April 14, 2025 • 40 mins
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 (00:33):
Hey, what's up guys?
This is Jared and Eric.
We are the Steel Kings Backwith another episode coming at
you.
It is the 28th of March.
You guys will get this sometimein April.
So, we're trying to get theseepisodes a little bit more
concise, get them a little bitcloser together so we can go
through the busiest time of theyear.
(00:54):
Eric, my brother, what is goingon?
Eric (00:59):
Man, not too much.
It is spring, it's 60.
We're selling buildings, that'sright.
There's problems to solve,that's right.
There's permits to acquire withevery trade shows you go to
with.
Jared (01:14):
With every problem there's a good solution.
So at the beginning of everyepisode we give a shout out to
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needs.
Quick plug for the guys over atShed Geek Marketing partner
Shannon over at Shed GeekPodcast.
Those guys are moving rightalong too, so we appreciate
their help.
As always, we're talking aboutproblems.
You brought it up, Eric.
I want to jump right in here.
We've got another special guestfor you guys and I know, if
(01:56):
you're listening to us, you'veprobably heard from this guy
before, but I think we're goingto give you a little bit more
insight.
The problem that we had wasleads right, Eric.
It's a problem that everybodyhas in this industry.
We need more leads right.
Eric (02:11):
That fair we need leads and we don't want to pay 20 for
them.
Jared (02:17):
That's right yeah, no, you know, and it's interesting,
it seems.
Eric (02:20):
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 weneed a website, and now we need
you know, and, and it seems likeall of those things have been
solved.
Um, and then, and then the painpoint was okay, now we need lee
, we got the, we got everythingcovered.
(02:40):
Let's get customers three piecethree piece.
Jared (02:44):
People process product, right, that's it.
So, we had the people, we hadthe product.
We've got awesome contacts andpartnership with sheds direct.
We love those guys over there.
We work a lot with the guysover at American steel on our
metal buildings.
Those guys can get you helpedout cheap, cheap plug for those
guys.
But we have the people and theproduct.
(03:05):
We're still working on theprocess.
I think everybody has a process, but one thing that we have
always struggled with here atDayton Barns is we don't have
enough leads, and we pay toomuch 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'mgoing to go ahead and bring him
(03:28):
in the studio is Jeff Huxmann.
He is the founder of ShedHub.
This is the guy who ismulti-talented, multi-faceted,
he is a jack of all trades, andhe masters quite a few of them
too.
Right, yeah, he sure does.
Eric (03:44):
He's the myth.
Jared (03:47):
Without further ado, I'm going to bring him in.
Jeff brother, I know you'vebeen listening to us, and you
got a big smile on your facetoday.
How are you doing, my friend?
Jeff (03:58):
I'm doing good, and to be referred to as a myth is quite
an honor.
Jared (04:12):
For the longest time, the myth revealed.
For the longest time.
For the longest time, I satidly by and watched as all these
other dealers and manufacturerslisted their inventory on
ShedHub and I kept telling Ericand a couple of our other
partners at the time I'm like wehave got to figure out how to
get on Shed Hub.
So, Jeff, I met you.
I guess it's been about a yearago now almost.
We met at the Shed Expo andjust started talking about the
(04:35):
industry, about things we can doto make it better.
Tell us about Shed Hub, man.
For those who are listeningthat don't know, give us a
90-second overview of ShedHub.
Jeff (04:46):
Sure, ShedHub started in 2020, right as the pandemic was
getting a foothold in the UnitedStates and the world and
basically I had been working ondifferent software in the shed
industry for a number of yearsand we realized there is no
existing marketplace for shedson the internet.
(05:09):
There is no version of Zillow,there's no auto trader for sheds
, and so we just set out tocreate it and so, with other
software that I've been workingon, we sort of moved that into
something that we could evolveinto what you see at ShedHub.
com today.
(05:29):
It's basically we wanna createan experience for the shed
shopper, the consumer, and putas much inventory in front of
the shed consumer as possible inone location.
There's a lot of options ofplaces to go get sheds and, um,
(05:50):
you know what a benefit to theconsumers to be able to see all
the different places that youcan 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 oneparticular used car.
Everything in my auto trade seewhat's available if the car.
(06:12):
It's just super convenient forthe consumer and there just
wasn't anything else that theshed world so that's how Shed
Hub started in a nutshell well,that's.
Jared (06:28):
That's kind of why we brought you on here, because I
think one of the things that youand I have talked about Jeff
and Eric and I have beenbrainstorming this for a long
time and for those who arelistening along the podcast,
they know already Eric and I arelaser focused on online sales,
not just steel buildings, butwood sheds, all of the above
pole barns, you name it.
We want to be in that space andI think the interesting thing
(06:49):
about ShedHub and for those thatare listening that are metal
building guys this is a totallyuntapped market for metal
buildings.
This is something that you canstart listing inventory pieces
and the difference, the majordifference, between a wood shed
and a metal building.
For those that are kind ofwondering about my point of view
on this, metal buildings arealways built to order.
(07:11):
You don't go to a lot and pickout a metal building and say
this is the metal building thatI would like to have.
I, you know you have to gothrough a consultation process.
There's a design process.
There's a lot more involvedwith doing a metal building than
there is with doing a shed, butI think that if you are on a
wood lot and you are notutilizing every single avenue to
generate leads, you're doingyourself a disservice.
(07:33):
Eric what do you think, man?
Eric (07:34):
Jump in, I?
So.
first of all, awesome to joinyou, jeff.
It's been nice to get to knowyou.
You know, and, and, uh, mybrain 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 languagein that one two kind of tandem
there, which is great.
(07:55):
Um, as far so.
So, welcome to the show.
I'm sure you'll be returningguests as well.
Um, uh, as far as steelbuildings is concerned, I mean,
Jared's right, we are laserfocused for online sales.
Shed hub is an incredible toolfor somebody to not, uh, I think
, most in dealers out there.
(08:16):
Listen, if you're repping abrand.
Most people who have neverbought 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 amistake.
Shed Hub is a great place tocatalog many different sizes,
styles, brands, where the youknow delivery, the rates, the
(08:39):
RTO, the financing, and so Ithink you said, Autotrader
trader is a great tool wheredealers post their cars that
they go by at the auction orwherever.
Shed Hub is a great place fordealers and manufacturers alike
to just post buy zip codes.
It's incredible.
Similar to Zillow, honestly,because I don't think someone
(09:02):
goes to buy a house fromColdwell Banker.
I don't think they're like inlove with Keller Williams or
something, I think they justthey want a 3-2 with two stories
and a basement and you can sortthat by a lasso effect and, hey
, maybe we'll get a lasso effecton Shed Hub.
Jared (09:18):
Yeah, no, that'd be great , yeah, what I like what I like
the most, what I like the mostabout it from a, from a consumer
standpoint, is it's reallyconsumer focused.
So you can get on.
