The 5 Traits of a Great Business (And How Makers Can Apply Them)
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The Handcrafted Podcast: The Business of making things
17 min
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2 chapters
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What is the purpose of the Handcrafted Podcast and who is the host?
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.
Hey guys, what's up? Welcome back to the Handcrafted Podcast. Hope everybody has been doing great. Uh I know us at PTC, we just wrapped a a number of really awesome projects. For those of you guys who don't follow Philadelphia Table Company on Instagram, go pop over and check it out. We just did this really cool inlaid game table uh with uh it's a collaboration of a few people too, so uh go check that out. It's something that we're super proud of. Uh That we just wrapped. Um, all right. So this podcast is brought to you by the Handcrafted Network. The Handcrafted Network is an online classroom and community of professional and semi-professional woodworkers. If you're trying to grow your business, if you don't know where to start, if you need to ask questions, if you are looking for support, if you want to talk to me personally, if you want ideas, if you
You feel lonely. This is the place to be. Sign up, join, you'll get a one-on-one call with me. You'll get connected to another bunch of other people in the industry. Yesterday I had a call with someone from the group, just kind of just hanging out and just talking. And it was really nice to just be able to talk to other people that are in the same space, kind of have sort of the same issues, the same problems, relatability, all that sort of stuff always kind of makes you feel better, you know, if you're having a down month and you talk to somebody else and go, hey, I'm kind of experiencing this. And they go, you know what? I am too. This is what I'm doing. So working with other people is always super helpful.
Finding support is always helpful. So if you're interested in all that stuff, if all that stuff excites you, if you're looking for help, if you're looking to connect with people, if you're looking for a classroom of like what are the next steps, all that sort of stuff. Sign up for the handcrafted network. It's the handcrafted network dot com. Or if you have questions about it, feel free to email me, Paul at the handcrafted network dot com. All right. So Today's podcast. I am not taking full credit for this list of things. I actually took this as for those of you guys who know or don't know. I took this from a podcast that Alex Hermozzi did about business. I'll link that below in the in the show notes. But he did a bit he did a podcast talking about sort of like what makes quote.
unquote, a good business or a scalable business. And I find myself listening to these podcasts from different just like general business podcasts. And I'm always in my mind thinking, hey, how does this relate to me? How can I break this down and implement this in my handcrafted business? So I want to talk you through these steps. This is going to be one that you might want to grab a pencil and paper for, take some notes, save this one, come back to it a few times. Again, like I said at the end of the last podcast, sometimes these podcasts raise more questions than answers. And that's exactly the point. All right. So with that said, I'm going to do a quick rundown and then we're going to go back and talk about it.
So five things that make a really great business, according to Alex Hermozzi, right? And I, you know, I've been trying to think, hey, are these really the things? Are there other things to add? And I think that these are really great. There may be a few other things in there that you could probably add to make the business. make a great business, et cetera. But just wanted to talk through it. So number one is sticky. We're gonna come back and talk about that one uh at the end because that to me that's the one where we have kind of like the the art for my company at least has sort of like the biggest trouble with the stickiness.
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