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 full-time content creator running Fix This Build That.com, and my co-host, John Mellecki, runs a full-time furniture company and its 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 16. Today we're going to be talking about some new tips and tricks with

Instagram. You know, over the past several months, Instagram has been rolling out a lot of new

features and we just want to bring you up to speed and talk about how we use them in our accounts

and what those features are doing for us. What's up, John? Not much, man.

I'm back in Pittsburgh after a little weekend of traveling,

and I'm excited to punch this episode in the face.

Always punching things in the face.

Always punching things in the face.

Just really, really physical over here.

So aggressive.

So aggressive.

Yeah, so before we get started punching things and faces, we do want to thank our MFP tribe members, the new folks who have joined over there on Patreon, Alex Barrera, Tiffany at staying Inside the Grey, and Stephen Weigel.

Thank you guys so much for joining the patron tribe over there.

If you guys would like to join, you can head over to patreon.com forward slash made for profit. And you can enjoy some cool rewards like the after show and some other cool things you can check out. So go check it out. All right, John, what have you been doing this week, man? Other than I know you've been doing some traveling. How'd that go?

What's up?

What's on the plate?

Yeah, I just got back from Festal Connect, which was awesome. Got to connect with some of the amazing people over in the tool review space, actually. And it's good to see those guys. They're a wealth of knowledge when it comes to learning about what tools you're buying. So, you know, you got key for a toolaholic and Paul, the tool pig, Rob at, you know, and some other of these guys are just unbelievable and amazing resources. So I'm getting back in the swing of things, catching up

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