Made for Profit

I can’t believe we’re at 97 episodes already!  I tell you what, we’re giving away free fanny packs to celebrate episode 97.  Just repost this episode to your feed, follow us on YouTube, Instagram, MySpace and Tinder, and tag your 10 best friends and enter your social security number for entry.  Good luck! Giveaways….love em […]

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This week we’re talking with another artist turned woodworker.  Ashley Harwood started off as a graduate from Carnegie Mellon university and an installation artist, but soon found her way into woodturning to make some extra money.  She started off in the farmer’s market and craft fair scene selling products. As a way to stand out […]

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Consistency is the key to performing at a high level week after week, month after month, and year after year.  Today we talk about how we stay consistent and things that have helped and hurt us along our journey. The sponsor of today’s episode is Woodcraft. Woodcraft is one of the nation’s oldest and largest […]

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We’ve got a great interview today with a woodworker who went from the verge of homelessness to having a thriving customer furniture business.  Donnie Galli runs Designs by Donnie out of Destin, FL and has found a niche in building huge over the top pieces. He has differentiated himself in a saturated market and figured […]

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It’s time for another quarterly Q&A.  Every week we answer questions for our Patrons on the After Show and each quarter we like to pick a few and share them the broader audience.  We’ll have a mix of voicemail and written questions on some great topics. The sponsor of today’s episode is Woodcraft. Woodcraft is […]

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We’re continuing to branch out with the makers on our show and today we talk with another artist but in a different medium.  Jenny Bower runs a custom engraving business where she specializes in her own style of embellishment on anything made of metal.  From old tape measures to custom hand planes, she’s been making […]

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As you start becoming a legit business you start dealing with more and more clients and transactions.  And every transaction is a chance to delight your customers and give them everything they wanted…or a chance for miscommunication, false expectations, undelivered promises, and two parties left playing he said/ she said.  We’d all like the first […]

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We’ve got another great interview with a start up furniture maker today.  Jason Hibbs has been running his woodworking business, Bourbon Moth, for the last 4.5 years.  He’s got an extraordinary hustle and has built his business on building just about anything the customer wants.  He’s also found a niche in social media which has […]

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We like to give a quarterly update on our favorite social platform, Instagram.  And this time it’s a special one. I recently taught a class on Instagram growth at Workbench Con down in Atlanta and I was asked for the slides over and over again.  But the slides don’t really tell the story without the […]

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Today we’re talking with another creative maker and true artist in our field, Jon Peters.  He’s a unique combination of a painter and woodworker. Jon talks with us about owning his own art gallery before moving his business online and finding YouTube while trying to share his videos with his family and friends.  He shares […]

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