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How Dealers and Manufacturers Can Generate More Leads Without Breaking the Bank PART 1

• Shed Geek Podcast • Season 5 • Episode 31

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Struggling with lead generation for your shed or metal building business? You're not alone. In this eye-opening conversation, The Steel Kings welcome ShedHub founder Jeff Huxmann to reveal how this groundbreaking marketplace is transforming the portable building industry.

Jeff shares the origin story behind creating the first dedicated "Auto Trader for sheds" and explains how ShedHub has grown to generate a staggering 1.8 million impressions monthly. Every 90 seconds, a new visitor arrives looking specifically for sheds – these aren't casual browsers but motivated buyers actively searching for exactly what dealers offer.

The discussion tackles one of the industry's most persistent pain points: getting quality leads without breaking the bank. While many dealers remain trapped in the cycle of constantly renewing Facebook Marketplace listings, ShedHub offers a specialized alternative where inventory never expires and customers can search by specific dimensions, styles, and location.

Looking ahead to 2025, ShedHub is developing game-changing integrations with inventory systems that will eliminate duplicate data entry for dealers and manufacturers. This means seamless synchronization between your website, inventory management system, and ShedHub – saving valuable time while ensuring consistent, up-to-date listings.

For metal building dealers specifically, ShedHub represents a largely untapped opportunity to connect with customers outside your typical service area who would never otherwise discover you. At approximately $50 monthly, the platform offers exceptional ROI compared to traditional advertising methods.

Whether you're a small dealer or a major manufacturer, this episode provides actionable insights to maximize your digital presence during the busiest selling season. Listen now to discover how to position your business where motivated buyers are actively searching.


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Jared:

Hey, what's up guys? This is Jared and Eric. We are the Steel Kings Back with another episode coming at you. It is the 28th of March. You guys will get this sometime in April. So, we're trying to get these episodes a little bit more concise, get them a little bit closer together so we can go through the busiest time of the year. Eric, my brother, what is going on?

Eric:

Man, not too much. It is spring, it's 60. We're selling buildings, that's right. There's problems to solve, that's right. There's permits to acquire with every trade shows you go to with.

Jared:

With every problem there's a good solution. So at the beginning of every episode we give a shout out to our title sponsor, the good folks over at j money. Contact Joel and Katy for your building financing needs. If you are a dealer, if you are a manufacturer, if you are a contractor, they can help you out. Contact the folks over at J Money for all your financing needs. Quick plug for the guys over at Shed Geek Marketing partner Shannon over at Shed Geek Podcast. Those guys are moving right along too, so we appreciate their help. As always, we're talking about problems. You brought it up, Eric. I want to jump right in here. We've got another special guest for you guys and I know, if you're listening to us, you've probably heard from this guy before, but I think we're going to give you a little bit more insight. The problem that we had was leads right, Eric. It's a problem that everybody has in this industry. We need more leads right.

Eric:

That fair we need leads and we don't want to pay 20 for them.

Jared:

That's right yeah, no, you know, and it's interesting, it seems.

Eric:

It seems like, as Dayton Barns has done its thing, it's like okay, now we need people, now we need a network, and now we need a back end, and now we need a website, and now we need you know, and, and it seems like all of those things have been solved. Um, and then, and then the pain point was okay, now we need lee, we got the, we got everything covered. Let's get customers three piece three piece.

Jared:

People process product, right, that's it. So, we had the people, we had the product. We've got awesome contacts and partnership with sheds direct. We love those guys over there. We work a lot with the guys over at American steel on our metal buildings. Those guys can get you helped out cheap, cheap plug for those guys. But we have the people and the product. We're still working on the process. I think everybody has a process, but one thing that we have always struggled with here at Dayton Barns is we don't have enough leads, and we pay too much for them. Meta, google, whatever else, what other social media channels you name it. We're spending too much money. So, our guest today and I'm going to go ahead and bring him in the studio is Jeff Huxmann. He is the founder of ShedHub. This is the guy who is multi-talented, multi-faceted, he is a jack of all trades, and he masters quite a few of them too. Right, yeah, he sure does.

