.Manly Bands is a direct-to-consumer vendor of males's rings. The business released in 2016 after John Ruggiero, the co-founder with his better half Michelle, could not find an ideal wedding celebration band.This is actually Ruggiero's second appearance on the podcast. In April 2021, our company went over the company's founding, unique ring materials, and also much more. Ever since, Manly Bands has gotten its own maker. The production of bands from, mention, Port Daniel's bourbon gun barrels or even Fender guitar cords generates convincing video clip, claims Ruggiero, best for narration on social networking sites and also somewhere else.The whole sound of our chat is actually inserted below. The transcript is actually revised for span as well as clarity.Eric Bandholz: Give us a run-through of what you carry out.John Ruggiero: My wife, Michelle, and I began an internet ring firm knowned as Manly Bands in 2016 to handle a problem of wedding bands for males. We were simply married. I possess large hands and also could not locate a band that I suched as that was certainly not overpriced. My options were actually buying from a magazine or having something customized.I ended up purchasing from a web site. The band got here in a flat mailer, without any package or customer care. It was a horrendous adventure through today's ecommerce criteria.We obtained married, relocated to Fla, and also required a task. Our company told our own selves, "Our company are actually both business owners. Why don't our team generate our personal service?" We talked about the kinds of concerns our team 'd seen as well as exactly how to resolve them. My ring adventure came up, as well as our company decided to attempt to resolve it for other men.Our objective when our experts started was actually to pay rental fee. Our company assumed making a pair 1000 bucks a month coming from this would be actually awesome. We considered it a lifestyle company, not high-growth. It was actually merely Michelle as well as me in our garage designing bands and also sending them out to customers. Our experts had hit on one thing. Our message reverberated along with prospects.Michelle and I make a great crew. I come up with concepts, and she's the implementer. A considerable amount of our results visits her artistic mind. She names the bands as well as creates characters. She hooks up the rings to customers. Describing a ring entirely as "eight-millimeter dark" really did not suffice.We designed bands coming from one-of-a-kind components, including Port Daniel's gun barrels or unique steels. Business removed. Since then, our team've expanded drastically. Our experts now have over 55 folks in the Manly Bands family. About half of those are band professionals that operate in our lately acquired production outlet in Utah.Bandholz: When did you acquire a supplier?Ruggiero: Regarding a year and also a fifty percent ago. Our experts had been their client for years, so we knew them properly. The majority of their service was actually wholesale, which failed to interest our company-- going to mom-and-pop jewelers. They retained their retail consumers and also trademark name. Our company obtained several of their resources and also delivered over staff members.Bringing on a production staff has been just one of the greatest things our team've carried out. It is actually been actually unbelievable to walk out there certainly as well as watch them make bands out of Fender guitar cords or even steel coming from an M1 Abrams storage tank.Bandholz: Exactly how carries out internal manufacturing effect advertising and marketing?Ruggiero: It's been massive. Taking a camera to the opposite of the workplace and also recording the crew utilizing lathes to cut the metallic rods or even whiskey gun barrels in to bands makes for unbelievable video clip. Our experts possess our camera crew around at all times. We make use of that footage on our social networking sites as well as in our adds as well as e-newsletters. Our experts attempt to promote that considering that most companies in the males's band space don't make. They fall ship or even purchase coming from foreign and after that ship it out. But our team desire it to last a life time and also be one thing folks can easily take pleasure in.We've possessed a considerable amount of effectiveness with our military culture compilation, where our experts resource unique military products. Our experts possess the M1 Garand rifle supply, the timber component, coming from War of the nations I. Watching our team placed that in the lathe and also reduced a part out for a ring is actually amazing.Our marketing for those rings refer to the record, the soldiers, where the tool was utilized, and things like that. My spouse as well as I studied filmmaking in college. Our team utilize our skills to teach and also narrate. For example, I lately received an email coming from a consumer that discussed that his grandpa utilized to drive M1 storage tanks. The customer skilled some of those rings to his grandpa, and also they possessed very a psychological swap. It's nice to help customers associate with their past times as well as produce something purposeful.Bandholz: Where can individuals get a ring coming from you?Ruggiero: ManlyBands.com. Our team possess images on Instagram, too. I get on Twitter as well as LinkedIn.