What's up, guys. Welcome to Made for Profit, a podcast where we talk business in the shop and help you monetize as a maker.

Each week we'll cover the topics most important to you from marketing and selling your products to winning on social media and everything in between.

I'm Brad Rodriguez, a part-time content creator running Fix This, Build That, and my co-host John Mulecki is a full-time furniture maker running metal

and wood custom furniture.

Over the past few years, we've seen the value of bouncing ideas back and forth, and we

want to bring you into the conversation and help you grow along with us.

So what's up, John?

I'm not much, man.

I'm just super excited that we are finally getting this podcast off the ground and launching episode one.

I know.

This is going to be, I think, a great journey here.

And I know that this is the first step of the journey.

So if everybody will just give us a little bit of grace, I'm sure that we will be stumbling a bit. This is our first podcast, but we are going to get better and we're going to do our best to share some great information with you, make this content rich. Today we're going to be talking about Instagram and we'll just hop right into it. So I think that this is an actual great topic to start,

John, right? Because this is where we met. And I love Instagram. I mean, Instagram is like

the coolest thing. And it's actually how I got started in this whole woodworking. It's what

really drove my woodworking passion. I guess it got more started and actually doing it as a business and sharing the thing. So I don't know. What do you want to do? You want to just kind of share our Instagram stories here a little bit? Yeah, yeah. Why not? Why don't, why don't you get started? Because I think both of us stem from your experience with Instagram. I mean, you were a large inspiration to me and I saw your growth and I jumped on the platform.

So why don't you touch on like, wow, how you got started on the platform?

Yeah, absolutely. So, and I think that is cool.

So a lot of, I get asked a lot, hey, when did you start? How did you start?

So I started Instagram back in November of 2013 and it was actually just a spot. I used to think Instagram was just a

photo sharing app. I thought it was like a VSCO, you know, like the camera app. And I had a friend who

was on Instagram, and she was actually in fitness. And I found her account, and she had like 50,000

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