Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
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Episode 148: TMBA 148 (LBP129) – ROUND 1 – Business Idea Smackdown – Dan “Coconut Crusher” Andrews vs. Ian “Benjamins by Birth” Schoen
November 15, 2012 16:00 - 37 minutes - 51 MBDan’s bean bag sitting in Bali, intermittently nuking himself off the internet to make sure he gets his book taken care of on time while Ian’s in San Diego taking care of business like a boss. After getting some inspiration from the Adsense Flippers, Dan and Ian decided to go for a knock down drag out four-rounder this week. They asked Taylor, the new guy on the team, to put together 4 unique business premises. Dan and Ian come up with unique solutions to each premise and it’s up to you guys ...
Episode 147: TMBA 147 (TTR20) – What Is the Best Place in Southeast Asia for Internet Entrepreneurs?
November 09, 2012 16:00 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MBThis week I totally geek out on one of my favorite topics: how do various locations in Southeast Asia stack up to each other for internet entrepreneurs? During the conversation I share a lot of anecdotes from my last 5 months on the road, along with a few new pieces of information I’ve picked up along the way. Hope you enjoy and curious to hear your thoughts as always.
Episode 146: TMBA 146 (LBP128) – Manipulating the Success Script
November 08, 2012 16:00 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBDan’s still in Bali grinding out his first book while Ian’s back in San Diego working on taking the product business to the next level. Inspired by a talk Cal Newport gave, Dan and Ian reveal that the script to success, however you define it. While success is something each person decides on, there is a script that everyone can follow to get themselves there. With all the talk in the blogosphere about “passion,” the true story about achieving success and happiness seems to be a little more co...
Episode 145: TMBA 145 (TTR19) – The 2% Fallacy and 10 Business Red Flags
November 02, 2012 15:00 - 22 minutes - 30.5 MBI’m back in Bali hoping to take advantage of the inspiring scenery and lifestyle to get a ton of work done. I was excited to hop on the mic solo-style this week and address those of you who plan to spend the weekend hustling away. In this week’s show I talk about some digital nomad hot spots as well as 10 business red flags that prevent you and your business from achieving maximum velocity.
Episode 144: TMBA 144 (LBP127) – Generating Wealth and Re-Considering Retirement for Entrepreneurs
November 01, 2012 15:00 - 32 minutes - 45 MBDan and Ian are homeward bound. Ian just got back San Diego and Dan’s headed to Bali for November to write his first book. Both still coming down from the high and energy of DCBKK, they wanted to tackle a tough question on the real meaning of wealth and entrepreneurship. Everyone knows that society has certain scripts and most people blindly assume the numbers support those. Dan and Ian sit down to look at the facts of a 20 year trajectory for a professional job vs. an entrepreneur and then ...
Episode 143: TMBA 143 (TTR18) – 5 Media Created Distortions About Successful Internet Ventures
October 26, 2012 15:00 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBWe had a blast at the DCBKK conference over the weekend, but we’ve got more big plans lined up. The CEO-yeah is heading back to the good ole’ U.S. of A. and I’m heading up to Chiang Mai to do a little scouting and see if it could be worthy of being the next TMBA compound. Starting this week, I’m holding my feet to the fire and saying that all you weekend warriors will be getting a brand new episode of Tropical Talk Radio in your earbuds every Friday to keep you jammin’ on your business all we...
Episode 142: TMBA 142 (LBP126) – Gaming Google Search Results – What’s Working and What’s Getting Killed
October 25, 2012 15:00 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBAfter the first annual Dynamite Circle DCBKK Conference in Bangkok, Dan and Ian blew it out Bangkok-style. But first, they sat down with SEO guru Travis Jamisonfrom Supremacy SEO to discuss some of the latest Google algorithm updates and how Travis is adjusting. Lots of site owners have been left scrambling after the Google Penguin updates and refereshes over the past months, not to mention the Exact Match Domain update that rolled out a few weeks ago. While the rest of the world screams “SEO...
