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.

And last week, we talked about Instagram and the importance of growing community on your channel.

Today we'll be hitting part two in our Instagram series.

We're going to be talking about how to grow your Instagram following.

So get ready from some solid tips and some things you can do today to grow your account.

What's up, John?

Hey, buddy. What's going on, man?

How you doing?

I'm doing good, man.

I'm excited about today's episode because I know folks are always asking how do you grow your Instagram channel. Yeah, buddy, I'm pumped. This is the, uh, this is the meat during the main

course here on our Instagram series. And I know a lot of people are really going to like what we're, what we're putting out here today. Absolutely. We're going to lay a content sandwich on them. All right. So yeah, so I mean, we could make this real short and sweet, right? What was it? Were they like, was it 99 cents a follower for you or was it, you get a bundle, you know, 10 bucks for 100? Yeah, I was actually segmenting mine into the Middle East and I got a really good discount.

So for the record, before we get started, I have never and will never pay a dime for an Instagram subscriber.

That is absolutely a way to grow your channel and that is absolutely

the wrong way to do it so and I know no John's the same way so what we're gonna

tell you today we're gonna give you actual tips on how to grow like we talked

about last week we talked about community and that's what you're really trying

to do is grow folks who are gonna be solid in in your tribe, in your community, not just a number

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