We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Antonio Hemmingway a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Antonio , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today How did you come up with the idea for your business?
It all started actually sitting on the back porch making jokes and saying to my friends aye we should be a podcast and call it Backyard Comedy we all laughed about it and didn’t think anything of it. A few days later I was talking to my brother Onyx one of the co hosts of the show and told him my idea and URIKA he said push for it brother so I did and now we have Backyard Comedy LLC and we have been going strong for two years and few bumps along the way but so have so many other businesses. We have had the chance to sit and talk to some amazing guests and I would change one thing.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
We are a podcast that talk about serious situations and find the humor about the situation. In the world we live in laughter is very much needed my grandmother always said if you don’t laugh you’ll end up crying so we laugh as much as possible laughter is good for the soul it’s healing to the heart
Can you tell us the story behind how you met your business partner?
My co hosts are Onyx Martin and Terrance Howard we have known each other our whole lives growing up in church singing and playing instruments and we just click with all our sense of humor. Onyx is the man over all the sound and making sure we sound crystal clear and Terrance is the genius mind over all editing and ensure we look good and add his own funny twist to the show. My team is amazing I truly thank God for the team he has put together.
Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?
Starting out was hard to get attention with social media being the main outlet these days it’s also about the only way to get noticed at the same time. We started out with 2-5 followers and those were family over time staying consistent and working hard every day we grew and still growing. We have made major progress in the last two years and we have more work to do although we have 1,849 followers on instagram and 478 subscribers on YouTube is more then what we started out with and we are extremely grateful. My advice to anyone starting to build social media presence is to stay consistent by any means and don’t just stop when your hear NO!! Yes will heard soon enough just stick with your brand and go hard as you possibly can you never know who’s watching.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/backyardcomedyllc?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=e2e676af-364c-4c66-9a1d-4b4f49f13ed5
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/backyardcomedyllc?igsh=NnA3eW1yN3N1ajZr&utm_source=qr
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/UJXkwBfdVzqNkL5e/?mibextid=LQQJ4d
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@backyardcomedyllc8607?si=OcU4pFhBceEhvR7O
Image Credits
Names are in order as pictures Bubba James The G-Rich Show Doctor Onyx Martin Sr. Tim Shropshire Kidd kidd Anthony Morrow Side Bar Convoz