Episode 141: TMBA 141 (LBP125) – How to Avoid your Entrepreneurial Blindspots – Dan’s Stick-On Mirror Theory
October 18, 2012 15:00 - 22 minutes - 30.8 MBAfter two weeks in Puerto Galera with the October TMBA session, Dan and Ian celebrated Dan’s birthday in style at the classic Filippino restaurant TGIFriday’s and then curled up under a staircase in the Mall of Asia to bring this episode to you. Having done three sessions with various TMBA participants and being asked weekly similar questions from folks starting their own businesses, they’ve come to notice some consistent things that happen with every new business owner. The good news is that...
Episode 140: TMBA 140 (LBP124) – How Marketing Beats Sales and Why Capacity Is A Number With James Schramko
October 12, 2012 15:00 - 44 minutes - 61.7 MBComing to you live from Badladz Resort in the Philippines, complete with patented LBP cafe noise and janky wi-fi upload speeds. This week Dan jumped on the phone with the man, the myth, the Aussie legend in content marketing and helping customers online, James Schramko of Super Fast Business and one of Dan’s new favorite podcasts Freedom Ocean. A super-sized episode that caused Dan to spend the past week to say to Ian “Did I tell you what Schramko told me? Have I told you about my interview w...
Episode 139: TMBA 139 (LBP123) – Getting To Five Years On A Business Trajectory
October 04, 2012 15:00 - 17 minutes - 24.3 MBDo you know where you were and what you were doing five years ago this week? Five years ago (October 2nd, 2007 to be exact) Dan and Ian were sitting at brunch when Dan got a notification on his original iPhone that they had gotten paid for their first product sale. Sure, there were some problems. Like the fact that they didn’t actually have a manufactured product to ship out at the time of the sale. But that email was the confirmation they needed. Starting that day they set their sights on a ...
Episode 138: TMBA 138 (LBP121) – How Solving Problems For 500,000 Users Inspired the Idea for SupportBee
September 20, 2012 15:00 - 26 minutes - 36.8 MBThis week Dan is the one hard at work and Ian is asleep on the job. Stranger things have happened…ever seen a tabloid alien story? Dan took the opportunity to chat up Prateek Dayal, founder of startups like Muziboo and recently SupportBee. Dan and Ian met Prateek as they traveled across Vietnam this summer meeting up with folks from the Dynamite Circle and LBP listeners. Having started companies from India, Santiago Chile, and now Saigon Vietnam, they knew they had to have him on the show to ...
Episode 137: TMBA 137 (LBP120) – How To Profit From In-Person Events With Rob Walling
September 13, 2012 15:00 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBDan and Ian are both in the States and working on their next big thing – the Dynamite Circle Conference in Bangkok in October. Planning conferences is a lot of work that you never even thought of until the hotel was asking what kind of breakfast menus you would prefer during your third break on the second day. Who has a breakfast menu during their third break?! They decided to call in a pro and chat it up with Rob Walling, the founder of MicroConf (The Conference For Self-Funded Startups.) Wi...
Episode 136: TMBA 136 (LBP119) – Bro Pricing And The Most Important Model In Online Business
September 06, 2012 15:00 - 34 minutes - 46.8 MBDan and Ian got so many great questions from last week’s carefully orchestrated listener request that they decided to keep a few for future episodes that needed more than a quick answer. In this episode they tackle this frustrating issue that plagues many an information product or intangible service provider Head down and pencils up – this episode is full of pricing insights and strategies you need to have a successful online business, including: When To Offer Your Customers Credit Why Th...
Episode 135: TMBA 135 (LBP118) – 5 No-Time Products And Questions From The Silent Majority
August 30, 2012 15:00 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBDan and Ian spent the past week working diligently to poll the LBP audience and find the deepest darkest unasked listener questions. Or they sent a Tweet before the show started. We leave it up to you to decide what really happened. Either way, they ended up with some great questions and requests for advice from the LBP community, many of which were from listeners they’d never heard from before. Which made Dan grin, cause he loves you silent majority folks.