Eric:

He's the myth.

Jared:

Without further ado, I'm going to bring him in. Jeff brother, I know you've been listening to us, and you got a big smile on your face today. How are you doing, my friend?

Jeff:

I'm doing good, and to be referred to as a myth is quite an honor.

Jared:

For the longest time, the myth revealed. For the longest time. For the longest time, I sat idly by and watched as all these other dealers and manufacturers listed their inventory on ShedHub and I kept telling Eric and a couple of our other partners at the time I'm like we have got to figure out how to get on Shed Hub. So, Jeff, I met you. I guess it's been about a year ago now almost. We met at the Shed Expo and just started talking about the industry, about things we can do to make it better. Tell us about Shed Hub, man. For those who are listening that don't know, give us a 90-second overview of ShedHub.

Jeff:

Sure, ShedHub started in 2020, right as the pandemic was getting a foothold in the United States and the world and basically I had been working on different software in the shed industry for a number of years and we realized there is no existing marketplace for sheds on the internet.

Jeff:

There is no version of Zillow, there's no auto trader for sheds, and so we just set out to create it and so, with other software that I've been working on, we sort of moved that into something that we could evolve into what you see at ShedHub. com today. It's basically we wanna create an experience for the shed shopper, the consumer, and put as much inventory in front of the shed consumer as possible in one location. There's a lot of options of places to go get sheds and, um, you know what a benefit to the consumers to be able to see all the different places that you can go to find a shed in on one website. You know, when I shop for cars, I go to auto caterer because I'm looking for that one particular used car. Everything in my auto trade see what's available if the car. It's just super convenient for the consumer and there just wasn't anything else that the shed world so that's how Shed

Jeff:

Hub started in a nutshell well, that's.

Jared:

That's kind of why we brought you on here, because I think one of the things that you and I have talked about Jeff and Eric and I have been brainstorming this for a long time and for those who are listening along the podcast, they know already Eric and I are laser focused on online sales, not just steel buildings, but wood sheds, all of the above pole barns, you name it.

Jared:

We want to be in that space and I think the interesting thing about ShedHub and for those that are listening that are metal building guys this is a totally untapped market for metal buildings. This is something that you can start listing inventory pieces and the difference, the major difference, between a wood shed and a metal building. For those that are kind of wondering about my point of view on this, metal buildings are always built to order. You don't go to a lot and pick out a metal building and say this is the metal building that I would like to have. I, you know you have to go through a consultation process. There's a design process. There's a lot more involved with doing a metal building than there is with doing a shed, but I think that if you are on a wood lot and you are not utilizing every single avenue to generate leads, you're doing yourself a disservice.

Jared:

Eric what do you think, man?

Eric:

Jump in, I? So. first of all, awesome to join you, jeff. It's been nice to get to know you. You know, and, and, uh, my brain thinks, uh, this is what we could. You know, this is what we need, and then you know how to do it, and, which is nice. So, we speak the same language in that one two kind of tandem there, which is great. Um, as far so. So, welcome to the show. I'm sure you'll be returning guests as well. Um, uh, as far as steel buildings is concerned, I mean, Jared's right, we are laser focused for online sales.

Eric:

Shed hub is an incredible tool for somebody to not, uh, I think, most in dealers out there. Listen, if you're repping a brand. Most people who have never bought a shed before need educated on that type of deal. Um, they're not buying a brand, they're buying a idea for their backyard. They don't want to make a mistake. Shed Hub is a great place to catalog many different sizes, styles, brands, where the you know delivery, the rates, the RTO, the financing, and so I think you said, Autotrader trader is a great tool where dealers post their cars that they go by at the auction or wherever. Shed Hub is a great place for dealers and manufacturers alike to just post buy zip codes. It's incredible. Similar to Zillow, honestly, because I don't think someone goes to buy a house from Coldwell Banker. I don't think they're like in love with Keller Williams or something, I think they just they want a 3-2 with two stories and a basement and you can sort that by a lasso effect and, hey, maybe we'll get a lasso effect on Shed Hub.

