It’s always great to see makers building a business that they are passionate about. This week, we had the pleasure of having Dave Darr from Walrus Oil on the show. His diverse background and road leading to building Walrus Oil is fascinating. Be sure to tune in and learn more about how Walrus Oil got started!

Our businesses wouldn’t exist without our customers. It is important to give our customers the best experience we possibly can. In this episode, we talk about how we each work with our customers to make their experience memorable and positive.

We all have things we like and dislike about social media. Stephen, Trevor, and our new full-time co-host Martina talk about the things we don’t like about Instagram. We struggle with the algorithm among other things, and we wanted to address what we don’t like and the issues we have had.

A few of our listeners requested that we talk about Time Management. Although we are by no means the experts, we do our best to manage our time wisely. In this weeks episode, Stephen, Martina, and Trevor talk about their time management practices, how they sneak more work into the day, and their priorities.

This week we sat down with Martina and her wife Amanda to continue our discussion on customer interaction. Customer interaction can make or break your business. Sit back and relax while we continue our discussion.

Customers are the reason that our side hustles are able to exist. Whether the customers are YouTube subscribers, buying the products we make, or contracting work, it is important to know how to handle all situations. This week we invited Martina on and we talk about how we interact with customers, things we have dealt with, and how we have handled situations.

We are kicking off 2019 by coming up with our top goals for 2019 for both our businesses and our shop. This year we are going to work hard to achieve our goals as well as help others achieve theirs. Join us and share your goals!

This year has been a crazy year and we are so grateful! This year was the first year for the podcast, a year of growth, and exploration. Take a listen to hear what the early Christmas present is.

2018 has been full of its ups and downs for everyone. This week we talk about our years, what went well, what went poorly, and other items. This year has been pretty amazing and we hope you like hearing about our year!

As makers, a lot of us do it as a hobby and don’t typically worry about making it an officially licensed business. There can be advantages to creating a business such as tax benefits, liability purposes, as well as other reasons. This week we talk about Trevor’s venture into starting a business and the resources that are out there to help with this.