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.

We're going to continue our three-part series on Instagram today.

We've covered community and growing your Instagram in the first two episodes.

Today we're going to be hitting part three and talking about conversion.

I better said, how to actually make money using Instagram.

So get ready for some solid tips and dust off those shop clothes and let's talk some business what's up john

what's going on dude how you how you been how's it you were just on vacation you just got back

i just got back man from vacation i am tan and uh have a lot of content i got to catch up on

yeah yeah yeah you and me both brother you and me both i know. You're yourself doing some travel, right? You're up in NYC. I am. I am in New York City for the YouTube's Next Up program, which is pretty cool. So I'm excited. It's going to be a big week for me. Yeah, for those of you guys who don't know what that is, that is a thing that YouTube does to promote

channels between 10,000 and 100,000 subscribers. And typically in the past, they've had two

builders on it. I know some folks like Kyle Toth and Chris Salimony, DIY Tyler, Nick Ferry,

have been on there before. This year, they only picked one, and it was Mr. Maliki. So congrats on that, brother.

Yeah, thanks, man. Thanks. I'm going to go up there and represent for all of us builders. So

I'm pumped, dude. Absolutely. So today and so you might hear the audio just a little bit different

because John is in the hotel room over there. He doesn't have his home field advantage, but that's okay.

John crushes on the wayfield, too.

So today we're going to be talking about conversion.

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