Your Style Is the Moat: How Makers Build Work That Can’t Be Compared
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The Handcrafted Podcast: The Business of making things
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What is the Handcrafted Podcast and who is hosting this episode?
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.
Alright guys, welcome back to the Handcrafted Podcast. Uh hope everyone's doing great. Uh as I always say, uh just Quick reminder, this podcast is brought to you by the Handcrafted Network. Handcrafted Network is an online classroom and community. For professional and semi-professional woodworkers. We have everything in there from ad support to website audits to accounting help, shipping help, Google ads, uh sales stuff, all that sorts of things. And to me, the biggest value of the group is the community aspect of it, people answering your questions live and people that actually care. So it's not some stupid little uh it's not like a Facebook group where there's tons of Trolls. Uh everyone here actually is genuinely interested and engaged.
And a lot of times they lead to like kind of one-on-one calls with people too, which is really helpful. So uh I try to do when you do sign up, uh you do get a one-on-one call with me. I try to get a good understanding of who you are and what it is you're looking to achieve so I could help connect some of the dots for you, bring you in with connect you with some of the right people that. that are, you know, can help you get to where you wanna be, people who are similar, all that sort of stuff. All right, so uh with that said, um today's podcast I wanted to talk a little bit about um personal style. So I went to ICFF. I'm not sure if if many of you guys know what ICFF is, but for those of you guys who don't know,
sort of like an interesty uh it's like a industry trade show for designers, interior designers mainly, and like furniture designers and that sort of stuff. So in there there's like um independent furniture designers, there's larger furniture companies, there's like, I don't know, tile companies and and mirrors and artwork and rugs and that sort of stuff. So it's just a pretty cool place and it's in New York City. Which to me is like one of the hubs of sort of design in the world, probably, which is really cool to be a part of that. So going to that feels great because it you you feel like you're part of something bigger. You feel like you can kind of have like a good connection and grounding in what sort of
people are looking for and what else is out there. However, with that said, to me, the flip side is I, you know, I went with the intention and I've gone last year too. And I went with the intention of trying to figure out, hey, is this something that makes sense for my company to go to, something to showcase in? Uh they did delay it for anybody who is interested. Usually it's in the spring this time of year, but they're moving it to the fall. And So uh my designer at my shop really wanted to showcase and all that stuff. So I was like, hey, let's go again. Let's go this year and and kind of dive in and see if it's really worth it. So for me I'm on the fence about it. There are a few community members who did go, so I'm gonna get their feedback on it, but
In a world of like digital, everything digital consuming, it feels a little less relevant. I mean, I think it's helpful to meet people in person. I always think it's helpful. I think it's helpful. I mean, if you were part of like the indie furniture show, I think it's important to connect with other people in the industry. I mean, that's why we have this community and that's a I'm a big believer in that. Connect with other people, asking what's working, asking what's not working. As far as like actual like ROI, I'm not a hundred percent certain on what that necessarily is at this moment. I'm still sort of investigating. One of the things I did notice though about the show is it felt like a lot of stuff is the same.
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