Jared:

Yeah, no, that'd be great, yeah, what I like what I like the most, what I like the most about it from a, from a consumer standpoint, is it's really consumer focused.

Jared:

So you can get on.

Jared:

If you're looking for an 8x10 wood shed and you're in a certain zip code, you can search 8x10 open gable building and it'll pop up everybody's building and it gives the customer a one-to-one to say okay, dealer, a has an eight by 10, that's green with a, maybe it's a gamble roof, maybe I really want an A-frame or maybe I really want a lofted barn and this is just going to be an eight by 10 indoor. Whatever. You know, this gives you the parameters and say, hey, I want to search 20 miles, I want to search up to 500 miles, I'm willing to go as far as it takes to get the exact building that I'm looking for. And I think that from a consumer driven online standpoint, that's really what Eric and I are seeing is that when we can get to a customer and give them exactly what they want as quickly as possible, our close rate on those is astronomically high. So, from my perspective, ShedHub is a very high-level tool. Jeff, tell me what you guys are doing going forward, anything new on the horizons, anything exciting coming up.

Jeff:

I think the biggest things that we're going to be launching this year is integrations with different inventory systems. So, let's say you've got a word press website, you've got woo commerce and you can have a feed. Maybe you're already serving the feed over to Google or something like that Google shopping. You can feed it into ShedHub as well, and then your inventory is just in. You know you can, you can. It's in another spot and you don't have to reenter the same data into your own site into ShedHub and into other things as well.

Jeff:

So it's just an automation. That's going to be a huge time saver. So if you've got 20, 30, maybe some lots have 100 different pieces of wood inventory on their sales lot, If it's already on your website or in another inventory system, we can absorb that information quickly and you don't have to reenter anything. So we're just going to focus on that a lot in 2025 and in the coming years.

Jared:

I think that is next level, right, that is really combining. So, from our perspective, right, we work with a manufacturer. They give us an inventory sheet. We can then upload that, and we can already do this on ShedHub. We can upload our inventory sheet, we can automatically populate the buildings and manually upload photos, but you're talking about taking that step almost completely out of it and making it a one-to-one seamless transaction specifically for, like, a manufacturer. If a manufacturer has hundreds of buildings in their inventory, they will be able to work with the team at ShedHub to accomplish a bridge or some sort of talking language between their backend system and ShedHub. Is that where you're at with it?

Jeff:

Yeah, that's correct. So yeah, like these individual dealers that can upload their inventory.

Jeff:

You're correct if you're a manufacturer and you service a dozen or two dozen or 100 or 200 different sales locations and your inventory system already keeps track of that. There's no need to have each individual dealer like go and upload their inventory into ShedHub if you don't want them to. Like go and upload their inventory into shed hub. If you don't want them to, we can get information from your back- end system, bring it into shed hub and you know, keep everything updated twice a day, something like that. So, as the inventory changes, it's changing live on shed hub as well.

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Jared:

And when people are paying thousands of dollars a month for marketing and SEO and all of these things. You know, ShedHub brings to the table what I think last time we talked like something over like 1.4 million SEO pages, something like that. Jeff, I mean you've got to stroke that cap a little bit right now and tell us some of the metrics, give us some of the data, give us some of the talking points on it, because I mean you sold me on it. Trust me, I am no Mark. I am not an easy target at all. I am not a soft sell. People have to get me going. I can tell you I love the product ShedHub. This is not a sponsored bit. Jeff is our friend. He's become an ally for our business, but I can tell you this is no way paid sponsorship. Um, this is absolutely coming from the heart. Eric and Jared fully endorse shut up. It works great and if you use it the right way, it'll do great for you.

Jared:

Jeff tell me some metrics, man give me, some give me some give me some data's.

Jeff:

I mean, there's literally millions of pages for Google to crawl on ShedHub, but in terms of searches, like on Google search, ShedHub appears. I think we broke a record in February of 1.7 million impressions on Google search.

Jeff:

I think right now for March.