If you're looking for an 8x10wood shed and you're in a
certain zip code, you can search8x10 open gable building and
(09:40):
it'll pop up everybody'sbuilding and it gives the
customer a one-to-one to sayokay, dealer, a has an eight by
10, that's green with a, maybeit's a gamble roof, maybe I
really want an A-frame or maybeI really want a lofted barn and
this is just going to be aneight by 10 indoor.
Whatever.
(10:00):
You know, this gives you theparameters and say, hey, I want
to search 20 miles, I want tosearch up to 500 miles, I'm
willing to go as far as it takesto get the exact building that
I'm looking for.
And I think that from aconsumer driven online
standpoint, that's really whatEric and I are seeing is that
when we can get to a customerand give them exactly what they
(10:23):
want as quickly as possible, ourclose rate on those is
astronomically high.
So, from my perspective,ShedHub is a very high-level
tool.
Jeff, tell me what you guys aredoing going forward, anything
new on the horizons, anythingexciting coming up.
Jeff (10:48):
I think the biggest things that we're going to be
launching this year isintegrations with different
inventory systems.
So, let's say you've got a wordpress website, you've got woo
commerce and you can have a feed.
Maybe you're already servingthe feed over to Google or
(11:08):
something like that Googleshopping.
You can feed it into ShedHub aswell, and then your inventory
is just in.
You know you can, you can.
It's in another spot and youdon't have to reenter the same
data into your own site intoShedHub and into other things as
well.
So it's just an automation.
That's going to be a huge timesaver.
(11:29):
So if you've got 20, 30, maybesome lots have 100 different
pieces of wood inventory ontheir sales lot, If it's already
on your website or in anotherinventory system, we can absorb
that information quickly and youdon't have to reenter anything.
So we're just going to focus onthat a lot in 2025 and in the
(11:53):
coming years.
Jared (11:55):
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 wecan already do this on ShedHub.
We can upload our inventorysheet, we can automatically
populate the buildings andmanually upload photos, but
you're talking about taking thatstep almost completely out of
(12:17):
it and making it a one-to-oneseamless transaction
specifically for, like, amanufacturer.
If a manufacturer has hundredsof buildings in their inventory,
they will be able to work withthe team at ShedHub to
accomplish a bridge or some sortof talking language between
their backend system and ShedHub.
Is that where you're at with it?
Jeff (12:38):
Yeah, that's correct.
So yeah, like these individualdealers that can upload their
inventory.
You're correct if you're amanufacturer and you service a
dozen or two dozen or 100 or 200different sales locations and
your inventory system alreadykeeps track of that.
There's no need to have eachindividual dealer like go and
(13:01):
upload their inventory intoShedHub if you don't want them
to.
Like go and upload theirinventory into shed hub.
If you don't want them to, wecan get information from your
back- end system, bring it intoshed 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 (14:39):
And when people are paying thousands of dollars a
month for marketing and SEO andall of these things.
You know, ShedHub brings to thetable what I think last time we
talked like something over like1.4 million SEO pages,
something like that.
Jeff, I mean you've got tostroke that cap a little bit
(14:59):
right now and tell us some ofthe metrics, give us some of the
data, give us some of thetalking 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 theproduct ShedHub.
This is not a sponsored bit.
(15:20):
Jeff is our friend.
He's become an ally for ourbusiness, but I can tell you
this is no way paid sponsorship.
Um, this is absolutely comingfrom the heart.
Eric and Jared fully endorseshut up.
It works great and if you useit the right way, it'll do great
for you.
Jeff tell me some metrics, mangive me, some give me some give
(15:41):
me some data's.
Jeff (15:43):
I mean, there's literally millions of pages for Google to
crawl on ShedHub, but in termsof searches, like on Google
search, ShedHub appears.
I think we broke a record inFebruary of 1.7 million
(16:03):
impressions on Google search.
I think right now for March.
We're breaking that record.
March is a little bit longermonth, so we get a few the
patent numbers a little bitthere, but it's going to
probably come out right aroundone, seven, one, eight million
impressions for March 2025.
(16:25):
And so Google's putting a lotof weight on Shed Hub.
7, 1, 8 million impressions forMarch 2025.
And so, Google's putting a lotof weight on Shed Hub.
We get a new visitor aboutevery 90 seconds or so, so every
90 seconds there's someone newlooking for a shed on Shed Hub,
which is pretty cool.
Jared (16:43):
I see Eric smiling.
I see Eric smiling.
Eric (16:45):
I just took a peek at our Google console for Dayton Barns'
website and it's rowdy, it'sbusy.
I mean I got on.
I got on Google Analytics.
I know you check the mapsometimes, Jeff, and I think
late last night I was doinganother podcast, or two nights
ago something else, and we hadlike 32 people on at once and
(17:10):
we're getting you know we're upthere.
I'm not going to say thenumbers, but when I looked at
yours, it's just shameful.
It's a child compared toseasoned 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 seenit before I.
Jared (17:34):
I think the interesting thing about it from my
perspective is if you're sittingthere and you're a small
manufacturer or small dealer andyou're sitting there thinking
about it's the busy season,right and like we Eric, and
about it's the busy season rightand like Eric and I, it's funny
we keep track of, like ourwalk-ins.
We have guys that are lots thatare saying, hey, I had five
walk-ins today I sold a shed.
Or hey, I had three metalwalk-ins, I sold a metal
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building, whatever right,Imagine having your brand, your
products, your process, thethree's we talked about.
Everything can be, everythingcan be documented on shed hub.
That's the other thing I likeabout it too.
So, Dayton Barns obviouslysells sheds direct.
We have that on our shed hubthat we are Dayton Barns and
(18:19):
also building selling for shedsdirect.
So, if you're a manufacturersitting back thing and back
thinking how's this going tohelp me?
Well, it plasters your name allover the place.
I mean it gives you credence.
And if you're producing toplevel buildings, people buy top
level buildings.
We all know that there's abuyer for every kind of type of
shed and market and all that.
(18:39):
There are people who want tobuy the cheapest possible shed.
There are people that want tobuy the best possible shed,
whether it's the differencebetween the upper spacing right
or the rafters or, whatever thecase may be, the building
materials, whether or not it'sLP or it's, you know, whatever
the case may be.
But I think, for me personally,what Shed Hub does for Dayton
(19:03):
Barns is it gives us all ofthese new customers, all the
potential for new customers, allthe 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
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website in one month.
How many walk-ins did you havethis month?
Ask yourself that question.
Now, Jeff, you know you breakit down by zip code.
It starts to get a little bitmore feathered as you get
narrowed in, right, but 1.8million so I mean I could sit
here and drop a pin.
(19:49):
I mean it's like a mic drop forme, because I think last month
we might have had 35 walk-ins.
Yeah, I mean on our website wedo like a half a million views
so and we're doing really wellwith a half million.
I can't imagine what it wouldbe if we times that.
4 creates competition.
We say it anyways competitioncreates, um, it creates that if
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I got one and you have one andwe can work on a customer
together, they might be thatmuch more likely to bid on it.
What do you think about that,Eric?
Eric (20:42):
if you're a wood seller and you're not selling metal and
vice versa online, at leastcheck out online advertising.
