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 78 and happy new year to everybody.

We are officially in 2019.

2018 was a great year for so many of us and for made for profit.

Today we're going to take a look back at some of the big changes in social media,

as well as just take a little look down memory lane at MFP and what's happened during the year. But before we get into it, we want to

thank all of our patrons who have supported us this year and allowed us to keep going and made for

profit. You know, John and I, this is a side thing for us, obviously, and by the support of our patrons,

we're able to make sure we put this at a time slot in our week that we can make sure we interact with you guys. And we love hearing how it's helped everybody. We especially want to thank our top patrons, Brad Hubbard and David Van Fleet. Thank you guys so much. And we also want to give a shout out to all of our Tier 3 patrons.

And there's a few of them. So bear with us here. But we have Andrew Bersow, Anthony Scott of 1350

designs, Chris at Colorado Custom CoachWorks, Chris Cunningham, and Craig DeSico.

We've got Daniel Mauer, James Cunningham of Hedgehog Wood Studio, J.P. Brown, James Shadbolt, and Jared Luker.

Ken Schumacher, Mike Pinson from Cutting Edge Woods, M.K. Woodworks, Ashley McCorkel from Modernist Maker, Nick and Dana Diagostino.

We've got Nick Keane, Preston Blackie, Zach Kenny, Scott Rogan, and Travis Johnson.

Jose, the man from Brooklyn, Triple J Customs, Two-Bit Woodworks, Wade Tachney, and two fellows

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