Jeff:

We're breaking that record. March is a little bit longer month, so we get a few the patent numbers a little bit there, but it's going to probably come out right around one, seven, one, eight million impressions for March 2025. And so Google's putting a lot of weight on Shed Hub. 7, 1, 8 million impressions for March 2025. And so, Google's putting a lot of weight on Shed Hub. We get a new visitor about every 90 seconds or so, so every 90 seconds there's someone new looking for a shed on Shed Hub, which is pretty cool.

Jared:

I see Eric smiling. I see Eric smiling.

Eric:

I just took a peek at our Google console for Dayton Barns' website and it's rowdy, it's busy. I mean I got on. I got on Google Analytics. I know you check the map sometimes, Jeff, and I think late last night I was doing another podcast, or two nights ago something else, and we had like 32 people on at once and we're getting you know we're up there. I'm not going to say the numbers, but when I looked at yours, it's just shameful. It's a child compared to seasoned adult, and so you've taught me some tricks and stuff. So, um, shed hub. It definitely is the real deal. I'm smirking because I've seen it before I.

Jared:

I think the interesting thing about it from my perspective is if you're sitting there and you're a small manufacturer or small dealer and you're sitting there thinking about it's the busy season, right and like we Eric, and about it's the busy season right and like Eric and I, it's funny we keep track of, like our walk-ins. We have guys that are lots that are saying, hey, I had five walk-ins today I sold a shed. Or hey, I had three metal walk-ins, I sold a metal building, whatever right, Imagine having your brand, your products, your process, the three's we talked about. Everything can be, everything can be documented on shed hub. That's the other thing I like about it too. So, Dayton Barns obviously sells sheds direct. We have that on our shed hub that we are Dayton Barns and also building selling for sheds direct.

Jared:

So, if you're a manufacturer sitting back thing and back thinking how's this going to help me? Well, it plasters your name all over the place. I mean it gives you credence. And if you're producing top level buildings, people buy top level buildings. We all know that there's a buyer for every kind of type of shed and market and all that. There are people who want to buy the cheapest possible shed. There are people that want to buy the best possible shed, whether it's the difference between the upper spacing right or the rafters or, whatever the case may be, the building materials, whether or not it's LP or it's, you know, whatever the case may be.

Jared:

But I think, for me personally, what Shed Hub does for Dayton Barns is it gives us all of these new customers, all the potential for new customers, all the time. You're open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and you have this open portal to the world. That says now? Jeff said 1.8 million people, 1.8 million visits to the website in one month. How many walk-ins did you have this month? Ask yourself that question. Now, Jeff, you know you break it down by zip code. It starts to get a little bit more feathered as you get narrowed in, right, but 1.8 million so I mean I could sit here and drop a pin.

Jared:

I mean it's like a mic drop for me, because I think last month we might have had 35 walk-ins. Yeah, I mean on our website we do like a half a million views so and we're doing really well with a half million. I can't imagine what it would be if we times that. 4 creates competition. We say it anyways competition creates, um, it creates that if I got one and you have one and we can work on a customer together, they might be that much more likely to bid on it. What do you think about that, Eric?

Eric:

if you're a wood seller and you're not selling metal and vice versa online, at least check out online advertising. ShedH ub actually. Um, um. You know we're, Jared and I are affiliated Steel Kings wise with Shed Geek and they've got a marketing program too. So, if you're not actively pursuing some sort of electronic internet- based sales program, you know, reach out to Shannon too at Shed Geek and we're really advertising for Shed Hub here.

Eric:

If you're a dealer and you want extra visibility around you, this is it. You, this is it Because I think if you went anywhere I mean, we put on a VPN, jeff and I on a screen share the other day and just woodshed near me, I mean and you're just anywhere in the country. Houston, Texas is a hotbed. We was looking at that and for some reason, if you're in the Texas area and you're looking for woodsheds, ShedHub is a great place to shop through.

