Welcome to Made for Profit, a podcast where we talk business in the shop and help you monetize as a maker.

Each week we cover business topics to help you grow your full-time business or your side hustle.

We'll also bring you interviews from a variety of people winning in their space to share valuable business insights and life lessons.

I'm Brad Rodriguez, a full-time content creator running Fix This Build That.com.

And my co-host, John Mulecki, runs a full-time furniture company and his content site,

John Mellecki.com.

We've been growing our successful businesses online, and we want to bring you into the conversation

and help you grow along with us.

Welcome to episode 30. In this episode, we're going to jump into another interview. This time around, we're going to pivot away from the content creators and pick the brain of Jeff Mack, the founder and owner of Jeff Mack Designs in Toronto, Canada.

Jeff has been in business for himself for a little over five years,

and he got started doing metalworking signs, but he's now running a premier furniture business focusing on live edge tables and more. In 2017, Jeff did over $1 million in gross revenue

and has expanded his furniture company to selling slab stock and dimensional lumber.

With over 90% of his business coming from Instagram, Jeff has had major growth in his following to over 280,000 followers. It was great to talk to someone who's still grinding it out in the

trenches and actually doing some product work. Yeah, I mean, I just, I loved getting that other side

of it. We saw some feedback about they'd like to hear more product guys, and that's what we're going to give you guys today. So we're really happy about that, and it's a great interview. But before we get into it, we do want to thank some new members who joined the MFP tribe this week, Brian Roberts and Rob Allen. Welcome aboard, guys. They went over to patreon.com forward slash made for profit

and join there. And now they're going to be able to enjoy the after show and some other perks.

So if you'd like to join, you can go there and head on over. But without further ado,

let's go ahead and get into our interview with Jeff Mack.

All right. So we are here today with somebody you guys are probably very familiar with if you're at all on Instagram. Jeff Mack Designs. Jeff, what is up, buddy? Welcome to the show. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Absolutely, man. We've been, uh, we've been fans of yours for a long time. I know just coming through the Instagram ranks and kind of growing up

there together, it's been fun to watch your account. And obviously, you are a Canadian. So,

you know, your Instagram is amazing as we've been talking about, John and I. For some reasons,

Canadians have a big presence on Instagram. I don't understand it, but that seems to be the case.

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