ShedH ub actually.
Um, um.
You know we're, Jared and I areaffiliated Steel Kings wise
with Shed Geek and they've got amarketing program too.
So, if you're not activelypursuing some sort of electronic
(21:06):
internet- based sales program,you know, reach out to Shannon
too at Shed Geek and we'rereally advertising for Shed Hub
here.
If you're a dealer and you wantextra visibility around you,
this is it.
You, this is it Because I thinkif you went anywhere I mean, we
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put on a VPN, jeff and I on ascreen share the other day and
just woodshed near me, I meanand you're just anywhere in the
country.
Houston, Texas is a hotbed.
We was looking at that and forsome reason, if you're in the
Texas area and you're lookingfor woodsheds, ShedHub is a
great place to shop through.
In my personal opinion, ifyou're a manufacturer and you
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want your inventory listed atdealerships plus just on your
own, and you just want to filterthose leads through the dealers
or through your in-house salesteam, or you want to outsource
that, ShedHub is a good programto 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 agreat resource to even just
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list your inventory.
A lot of dealers don't evenlist their inventory, um, they
just hope somebody pulls in andthen hey, here's our selections.
Like you might have a websiteand, like Jeff said, the api
between word press or whateverhtml, or if you're doing a
custom or you've got aSquarespace website, like we
used to, you can displayprofessional pictures of your
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sheds on your website and manageit through ShedHub.
So that is also a huge benefittoo.
So I just rambled for a minute,but no.
Jared (22:41):
I think that that's good, because getting people to
understand the value propositionwith ShedHub has been talk to
me about that, Jeff.
I think that's probably thestruggle that you've had in the
past is actually explaining itright.
I mean really getting down tothe nuts and bolts of what it
can do for your business.
Not just a showroom, not just adigital storefront, not just
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lead gen.
It's all of the above and thensome on top of that.
And now, with what you'retalking about doing in 2025,
with real-time plugins,real-time inventory tracking and
management, you're talkingabout a one-stop shop for just
about everything.
Shed right.
Jeff (23:22):
Yeah, right, yeah.
So, I guess I'd sort of thinkof ShedHub.
(23:43):
I'll back up a little bit.
When we talk about marketingand sales, we talk about the
number of touch points acustomer has to have before they
actually buy a building.
And so someone I would say mostpeople start their shopping
journey for something like thison the internet, whether they're
visiting Facebook, ShedHub,another shopping platform people
are starting their shoppingjourney online.
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They might not fill out a leadform on ShedHub on day one, they
might drop by the lot, theymight call the phone number
listed on the ShedHub listing,and so you think about the
number of touch points that ittakes to get a customer to buy.
It's what?
70, 80?
There's a bunch, and it dependson which company you work for,
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but if you count it, it's a lotbefore someone buys.
And so ShedHub is a way to getcustomers interacting with your
product, even if they don't buyon the day that they visit the
ShedHub website.
Even if they don't buy on theday that they visit the ShedHub
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website, you're just that muchmore visible.
More of those touch points canbe provided by ShedHub.
I think that's the value that wecan provide is we're helping
those people who are startingtheir journey online find you,
whereas they might not ever findyou.
Starting their journey onlinefind you, whereas they might not
ever find you.
You know your sales locationmight not be on their normal
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commute to work or on a normalpath that they would take to
really know that you're nearby.
I'll give you a personalexperience.
I mentioned AutoTrader beforeexperience.
I mentioned auto trader before.
I was using auto trader to buya car and my path.
I live in Southern Ohio, and Igenerally take certain highways
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and do my shopping in Cincinnati, and so I'm familiar with car
sales lots in Cincinnati.
But auto traders told me thatmy car was two hours north of me
in a city that I would normallynever go to, and so, because of
auto trader, this dealershipgot the sale and it's because of
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the internet.
And I think the same is truefor shed hub.
I think, like if you have adecent google listing, um,
you're going to get trafficbecause of the google listing
within that 30- mile radius, butI think ShedH ub is going to
help you find your customersoutside, outside of your 30-
mile radius, and bring people infrom the surrounding area.
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I think there's some value, alot of value in that as well,
because people are going todiscover you whereas they might
not have ever heard of youbefore.
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Eric (28:13):
Well, check this out.
Another benefit of that is okay, let's say, let's say a
customer is on, you know, maybethey'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 theyfind a chicken coop and then on
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shed hub they click on the coop,they figure out where the
business is, has got theparticular unit they're looking
for.
I mean.
But let's just say let's saythat business does metal
buildings, landscaping andwhatever Like.
So now there's even furtherexposure to it's not.
It's not about the chicken Like, oh, I didn't know that place
(28:54):
was there, end up going there.
Maybe they become a customerfor some other things as well.
And so they're.
You know they're with the SEO.
It's almost like another.
Like you said, you have googlelisting.
If you have a good googlelisting and you have a website
and it's well thought out, maybeput together uh with, uh, your
own personal branding.
It's not just thrown together.
People like that stuff.
(29:16):
They're gonna want to comecheck out your business anyway.
And if you're not just sellingsheds, like, maybe you've got
some carports or something, nowthey're being led to some other
areas that, um, you, youwouldn't get without it.
So, I think it's even deeperthan just uh.
I think it's even deeper thanjust cars.
(29:36):
You're pretty pinpointed onjust cars, but you know.
Jared (29:39):
I can't stress enough.
I can't stress enough howintegral it's become to our
process Right.
So, for us, we've, you know, weobviously have a relationship
with Jeff.
That's, that's obvious.
We're obviously already doingsome of the things that we're
talking about right.
So a peek behind the curtainwould say a lot of what Jeff's
(30:04):
talking about doesn't just exist, it's happening right now and I
can tell you it is a absolutegame changer when you can have
someone visit a website thatgets 1.8 million knocks at the
door in a month and they knockon your door and it pops up in
your CRM Like let me stress thatto you, Mr.
(30:25):
Dealer, Mr.
Manufacturer, it is a totallynew world when you get knocks at
the door from Shed Hub all overthe state that you service, all
over your service area, becauseat the end of the day, that is
what's going to sell buildings.
Dayton Barns has a location inUrbana, we have a location in
(30:47):
Troy and we have a location inBrookville and we service a 50
to a 75 mile square or circle.
However, you want to do that.
We sell more buildings outsidethat circle than we ever do
inside that circle, and a lot ofthat has to do with we are
aggressive.
We have a good website, we havegood SEO on our own, we have
(31:12):
really good, we're A-plus BetterBusiness Bureau rated All of
these things that you look at ina business right.
What I'm telling you is that ifyou're dealing sheds and you're
not using ShedHub, you're makinga grave mistake because there's
people in your backyard who aredoing it.
Even on the current platform,it works really well and it's
(31:38):
cheap.
It's like a penance, like $50 amonth for this thing.
You sell one building.
You've paid for it.
Now you're paying for it allyear and you're figuring out a
way to get a potential for 1.8million knocks at your door.
