Mike Sheehan of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has a huge family that loves to get together for lots of parties. The problem with having a big family is that they overrun the house. Sheehan’s wife mentioned that it would be nice to get the family out of the house and keep[Read More…]
Matt Poe
Matt Poe is the Editor of Shed Business Journal, previously of Shed Builder Magazine.
Amish Shed Company Launched in Missouri
Samuel Fisher, who learned the shed-building trade in the “Shed Capital of the World,” has launched a new Amish sheds company in Dunnegan, Missouri—Dunnegan Springs Structures. For nearly ten years, Fisher worked in the storage shed industry in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. During that time, he was tasked with doing about every[Read More…]
10 Shed ‘Fails’ That Have to be Seen
We try to keep things on the positive side around here, but, sometimes things happen. That includes “fails” when it comes to shed building. Check out the 10 shed building/moving fails in the following video. YouTuber Bill Berg put together some epic, and hilarious, fails, didn’t he? One of the[Read More…]
Just How Fast Can a Pro Build a Shed?
Last week’s speedy shed build video attracted a lot of interest. One builder decided to share his fast shed building video. Kauffman Builders in Eureka, Montana, wanted to see how fast they could build a shed. Now, they didn’t do it in 10 minutes. The footage is sped up, but[Read More…]
Traditions & Belief
Amish Sheds Inc. in Thorold, Ontario, has been in business since 2007. And since the beginning, the company has had its sheds built by the Amish in the small town of South Dayton, New York. Why? Because the Amish there use Hemlock wood, which resists insects and lasts a long[Read More…]
Michigan Town Putting Up Sheds … for Business
The city of Muskegon, Michigan, is located along the shores of Lake Michigan, and it’s always looking for ways to make the best use of its shoreline. In 2016, the city had an idea to put small shops along the beach. After some research, it was determined that sheds would[Read More…]
New Website for The Backyard n Beyond
When Curvin Huber of The Backyard n Beyond began looking for a web design firm to launch a site for his storage shed company in Ellsinore, Missouri, he went back to his roots in Pennsylvania. There he began a conversation with E-Impact Marketing and settled on a basic website to get started selling portable[Read More…]
Shed Builder Hires Marketing Agency to Increase Sales
Northland Storage Sheds, based in Milbank, South Dakota, hired a marketing company to boost Northland’s online presence, the company reports. Owner Derek Wipf contacted the marketing agency in January 2017. Shortly thereafter they signed a contract to set a monthly budget. Northland says the agency is implementing CRM (customer relations[Read More…]
Watch a Shed Be Built in Less Than 2 Minutes
What if we told you that you could see a shed built in less than two minutes? Really, you can … with high-speed video. The folks at Byler Barns in Virginia made a video of their crew building a shed from the ground up. And then they sped up the[Read More…]
Shed Commercial a Smashing Success?
Shed builders have to sell sheds. And they have many marketing options. One is TV advertising. However, sometimes the shoot doesn’t go quite as planned. A YouTuber found this footage from an old Tuff Shed commercial shoot. The concept, show how sturdy wood sheds are compared to metal sheds by[Read More…]
