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 Maleckcki 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 17. Today we're going to be talking about the benefits of networking within your community.

John and I have seen a lot of great business grow through making new connections with peers, brands, and suppliers.

We want to give you our favorite ways and places to network and why we think it's so important.

But before we get into the topic, John, we got some exciting news this week.

Why don't you go ahead and lay it on them?

All right.

So during and after our pricing series, we were getting an overwhelming amount of requests for a spreadsheet.

And, you know, we did a lot of talking about using spreadsheets on the show.

We know how many of you are still struggling with your pricing and we wanted to help.

So what we did is put together an awesome spreadsheet for just made for profit.

And it's for you guys.

And we are super pumped to announce that it is our first product.

We'll bring it to the table.

We kept it really simple using just labor time,

materials, and supply costs. So you can easily plug all of those in and get a calculated price

based on how Brad and I price our products. We both got margin and markup pricing as well as

time and materials in there for you to learn from. And you can figure out whichever

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