If you're in a big market,you're crazy if you don't use it
.
Honestly, we're not in a hugemarket.
(31:59):
We're the Dayton Ohio market.
It's probably the fifth orsixth largest metro area in the
state of Ohio, something likethat, maybe the third or fourth,
but regardless, if we were inColumbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Toledo, um, Akron, you know, ifyou're in any of those spots,
you're, you're nuts for notusing it and I I'm just telling
you we have been in this laseras a community, as a shed
community, as a steel buildingcommunity, as a portable
(32:22):
building, whatever pole barns,you name it.
We've been in this tunnelvision for so long.
We have to be on Facebook, byGod.
We have to be on FacebookMarketplace.
We have to have 8,000 buildingslisted on Facebook Marketplace.
Tell me, what the worst day ofthe week is when you have to
renew those posts.
(32:42):
Dang, does that not suck.
Is that not the worst day ofthe week, Eric, or what?
Eric (32:52):
I've got a hundred and I'm not that my secret sauce is
what I do on there.
Jeff (32:58):
And I got a little routine .
Eric (32:59):
When I got 65 to renew in my mind I'm first like dang,
when did I, when?
When did they become availableto renew?
Because when, when?
They're not visible until yourenew them.
And so, I think another.
Hey, let me give you a pro tip,pro tip.
Side note.
Pro tip If you're usingmarketplace, do not renew your
posts until you're ready to work.
(33:20):
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 7AM the next day you've day all
of the renewed ones that havebeen pushed down.
So, if you really want a protip, do it at like 5.30 in the
(33:44):
morning or 6 in the morning,because then they're fresh,
right at the top and nobody elseis posting that early, so it'll
be there for longer and it'lllinger at the top.
That's a pro tip, pro tip.
Yeah, Jeff's like.
I don't know anything aboutselling.
Jared (33:55):
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.
we've got inventory on our lotsthat's been sitting there for a
hot minute.
If you're working with amanufacturer, if you're a dealer
, this is for you, the dealer,this is the pro tip.
(34:17):
Tell your manufacturers to stopmanufacturing ugly buildings,
trust me and I love the guys atSheds Direct.
I love them.
Okay, and most of the time thebuildings look great, everything
looks fine, but I can tell youevery once in a while we get one
slip out that you wouldn't, youwouldn't give away.
They're ugly like.
(34:38):
Why are we just using paint orwhat?
Yeah, I don't.
Some of these buildings show upand it's like it's gonna sit
here.
Eric (34:45):
it's called okay we just get some 10 by 16s.
Yeah, with two windows and somedoors.
Jared (34:52):
Can we get an 8x10, a 10x12, and a 12x16 in tan, white
and black?
Like for real, we do now.
Eric (35:01):
I can tell you that has been my biggest complaint since
we started or I started Dayton.
Barns oh man.
Our previous vendor, which Iwill not name.
They actually did a decent jobof giving me like one of
everything and you guys know yougot the picture.
(35:22):
That picture that uh was sentout, that orange one.
That was the first shed I sold.
That was, that was the only andwill be the only orange shed
that we ever put on our property.
Was that it was orange, it wasorange, it was orange.
I actually don't know if it wascalled orange.
I can't.
Jared (35:37):
It was a stain.
And I think what they did wasthey put all the stains into one
bucket, All the leftover stainjust poured into that bucket,
and it was just.
I mean honestly.
Jeff (35:48):
I mean that guy loved his building.
Jared (35:50):
And again, there's a buyer for every shed, even the
ugly ones.
Eric (35:54):
Okay, you know not every shed is beautiful.
Jared (35:57):
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 givethe, we always give the
listeners something to chew ongoing into the next week.
So we're going to bring you back.
Um, I know Eric and I, we talk,we talk too much sometimes, but
(36:18):
we want to bring you back causewe're running over and I want to
keep this right at the 35minute point for our friends.
Um, Jeff, what do you want totell people going into the busy
season?
Give me a 30 second.
Why shed hub?
Jeff (36:38):
I mean, we're the most visible marketplace out there
for sheds.
You know lots of people useFacebook and that works for them
, but this is specific to sheds.
People who come to ShedH ub arespecifically looking to buy a
shed, so these are hot customers.
When you get leads from ShedHub, it's worth it, um, and at
(37:01):
the price point we've gotthere's really not much to lose
at all.
I think you can just give it ashot.
Jared (37:08):
See if it works for you, I can tell you, man, I think
that was a pretty good 30 secondclip.
I think you even did 30 secondsthere and that was pretty much
straight on the money.
You guys, we're going to finishup for this week.
I can't tell you enough howmuch we appreciate Jeff's time.
He's going to hang out with ushere.
We're going to get some morecontent for next week.
(37:31):
This is the busy season, guys.
We're coming to you in probablythe third or fourth week of
April by the time you guys seethis.
Be focused, be present, get toyour lots, be there for your
customers.
I can tell you, Eric and I havegone back and forth about this
over the years You're not goingto sell if you're not there.
You can do all the onlineposting, you can do all the
(37:52):
Facebook marketplace you want todo.
You've got to care about it,man, and I can tell you, as an
industry and as a, we arerooting for you, absolutely
rooting for you and rooting foryour success on your lots can
(38:16):
have a piece of this pie.
We love this industry a lot.
We love metal buildings andwood sheds.
We eat, sleep and breathe thisbusiness.
We love coming to you guysevery week, and I can't stress
that enough.
I've not maybe been as vocalabout that as I would have liked
to have been, but I can tellyou I think this is episode
seven, eight, something likethat.
We're not going to keepdetailed track of that, but I
want to make sure we're comingto you guys every week with some
(38:36):
solid information, something tochew on, something to spit out,
something to action items, togo out into your place of work
or into your life and dosomething positive for
yourselves.
And right now my call to actionis get serious about your
business.
If you're not, and if you'realready serious about your
business, do something good forsomebody else, do something
(38:58):
special for a friend or neighbor.
It'll make you feel good.
We're going to be in the Easterseason before too long too, and
you know.
Happy holidays and happy Easterto everybody as well.
Eric, you got anything beforewe tie it up, brother.
Eric (39:15):
I don't.
I'm going to give another protip.
I think I might do a new protip for episode no pro tip.
Pro tip is on the way out man,pro tip is on the way out.
If you are, oh, pro tip numbertwo, so I get pro tip number one
.
Pro tip number two is if youreverse the picture, if you just
flip the picture, you can dothe same picture two times.
(39:36):
Pro tip, because if you love abuilding so much, like man, I
wish I could post that 10different ways.
You can Just mirror it.
Jared (39:44):
Adios.
Just mirror the picture andpost 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'restaying busy.
I'm Jared he's.
Eric (39:59):
Eric, that's Jeff from Shed Hub.
Jared (40:01):
We are the Steel Kings.
Check us out next week and we'llsee you next time.
Guys, later on, go Red Legs.
Hey, what's up guys?
This is Jared and Eric.
We are the Steel Kings Backwith another episode coming at
you.
