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, 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.

Welcome to episode nine.

Today we're going to give you an introduction to working with sponsors.

We're going to talk about the why, the how, and the win, and also some things to consider before you jump into working with sponsors.

What's up, John?

Oh, not much, man.

I recently moved my office, so I am over here enjoying the much more mild

temperature, not sweating profusely, and I am ready to crush this episode.

Absolutely. It's nice to see you over there with sweat not streaming out of your forehead.

I'm sorry you can't have that image. I know.

We need to live stream just so they can see, just so they can see what's going on.

Awesome.

Yeah, I am super stoked about today's episode, like all of them.

But before we get started, I want to go ahead and thank some of our new members that joined

the MFP tribe over on Patreon.

We had several new members again.

We had Katie Freeman, Jeremy Hill, Patrick Smith, Josh Luther, Joshua Pellebohr, Dan Zickfuss,

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