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 40.

We're going to be changing it up a little bit this week, and we're going to do the first of what is going to be a quarterly Q&A.

And we poll our patrons every week for our after show.

And what we want to do is start dropping some of our favorite questions into the main

show as well.

So in this episode, we're going to be talking about Instagram hashtagging,

alternative social media platforms like Reddit and Tumblr, hiring employees,

and charging for consulting and designing.

So I hope you guys enjoy a peek at this weekly patron after show.

And before we get into it, actually what we want to do is

thanks some of the new members that joined the MFP patron tribe this week. We had Christian Cologne

and Justin Woodworks. Thank you guys for joining. If you do want to be part of the after show

and be able to ask your questions and get them answered, you can head over to patreon.com forward

slash made for profit. John, what you've been doing

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