Eric:

In my personal opinion, if you're a manufacturer and you want your inventory listed at dealerships plus just on your own, and you just want to filter those leads through the dealers or through your in-house sales team, or you want to outsource that, ShedHub is a good program to use. We use it. We use it not only at our lots, but we use it through sheds, direct and uh. Traffic's picking up and it's a great resource to even just list your inventory. A lot of dealers don't even list their inventory, um, they just hope somebody pulls in and then hey, here's our selections. Like you might have a website and, like Jeff said, the api between word press or whatever html, or if you're doing a custom or you've got a Squarespace website, like we used to, you can display professional pictures of your sheds on your website and manage it through ShedHub. So that is also a huge benefit too.

Eric:

So I just rambled for a minute, but no.

Jared:

I think that that's good, because getting people to understand the value proposition with ShedHub has been talk to me about that, Jeff. I think that's probably the struggle that you've had in the past is actually explaining it right. I mean really getting down to the nuts and bolts of what it can do for your business. Not just a showroom, not just a digital storefront, not just lead gen. It's all of the above and then some on top of that. And now, with what you're talking about doing in 2025, with real-time plugins, real-time inventory tracking and management, you're talking about a one-stop shop for just about everything. Shed right.

Jeff:

Yeah, right, yeah. So, I guess I'd sort of think of ShedHub. I'll back up a little bit. When we talk about marketing and sales, we talk about the number of touch points a customer has to have before they actually buy a building. And so someone I would say most people start their shopping journey for something like this on the internet, whether they're visiting Facebook, ShedHub, another shopping platform people are starting their shopping journey online. They might not fill out a lead form on ShedHub on day one, they might drop by the lot, they might call the phone number listed on the ShedHub listing, and so you think about the number of touch points that it takes to get a customer to buy. It's what? 70, 80? There's a bunch, and it depends on which company you work for, but if you count it, it's a lot before someone buys. And so ShedHub is a way to get customers interacting with your product, even if they don't buy on the day that they visit the ShedHub website. Even if they don't buy on the day that they visit the ShedHub website, you're just that much more visible. More of those touch points can be provided by ShedHub.

Jeff:

I think that's the value that we can provide is we're helping those people who are starting their journey online find you, whereas they might not ever find you. Starting their journey online find you, whereas they might not ever find you. You know your sales location might not be on their normal commute to work or on a normal path that they would take to really know that you're nearby. I'll give you a personal experience. I mentioned AutoTrader before experience.

Jeff:

I mentioned auto trader before. I was using auto trader to buy a car and my path. I live in Southern Ohio, and I generally take certain highways and do my shopping in Cincinnati, and so I'm familiar with car sales lots in Cincinnati. But auto traders told me that my car was two hours north of me in a city that I would normally never go to, and so, because of auto trader, this dealership got the sale and it's because of the internet. And I think the same is true for shed hub. I think, like if you have a decent google listing, um, you're going to get traffic because of the google listing within that 30- mile radius, but I think ShedH ub is going to help you find your customers outside, outside of your 30- mile radius, and bring people in from the surrounding area. I think there's some value, a lot of value in that as well, because people are going to discover you whereas they might not have ever heard of you before.

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Eric:

Well, check this out. Another benefit of that is okay, let's say, let's say a customer is on, you know, maybe they're on the hunt and they're not on the path, like you said. Um, and they're looking for, let's say, a chicken coop or something, um, and, and so they find a chicken coop and then on shed hub they click on the coop, they figure out where the business is, has got the particular unit they're looking for. I mean. But let's just say let's say that business does metal buildings, landscaping and whatever Like. So now there's even further exposure to it's not. It's not about the chicken Like, oh, I didn't know that place was there, end up going there. Maybe they become a customer for some other things as well. And so they're.

Eric:

You know they're with the SEO. It's almost like another. Like you said, you have google listing. If you have a good google listing and you have a website and it's well thought out, maybe put together uh with, uh, your own personal branding. It's not just thrown together. People like that stuff. They're gonna want to come check out your business anyway. And if you're not just selling sheds, like, maybe you've got some carports or something, now they're being led to some other areas that, um, you, you wouldn't get without it. So, I think it's even deeper than just uh. I think it's even deeper than just cars. You're pretty pinpointed on just cars, but you know.