It is the 28th of March.
You guys will get this sometimein April.
So, we're trying to get theseepisodes a little bit more
concise, get them a little bitcloser together so we can go
through the busiest time of theyear.
(00:54):
Eric, my brother, what is goingon?
Eric (00:59):
Man, not too much.
It is spring, it's 60.
We're selling buildings, that'sright.
There's problems to solve,that's right.
There's permits to acquire withevery trade shows you go to
with.
Jared (01:14):
With every problem there's a good solution.
So at the beginning of everyepisode we give a shout out to
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If you are a dealer, if you area manufacturer, if you are a
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(01:36):
needs.
Quick plug for the guys over atShed Geek Marketing partner
Shannon over at Shed GeekPodcast.
Those guys are moving rightalong too, so we appreciate
their help.
As always, we're talking aboutproblems.
You brought it up, Eric.
I want to jump right in here.
We've got another special guestfor you guys and I know, if
(01:56):
you're listening to us, you'veprobably heard from this guy
before, but I think we're goingto give you a little bit more
insight.
The problem that we had wasleads right, Eric.
It's a problem that everybodyhas in this industry.
We need more leads right.
Eric (02:11):
That fair we need leads and we don't want to pay 20 for
them.
Jared (02:17):
That's right yeah, no, you know, and it's interesting,
it seems.
Eric (02:20):
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 weneed a website, and now we need
you know, and, and it seems likeall of those things have been
solved.
Um, and then, and then the painpoint was okay, now we need lee
, we got the, we got everythingcovered.
(02:40):
Let's get customers three piecethree piece.
Jared (02:44):
People process product, right, that's it.
So, we had the people, we hadthe product.
We've got awesome contacts andpartnership with sheds direct.
We love those guys over there.
We work a lot with the guysover at American steel on our
metal buildings.
Those guys can get you helpedout cheap, cheap plug for those
guys.
But we have the people and theproduct.
(03:05):
We're still working on theprocess.
I think everybody has a process, but one thing that we have
always struggled with here atDayton Barns is we don't have
enough leads, and we pay toomuch 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'mgoing to go ahead and bring him
(03:28):
in the studio is Jeff Huxmann.
He is the founder of ShedHub.
This is the guy who ismulti-talented, multi-faceted,
he is a jack of all trades, andhe masters quite a few of them
too.
Right, yeah, he sure does.
Eric (03:44):
He's the myth.
Jared (03:47):
Without further ado, I'm going to bring him in.
Jeff brother, I know you'vebeen listening to us, and you
got a big smile on your facetoday.
How are you doing, my friend?
Jeff (03:58):
I'm doing good, and to be referred to as a myth is quite
an honor.
Jared (04:12):
For the longest time, the myth revealed.
For the longest time.
For the longest time, I satidly by and watched as all these
other dealers and manufacturerslisted their inventory on
ShedHub and I kept telling Ericand a couple of our other
partners at the time I'm like wehave got to figure out how to
get on Shed Hub.
So, Jeff, I met you.
I guess it's been about a yearago now almost.
We met at the Shed Expo andjust started talking about the
(04:35):
industry, about things we can doto make it better.
Tell us about Shed Hub, man.
For those who are listeningthat don't know, give us a
90-second overview of ShedHub.
Jeff (04:46):
Sure, ShedHub started in 2020, right as the pandemic was
getting a foothold in the UnitedStates and the world and
basically I had been working ondifferent software in the shed
industry for a number of yearsand we realized there is no
existing marketplace for shedson the internet.
(05:09):
There is no version of Zillow,there's no auto trader for sheds
, and so we just set out tocreate it and so, with other
software that I've been workingon, we sort of moved that into
something that we could evolveinto what you see at ShedHub.
com today.
(05:29):
It's basically we wanna createan experience for the shed
shopper, the consumer, and putas much inventory in front of
the shed consumer as possible inone location.
There's a lot of options ofplaces to go get sheds and, um,
(05:50):
you know what a benefit to theconsumers to be able to see all
the different places that youcan 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 oneparticular used car.
Everything in my auto trade seewhat's available if the car.
(06:12):
It's just super convenient forthe consumer and there just
wasn't anything else that theshed world so that's how Shed
Hub started in a nutshell well,that's.
Jared (06:28):
That's kind of why we brought you on here, because I
think one of the things that youand I have talked about Jeff
and Eric and I have beenbrainstorming this for a long
time and for those who arelistening along the podcast,
they know already Eric and I arelaser focused on online sales,
not just steel buildings, butwood sheds, all of the above
pole barns, you name it.
We want to be in that space andI think the interesting thing
(06:49):
about ShedHub and for those thatare listening that are metal
building guys this is a totallyuntapped market for metal
buildings.
This is something that you canstart listing inventory pieces
and the difference, the majordifference, between a wood shed
and a metal building.
For those that are kind ofwondering about my point of view
on this, metal buildings arealways built to order.
(07:11):
You don't go to a lot and pickout a metal building and say
this is the metal building thatI would like to have.
I, you know you have to gothrough a consultation process.
There's a design process.
There's a lot more involvedwith doing a metal building than
there is with doing a shed, butI think that if you are on a
wood lot and you are notutilizing every single avenue to
generate leads, you're doingyourself a disservice.
(07:33):
Eric what do you think, man?
Eric (07:34):
Jump in, I?
So.
first of all, awesome to joinyou, jeff.
It's been nice to get to knowyou.
You know, and, and, uh, mybrain 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 languagein that one two kind of tandem
there, which is great.
(07:55):
Um, as far so.
So, welcome to the show.
I'm sure you'll be returningguests as well.
Um, uh, as far as steelbuildings is concerned, I mean,
Jared's right, we are laserfocused for online sales.
Shed hub is an incredible toolfor somebody to not, uh, I think
, most in dealers out there.
(08:16):
Listen, if you're repping abrand.
Most people who have neverbought 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 amistake.
Shed Hub is a great place tocatalog many different sizes,
styles, brands, where the youknow delivery, the rates, the
(08:39):
RTO, the financing, and so Ithink you said, Autotrader
trader is a great tool wheredealers post their cars that
they go by at the auction orwherever.
Shed Hub is a great place fordealers and manufacturers alike
to just post buy zip codes.
It's incredible.
Similar to Zillow, honestly,because I don't think someone
(09:02):
goes to buy a house fromColdwell Banker.
I don't think they're like inlove with Keller Williams or
something, I think they justthey want a 3-2 with two stories
and a basement and you can sortthat by a lasso effect and, hey
, maybe we'll get a lasso effecton Shed Hub.
Jared (09:18):
Yeah, no, that'd be great , yeah, what I like what I like
the most, what I like the mostabout it from a, from a consumer
standpoint, is it's reallyconsumer focused.
So you can get on.
If you're looking for an 8x10wood shed and you're in a
certain zip code, you can search8x10 open gable building and
(09:40):
it'll pop up everybody'sbuilding and it gives the
customer a one-to-one to sayokay, dealer, a has an eight by
10, that's green with a, maybeit's a gamble roof, maybe I
really want an A-frame or maybeI really want a lofted barn and
this is just going to be aneight by 10 indoor.
