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Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Episode 125: TMBA 125 (LBP112) – The Importance Of Niche Flexibility And Finding The Real Reasons People Are Successful

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

🗓️ 19 July 2012

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Dan 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 various niches and products they have pursued over the years (they edited out the 30 minutes of feisty heated discussion in circles) and how they decided to pursue them.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, everybody.

0:00.7

We've got three quick email tips from the boss, number one.

0:04.0

Number one, don't tell me not to print out this email. If I want to print it out, I'm going to print it out. And when is this the last time you printed out an email anyway? Does anybody still do that? Number two. Don't thank me in advance for something that I haven't done for you yet. Thank me when I'm finished because I didn't actually agree to do it yet. And number three

0:22.8

Don't invite me done for you yet. Thank me when I'm finished because I didn't actually agree to do it yet.

0:28.8

And number three, don't invite me for the final, final time. Don't invite me to your LinkedIn network. I'll see you at lunch tomorrow. Let's start the episode.

0:38.4

Hey, podcast listener, even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial pursuit, know that today,

0:43.5

right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs all around the

0:48.1

globe seeking to do the same thing you are.

0:51.0

If you want to know more about this program or this podcast or want to get barraged

0:55.4

by a lot of annoying pop-ups, check out our website, lifestylebusinesspodcast.com.

1:06.5

Yeah, buddy, everybody, it's Thursday morning. That means it's time for another lifestyle

1:09.7

business podcast. Today I'm joined by my comrade. My co-hostess with the mostus, and hey, everybody, it's no

1:15.6

coincidence that Who's the Boss was canceled the year he was born. Welcome to the program, Ian. How has

1:21.4

Vietnam been treating you? Vietnam has been awesome, man. I've been here for two weeks, and I've been

1:26.6

loving it. Vietnam, it has so much to offer. I've been here for two weeks and I've been loving it.

1:35.5

Vietnam, it has so much to offer. I started up in the north and I'm working my way down to the south where I will see you in Saigon tomorrow.

1:39.3

Very cool. We got a phone call from Jesse. You want to listen to it?

1:40.2

Absolutely.

2:35.2

Hey, Dan, this is Jesse. I just want to thank you for the Lifestyle Business Podcast and let you know that you and Ian really are rocking it. You guys have your own style. You guys got original content, original styles. You guys really got it together. I appreciate it. Hey, Jesse, man. I appreciate it. If you guys want to leave us a message that really warms our heart to hear that kind of stuff, you can go to Lifestyle Business Podcast.com, click the record button on this post and you can leave us a message too. By the way, Ian, some people have been emailing me saying that they've been, they've missed the information about our tropical MBA stuff or they, you know, they missed the information about the event. If you never want to miss anything, you got got to get on our mailing list. That's the only way you can be sure to make sure to hear about this stuff. So you can find that at Lifestyle Business Podcast.com, and we promise to send you some cool stuff, including our first 50 episodes, if you sign up. Ian's on the list. He loves it. It's not's not that annoying right no actually I'm not on the list but I imagine it's not that annoying what

2:39.6

it's gonna take to get you on the list man what do what how many times I've got

2:42.7

to bring it up to get you on the list all right all right I'll sign up I'll send you

2:47.8

good stuff man I'm gonna send you the first 50 episodes all right initially I put my spam email just in there but maybe I'll put my good stuff, man. I'm going to send you the first 50 episodes. All right. Initially, I put my spam email just in there, but maybe I'll put my real one. Joseph sent us an email, including his photo for our Who-Ware section. Love to see that, Joseph. Thanks for all the support you've given us over the last few years here at the LBP. I actually met Joseph in New York City. Are you going to be in New York City in September as well, Ian?

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