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Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Episode 130: TMBA 130 (TTR16) – Becoming a Mini-Mogul

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

🗓️ 3 August 2012

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Happy 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 opportunities to create services and products for people just like us– global-thinking lifestyle entrepreneurs– is massive.
We also take a few minutes to discuss some of the feedback we received on our last episode

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, you've made some kind of mistake because you've downloaded an episode of Tropical Talk Radio.

0:06.0

Ian, you want to hit the tunes?

0:07.4

Yeah, buddy.

0:08.4

Yeah, buddy, you've downloaded Tropical Talk Radio where we talk about all things, entrepreneurship, travel, and lifestyle.

0:15.2

If you're interested in more about this program, check out TropicalMDA.com.

0:19.9

And if you sign up for our mailing list, I will personally

0:22.5

send you 50 free podcast episodes that take you along on our journey and expose the insider

0:28.8

story on how we started a million dollar honest to goodness product business while we

0:33.6

travel the globe. All right, Ian, last week's episode, got a lot of comments, a lot of emails. Let's read some of them. Hater's going to hate it. I don't know why a blogger like you is so hung up on advising people not to blog. Sure, it's not for everybody, and for the most part. It's not a profit-generating activity.

0:55.0

But I don't think people want to hear that from a blogger.

0:57.7

No, they don't.

0:59.8

Here's the thing.

1:01.3

I think they need to hear it from someone that's on the front lines

1:04.1

and seeing good men go down on this one.

1:08.6

It's a war field out here, man.

1:10.4

And you know what?

1:11.6

I don't agree with a lot of the things that people say, like, you know, blogging is not

1:17.0

really a business model and blogging is not really a profit.

1:21.2

Are you serious?

1:23.0

Bloggers are crushing it, but you got to take a serious business approach to it.

1:26.8

And that's what I mean.

1:27.8

Blogging is a business model that allows you to, can embrace the resistance part of you, the part

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