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Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

#802 The 10 Behaviors Killing Your Business — Masked as Productivity

Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen

Digital Nomad, Business, Ecommerce, Society & Culture, Amazon, Founders, Cash Flow, Places & Travel, Founder, Business Owner, Cashflow, Management, Entrepreneurship, Million, Operator, Operations, Profits, Distributed Team

4.9527 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Some of the “smart moves” founders make might be signs of hidden resistance. This week, Dan and Ian break down 10 behaviors that can quietly kill momentum, from expanding marketing channels too early to pausing sales during busy stretches. They also dive into why scaling too soon backfires, the hidden risks of declining assets, and what happens when you delay building management layers.

CHAPTERS

(00:00:13) Introduction
(00:01:09) Understanding Resistance in Business and In Life
(00:04:51) A Balanced Marketing Diet (Finally!)
(00:09:15) Pause Selling Because We’re So Busy!
(00:12:03) Keeping Team Members Maximally Busy
(00:16:08) Cutting a Clever Deal With a Declining Asset
(00:20:47) I Simply Won’t Do ideas That Don’t Scale!
(00:25:01) I’m Going to Quit My Job!
(00:28:04) The Myth of the Great Idea
(00:32:11) I’m Re-Investing In My Product!
(00:35:38) Building an Audience: Start With The Basics
(00:38:33) Should I Build Out a Management Layer? Tempting!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Happy Thursday morning, everybody.

0:15.3

Welcome back to the tropical MBA podcast.

0:18.9

Why is it so hard to kick off the podcast even in the 800s, Ian?

0:23.9

I think you just said the same thing so many times,

0:27.3

but you actually start to believe it.

0:29.0

And then you're like, oh, my gosh, it's true.

0:31.8

This is the place to grow a lifestyle business from your laptop.

0:36.3

That's right.

0:37.2

That's what we're doing here.

0:38.3

It's fun.

0:42.3

It's productive.

0:43.3

The outcomes are ridiculous.

0:44.3

You can live anywhere.

0:45.3

You can manage your own time.

0:47.3

You can control how much money you're making.

0:48.3

But we do face a bunch of challenges.

0:50.3

And today we are going to talk about 10 of them that come direct from listeners.

0:57.2

Me and you on the phone with listeners, dealing with problems anywhere from the first few

1:02.5

hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue or just that we're starting to make money on

1:06.2

the internet all the way up to the mid and seven figures and eight figures.

1:10.0

So the stories we're going to share on the show today come from a wide variety of businesses,

1:14.4

but they all share the same thing, which is that in a lot of these cases,

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