How to Be Better Than Everyone Else
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The Handcrafted Podcast: The Business of making things
13 min
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3 chapters
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How does Paul introduce the Handcrafted Podcast and its mission?
Welcome to the Handcrafted Podcast, the business of making things. I'm Paul, founder of Philadelphia Table Company and the Handcrafted Network, and I believe great craftsmanship deserves great business strategy. This podcast is for makers who want to build not just great products, but a thriving business. Each episode will dive into the mindset, systems, and skills that turn craft into success.
All right, guys, what's up? What's up? What's up? Hope everybody's been doing great. Welcome back to the Handcrafted Podcast. Thanks so much for listening, for tuning in, checking it out, for subscribing, for sharing, all those sorts of things. Like I say every week, it's awesome to get to do this and realize that people are listening, which is pretty cool. When I started this, it was just kind of who knows what's going to happen with it, but it's been great. So for those of you guys who have reached out to me and connected to me, it's been great getting to know you. For those of you who have not yet, I look forward to when that time comes. So with that said... I will be presenting a few seminars in person at the Texas Woodworking Festival.
That is September 25th to the 27th in Austin, Texas. I will be there for the whole weekend. So if you're going to be in town or you're going to be going, send me an email. Would love to connect with you. Paul at thehandcraftednetwork.com. Would love to say hi and figure out a way that we could sort of connect and meet. You could also check out the schedule online and see which sorts of topics I'm presenting on. And yeah, I'm presenting each of those three days. So would be really, really great to see you. Also, with that said, this podcast is brought to you, as you know, the Handcrafted Network. It's an online community of makers that are professional and semi-professional. And it's a really great place to sort of ask questions, connect, answer some of those things.
And one thing – and I was talking to Jim, our marketing person, about it this week, which was – One of the things that we do in the group is sort of like you come to us with the questions and we sort of help. But with that said, it doesn't have to work that way necessarily. If you're having problems with marketing, if you're having problems with selling, if you're having problems with systems and processes, all of those different unique things, we have modules for all that stuff. There's online classroom sections. You will set up a time for a call with me and you'll get to view sort of And I'll kind of talk you through the different classroom things, point you in the right direction, connect you with all the right places to go for all of that.
For those of you guys who did join or take advantage of the free trial opportunity, it's been great getting to know you guys. We've had some people from other different fields, not just woodworking. So it's been really cool connecting and learning about those other fields. such as like leather and painting and ceramics and all that sort of stuff. It's been really great. And everybody I've talked to actually has said, who wasn't word workers actually said, hey, this is pretty interesting how relevant these sort of worlds are. So it's cool to sort of mix all the makers into one bucket. All right, so with that said, today I want to talk about how to make your business better. I know, it's a huge, huge, vague thing.
But how do you make it so your business is the business that people come to and is the business that people choose to work with? So there's been a few things. I'm going to reference a few different books and a few different ideas of what I've been sort of thinking about. So Will Garda, who did Unreasonable Hospitality, I've done a few podcasts on that, has always looked at sort of like outside the box things. How do you make your business better? How do you make – for him, it was how does he make his restaurant better? How does he make it so that his restaurant is the best? So one of the things that he did was didn't focus on the actual thing, right?
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