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 72. Black Friday is a few short days away, and it is retail marketing and advertising at its best, or worse, depending upon how you look at it. But it's not just a great time

for big box retailers, but also for small businesses.

Today we're going to talk about how we use Black Friday to our advantage as small business owners and how you might be able to use it too.

But before we get into it, we want to thank our new members that joined the MFP patron tribe this week.

We had quite the influx here.

We had Preston Blackie, Brandon from Maker Break Show, Mike Pinson from

cutting edge woodworks, Ben Hincky, Richard at 42 Fab, David Morgan, Jonathan Scott, and welcome

back to Sean Duthry. If you want to support the show and get some awesome rewards, you can head

over to patreon.com forward slash made for profit.

And also, we have something new that we're doing over there for our patrons.

We're just implementing voicemail questions for the after show.

So we're excited to hear the questions straight from the mouths of our patrons.

And you will be starting to hear those in the quarterly Q&As that we do. So we're, we're super excited to get some of our patrons actually out here on the airwaves. Is it airwaves anymore? Like, is it airwaves when it's digital and? I don't even know. I don't know. It's so above my head the tech now. It's, I don't even know. Yeah. Yeah. It's still airway. You download the show, so it's the

airway. So that's it. So what is up, John? What's been going on, brother? Oh, man. I mean,

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