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 Malecki.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 33.

In this episode, we've got an interview with Dylan and Jason from Black Forest Woodco.

If you're on Instagram, you probably recognize the names.

These guys are the Canadian kings of slab and resin pores.

And we've just been sitting back and watching their growth on Instagram in awe.

Jason and Dylan really dove all in January 1st of 2017 with their content marketing strategy. After hitting 10,000 followers on Instagram in March of 2017, they have exploded to over 270,000 in a little less than a year.

With the massive growth of their social following, their business has also hit a growth curve,

with additions to their retail, wholesale, their classes, and their custom work.

Love it. This is a great episode, guys.

But before we get into it, we do want to thank some of the new members that joined the MFP tribe over on Patreon.

We have Luke Pitney, Chad Howell, Scott Rogan, Ken Schumacher, Tom McAllister, and John Thorburn.

Thank you guys for joining, and they're going to get to enjoy all the benefits over there,

the after show, as well as some of our reviews. You can go check that out at patreon.com forward slash made for profit if you want to join in and be part of that

patron tribe. But without further ado, let's jump in and hear what Jason and Dylan have to say

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