Episode 134: TMBA 134 (LBP117) – Flexing Your Hustle Muscle And Hacking A Job
August 23, 2012 15:00 - 16 minutes - 22.4 MBDan and Ian spent a fair amount of time (ok…they spent a session) learning Crossfit from Joe Bauer in the Philippines during the recent Tropical MBA session. After they managed to drag themselves back to the microphone, they realized there was some techniques to work out on the LBP. The thing with starting a biznass is that it isn’t all rainbows and puppies. There’s some heavy lifting that you have to do to get that baby off the ground, and we’re not talking reps with a tropical umbrella drin...
Episode 133: TMBA 133 (LBP116) – How To Choose A Profitable Niche That You Can Love on Summer Marketing Mashup
August 16, 2012 15:00 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBIt’s a special podcast here at the LBP. Dan and Ian are joined for a bonus-length episode as they host the Summer Marketing Mashup guys (Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income, Jason Van Orden & Jeremy Frandsen from Internet Business Mastery, and Tim Conley from Foolish Adventure) to talk shop on niche selection. So sit back, grab your beverage of choice and a notebook (or Evernote), and check out the final installment in the Summer Marketing Mashup series.
Episode 132: TMBA 132 (LBP115) – The Most Expensive (But Profitable) Marketing Strategy In Your Arsenal
August 09, 2012 15:00 - 24 minutes - 33.4 MBDan and Ian and the folks in the August TMBA session have made it through 40 days and nights of rain and wind in Puerto Galera. Ok, it’s more like 7 days, but 40 sounds way more intense. With all these businesses working on taking their businesses to the next level, marketing is a key piece of the conversation. Yet there’s so many options when you are setting up your marketing strategy. Some are quick and dirty, some are putting in for some long ball. How do you choose? Dan and Ian went back ...
Episode 131: TMBA 131 (TTR17) – How We Increased Email Subscribers 257% By Making it Harder to Opt-in
August 07, 2012 15:30 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBHow does a lazy blogger increase their email subscription rate by 257% and in the process get an automatic sales machine working for them and generating sales in their sleep? Well– you could hire John McIntyre— but for those of you who have teams or willing to do it yourself, we invited John on the show to get the details on how he did it. It’s also time for us to offer another Tropical MBA internship here at Badladz resort in Puerto Galera, Mindoro (sorry, so much for the “no more interns” t...
Episode 130: TMBA 130 (TTR16) – Becoming a Mini-Mogul
August 03, 2012 15:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBHappy Friday everyone! Today Ian and I are joining you from Puerto Galera, Philippines. We found a few minutes away from the events here at the Tropical MBA to discuss a topic that’s been on our minds lately: How do we frame up this new style of multi-national small business entrepreneurship, and what are some related business opportunities? A lot of people have been talking about this trend lately, we dug up this article to serve as the basic structure for this episode. We believe the opport...
Episode 129: TMBA 129 (LBP114) – Sometimes We Are The Champions, Sometimes We Are Awful
August 02, 2012 15:00 - 24 minutes - 33.3 MBIt’s been a really rough week for Dan and Ian. This is mostly due to the fact that they arrived in the Philippines to meet with 14 bright eyed participants of our August TMBA Session and it was a bit of a challenge. Not because of the participants. Instead they encountered a slight typhoon wreaking havoc on Manila, Batangas City & Pier, Mindoro, Puerto Galera, and Badladz Resort. In other words, they were surrounded by the storm. What should have been a fun 3-hour tour of the Philippines to g...
Episode 128: TMBA 128 (TTR15) – Is Starting a Personal Blog Hazardous to Your Entrepreneurial Health?
July 27, 2012 15:00 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBHappy Friday afternoon! We are back with our weekend podcast with the hopes of giving you a little fuel for your projects over the next few days. Today I discuss with the CEOh-yeah and issue we’ve brought up a few times before. One of the biggest questions we get asked is: should I start a personal blog for networking purposes? I don’t think these are benign decisions and I take this question very seriously. When you are just getting started and need to find strategic levers to get as much e...
