#825 How to Instantly Improve Your Lead Pipeline by 20-50%.mp3
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Most founders are leaving money on the table without realizing it. Are you one of them?
This week, Dan and Ian break down how a tiny shift in how you handle leads can completely change your pipeline. Plus, a counterintuitive approach to networking and why big brands are paying founders to create content.
LINKS
Hang out with us at DCBKK this October
Connect with 7+ figure founders and join us in NYC this December
This week’s sponsor: https://spp.co “Your billing, onboarding & projects in one client portal”
“Amp It Up” by Frank Slootman
Harvard Business Review: “The Short Life of Online Sales Leads”
MIT Lead Response Management Study
“The 4-Hour Work Week” by Tim Ferriss
Remote First Recruiting: Hire Your Next Remote Team Member in 21 Days or Less
My First Million Podcast
22 FREE business resources for location-independent entrepreneurs
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:01:01) Business Idea: “Lifestyle” Services for 7-Figure Businesses
(00:08:30) How to Improve Your Lead Pipeline 20-50% Overnight
(00:11:50) How Responding Faster to Leads Impacts Your Business
(00:16:46) Sponsor Shout-out: SPP.co
(00:17:47) Conference A or Conference B?
(00:19:38) Business Idea: Partner Podcast with Big Bucks Brand
CONNECT:
Dan@tropicalmba.com
Ian@tropicalmba.com
Past guests on TMBA include Cal Newport, David Heinemeier Hannson, Seth Godin, Ricardo Semler, Noah Kagan, Rob Walling, Jay Clouse, Einar Vollset, Sam Dogan, Gino Wickam, James Clear, Jodie Cook, Mark Webster, Steph Smith, Taylor Pearson, Justin Tan, Matt Gartland, Ayman Al-Abdullah, Lucy Bella.
PLAYLIST:
The Outsourcing Shake-Up: LATAM vs. Philippines
Financial Traps, Profit Truths, and What’s Next at TMBA
“Build It Like You’re Gonna Sell It” (Dan’s “Amp It Up” Review)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Thursday morning, everybody, welcome back to the Tropical MBA podcast where we help you build a six, seven, eight, or beyond figure business from your laptop from anywhere. |
| 0:23.5 | That's the promise. Let's get into it. Welcome back to the podcast, Bossman. |
| 0:27.6 | I was just thinking about that. You got a business so big, you got to turn your phone sideways. |
| 0:31.9 | So the calculator has enough zeros. That's the type of business that we're talking about. |
| 0:36.1 | Yeah, we're going to landscape mode today. |
| 0:38.4 | One of the ways you can do that, we're going to talk about how to improve your pipeline by 20 to 50% |
| 0:43.5 | overnight, quite literally overnight, not hyperbole. We'll get into that. We're going to talk about |
| 0:50.2 | a business idea I have for anybody doing media on the web. |
| 0:55.9 | So I want to do a live workshop with you. |
| 0:58.2 | And I haven't prepped you that much. |
| 0:59.7 | So we'll end the episode with that. |
| 1:01.3 | First, I want to jump into some business ideas here at the top that was inspired by a talk we were having about taxes. |
| 1:09.9 | So the question is this, Ian, why is it hard for sizable |
| 1:14.4 | businesses to be in love with their CPA? If you were to take a poll of the room at a DC Black event, |
| 1:21.8 | these are founders who are doing a minimum of a million dollars a year, sometimes in upwards of |
| 1:26.5 | eight figures. And a lot of the feedback that |
| 1:29.3 | they have about their relationship with their CPA is pretty me. And I think this is interesting. |
| 1:35.2 | I don't think it needs to be like this. And I think this represents an enormous business opportunity |
| 1:40.8 | for founders. Like how do you grow a great business? You sell expensive things |
| 1:46.6 | to people with a lot of money. Well, if you run a $3 million business, guess what, you have a lot of |
| 1:51.4 | money, but you're not often satisfied with the level of professional services you're receiving. |
| 1:58.0 | And the jigsaw puzzle doesn't take too long to pull apart, Ian. Like, |
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