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 103.

It's time for another quarterly update on Instagram, and we've got a lot to share.

Between new features and a big slowdown on Instagram, the last quarter has been an interesting one.

But before we get into it, we do want to thank a new member that joined the MFP patron tribe this week. We had Rasmus Lowen-Stinsgard. Rasmus, I hope I somewhat came close to

that. Thank you so much for your support. Such a good name. That is. I like that. I like that.

And if you do want to be part of the MFP tribe, even if you don't have an awesome name like that,

you can still head over to patreon.com forward slash made for profit and get some cool rewards

and be part of the after show and patron tribe. And patron tribe. I tell you what, one of the topics

that we get the most questions about from the tribe, as well as looking in the episodes that do the best are these Instagram updates.

People love to know what's going on because things are always changing.

And this quarter has been nothing short of, yes, constant change. So, who, where do we jump? Why don't we hit the,

I think the topic that's been on a lot of people's mind that we've seen a lot of questions is

what is happening to Instagram? Everybody's engagement follows things. All those are down. And I've heard it from so many people obviously

John we get a lot of traffic around that and questions so I don't know about it dude how many

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