Jared:

I can't stress enough. I can't stress enough how integral it's become to our process Right. So, for us, we've, you know, we obviously have a relationship with Jeff. That's, that's obvious. We're obviously already doing some of the things that we're talking about right. So a peek behind the curtain would say a lot of what Jeff's talking about doesn't just exist, it's happening right now and I can tell you it is a absolute game changer when you can have someone visit a website that gets 1.8 million knocks at the door in a month and they knock on your door and it pops up in your CRM Like let me stress that to you, Mr. Dealer, Mr. Manufacturer, it is a totally new world when you get knocks at the door from Shed Hub all over the state that you service, all over your service area, because at the end of the day, that is what's going to sell buildings.

Jared:

Dayton Barns has a location in Urbana, we have a location in Troy and we have a location in Brookville and we service a 50 to a 75 mile square or circle. However, you want to do that. We sell more buildings outside that circle than we ever do inside that circle, and a lot of that has to do with we are aggressive. We have a good website, we have good SEO on our own, we have really good, we're A-plus Better Business Bureau rated All of these things that you look at in a business right.

Jared:

What I'm telling you is that if you're dealing sheds and you're not using ShedHub, you're making a grave mistake because there's people in your backyard who are doing it. Even on the current platform, it works really well and it's cheap. It's like a penance, like $50 a month for this thing. You sell one building. You've paid for it. Now you're paying for it all year and you're figuring out a way to get a potential for 1.8 million knocks at your door.

Jared:

If you're in a big market, you're crazy if you don't use it. Honestly, we're not in a huge market. We're the Dayton Ohio market. It's probably the fifth or sixth largest metro area in the state of Ohio, something like that, maybe the third or fourth, but regardless, if we were in Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, um, Akron, you know, if you're in any of those spots, you're, you're nuts for not using it and I I'm just telling you we have been in this laser as a community, as a shed community, as a steel building community, as a portable building, whatever pole barns, you name it. We've been in this tunnel vision for so long. We have to be on Facebook, by God. We have to be on Facebook Marketplace. We have to have 8,000 buildings listed on Facebook Marketplace. Tell me, what the worst day of the week is when you have to renew those posts. Dang, does that not suck. Is that not the worst day of the week, Eric, or what?

Eric:

I've got a hundred and I'm not that my secret sauce is what I do on there.

Jeff:

And I got a little routine.

Eric:

When I got 65 to renew in my mind I'm first like dang, when did I, when? When did they become available to renew? Because when, when? They're not visible until you renew them. And so, I think another. Hey, let me give you a pro tip, pro tip. Side note. Pro tip If you're using marketplace, do not renew your posts until you're ready to work. I know I've heard people oh man, I got up in the middle. I renewed all my posts at 11 AM. Well, guess what, at 11 PM, when you renew your posts, they all go to the top, meaning by 7 AM the next day you've day all of the renewed ones that have been pushed down. So, if you really want a pro tip, do it at like 5.30 in the morning or 6 in the morning, because then they're fresh, right at the top and nobody else is posting that early, so it'll be there for longer and it'll linger at the top. That's a pro tip, pro tip. Yeah, Jeff's like. I don't know anything about selling.

Jared:

Jeff, the inventory never expires. That's what I was getting at. I love the pro tip, though, Eric. The inventory never expires, the inventory's there and we all know too.

Jared:

we've got inventory on our lots that's been sitting there for a hot minute. If you're working with a manufacturer, if you're a dealer, this is for you, the dealer, this is the pro tip. Tell your manufacturers to stop manufacturing ugly buildings, trust me and I love the guys at Sheds Direct. I love them. Okay, and most of the time the buildings look great, everything looks fine, but I can tell you every once in a while we get one slip out that you wouldn't, you wouldn't give away. They're ugly like. Why are we just using paint or what? Yeah, I don't. Some of these buildings show up and it's like it's gonna sit here.

Eric:

it's called okay we just get some 10 by 16s. Yeah, with two windows and some doors.

Jared:

Can we get an 8x10, a 10x12, and a 12x16 in tan, white and black? Like for real, we do now.