Episode 127: TMBA 127 (LBP113) – 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Lifestyle Business Owners
July 26, 2012 15:00 - 20 minutes - 28.2 MBWe know that Dan and Ian are consumate consumers of information and business theory. So it was a bit of a somber moment earlier this week when we learned that Dr. Stephen Covey, the author of 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People, had passed away. Covey’s book “has been a top-seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity” per the description on his website. Couldn’t agree more.
Episode 126: TMBA 126 (TTR14) – 5 Ways to Produce Expert Level Content (Even If You Aren’t an Expert)
July 20, 2012 15:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBHey there weekend warriors! This week’s happy hour drink sponsor is Orangina, a beverage with a special place in the heart of @AnythingIan. Today we are going to talk about high level content strategy. First, it’s worth taking a look at Karol’s notes from reading Turning Pro. Many of you know I’m a huge War of Art fan, and I just got started with Turning Pro today based on Karol’s suggestion. “The amateur allows his worth and identity to be defined by others. The amateur craves third-party v...
Episode 125: TMBA 125 (LBP112) – The Importance Of Niche Flexibility And Finding The Real Reasons People Are Successful
July 19, 2012 15:00 - 22 minutes - 31.7 MBDan is all about the public peer pressure on Ian. Getting him to sign up for email lists. Getting him to go to NYC with him in September. Getting him to divulge his espionage trade secrets in a future episode. What else is this podcast gonna get Ian into?! This week the guys are slowly making their way to meeting up with each other in Saigon for a couple weeks before the next Tropical MBA session in the Philippines in August. As they work on getting back in the same space, they discuss the va...
Episode 124: TMBA 124 (TTR13) – The “Never Launch Strategy” – A Profitable Approach to Information Products
July 13, 2012 15:00 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBHey there weekend warriors! I’m happy to announce that Tropical Talk Radio (iTunes link) will now be a weekly show for entrepreneurs seeking some weekend inspiration. That means I’ll try to get you new episodes by happy hour on Friday evening. This week I’m joining you from from Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi. Tiger beer (via nearby Singapore) is my unofficial sponsor. If a brand manager is reading this post, why not send me a tank top or something?! QUICK NEWS: Most of you know we opened up...
Episode 123: TMBA 123 (LBP111) – South East Asia’s Top 6 Business Travel Destinations
July 12, 2012 15:00 - 26 minutes - 37 MBDan and Ian have been busy hopscotching across SE Asia the past couple weeks (Bali, Philippines, China, Vietnam) and have plans to continue the journey later in July with a motorbike excursion in Cambodia. All this travel got the guys thinking about the places they go and the things they love/hate about each place. More importantly, how a location independent entrepreneur can live and work from these locations and still be straight hustlin’.
Episode 122: TMBA 122 (LBP110) – Tropical MBA And The Power Of Conditioning Content
July 05, 2012 15:00 - 17 minutes - 24.2 MBDan and Ian are jet-setting around Asia for the next month between Tropical MBA sessions, currently doing some money biznass in Hong Kong. After the first Tropical MBA was so much fun and so successful, not only did they decide to host yet another session in October 2012, but the effectiveness of the program caused them to stop and re-evaluate their online priorities. All good businesses grow and change, and Tropical MBA is doing that as well.
Episode 121: TMBA 121 (LBP109) – The 7 Types Of Entrepreneurs And Johnny Arbitrage
June 28, 2012 15:00 - 20 minutes - 28.5 MBThis week Dan and Ian were reminded of a great project that you have all helped us to grow in the Lifestyle Business Podcast community. To date you guys have raised over $5000 on Kiva micro-funding businesses and entrepreneurs in developing countries. That’s pretty baller. Check out our Kiva page to pay it forward cause that’s what entrepreneurs do. What else do entrepreneurs do? Well, what an entrepreneur does depends a lot on what type of entrepreneur they are.
Episode 120: TMBA 120 (TTR12) – Our Mindset Manifesto : Lessons From 5 Years of Running a Business
June 26, 2012 15:00 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBWant to be the first to hear the details of our October Tropical MBA? You can check out the information here, and we’ll email you the final details on Friday. I managed to sneak away from the start-ups here at the first Tropical MBA in Puerto Galera Philippines for a few minutes in order to share some of the lessons we’ve been learning together. Today we ask the question: what mindsets are critical to developing to ensuring your business success? You might be surprised by some of the answers ...
