.Manly Bands is a direct-to-consumer vendor of men's bands. The provider introduced in 2016 after John Ruggiero, the founder with his wife Michelle, could not locate a suited wedding band.This is actually Ruggiero's 2nd look on the podcast. In April 2021, our team talked about the firm's founding, one-of-a-kind ring materials, and much more. Ever since, Manly Bands has obtained its own manufacturer. The creation of bands from, mention, Jack Daniel's bourbon barrels or even Fender guitar strands makes powerful online video, states Ruggiero, perfect for narration on social media as well as elsewhere.The whole sound of our conversation is embedded below. The transcript is actually edited for span and quality.Eric Bandholz: Offer us a rundown of what you carry out.John Ruggiero: My other half, Michelle, and I started an online ring business referred to as Manly Bands in 2016 to solve a problem of wedding celebration bands for males. We were actually merely wed. I have sizable hands and also could not discover a band that I liked that was certainly not overpriced. My choices were buying from a directory or possessing something tailor-made.I wound up buying from a web site. The ring got here in a level mailer, without any carton or even customer service. It was an unpleasant knowledge by today's ecommerce specifications.Our company received wed, moved to Fla, and also needed a work. Our company informed our own selves, "Our experts are actually both entrepreneurs. Why do not our team create our personal business?" Our experts explained the kinds of concerns our company will observed and just how to fix them. My ring experience arised, and we decided to try to address it for other people.Our objective when our experts started was to pay for lease. We believed making a couple 1000 dollars a month coming from this will be actually wonderful. Our team considered it a way of living service, certainly not high-growth. It was actually simply Michelle and me in our garage designing rings as well as sending all of them bent on clients. We had hit on something. Our information resonated along with potential customers.Michelle and I create an excellent staff. I create tips, and she is actually the implementer. A lot of our effectiveness goes to her innovative mind. She titles the bands as well as creates people. She connects the bands to consumers. Illustrating a band entirely as "eight-millimeter black" didn't suffice.We made rings coming from special materials, including Jack Daniel's barrels or exclusive metallics. Your business removed. Since then, we've expanded greatly. We right now have over 55 individuals in the Manly Bands family members. Concerning one-half of those are ring craftsmans that do work in our lately gotten production outlet in Utah.Bandholz: When performed you get a maker?Ruggiero: Regarding a year and also a half back. Our team had actually been their client for several years, so we understood them effectively. A lot of their business was actually wholesale, which failed to passion our company-- heading to mom-and-pop jewelers. They maintained their retail clients and brand name. We obtained several of their resources and also delivered over employees.Bringing on a manufacturing staff has actually been just one of the very best factors our experts have actually carried out. It is actually been unbelievable to go out certainly there as well as enjoy all of them bring in bands out of Fender guitar strands or metallic from an M1 Abrams tank.Bandholz: Exactly how does internal manufacturing effect advertising?Ruggiero: It is actually been large. Taking a camera to the other side of the workplace and recording the team using lathes to cut the steel poles or scotch gun barrels into rings creates incredible online video. Our company possess our cam team on the market at all times. Our company make use of that footage on our social media and in our adds as well as bulletins. Our team attempt to ensure that due to the fact that most business in the men's ring space do not create. They go down ship or even purchase from abroad and after that deliver it out. But our experts want it to last a lifetime and be actually one thing individuals may take pride in.Our team have actually possessed a great deal of success with our military culture selection, where our experts source distinct military materials. We possess the M1 Garand rifle supply, the wood component, coming from War of the nations I. Enjoying our staff placed that in the lathe as well as reduced a part out for a ring is amazing.Our advertising for those rings refer to the record, the soldiers, where the weapon was actually used, and points like that. My spouse and also I studied filmmaking in college. Our experts utilize our skills to enlighten as well as tell a story. As an example, I recently obtained an e-mail from a client that discussed that his grand daddy used to drive M1 containers. The client skilled some of those bands to his gramps, and they had fairly a psychological exchange. It behaves to aid customers get in touch with their past and also make one thing meaningful.Bandholz: Where can folks buy a ring coming from you?Ruggiero: ManlyBands.com. We possess photos on Instagram, as well. I perform Twitter as well as LinkedIn.