Whatever.
(10:00):
You know, this gives you theparameters and say, hey, I want
to search 20 miles, I want tosearch up to 500 miles, I'm
willing to go as far as it takesto get the exact building that
I'm looking for.
And I think that from aconsumer driven online
standpoint, that's really whatEric and I are seeing is that
when we can get to a customerand give them exactly what they
(10:23):
want as quickly as possible, ourclose rate on those is
astronomically high.
So, from my perspective,ShedHub is a very high-level
tool.
Jeff, tell me what you guys aredoing going forward, anything
new on the horizons, anythingexciting coming up.
Jeff (10:48):
I think the biggest things that we're going to be
launching this year isintegrations with different
inventory systems.
So, let's say you've got a wordpress website, you've got woo
commerce and you can have a feed.
Maybe you're already servingthe feed over to Google or
(11:08):
something like that Googleshopping.
You can feed it into ShedHub aswell, and then your inventory
is just in.
You know you can, you can.
It's in another spot and youdon't have to reenter the same
data into your own site intoShedHub and into other things as
well.
So it's just an automation.
That's going to be a huge timesaver.
(11:29):
So if you've got 20, 30, maybesome lots have 100 different
pieces of wood inventory ontheir sales lot, If it's already
on your website or in anotherinventory system, we can absorb
that information quickly and youdon't have to reenter anything.
So we're just going to focus onthat a lot in 2025 and in the
(11:53):
coming years.
Jared (11:55):
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 wecan already do this on ShedHub.
We can upload our inventorysheet, we can automatically
populate the buildings andmanually upload photos, but
you're talking about taking thatstep almost completely out of
(12:17):
it and making it a one-to-oneseamless transaction
specifically for, like, amanufacturer.
If a manufacturer has hundredsof buildings in their inventory,
they will be able to work withthe team at ShedHub to
accomplish a bridge or some sortof talking language between
their backend system and ShedHub.
Is that where you're at with it?
Jeff (12:38):
Yeah, that's correct.
So yeah, like these individualdealers that can upload their
inventory.
You're correct if you're amanufacturer and you service a
dozen or two dozen or 100 or 200different sales locations and
your inventory system alreadykeeps track of that.
There's no need to have eachindividual dealer like go and
(13:01):
upload their inventory intoShedHub if you don't want them
to.
Like go and upload theirinventory into shed hub.
If you don't want them to, wecan get information from your
back- end system, bring it intoshed 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 (14:39):
And when people are paying thousands of dollars a
month for marketing and SEO andall of these things.
You know, ShedHub brings to thetable what I think last time we
talked like something over like1.4 million SEO pages,
something like that.
Jeff, I mean you've got tostroke that cap a little bit
(14:59):
right now and tell us some ofthe metrics, give us some of the
data, give us some of thetalking 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 theproduct ShedHub.
This is not a sponsored bit.
(15:20):
Jeff is our friend.
He's become an ally for ourbusiness, but I can tell you
this is no way paid sponsorship.
Um, this is absolutely comingfrom the heart.
Eric and Jared fully endorseshut up.
It works great and if you useit the right way, it'll do great
for you.
Jeff tell me some metrics, mangive me, some give me some give
(15:41):
me some data's.
Jeff (15:43):
I mean, there's literally millions of pages for Google to
crawl on ShedHub, but in termsof searches, like on Google
search, ShedHub appears.
I think we broke a record inFebruary of 1.7 million
(16:03):
impressions on Google search.
I think right now for March.
We're breaking that record.
March is a little bit longermonth, so we get a few the
patent numbers a little bitthere, but it's going to
probably come out right aroundone, seven, one, eight million
impressions for March 2025.
(16:25):
And so Google's putting a lotof weight on Shed Hub.
7, 1, 8 million impressions forMarch 2025.
And so, Google's putting a lotof weight on Shed Hub.
We get a new visitor aboutevery 90 seconds or so, so every
90 seconds there's someone newlooking for a shed on Shed Hub,
which is pretty cool.
Jared (16:43):
I see Eric smiling.
I see Eric smiling.
Eric (16:45):
I just took a peek at our Google console for Dayton Barns'
website and it's rowdy, it'sbusy.
I mean I got on.
I got on Google Analytics.
I know you check the mapsometimes, Jeff, and I think
late last night I was doinganother podcast, or two nights
ago something else, and we hadlike 32 people on at once and
(17:10):
we're getting you know we're upthere.
I'm not going to say thenumbers, but when I looked at
yours, it's just shameful.
It's a child compared toseasoned 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 seenit before I.
Jared (17:34):
I think the interesting thing about it from my
perspective is if you're sittingthere and you're a small
manufacturer or small dealer andyou're sitting there thinking
about it's the busy season,right and like we Eric, and
about it's the busy season rightand like Eric and I, it's funny
we keep track of, like ourwalk-ins.
We have guys that are lots thatare saying, hey, I had five
walk-ins today I sold a shed.
Or hey, I had three metalwalk-ins, I sold a metal
(17:56):
building, whatever right,Imagine having your brand, your
products, your process, thethree's we talked about.
Everything can be, everythingcan be documented on shed hub.
That's the other thing I likeabout it too.
So, Dayton Barns obviouslysells sheds direct.
We have that on our shed hubthat we are Dayton Barns and
(18:19):
also building selling for shedsdirect.
So, if you're a manufacturersitting back thing and back
thinking how's this going tohelp me?
Well, it plasters your name allover the place.
I mean it gives you credence.
And if you're producing toplevel buildings, people buy top
level buildings.
We all know that there's abuyer for every kind of type of
shed and market and all that.
(18:39):
There are people who want tobuy the cheapest possible shed.
There are people that want tobuy the best possible shed,
whether it's the differencebetween the upper spacing right
or the rafters or, whatever thecase may be, the building
materials, whether or not it'sLP or it's, you know, whatever
the case may be.
But I think, for me personally,what Shed Hub does for Dayton
(19:03):
Barns is it gives us all ofthese new customers, all the
potential for new customers, allthe 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
(19:29):
website in one month.
How many walk-ins did you havethis month?
Ask yourself that question.
Now, Jeff, you know you breakit down by zip code.
It starts to get a little bitmore feathered as you get
narrowed in, right, but 1.8million so I mean I could sit
here and drop a pin.
(19:49):
I mean it's like a mic drop forme, because I think last month
we might have had 35 walk-ins.
Yeah, I mean on our website wedo like a half a million views
so and we're doing really wellwith a half million.
I can't imagine what it wouldbe if we times that.
4 creates competition.
We say it anyways competitioncreates, um, it creates that if
(20:33):
I got one and you have one andwe can work on a customer
together, they might be thatmuch more likely to bid on it.
What do you think about that,Eric?
Eric (20:42):
if you're a wood seller and you're not selling metal and
vice versa online, at leastcheck out online advertising.
