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 98.

Our interview today is with a full-fledged business owner who also happens to be a blogger.

Scott Seidler runs Austin Historical, where he and his team restore and preserve old buildings.

He started out fixing up his old home, and he fell in love with historic preservation.

And when he realized there was a gap in the market, he started doing work for others and eventually grew it into a local business.

He also started documenting his passion projects and sharing them online on a personal site,

The Craftsman Blog.

And today he walks us through the journey of being a business owner and a content creator

on the side.

Yeah, Scott is an absolute beast when it comes to all things business.

Not only online, but in the real world as well.

With a 19,000 square foot facility and 24 employees, his mainstay brick and mortar Austin

Historical is absolutely crushing it.

The Craftsman blog as a supplemental brand is not

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