Episode 119: TMBA 119 (LBP108) – Solving The Problem Of Startups
June 21, 2012 15:00 - 19 minutes - 27 MBWe’re a few days in to the first Tropical MBA Startup Session here in Puerto Galera and the entire team is buzzing with excitement and motivation working with these guys. Basically Dan and Ian just wander around with huge grins on their faces helping the guys with their startups. If you walked in to the think tank on Monday night of 11 entrepreneurs with their noses buried in laptops hustlin’ their little fingers off on keyboards. Most past midnight. They were up by 8-9 AM the next morning a...
Episode 118: TMBA 118 (LBP107) – How To Compete With Free And Not Fight Downhill
June 14, 2012 15:00 - 19 minutes - 26.7 MBDan and Ian are together again at the infamous Badladz Resort in Puerto Galera, Philippines. This week they are joined by special guest Tim Conley from Foolish Adventure who will be working with the first group of folks here for the TMBA Start-up Summer project. Stay tuned in the next couple weeks for updates about these guys, their projects, and our Start-up Summer. This week they got a question from Shayna at EspressoEnglish.net: I run a website that teaches English as a Second Language, an...
Episode 117: TMBA 117 (LBP106) – Private Label Secrets Of Full-Time Income Bloggers
June 07, 2012 15:00 - 37 minutes - 51 MBIt is a sad day in the LBP world. After a year of pool parties, long nights of discussion and brainstorming on the deck, and countless DCers and LBP listeners visiting and crashing on our couches, the time has come to say good-bye to our Bali House (aka TMBA HQ). It’s been good times on the good old Jl Drupadi in Seminyak. We’re not giving up the compound dream, though. In fact, it’s getting bigger. And Dan & Ian are on the lookout for a resort or 10+ private room compound to turn into TMBA H...
Episode 116: TMBA 116 (LBP105) – The Entrepreneur’s DNA Checklist
May 31, 2012 15:00 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MBThis week Dan and Ian are dreaming of Ferraris. A slight departure from their regular dreams of Porsches and BMW’s. Ian might even by considering taking up a bartending job to bootstrap his new ride. Maybe he can get a gig working a portable bar somewhere? Mostly they are planning the shenanigans set to transpire when they are both on the same continent (in the same place even!) later this month at Badladz Resort in the Philippines. In this episode Dan & Ian once again get such a humdinger of...
Episode 115: TMBA 115 (LBP104) – The Right Side Of History and the Secrets of Offshore Corporations
May 24, 2012 15:00 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBThis week Dan and Ian are acting like expatriot snitches, unleashing an Offshoring 101 course onto the listeners of the LBP community. Blasting through conversation ranging from why you should and shouldn’t incorporate your business in the US to Earned Income Exclusions & FBAR’s and all the juicy details in between, including some important things they’ve learned along the way, the guys are getting into some serious business discussion. This episode is definitely one to pull out the pen & pap...
Episode 114: TMBA 114 (LBP103) – The Hero Skillset and Why No One Likes A Sell Out
May 17, 2012 15:00 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MBDan goes back to his roots tearing up Vietnam while Ian gets multi-cultural by voice-overing one of the funniest Italian accents in iTunes podcasting history. This week the guys got an email from an eager and ambitious listener, Skyler: I’m extremely passionate about entrepreneurship, however, I’ve found that it can be hard to find the right opportunities. So while I have the passion, I don’t think I have the necessary skills or experience at this point. One of my goals is to work for you guy...
Episode 113: TMBA 113 (LBP102) – The Drama Denominator: Finding The Cause Of Your Biggest Business Problems
May 10, 2012 15:00 - 33 minutes - 46 MBYeah Buddy! Another week and another chance to talk biznass is always a good combo. Once again Ian and Dan are talking marriage in business, discussing partnerships and what matters and what doesn’t in the listener questions. Thankfully Dan doesn’t nag Ian on his greasy oil change habits. Much. With all the questions coming in and advice going out here at LBP, Ian and Dan realized that may of the questions fall into 4 general categories.
