#799 90-Day Growth Plan in 10 Questions
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
What if 90 days from now, your business was sharper, more focused, and positioned for real
growth? In this episode, Dan walks you through a simple but powerful 10-question framework
designed to help you identify your biggest challenge, clarify your team’s focus, and uncover new
opportunities to stand out in your market.
This is the same exercise that 7- and 8-figure founders in DC BLACK worked through on their
recent trip to Phuket—a way to step back, reset strategy, and get clear on what matters. Grab a
pen and follow along. You might walk away with a concrete plan for the next 90 days.
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CHAPTERS
(00:02:16) Biggest challenge and next steps
(00:05:20) Focus
(00:07:11) Understand your customer
(00:11:32) Positioning
(00:14:42) Innovation and unique advantages
(00:20:02) Network
(00:21:44) Business model
(00:23:53) Team
(00:25:25) Cadence & leadership
(00:27:21) Bonus
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Ian “at” tropicalmba dot com
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PLAYLIST
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Thursday morning, everybody. Welcome back to the Tropical MBA podcast. All right, let's clarify your 90-day growth plan using just 10 deceptively simple questions. |
| 0:24.2 | These are questions that we use in our own multimillion dollar business and we use with our seven and eight-figure clients. |
| 0:30.5 | The concept is this. |
| 0:32.3 | The more your business grows, the simpler we need to be able to communicate to everyone involved |
| 0:39.2 | about where we are headed in the next 90 days. And as a bootstrapper with limited resources, |
| 0:46.0 | we need to find clarity and focus. So stick with me for these 10 questions. They will help you do |
| 0:52.5 | just that. I'm actually working off of a document, |
| 0:55.8 | which wherever you're listening to this, you can download the document and go through this |
| 1:01.1 | yourself. And this is the sort of thing that I will go through with my clients, with our members. |
| 1:05.8 | And it is a little bit interesting how quickly you can answer the questions. |
| 1:14.2 | It's a good sign if you are ready with the answers. |
| 1:16.1 | It's also a good sign. |
| 1:23.1 | On the other hand, if you have to dig in, each of these questions could be a day, a multi-day workshop. |
| 1:25.9 | And for me, I've spent six months on some of these questions, |
| 1:28.0 | but sometimes you've got these things sorted out. |
| 1:29.8 | You can answer them quickly and move on. |
| 1:38.7 | What I've noticed, for example, when a lot of our members come to our events, they will get all these ideas for their business. |
| 1:41.4 | And they will write pages of notes. And then they will come back to their team and brain dump. |
| 1:45.5 | And the problem is that your team already, they have jobs, they have a lot of |
| 1:49.8 | responsibilities they're already working on. |
| 1:52.2 | And they're not actually getting clarity from you. |
| 1:55.5 | They're getting complication, but worse without the context. |
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