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 32.

Today we're going to be talking about making money in your sleep, literally.

Passive income is a powerful tool to help grow a sustainable business.

And don't think this is just for content creators.

We're going to talk about how you can make passive income as a product maker too. John, have you heard about all this new stuff coming out in Instagram? Like,

this is unstoppable. What's going on out there? Yeah. So as we like always are talking,

Instagram continues to just pump out the new features. A few exciting ones.

First would be the story enhancements.

If you notice those, they've got some awesome lettering filters, a bunch of stuff going

on in Instagram stories, which is really cool, let you customize it a lot more.

And I've been using that on my personal account as well as the MFP account if you guys

check it out.

And also the new scheduling options.

So Instagram has never been available on apps outside of Instagram itself.

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