Episode 112: TMBA 112 (LBP101) – The Insider’s Guide To Thinking Outside The Index
May 03, 2012 15:00 - 27 minutes - 37.3 MBComing off the euphoric high of 100th Episode bliss, Dan and Ian settled in this week to get back to business making money…for others. That’s right, they’re kicking around some angel investment ideas that would end with a qualified start-up getting some runway to make their lifestyle business dream a reality. Is an angel investment accelerator worth the time, resource, and money effort or should they just stop pansying around and make some real investments? In the Meat & Potatoes, Dan takes t...
Episode 111: TMBA 111 (LBP100) – A Bunch Of Stuff We’ve Screwed Up In The Past 1000 Days
April 26, 2012 15:00 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MBSeems like only yesterday Dan was calling Ian from a noisy cafe in the Philippines to do up another episode of the Lifestyle Business Podcast. Oh wait. That was yesterday! If sports teams have throwback uniforms, consider this special 100th Episode of the Lifestyle Business Podcast a throwback episode, complete with some of our favorite music, quotes, and outtakes from the past 1000 Days of broadcasting this podcast. In this episode, Dan and Ian get a little nostalgic. Remembering the times t...
Episode 110: TMBA 110 (TTR11) – What are Your Chances of Having $1,000,000 in 5 Years? (Hint: They Might Be Higher if You Move to China)
April 20, 2012 15:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBThis week I decided to get back to my roots, fire up my dorky headset, and do another Tropical Talk Radio (iTunes link). Today we ask the question: do you think it’s likely that you’ll have $1,000,000 in your personal bank account in 5 years? You might be surprised by the way some young entrepreneurs answer the question. I was first introduced to my guests Tim and Nick by my friend Sean Ogle, and since that time I’ve enjoyed following what they are up to in China (I’m also proud to call them ...
Episode 109: TMBA 109 (LBP99) – Do You Know If You Are A Shooting Star?
April 19, 2012 15:00 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBLess than 72 hours after we launched The Tropical MBA program exclusively to members of Dynamite Circle and then our pre-sale listeners, we have already SOLD OUT these first two sessions. Thanks so much – blown away, humbled, and excited as hell barely begin to scrape the surface of how we feel about that! This week Dan & Ian get a little Starsky & Hutch, bringing 70’s yacht rock back in style with Bad Company’s “Shooting Star” as they look at what makes a person or business so successful you...
Episode 108: TMBA 108 (LBP98) – 8 Lesser Recognized Forms Of The Resistance
April 12, 2012 15:00 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MBAll this thinking has led to a higher-than-average consumption of wine and Bintang, a lot of power naps, Ian taking up hot yoga, and some epic brainstorming. Why are some ridiculous people successful? Why do otherwise brilliant ideas fail? Can you really source an entire business set-up buying gigs on Fiverr? The key, as outlined by Steven Pressfield in The Art of War, is resistance. Resistance is rarely obvious in it’s inception and even harder to identify once you are fully entrenched. That...
Episode 107: TMBA 107 (LBP97) – Entrepreneurial ADD and Free Content For Hustlers
April 06, 2012 15:00 - 22 minutes - 30.8 MBWho knew portable bars could be such a successful pursuit? Dan and Ian did, of course. And that’s where their time has been lately. Freestyling their content a bit this week, they take to their inboxes to answer some listener questions and discuss business strategy. Dishing out the free content for all the hustlers out there, ’cause it ain’t where you’ve been but where you’re about to go. Like a boss.
Episode 106: TMBA 106 (LBP96) – A Proposition : Start-Up August
March 29, 2012 15:00 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MBThings are exciting in the TMBA / LBP world as Ian and Dan work to put together a unique experience for 10 aspiring entrepreneurs. Start-Up August isn’t just some make money quick conference – if they wanted to do that there’d be a lot more hugging and Dan would bring his guitar to strum out some Kum-Ba-Yah ditties. Instead, this will be an intense three month mastermind process culminating in a two-week all expense paid experience at a resort in the Philippines. You know, that place that Dan...
