Shed Geek Podcast
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Real talk from the shed lot.
Shed Geek Podcast treats the shed industry like a real small-business world with its own tools, pressures, habits, and personalities. Episodes move from lot-level sales stories into practical talk about software, color choices, delivery, trust, insurance, and growth.
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Shed Geek Podcast gives the shed business the kind of attention usually reserved for much larger industries. It is not slick. That is part of the point. The show works best as a long table conversation among people who sell, build, haul, finance, market, paint, insure, and support backyard buildings. Episodes often begin with sponsor reads or a casual note about where the conversation is happening, then slowly find the working question underneath. What helps a customer trust a dealer before the first real phone call? Why does an old color palette quietly drag down a sales lot? How should a small operator think about CRM systems, lead response, YouTube videos, configurators, RTO contracts, and delivery tools without losing the human side of the sale? The answers usually come through stories rather than tidy lectures. A guest may talk about walking buyers through a build space, replacing stale colors, cutting insurance costs, testing marketing vendors, or turning a shed lot into something that feeds a local town. The host frame is generous and practical, with plenty of room for detours. Weather, road trips, Facebook pages, Florida evenings, Ohio stops, and off-air conversations all become part of the texture. The show is especially interested in what builds confidence. Sometimes that means better software. Sometimes it means showing the physical shop. Sometimes it means a salesperson who tells the truth plainly and pays attention to the person making the color decision. The industry vocabulary is specific: lots, dealers, RTO, CRM, configurators, leads, inventory, deliveries, and backyard products all show up naturally. Sponsor segments are frequent and woven into the flow. The tone stays encouraging, even when the market sounds tighter and buyers are harder to win. Shed Geek Podcast is useful because it keeps returning to what happens on the ground. It treats every small improvement as part of a bigger business rhythm. The result is a niche show with a strong sense of place, trade, and community memory.
Made for: For shed dealers, builders, haulers, marketers, RTO companies, and small-business people around backyard buildings. It also suits sales-minded listeners who like practical trade stories more than polished business theory.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by treating the shed industry as a full business ecosystem, not a novelty niche. Its interviews stay close to lot-level decisions, from color boards and customer trust to software stacks and local community ideas.
The Shed Geek Podcast offers an in depth analysis of the ever growing and robust Shed Industry. Listeners will experience a variety of guests who identify or specialize in particular niche areas of the Shed Industry. You will be engaged as you hear amateur and professional personalities discuss topics such as: Shed hauling, sales, marketing, Rent to Own, shed history, shed faith, and much more. Host Shannon Latham is a self proclaimed "Shed Geek" who attempts to take you through discussions that are as exciting as the industry itself. Listeners of this podcast include those who play a role directly...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Shed Geek Podcast makes small-business operations concrete through candid conversations about selling, sourcing, systems, customer trust, and execution.
Shed Geek Podcast turns a highly specific trade into a practical study of how small businesses sell, source, market, and earn customer trust. Shannon Latham's guest conversations stay close to operating decisions, from refreshing an outdated color palette to connecting…
A paint palette becomes a sales strategy here, if that's your preferred flavor of business nerdery.
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A grounded look at an Amish-market-style local market.
The episode presents an Amish-market-style local market built around multiple vendors, shared traffic, and a stronger sense of place. Its clearest value comes when it gets concrete, laying out structure, lessons learned, and the everyday work of making a community-first setup…
The episode treats color as a business choice, not a decorative one.
The episode treats color as a business choice, not a decorative one. It walks through an older palette, shows why colors that have not sold in years can go, and keeps the focus on the shades that still earn space on the lot, in collateral, and in sales.
A practical look at turning shed sales into one cleaner workflow.
This episode stays on shed sales as one workflow, not a pile of separate chores. The useful part is how it threads the 3D configurator, point of sale, RTO contracts, inventory, deliveries, dealer tools, quoting, payment collection, and delivery scheduling into a single path from…
Practical shed-business sales advice with a plainspoken, close-to-the-floor feel.
This Shed Geek Podcast discussion reads as a practical look at what is working in shed sales right now: tighter systems, better CRM habits, and the people skills that still close deals.
A practical look at sourcing, installation, and why the handoff matters as much as the sale.
This episode stays focused on a plain but useful point: a kit only works when the supplier, the product knowledge, and the install plan all line up. That makes the strongest part of the discussion the way it ties selling and installing together.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Host Cord Cook of the Shed Geek Podcast interviews Matthew Troyer of Delta Sheds and Midway Pharmacy (spelled FARMA-CY) in Central Pennsylvania, who turned a 14-acre former mobile home dealership into a cluster of self-serve 24/7 food sheds selling local antibiotic-free meat, fresh-milled wheat bread, eggs, and handmade soap — all stocked by independent local vendors who pay him rent.
Jamie Watt (Pittsburgh Paints national business development manager) and Ruthann Hanlon (national color and design manager) join the Shed Geek Podcast to discuss how color choices affect shed sales, customer satisfaction, and manufacturer inventory decisions.
Host Shannon Latham discusses the shed industry with guest Rusty Barrett, covering business tools and industry insights.
Shed sales still run on trust.
Host Shannon Latham introduces a sponsor message for Shedpro software and discusses the challenges of running a shed business.
Sales gets plain fast.
Host Shannon Latham discusses the shed industry with guests, covering topics like sales, marketing, and business tools, and promotes Shedpro software.
Host Shannon Latham discusses the shed industry with guests, covering topics like sales, marketing, and business tools, and promotes Shedpro software.
This episode discusses the shed industry with a focus on Shedpro software and features an interview with Stephen Choi.
Post-frame sourcing is where the sale gets real.
This episode features a sponsored message about Shedpro software and continues a conversation about running a boutique shed business.
The Steel Kings podcast hosts discuss business motivation, personal development, and community involvement while promoting financing solutions for buildings.
The episode opens with a sponsored segment promoting Shedpro software for shed businesses, then transitions to a casual welcome and setup for the day's discussion.
This episode discusses shed industry business tools and consulting, with a sponsor segment for Shedpro software.