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 will 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 full-time content creator running Fix This Build That.com, and my co-host, John Malecki, runs a full-time furniture company and his content site,

John Malecki.com.

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 15. Today we're going to be talking about engaging with your audience online.

And we've got so many ways to connect now through comments, live sessions, email, all different ways.

We're going to talk about our thoughts on what's been working for us and how you can do it most effectively.

And today, we will have good audio. John, what's up,

my man? Oh, not much, brother. Enjoying a lovely fall day, weather cooled off considerably here

pretty early than normal. So I'm rocking a hoodie, and I am nice and comfortable and ready to drop

some knowledge bombs on the good people of

Made for Profit. I love it. We're transitioning from the sweaty summertime podcast to the,

you know, the cozy fall podcast now. Yes, until the frigid winter comes in here and you're

going to see icicles on my face while you're down there in nice comfortable Tennessee.

That's right. That's right. Love me some Tennessee, man. Nice and mild. All right. Well, before we get started, we do want to thank a new member to the patron site over there on the MFP tribe. But we had just like gangbusters last week. So I guess we're seeing the other

side of that, although we did have one fine new tribe member, Ryan Ridgely. Welcome, Ryan. You get

the spotlight all to yourself today. If you would like to get mentioned at the top of the show,

and more importantly, get all the great after show content

that we do as well as some products and other value-added content you can head over to patreon.com

forward slash made for profit check that out we have several different tiers that you can check out

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