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 50.

As you all know, Instagram is one of our favorite topics where John and I spend most of our time on social media.

But there have been some major bombshells being dropped by Instagram recently, and one of them was a sit-down with TechCrunch, where the product lead for Instagram actually laid out how the Instagram algorithm really works.

So we're going to break down what he said and give you our thoughts on it as well.

But let's just stop for just a second before we get going.

We want to thank you guys so much for your support you've given us this year, 50 episodes,

man, that is awesome. Yeah, 50 is incredible. I can't believe we have that many in the bag, and we are totally pumped to bring you guys 50 more. We're loving everything that's happening in the MFP community and really want to send a huge thank you to each and every one of you. Absolutely, guys. And we especially want to thank our patrons. Whether you're a current patron or a past patron, your support has let John and I commit the time that we need away from our regular businesses to record and put out the show each week. And I'm sure, as you guys can imagine, that is not something that is trivial. So your support helps us do that. We really

appreciate that. So thank you so much. And speaking of patrons, we did have a few new ones this

week. So before we get going here, we had Small Shop Works, Tommy Jobson and Guns Plus. Thank you so

much, guys, for joining. If you'd like to join the patron tribe, you can head over to Patreon.com forward slash made for profit and get access to the after show and some other

cool rewards. John, long time no see, man. What's what you been up to? Oh, man. I am just getting

back in the groove. As you guys can hear, I'm a little bit hoarse. I was down at Bradshaw,

if you were checking us out on social

um and then i spent the weekend uh with some of my buddies down uh screaming my face off at

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