5 Proven Ways to Get Your First 100 Woodworking Customers

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Reaching your first 100 customers is challenging as a beginner! These are the 5 ways I was able to get my first 100 customers when I was first starting my woodworking journey! I hope this video helps you and gives you ideas on how to get your first 100 customers!
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Our goal is to help aspiring craftsmen do what they love for a living! We hope to share our knowledge in the woodworking field and CNC routering through training videos, CNC router techniques, unique projects, and practical applications.

[@darkspace3316]

You're such a great inspiration to watch you scale your business so young.

[@cutting-it-close]

Thank you, I am learning and hopefully going to keep scaling the business

[@johnniek8845]

Agreed

[@joshuathrombley96]

Man is the first video of sinon actually helping somebody out as you were trying to do and I've been preaching it so hard the last couple years helped that Brothers out take that Brothers up not put their brothers down and absolutely love you doing this thank you I myself just transition from being a pipe water to thinking about starting my woodworking business and this gave me some great inspiration

[@theodoremisiewicz8741]

Great tips, I’m going to put some of them to work. I’ve found a realtor that has turned into my best single customer. I need more like her!

[@marcogagnon6293]

Just want to say in my mother tongue appreciation for your sharing. Merci beaucoup! Hobbyist having lost is job in printing at 56 and per the vid I watched before about what you learned getting your 1st Mil, I have to ''pivot'' my mindset. 2 years in this trade, I've gotten sales mainly by word of mouth. I've already saved this vid for tonigth listening as I'm making noise now. I'm sure this will bring me more insigth to give my small shop a better visibility. Thanks again!

[@cutting-it-close]

You are very welcome, I hope I am helping you as well!

[@April-pt7sh]

Great video and congrats on the success! One thing, in the digital space, you are likely to get caught for ip infringement. I thought the same thing, I’m a small fish and there are over 10,000 items. I was wrong. Before I even made a sale, I got an email from Etsy via the companies lawyer. It was scary. Then I learned, Etsy has kicked people off after one of these. Some people have over 10 and still in business. Digging more into it, there does seem to be more leniency for brick and Mordor because it’s harder to track down and enforce. I had a best seller after 3 weeks, digital download. While I didn’t get flagged for that item, 3 others did get flagged. If etsy bands you, you can’t sell or shop. Your IP is blocked and new ones too, if they find out it’s you. It was the hardest things, to deactivate a listing that made me $500 in a few weeks, put my shop on the map, and simultaneously pulled other listing up in search. Just a cautionary tale for those going into the digital space and posting your items online.

[@kevinkelley6749]

Interesting tips! I will definitely look for ways to get creative and intentional along these lines. I'd love to see a video with clips of the various things that you made for these customers. It would help visualize some of the unique custom products you mentioned. Thanks!!

[@ChtoDelaetMaks]

I like his iron assistant!

[@cutting-it-close]

Thank you!

[@johnniek8845]

Great video, thanks for the tips.

[@paulmichal]

This is a HUGE help, thanks so much for putting this together.

[@cutting-it-close]

Glad it was helpful!

[@carlolsson3695]

True hustle.

[@rickpouley2857]

Great ideas!!!

[@stockcarbangertoytracks9634]

Great video! I would love to hear your journey on taking on employees. Such as what went well for you, what department you hired in first. Would you do anything differently if you started again regarding taking on employees? Would you have taken on more employees sooner in your growth journey. Thanks in advance, keep up the great work on the new videos my favourite woodworking channel.

[@ryanm2214]

Didn't know you were local. God Bless Texas!

[@kmdsdesign8305]

Your knowledge is very helpful, thank you so much

[@cutting-it-close]

You're very welcome, thanks for the feedback!

[@prmskeepr]

I sure appreciate you sharing your experience with us. What part of Houston are you located in? I grew up there.

[@johnwells3926]

Just found your channel and loving it! Thanks for the great info

[@cutting-it-close]

Your welcome! What else you would like to see from me in the future?

