We’re dedicated to helping Woodpreneurs grow and scale their businesses.
This industry is a passionate one with unique challenges and obstacles, that is why founder Steve Larosiliere decided that wood business owners and entrepreneurs deserved an agency just for them. One that was built upon the passion only those who work in the wood industry understand.
Our mission is to provide wood businesses with tools, resources, support and networking opportunities. Whether you’re a sawmill, tree service company, hardwood flooring company, furniture maker, content creator or otherwise, Woodpreneur Life is here for you. Growing a business is an extremely rewarding experience, but it can also be frustrating, lonely, confusing and stressful. We aim to amplify the good and help combat the stress all while introducing you to a network of woodworkers just like yourself.
Woodpreneur Life is the brainchild of Steve Larosiliere, a business and marketing professional, woodworker, host and founder of the Woodpreneur Podcast, and owner of Acres of Timber and Stoked.
For the past five years, Steve has worked and collaborated with hundreds of wood businesses. When he realized that he was able to provide the business and marketing knowledge that many of his clients stated as a weakness in their company or gap in scaling their businesses he immediately got to work. For Steve it isn’t enough to help one business, it’s not even enough to help hundreds.
Now, Steve is focused on his mission to provide the tools, knowledge, resources and support that have helped so many of his clients to even more wood businesses.
Woodpreneur Life creates courses for Woodpreneurs, facilitates networking and visibility, offers business and marketing advice, mentorship, workshops, webinars, content, articles and more.
Through our sister company, Acres of Timber, wood businesses also have access to an extremely robust CRM created specifically for this industry, designed to tackle the problems facing Woodpreneurs head-on.
It all started in 2016 when Steve noticed the unique and captivating products coming out of his father-in-law’s sawmill. One day, while he was looking at the hand-carved bed his sons slept in, Steve realized that not only was it a beautiful piece that their own grandfather had made them, it was also sturdy enough to be passed down to the next several generations.
With these realizations in mind, Steve knew that there was an opportunity for wood business owners to increase their profits, share their techniques, build tighter networks and ultimately, cultivate more success.
Seeing that there was a lack of community between wood industry professionals, he decided to start one by creating the Instagram account @acresoftimber (Formerly, @sawmillbusiness). The account and community surrounding it grew rapidly and proved the point that makers, sawmill owners, lumber dealers, and other wood professionals needed a place to network and share advice.
In addition to the Instagram account, Steve also started and continues to host the Woodpreneur Podcast. The podcast has featured guests such as Cannon Bar, EcoPoxy, iDrywood, Urbn Timber, Granberg International, and many other industry leaders and is going strong.
