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 36.

Today we'll be diving and in some fresh news and updates coming to Instagram in 2018.

We've been getting a ton of questions about it.

And there's a lot of information out there about the algorithm changes and what's happening with Instagram right now. So what we're going to do is tell you what we know and what's rumored

to be coming out down the pipe. But before we get into it, we want to thank some of our new

members that joined the MFP patron tribe this week. We had Kevin Seckler, Winston Moy, Iron Horse

Woodworking, Corinne from Hooked Woodshop, and Keith Decent.

Thank you guys so much.

If you guys would like to join the MFP patron tribe, you can go over to patreon.com forward slash made for profit and see all the rewards over there, including our after show, which we do at the end of every show, answering their questions.

John, what is up?

My brother, long time. No C. It's been like what, like 12 hours? Yeah, maybe even less, even less.

We're just getting back from our spring make event over at Lincoln Electric in Cleveland.

So I am just trying to get my life back in some some semblance of order over here um because you know

we've been we were what at workbenchcon then we got back for a couple days and then back to

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