[@johnwells3926]

@@cutting-it-close curious as to what items you were making at 16

[@Davefoxtrot-km3bs4gs2j]

Thank you so much, for sharing such great tips on this business! These are REAL altruistic marketing advice! God bless you!

[@cutting-it-close]

Glad it was helpful!

[@scottbionicnerf8727]

God, I love Texas.!

[@joelw6215]

I’m officially binging ( not sure that’s how to spell it). Love your top videos. I’m in the business and it’s nice to see some fresh idea. Thanks

[@personofnote1571]

Really appreciate this content. To the point with an agenda to teach. I always feel like I learned something. Not just another paid advertisement disguised as an “honest review” like every other woodworking channel out there. If you subscribe to a lot of woodworking channels you know what I’m taking about. Glad to see you making content again.

[@cutting-it-close]

Thank you, yes that is what I am trying to bring, I have a video coming out in 2 days that is awesome, you’ll love it. What other topics would you like me to cover in future videos?

[@personofnote1571]

I’m really loving the business aspects of your videos. All the do’s and don’ts and lessons learned. What would you say were some turning points in your journey, when you took big steps forward or backwards and what were the catalysts? Could be a mindset shift, getting a big order, a stroke of good or bad luck, or something completely out of your control. Also, anything about customer acquisition and standing out from the crowd of me too Etsy sellers (whether one sells on Etsy or not). How do you create a moat around your business? Just my ramblings for now. Looking forward to your next video!

[@salahzenieh2515]

@@cutting-it-close where do you sell your products? I tried searching etsy and for a website and I cannot find you. Can you send a link to where you sell your products? Thanks.

[@TrolloTV]

Really appreciate Videos like that, they always help to discover some ways to generate business I didn’t think of so far. Also wanted to thank you for producing content that is actually valuable to people, and not just „buy my course“ or the 23rd product „review“ of something they’ve owned for 2 days and got for free.

[@cutting-it-close]

So glad you enjoy the content! Thank you for the kind words :)

[@akashsaini100]

so basically hardwork and grind

[@cutting-it-close]

Yupp, business doesn’t change!

[@akivaweil5066]

Great content. Are you making or a profit, or reinvesting everything?

[@cutting-it-close]

Reinvesting everything currently!

[@GurvanCustom]

"Being out there... kissing babies.." lol hahaha

[@anthonyegner1382]

Interesting

[@robertmiles388]

What kind of gifts did you make for the barbecue cook off’s? And do you have a CNC machine?

[@Karen-wu1eh]

I was wondering the same thing?

[@roscobaatjies2232]

Thank you for the video, because I'm currently into Mobil detailing, but I wanna start another small business as I'm getting into woodworking projects etc.. so I actually just realized to get support upon my small gig is by leaving my current customers with woodworking gifts and this will promote my business within the carwash industry and woodworking.. thank you for your videos and yes I am a subscriber

[@Dirk_Mcgurk]

i had no idea that putting team logos on stuff and selling them was illegal lol.

[@edschultheis9537]

I believe it is illegal because the universities and professional teams have copyrights, trademarks and such for their logos. They license the rights to use these logos to specific manufacturers for specific products. They want to control how their logos are used, and they also want to make money off of licensing deals. So, if someone uses these logos without their permission, they may get a nasty letter from the lawyer for the university telling them to cease and desist use of their logo. Also, I believe that if a university or professional team does not enforce their rights to copyright and trademark, they can lose those rights.

[@ChtoDelaetMaks]

Ask that iron guy how to make products with personalization without having a laser machine. I think having only a CNC machine to cope with this task is not so easy.

[@cutting-it-close]

I used a CNC to personalize for 5 years then finally got a laser, a CNC engraving looks much more expensive than a laser engraving if you present it well!

[@ChtoDelaetMaks]

@@cutting-it-close Agree with you. It looks much more effective if there are no too small details. Perhaps I need to work on my imagination.😀

[@kourtniehayes5319]

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