ShedH ub actually.
Um, um.
You know we're, Jared and I areaffiliated Steel Kings wise
with Shed Geek and they've got amarketing program too.
So, if you're not activelypursuing some sort of electronic
(21:06):
internet- based sales program,you know, reach out to Shannon
too at Shed Geek and we'rereally advertising for Shed Hub
here.
If you're a dealer and you wantextra visibility around you,
this is it.
You, this is it Because I thinkif you went anywhere I mean, we
(21:27):
put on a VPN, jeff and I on ascreen share the other day and
just woodshed near me, I meanand you're just anywhere in the
country.
Houston, Texas is a hotbed.
We was looking at that and forsome reason, if you're in the
Texas area and you're lookingfor woodsheds, ShedHub is a
great place to shop through.
In my personal opinion, ifyou're a manufacturer and you
(21:47):
want your inventory listed atdealerships plus just on your
own, and you just want to filterthose leads through the dealers
or through your in-house salesteam, or you want to outsource
that, ShedHub is a good programto 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 agreat resource to even just
(22:08):
list your inventory.
A lot of dealers don't evenlist their inventory, um, they
just hope somebody pulls in andthen hey, here's our selections.
Like you might have a websiteand, like Jeff said, the api
between word press or whateverhtml, or if you're doing a
custom or you've got aSquarespace website, like we
used to, you can displayprofessional pictures of your
(22:30):
sheds on your website and manageit through ShedHub.
So that is also a huge benefittoo.
So I just rambled for a minute,but no.
Jared (22:41):
I think that that's good, because getting people to
understand the value propositionwith ShedHub has been talk to
me about that, Jeff.
I think that's probably thestruggle that you've had in the
past is actually explaining itright.
I mean really getting down tothe nuts and bolts of what it
can do for your business.
Not just a showroom, not just adigital storefront, not just
(23:04):
lead gen.
It's all of the above and thensome on top of that.
And now, with what you'retalking about doing in 2025,
with real-time plugins,real-time inventory tracking and
management, you're talkingabout a one-stop shop for just
about everything.
Shed right.
Jeff (23:22):
Yeah, right, yeah.
So, I guess I'd sort of thinkof ShedHub.
(23:43):
I'll back up a little bit.
When we talk about marketingand sales, we talk about the
number of touch points acustomer has to have before they
actually buy a building.
And so someone I would say mostpeople start their shopping
journey for something like thison the internet, whether they're
visiting Facebook, ShedHub,another shopping platform people
are starting their shoppingjourney online.
(24:03):
They might not fill out a leadform on ShedHub on day one, they
might drop by the lot, theymight call the phone number
listed on the ShedHub listing,and so you think about the
number of touch points that ittakes to get a customer to buy.
It's what?
70, 80?
There's a bunch, and it dependson which company you work for,
(24:26):
but if you count it, it's a lotbefore someone buys.
And so ShedHub is a way to getcustomers interacting with your
product, even if they don't buyon the day that they visit the
ShedHub website.
Even if they don't buy on theday that they visit the ShedHub
(24:49):
website, you're just that muchmore visible.
More of those touch points canbe provided by ShedHub.
I think that's the value that wecan provide is we're helping
those people who are startingtheir journey online find you,
whereas they might not ever findyou.
Starting their journey onlinefind you, whereas they might not
ever find you.
You know your sales locationmight not be on their normal
(25:13):
commute to work or on a normalpath that they would take to
really know that you're nearby.
I'll give you a personalexperience.
I mentioned AutoTrader beforeexperience.
I mentioned auto trader before.
I was using auto trader to buya car and my path.
I live in Southern Ohio, and Igenerally take certain highways
(25:35):
and do my shopping in Cincinnati, and so I'm familiar with car
sales lots in Cincinnati.
But auto traders told me thatmy car was two hours north of me
in a city that I would normallynever go to, and so, because of
auto trader, this dealershipgot the sale and it's because of
(26:00):
the internet.
And I think the same is truefor shed hub.
I think, like if you have adecent google listing, um,
you're going to get trafficbecause of the google listing
within that 30- mile radius, butI think ShedH ub is going to
help you find your customersoutside, outside of your 30-
mile radius, and bring people infrom the surrounding area.
(26:22):
I think there's some value, alot of value in that as well,
because people are going todiscover you whereas they might
not have ever heard of youbefore.
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Eric (28:13):
Well, check this out.
Another benefit of that is okay, let's say, let's say a
customer is on, you know, maybethey'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 theyfind a chicken coop and then on
(28:34):
shed hub they click on the coop,they figure out where the
business is, has got theparticular unit they're looking
for.
I mean.
But let's just say let's saythat business does metal
buildings, landscaping andwhatever Like.
So now there's even furtherexposure to it's not.
It's not about the chicken Like, oh, I didn't know that place
(28:54):
was there, end up going there.
Maybe they become a customerfor some other things as well.
And so they're.
You know they're with the SEO.
It's almost like another.
Like you said, you have googlelisting.
If you have a good googlelisting and you have a website
and it's well thought out, maybeput together uh with, uh, your
own personal branding.
It's not just thrown together.
People like that stuff.
(29:16):
They're gonna want to comecheck out your business anyway.
And if you're not just sellingsheds, like, maybe you've got
some carports or something, nowthey're being led to some other
areas that, um, you, youwouldn't get without it.
So, I think it's even deeperthan just uh.
I think it's even deeper thanjust cars.
(29:36):
You're pretty pinpointed onjust cars, but you know.
Jared (29:39):
I can't stress enough.
I can't stress enough howintegral it's become to our
process Right.
So, for us, we've, you know, weobviously have a relationship
with Jeff.
That's, that's obvious.
We're obviously already doingsome of the things that we're
talking about right.
So a peek behind the curtainwould say a lot of what Jeff's
(30:04):
talking about doesn't just exist, it's happening right now and I
can tell you it is a absolutegame changer when you can have
someone visit a website thatgets 1.8 million knocks at the
door in a month and they knockon your door and it pops up in
your CRM Like let me stress thatto you, Mr.
(30:25):
Dealer, Mr.
Manufacturer, it is a totallynew world when you get knocks at
the door from Shed Hub all overthe state that you service, all
over your service area, becauseat the end of the day, that is
what's going to sell buildings.
Dayton Barns has a location inUrbana, we have a location in
(30:47):
Troy and we have a location inBrookville and we service a 50
to a 75 mile square or circle.
However, you want to do that.
We sell more buildings outsidethat circle than we ever do
inside that circle, and a lot ofthat has to do with we are
aggressive.
We have a good website, we havegood SEO on our own, we have
(31:12):
really good, we're A-plus BetterBusiness Bureau rated All of
these things that you look at ina business right.
What I'm telling you is that ifyou're dealing sheds and you're
not using ShedHub, you're makinga grave mistake because there's
people in your backyard who aredoing it.
Even on the current platform,it works really well and it's
(31:38):
cheap.
It's like a penance, like $50 amonth for this thing.
You sell one building.