Eric:

I can tell you that has been my biggest complaint since we started or I started Dayton.

Eric:

Barns oh man.

Eric:

Our previous vendor, which I will not name. They actually did a decent job of giving me like one of everything and you guys know you got the picture. That picture that uh was sent out, that orange one. That was the first shed I sold. That was, that was the only and will be the only orange shed that we ever put on our property. Was that it was orange, it was orange, it was orange. I actually don't know if it was called orange. I can't.

Jared:

It was a stain. And I think what they did was they put all the stains into one bucket, All the leftover stain just poured into that bucket, and it was just. I mean honestly.

Jeff:

I mean that guy loved his building.

Jared:

And again, there's a buyer for every shed, even the ugly ones.

Eric:

Okay, you know not every shed is beautiful.

Jared:

God bless from Vandalia, there you go there, you wanted it, Jeff, we're. We're running a little bit long, so we're going to keep you in the next week. But tell me we, we always give the, we always give the listeners something to chew on going into the next week.

Jared:

So we're going to bring you back.

Jared:

Um, I know Eric and I, we talk, we talk too much sometimes, but we want to bring you back cause we're running over and I want to keep this right at the 35 minute point for our friends. Um, Jeff, what do you want to tell people going into the busy season? Give me a 30 second. Why shed hub?

Jeff:

I mean, we're the most visible marketplace out there for sheds. You know lots of people use Facebook and that works for them, but this is specific to sheds. People who come to ShedH ub are specifically looking to buy a shed, so these are hot customers. When you get leads from ShedH ub, it's worth it, um, and at the price point we've got there's really not much to lose at all. I think you can just give it a shot.

Jared:

See if it works for you, I can tell you, man, I think that was a pretty good 30 second clip. I think you even did 30 seconds there and that was pretty much straight on the money. You guys, we're going to finish up for this week. I can't tell you enough how much we appreciate Jeff's time. He's going to hang out with us here. We're going to get some more content for next week.

Jared:

This is the busy season, guys. We're coming to you in probably the third or fourth week of April by the time you guys see this. Be focused, be present, get to your lots, be there for your customers. I can tell you, Eric and I have gone back and forth about this over the years You're not going to sell if you're not there. You can do all the online posting, you can do all the Facebook marketplace you want to do. You've got to care about it, man, and I can tell you, as an industry and as a, we are rooting for you, absolutely rooting for you and rooting for your success on your lots can have a piece of this pie.

Jared:

We love this industry a lot. We love metal buildings and wood sheds. We eat, sleep and breathe this business. We love coming to you guys every week, and I can't stress that enough. I've not maybe been as vocal about that as I would have liked to have been, but I can tell you I think this is episode seven, eight, something like that. We're not going to keep detailed track of that, but I want to make sure we're coming to you guys every week with some solid information, something to chew on, something to spit out, something to action items, to go out into your place of work or into your life and do something positive for yourselves. And right now my call to action is get serious about your business. If you're not, and if you're already serious about your business, do something good for somebody else, do something special for a friend or neighbor. It'll make you feel good. We're going to be in the Easter season before too long too, and you know. Happy holidays and happy Easter to everybody as well. Eric, you got anything before we tie it up, brother.

Eric:

I don't. I'm going to give another pro tip. I think I might do a new pro tip for episode no pro tip.

Eric:

Pro tip is on the way out man, pro tip is on the way out. If you are, oh, pro tip number two, so I get pro tip number one. Pro tip number two is if you reverse the picture, if you just flip the picture, you can do the same picture two times. Pro tip, because if you love a building so much, like man, I wish I could post that 10 different ways. You can Just mirror it.

Jared:

Adios. Just mirror the picture and post it again. All right, guys. I'm Eric, I'm Jared. He's Eric. That's Jeff. All right, so we're cashing out, it's Friday, baby. Yeah, it's Friday, man, we're staying busy. I'm Jared he's.

Eric:

Eric, that's Jeff from Shed Hub.

Jared:

We are the Steel Kings.

Jared:

Check us out next week and we'll see you next time. Guys, later on, go Red Legs.