Start a Woodworking Business from Nothing (Simple Strategy)
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Published 2024-03-24
If I had to start from 0, this is what I would do to grow a woodworking business.
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0:00 Woodworking Projects that Sell
0:20 Tools to Start Woodworking
2:01 Have a Plan for Your Business
2:49 Setting Business Goals
4:36 What Do You Build to Sell?
6:00 Be Patient with Your business
6:52 Don't Buy Expensive Tools
8:00 Don't Trust the Customer
9:20 Be Risky Cautious
10:36 Do you Need an LLC?
12:46 Where Do You Sell Woodworking Projects
15:00 Find the First Customer
16:06 Selling Woodworking Projects Online
16:45 How to Jumpstart an Etsy Store
18:00 Myths about Having a Business Website
18:38 Get Help Growing a Woodworking Business
20:10 Chase Your Dreams!
20:45 Hard Work Pays
All Comments (21)
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So I'm running a trim carpentry/painting business while living out of my car. I'm lucky to have a friend who let's me store my tools in his basement but it's a struggle. Just grinding hard and doing what I can to get ahead.
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I'm an auto mechanic that loves woodworking lol my shop looks strange to most ppl. You can fix a car or build furniture in the same place 🤷🏾♂️🤣
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#6 really is important. When I was a plumber, I would get big jobs that would require large parts purchases prior to beginning the project and more than once I had a commercial customer attempt to stiff the company on the bill. We finally just made it policy that any job over $800 required a 50% down payment for materials at the time of scheduling and it pretty much stopped all the shady customers.
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I really appreciate the encouragement, I have at least two businesses that I'm interested in starting and every time someone says just start, I feel motivated.
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Matt, your encouragement for people to write down their goals is outstanding. I found long ago that when I write things I want to accomplish, they happen, and if I don’t they never seem to not get done. It took me a long time to realize this, and now at 77, it still works.
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As a real estate broker with zero woodworking experience, your tips will serve as my FOUNDATION on how I'll move forward with our custom-built business. May you and your organization continue to be a channel of blessings! 🙏
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A mentor once told me that entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and sewing your parachute on the way down.
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Awesome job Matt. Having a supportive spouse is key when you're a person with a family
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Your story is awesome Mighty Matt. Thank you for all the content.
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Amazing video and guidance. I'm an early stage entrepreneur starting a tech company, but also looking at a potential woodworking side hustle. Your guidance not only applies for a woodworking startup, but across the board any startup. This video gave me a lot of knowledge and inspiration. Thank you for sharing!
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Currently on my journey of making woodworking a full time career, this is perfect. Great advice. And congrats on the success!
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Thanks for mentioning the Jay's Custom chairs. This is exactly what I was looking for!
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Matt you inspire me a whole lot. I just finished building my custom router table. I have more shop furniture to build. Then clean out garage and launch out. Thanks fie all you do. You content is sumply Awesome and on point. I will later be looking into your Master class.
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So many questions have been answered in one video! Yet, more remain. Thank you!
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I found your Woodworks 731 a few months ago and love your tutorials. I retired in Dec. and love woodworking. I built your Farmhouse Breadboard coffee table for my son & daughter-in-law as a wedding gift. They loved it. I am currently building your computer desk with the trap door. I also like your tool workshops. I just got a request to build an Altar table for our church from our pastor. That will be a challenge for sure. Thank you for sharing your talents. Keep them coming. God Bless you my friend.
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This is where i come for all things woodworking.i have 2 or 3 others i watch as well,but this is the channel right here!!!!!
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Sawdust start ups is well worth it. I signed up not long ago and have learned a lot in a short amount of time. Highly recommended if you are on the fence to try it out!
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Thanks for all your content, Matt, and for the new stuff helping new woodworkers, like me, to get started. My new metal building/workshop is built, but I'm still waiting for electrical and spray foam. In the meantime, I'm starting to work on less time-consuming stuff like cutting boards in my spare time until I can move into my shop. I am anxiously waiting to get started woodworking to offset that expense (although debt free with it) while having fun with my "new" hobby!
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Ive built numerous outdoor pieces and i wish i had bought a miter saw SOONER. On the other hand, learning to cut accurate angles with a speed square and building a fence with clamps, right angle or whatever straight edge you have… that really comes in handy
