so first off you need a french press this is what a french dress essentially looks like right so you have a french press and then what you need to do is get your coffee the french press what you can do is essentially once you’ve opened the bag if you don’t want
If you don’t have one of those sealer things or a clipper to um seal your bag what you can essentially do is pour it into a container such as this there’s nothing wrong with pouring into a container such as this it does the same job anybody that tells you
Any different well i don’t know what to say about that so you pour your puppy in there okay there’s so much coffee in this it smells oh good anyway a lot of people say oh buy coffee beans coffee um beans and actually grind them before
Let’s put that away so a lot of people say you can get coffee beans and grind them and all of that type of stuff you don’t need to all you need to do is buy a medium course if you want to join
A french press you need coarse medium grounds is have a medium rose that is grounded it’s already grounded so you don’t have to worry about faffing about people saying i was just the experience no
Each each of their own i can’t say no don’t do that if you want to buy coffee beans it’s entirely up to you and you want to be faffing around grinding the beans that’s entirely up to you if
You love that experience but to me it doesn’t make any sense why am i why make life complicated it’s so unnecessary have your grounded beans already grounded put in an airtight container such as this
And you just pop this away for a second so you put an airtight anchor type container such as this you need one one to two tablespoons of grounded coffee um people some people like to be all kind
Of some people like to measure it out and stuff you don’t have to measure it out well i don’t one two that you boil a hot water um approximately 118 milliliters if you want to measure it out
That’s entirely up to you just bow with me 180 milliliters of water sorry i had to go away so you’ve got 180 milliliters of water you’ve got you’re grounded there you got your grounded coffee there and then what you do is get your kettle that’s already boiled and then pour it in here
And then put a bit more water actually so you put 180 oh god so you put 180 milliliters of water for every one tablespoon or every four ounces that you put in so i’m gonna leave it let it brew for four minutes let’s count four minutes
Okay once that’s all done what you then need to do is apply your plunger put your plunger in do your plunger ready and then what you do is press this down slowly as you’re pressing it down slowly what happens
Is all the water will rise to the top and all the coffee granules will go to the bottom and then you pour some people like to be um some people like to be very artistic and oh god some people like to be very artistic
As you notice as i’m pouring it not one coffee granule pouring into the water because what the french press does essentially the plunger essentially acts as a compressor to press all the coffee all the way down to the bottom so all you’re left with is the actual great
Coffee now that’s how you make a french press thank you very much look at the look at this and obviously if someone wants to add sugar to it you can add sugar to it you can add milk to it but i’ll tell you this now great coffee requires
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Toyin proud of u. Keep going babe