You've paid for it.
Now you're paying for it allyear and you're figuring out a
way to get a potential for 1.8million knocks at your door.
If you're in a big market,you're crazy if you don't use it
.
Honestly, we're not in a hugemarket.
(31:59):
We're the Dayton Ohio market.
It's probably the fifth orsixth largest metro area in the
state of Ohio, something likethat, maybe the third or fourth,
but regardless, if we were inColumbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Toledo, um, Akron, you know, ifyou're in any of those spots,
you're, you're nuts for notusing it and I I'm just telling
you we have been in this laseras a community, as a shed
community, as a steel buildingcommunity, as a portable
(32:22):
building, whatever pole barns,you name it.
We've been in this tunnelvision for so long.
We have to be on Facebook, byGod.
We have to be on FacebookMarketplace.
We have to have 8,000 buildingslisted on Facebook Marketplace.
Tell me, what the worst day ofthe week is when you have to
renew those posts.
(32:42):
Dang, does that not suck.
Is that not the worst day ofthe week, Eric, or what?
Eric (32:52):
I've got a hundred and I'm not that my secret sauce is
what I do on there.
Jeff (32:58):
And I got a little routine .
Eric (32:59):
When I got 65 to renew in my mind I'm first like dang,
when did I, when?
When did they become availableto renew?
Because when, when?
They're not visible until yourenew them.
And so, I think another.
Hey, let me give you a pro tip,pro tip.
Side note.
Pro tip If you're usingmarketplace, do not renew your
posts until you're ready to work.
(33:20):
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 7AM the next day you've day all
of the renewed ones that havebeen pushed down.
So, if you really want a protip, do it at like 5.30 in the
(33:44):
morning or 6 in the morning,because then they're fresh,
right at the top and nobody elseis posting that early, so it'll
be there for longer and it'lllinger at the top.
That's a pro tip, pro tip.
Yeah, Jeff's like.
I don't know anything aboutselling.
Jared (33:55):
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.
we've got inventory on our lotsthat's been sitting there for a
hot minute.
If you're working with amanufacturer, if you're a dealer
, this is for you, the dealer,this is the pro tip.
(34:17):
Tell your manufacturers to stopmanufacturing ugly buildings,
trust me and I love the guys atSheds Direct.
I love them.
Okay, and most of the time thebuildings look great, everything
looks fine, but I can tell youevery once in a while we get one
slip out that you wouldn't, youwouldn't give away.
They're ugly like.
(34:38):
Why are we just using paint orwhat?
Yeah, I don't.
Some of these buildings show upand it's like it's gonna sit
here.
Eric (34:45):
it's called okay we just get some 10 by 16s.
Yeah, with two windows and somedoors.
Jared (34:52):
Can we get an 8x10, a 10x12, and a 12x16 in tan, white
and black?
Like for real, we do now.
Eric (35:01):
I can tell you that has been my biggest complaint since
we started or I started Dayton.
Barns oh man.
Our previous vendor, which Iwill not name.
They actually did a decent jobof giving me like one of
everything and you guys know yougot the picture.
(35:22):
That picture that uh was sentout, that orange one.
That was the first shed I sold.
That was, that was the only andwill be the only orange shed
that we ever put on our property.
Was that it was orange, it wasorange, it was orange.
I actually don't know if it wascalled orange.
I can't.
Jared (35:37):
It was a stain.
And I think what they did wasthey put all the stains into one
bucket, All the leftover stainjust poured into that bucket,
and it was just.
I mean honestly.
Jeff (35:48):
I mean that guy loved his building.
Jared (35:50):
And again, there's a buyer for every shed, even the
ugly ones.
Eric (35:54):
Okay, you know not every shed is beautiful.
Jared (35:57):
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 givethe, we always give the
listeners something to chew ongoing into the next week.
So we're going to bring you back.
Um, I know Eric and I, we talk,we talk too much sometimes, but
(36:18):
we want to bring you back causewe're running over and I want to
keep this right at the 35minute point for our friends.
Um, Jeff, what do you want totell people going into the busy
season?
Give me a 30 second.
Why shed hub?
Jeff (36:38):
I mean, we're the most visible marketplace out there
for sheds.
You know lots of people useFacebook and that works for them
, but this is specific to sheds.
People who come to ShedH ub arespecifically looking to buy a
shed, so these are hot customers.
When you get leads from ShedHub, it's worth it, um, and at
(37:01):
the price point we've gotthere's really not much to lose
at all.
I think you can just give it ashot.
Jared (37:08):
See if it works for you, I can tell you, man, I think
that was a pretty good 30 secondclip.
I think you even did 30 secondsthere and that was pretty much
straight on the money.
You guys, we're going to finishup for this week.
I can't tell you enough howmuch we appreciate Jeff's time.
He's going to hang out with ushere.
We're going to get some morecontent for next week.
(37:31):
This is the busy season, guys.
We're coming to you in probablythe third or fourth week of
April by the time you guys seethis.
Be focused, be present, get toyour lots, be there for your
customers.
I can tell you, Eric and I havegone back and forth about this
over the years You're not goingto sell if you're not there.
You can do all the onlineposting, you can do all the
(37:52):
Facebook marketplace you want todo.
You've got to care about it,man, and I can tell you, as an
industry and as a, we arerooting for you, absolutely
rooting for you and rooting foryour success on your lots can
(38:16):
have a piece of this pie.
We love this industry a lot.
We love metal buildings andwood sheds.
We eat, sleep and breathe thisbusiness.
We love coming to you guysevery week, and I can't stress
that enough.
I've not maybe been as vocalabout that as I would have liked
to have been, but I can tellyou I think this is episode
seven, eight, something likethat.
We're not going to keepdetailed track of that, but I
want to make sure we're comingto you guys every week with some
(38:36):
solid information, something tochew on, something to spit out,
something to action items, togo out into your place of work
or into your life and dosomething positive for
yourselves.
And right now my call to actionis get serious about your
business.
If you're not, and if you'realready serious about your
business, do something good forsomebody else, do something
(38:58):
special for a friend or neighbor.
It'll make you feel good.
We're going to be in the Easterseason before too long too, and
you know.
Happy holidays and happy Easterto everybody as well.
Eric, you got anything beforewe tie it up, brother.
Eric (39:15):
I don't.
I'm going to give another protip.
I think I might do a new protip for episode no pro tip.
Pro tip is on the way out man,pro tip is on the way out.
If you are, oh, pro tip numbertwo, so I get pro tip number one
.
Pro tip number two is if youreverse the picture, if you just
flip the picture, you can dothe same picture two times.
(39:36):
Pro tip, because if you love abuilding so much, like man, I
wish I could post that 10different ways.
You can Just mirror it.
Jared (39:44):
Adios.
Just mirror the picture andpost 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'restaying busy.
I'm Jared he's.
Eric (39:59):
Eric, that's Jeff from Shed Hub.
Jared (40:01):
We are the Steel Kings.
Check us out next week and we'llsee you next time.
Guys, later on, go Red Legs.
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