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 113. Things were going great.

It was 2013.

Palatwood and rustic furniture was so hot.

And you were killing it, and you're backlog for months.

But now it's 2019.

And unless you're Paul Jackman, the Palatwood trend is dead.

And if your business was heavily focused on that trend, you're either scrounging for work or you've pivoted to the next trend and new focus area.

This is just one example of needing to pivot your business from a negative impact, but you can also pivot to take advantage of positive opportunities out there.

So today we're going to talk about how we've made our own pivots in our content and businesses in the thought process behind it while we were doing it.

But before we get into it, we do want to thank some new members that join the MFP patron tribe

this week. We had Panhandle 3D printing, John Bryant, and a welcome back to Chris from

Copwood. If you want to support the show and get some cool rewards, you can head over to patreon.com forward slash made for profit.

Rustic, John, 2013.

Do you think that was like the peak, 2013?

I feel like 2013 was, I mean, it was maybe even 2014.

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