Episode 105: TMBA 105 (LBP95) – Hiring Interns Right From The Start
March 22, 2012 15:00 - 23 minutes - 32.2 MBWith Ian back stateside and Dan back in Bali, the guys have said goodbye (for now) to their time in the Philippines and are back to biznass. This week, they are chatting about the re-launch of their lifestyle business site, Tropical Work Force. During their time chatting up colleagues and friends in the Philippines, they learned that many entrepreneurs were interested in hiring “interns” of their own to grow their businesses and share their knowledge with. Having been through this process ten...
Episode 104: TMBA 104 (LBP94) – 6 Financial Secrets of Lifestyle Business Ballers
March 15, 2012 15:00 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBEven though Dan & Ian’s travel adventures in the Philippines are winding down for now, they’ll be back. The folks they’ve been able to hang out with the past few weeks are straight ballin’, entrepreneurs and business owners with at least six figures kicking around in an account or five. Whether they’re hobnobbing with the Vice President of the Philippines or dirt biking through the jungle, they’ve been absorbing all the advice these guys have to offer. It isn’t all yachts and big payout inves...
Episode 103: TMBA 103 (LBP93) – The Single Most Important Entrepreneurial Skillset
March 08, 2012 17:00 - 33 minutes - 46.4 MBWhat good is a location independent lifestyle business if you can’t enjoy it? Dan & Ian join us from the beach at Badladz Resort in Puerto Galera where they have been adventuring around the shooting range, playing with go-carts on the back roads, cutting deals and hustlin’ connections like a boss, and relaxing/karaokeing with friends in various cities across the Philippines. Taking a break from pounding the pavement, this week they’re talking about the most important entrepreneurial skillset ...
Episode 102: TMBA 102 (LBP92) – Listener Questions: Manufacturing Advice, Biznass Models & Hacking Airport Lounges
March 01, 2012 17:00 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MBLike the ballers that they are, Dan and Ian recorded this week’s podcast from the ballroom of the hotel they are staying at in Cebu City as they travel around SE Asia visiting with LBP listeners and members of the Dynamite Circle. With the popularity of their recent podcast which answered listener questions (and their overflowing in-boxes asking more questions) they decided to hunker down and discuss some answers. This was all after they nommed a killer gourmet cheese plate in the business lo...
Episode 101: TMBA 101 (LBP91) – Are You a Hustler or an Entrepreneur?
February 16, 2012 17:00 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MBIan landed in Bali last Saturday and it’s been all-biznass-all-the-time as we make the most out of his time here. No one should be surprised that they were able to do all their prep at Starbucks before. Good Chai, Ian? ;) This week Dan and Ian discuss two of the most misunderstood words in business:Hustler and Entrepreneur Listen to this episode and learn about: 1. Entrepreneurs Writing Scripts, Hustlers Executing Scripts. 2. Self Confidence vs.Product Confidence. 3. Ego / Money Focus vs....
Episode 100: TMBA 100 (LBP90) – Rip, Pivot, and Jam: The Strategy That Launched Our Newest Product Line
February 09, 2012 17:00 - 33 minutes - 45.8 MBIan managed to pick himself up from a nasty spin-out on the racetrack this week to join Dan as they reveal their most recent product launch and discuss the strategy that they used to find the niche and then dominate it. Additionally, with listener questions pouring in they take the time to chat about some real problems people have experienced and how they might be able to get back on track. Listen to this episode and learn about: Picking up some contract work to bankroll savings and pay dow...
Episode 99: TMBA 99 (LBP89) – The Institutions of Marriage and Business Partnerships
February 02, 2012 17:00 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBDan and Ian invited the guys from AdSense Flippers on the show to chat entrepreneur to entrepreneur (to entrepreneur to entrepreneur!) about what it’s like to start a podcast, hire employees, and provide constructive criticism or feedback. Then they get into it and talk about the realities of business partnerships and what it’s like to build a life together. Listen to this episode and learn about: The high caliber of aspiring location independent interns and freelancers Why a business partner...