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About Main Street Forge

Welcome To Main Street Forge!

Hey There!
This is Billy from Main Street Forge. I'd like to take a minute to tell you what Main Street Forge is all about, how we got started, and what we're trying to do moving forward. It is a fairly long story from start to finish, but I'd love to explain our origin story to you.
I'm one of the owners along with my best friend Kyle. We've been best friends since the age of 14 and we're both lifelong entrepreneurs. Every business model you can think of we have tried. From experiencing the good, bad, and ugly; we've been through it all as a team.

Where Did It All Start?

In 2014 Kyle and I both got the bug to start an e-commerce business since we could see the shift to more and more people buying items online. We really wanted to get in on the e-commerce business model, but we didn't know a ton about it. Diving head first into selling online was the only way to get started and learn more about the inner workings of the business. We decided to start learning as much as we could about every aspect of selling online.
Conventional wisdom back then and still now is to find a manufacturer in China to make products dirt cheap, sell them online here in the USA, and live happily ever after. So, we followed the conventional wisdom back then and started a company and decided to do what everyone else was doing at the time. We found a decent supplier in China and did our due diligence with sampling products, and working really hard for our end goal.
Throughout this whole process we always had that feeling that we'd rather be sourcing and selling American made products instead. We grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, where Made in the USA is a BIG deal. Around here, some friends and family don't let foreign cars park in their driveway. It may not be the same for you, but we've always wanted to make products here in the United States.