011 Building A Vanlife Business from Scratch, Adam and Vanessa of Create Wondr
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Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Adam and Vanessa live full-time in their self converted 2008 Dodge Sprinter 170" Wheelbase. They are also the creative minds behind Create Wondr. Vanessa and Adam started Create Wondr to document and share their life and VanLife experiences. Their goal is to help folks live authentically by focusing their energy on what's important to gain more time, money, and happiness.
In this episode we talk about how it's possible to create an income by sharing your VanLife experiences in conjunction with making videos on YouTube, affiliate marketing, and selling an ebook. Specifically, we discuss their struggles and preferences for choosing a website platform, important things to consider when naming your new company or brand, and the importance of making a resource or ebook that is something you wish existed when building your rig.
Plus we discuss their thoughts and comparisons between the longer 170" and shorter 144" Sprinter vans along with their super simple, yet highly effective, foot water pump to save on plumbing costs, water, and electricity.
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Visit their website: creatwondr.com
And find them on YouTube at: Create Wondr
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 11 of Campers and Vans getting coffee. This episode I have on Adam and Vanessa of Create Wonder at CreateWonder.com and on Instagram. |
| 0:13.8 | And we just get into a lot of stuff. We focus a lot and talk about kind of their business, Create Wonder and how they chose their name and how they make income from their videos on youtube and affiliate marketing and their |
| 0:25.8 | e-book that they have and we talk about you know kind of how to choose a web build a website and all sorts |
| 0:32.2 | of things like that and then on top of that we also talk about their personal life and you know their |
| 0:36.4 | van they have a the longer |
| 0:38.0 | wheelbase 170 inch wheelbase uh spurner van so we just talk about all this stuff it's a really |
| 0:43.4 | good episode um and it was really fun to talk to these guys so uh i'll stop talking and now you guys |
| 0:50.6 | can hear from adam and van. So here we go. |
| 0:57.1 | Adam and Vanessa, hello. |
| 0:57.9 | How's it going, guys? |
| 0:59.4 | Hey, good. |
| 1:00.1 | Good. |
| 1:00.5 | How are you? |
| 1:01.7 | I'm doing good. |
| 1:02.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:04.4 | Super excited to have you guys on the show. |
| 1:08.0 | So you guys, do you guys live full-time in your van? |
| 1:28.0 | We do live full-time, yeah, in our van. We've been in the van and traveling, I think, seven months now. Right on, seven months. So how's it going? It's going really well so far. And it's funny because you actually caught us at a time where we're still sleeping in the van, but we're visiting family. So that's why we're able to sit down for a long chat. And yeah, we've traveled, you know, all through the states, |
| 1:34.3 | basically on the west coast and down south, and then made our way back home to Canada right now. |
| 1:40.7 | Okay, perfect. Wow, cool. So, I mean, you're kind of at a, like, interesting point. Like, seven months in, you're, you're pretty committed to it, you know, like, you've been in it a lot and probably experienced everything, but you haven't been doing it for like years, you know? So, I mean, I guess we'll kind of get into this, but I'm just curious, like, what's, like, how's it looking? You guys have any plans to, |
| 2:02.3 | I mean, is your plan now just to keep going and do it for as long as you want? |
| 2:07.1 | Yeah, we never, when we originally built the van and started like getting into, like, how we |
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