.Manly Bands is a direct-to-consumer seller of males's rings. The company introduced in 2016 after John Ruggiero, the co-founder with his spouse Michelle, could not locate an appropriate wedding band.This is actually Ruggiero's 2nd appeal on the podcast. In April 2021, our company explained the business's starting, special band materials, and also a lot more. Since then, Manly Bands has actually gotten its own producer. The production of bands from, claim, Port Daniel's scotch gun barrels or even Fender guitar strings generates powerful video recording, mentions Ruggiero, excellent for storytelling on social media sites and somewhere else.The whole entire audio of our discussion is actually embedded listed below. The records is revised for span and clarity.Eric Bandholz: Provide us a review of what you carry out.John Ruggiero: My wife, Michelle, and I began an on the internet ring firm knowned as Manly Bands in 2016 to deal with a concern of wedding celebration bands for guys. We were actually only married. I have huge hands and also could not discover a band that I suched as that was not overpriced. My choices were actually buying coming from a catalog or having something custom-made.I found yourself purchasing coming from an internet site. The band got here in a standard mailer, with no package or customer support. It was an unpleasant adventure by today's ecommerce standards.Our experts got wed, moved to Fla, and also required a work. Our team informed our own selves, "Our company are actually each business people. Why do not our experts develop our own service?" Our team went over the forms of concerns our experts will seen and also exactly how to resolve them. My ring experience turned up, and we chose to make an effort to solve it for various other people.Our target when we began was to pay for rent. Our experts thought making a married couple thousand bucks a month from this would certainly be actually excellent. Our team considered it a lifestyle company, not high-growth. It was only Michelle and also me in our garage designing rings as well as sending all of them out to customers. Our team had hit on one thing. Our message resonated along with prospects.Michelle and also I make an outstanding staff. I come up with concepts, and also she's the implementer. A bunch of our effectiveness goes to her artistic thoughts. She labels the rings and also builds characters. She connects the rings to consumers. Defining a band solely as "eight-millimeter black" failed to cut it.Our company designed rings coming from distinct components, including Jack Daniel's gun barrels or even unique steels. The business removed. Since then, our company've expanded drastically. Our company currently have more than 55 people in the Manly Bands family members. Regarding one-half of those are band craftsmans who function in our recently acquired production outlet in Utah.Bandholz: When did you get a producer?Ruggiero: Regarding a year and also an one-half earlier. We had actually been their customer for a long times, so we understood them well. A lot of their company was retail, which really did not interest our company-- heading to mom-and-pop jewelers. They kept their wholesale customers and also brand name. Our team got some of their assets and delivered over employees.Prompting a production staff has been just one of the most effective things we've done. It's been actually extraordinary to go out there certainly and watch them create bands out of Fender guitar cords or metallic from an M1 Abrams tank.Bandholz: Just how carries out internal manufacturing influence advertising?Ruggiero: It's been massive. Taking a video camera to the opposite of the workplace and filming the staff utilizing turrets to reduce the metallic poles or whiskey gun barrels into bands produces astonishing video clip. Our experts have our video camera staff available regularly. We utilize that footage on our social networks and in our advertisements as well as newsletters. Our team try to promote that because the majority of firms in the guys's band room do not create. They fall ship or even order coming from overseas and after that transport it out. However our experts desire it to last a life time and also be one thing people may take honor in.We have actually possessed a considerable amount of success along with our armed forces heritage selection, where we resource special armed forces components. Our company have the M1 Garand rifle inventory, the wood component, from World War I. Enjoying our group placed that in the turret and also reduced a part out for a ring is intriguing.Our advertising for those rings discuss the background, the soldiers, where the item was utilized, as well as points like that. My partner as well as I analyzed filmmaking in college. We use our capabilities to inform and tell a story. For example, I just recently received an email from a customer who shared that his gramps made use of to drive M1 storage tanks. The client talented some of those bands to his gramps, and also they had pretty a mental substitution. It's nice to help clients associate with their past times and also make something relevant.Bandholz: Where can folks purchase a band from you?Ruggiero: ManlyBands.com. We possess pictures on Instagram, too. I perform Twitter and LinkedIn.