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 97. Man, I cannot believe that we are at 97 episodes already.

I tell you what, we're going to do a giveaway.

We have some sweet fanny packs.

We're going to celebrate episode 97.

Just repost this episode to your feed.

Follow us on YouTube, Instagram, MySpace, and Tinder, tag 10 of your best friends and enter your social security number for entry. Good luck, guys.

Giveaways. Love them or hate them. They're a big part of social media today. And we're going to talk about how they've

changed and what you should and shouldn't expect out of them. We're also going to tell you

how to do them properly so that you can comply with all the terms of services and that you

aren't getting your account at risk by doing them. Does you like that intro, John?

Oh, it was your best ever. It was your best ever. I mean, cold call intro. John did not read before, so... I did not. I did not. I jumped right into this episode, you know, thinking we were going to start off with our very regimented and blanket introduction. But Brad, you surprised me that. No. Yeah, we do it. You know, not for... Sorry, John. Before we do get into it, we wanted to acknowledge that we do have a Patreon. We did not have any new members this week, but that's okay. But we, if you would like to be part of the patron tribe and join the awesome growing group of folks over there. You can head over to patreon.com

forward slash made for profit and you can enjoy the after show and some other cool rewards

like reviews of Instagrams and, you know, free giveaways and all that good stuff.

No free giveaways, but, you know, we talk about giveaways and all the kinds of other great

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