Episode 131: TMBA 131 (TTR17) – How We Increased Email Subscribers 257% By Making it Harder to Opt-in
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2012
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
How does a lazy blogger increase their email subscription rate by 257% and in the process get an automatic sales machine working for them and generating sales in their sleep?
Well– you could hire John McIntyre— but for those of you who have teams or willing to do it yourself, we invited John on the show to get the details on how he did it.
It’s also time for us to offer another Tropical MBA internship here at Badladz resort in Puerto Galera, Mindoro (sorry, so much for the “no more interns” thing), so it’s good timing to ask John about his experience here in the Philippines plus the business and skills he’s been building over the past year.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy, happy hour, everybody. |
| 0:01.2 | It's Tropical Talk Radio. |
| 0:02.3 | Grab your drink of choice. |
| 0:03.8 | We've got ours. |
| 0:05.4 | So far today, we've braved rain, thunder, and earthquake, apparently. |
| 0:10.1 | I don't think a podcast can hurt. |
| 0:11.7 | Yeah, buddy, you've downloaded Tropical Talk Radio, |
| 0:14.3 | where we talk about all things, entrepreneurship, travel, and lifestyle. |
| 0:18.1 | If you're interested in more about this program, |
| 0:20.6 | check out tropical |
| 0:21.5 | MBA.com. And if you sign up for our mailing list, I will personally send you 50 free podcast episodes |
| 0:28.5 | that take you along on our journey and expose the insider story on how we started a million |
| 0:34.3 | dollar honest to goodness product business while we travel the globe. |
| 0:42.3 | All right guys, we're here with Ben from On the rack.com, John McIntyre from TropicBBA.com and DropDeadCopy.com. |
| 0:50.3 | Recently, John is the man behind the plan at TropicalM MBA.com. He's the one who launched the |
| 0:56.4 | TMBA crash course. You haven't yet seen it. It increased our opt-in rate by. What's the |
| 1:01.9 | percentage, Johnny? 257%. That's not bad. We're going to get to that, but first, I know I said |
| 1:09.0 | we'd get away from internships at the tropical MBA so I'm again |
| 1:12.6 | exposed as a liar so of course we're gonna launch two more no more future talk three more |
| 1:17.6 | yeah it's actually yeah it gets worse no more future talk on the blog we've got three opportunities |
| 1:23.8 | coming down the pike but one is similar to the one that you have been enjoying |
| 1:27.5 | and i say enjoying for the last uh eight months 10 months 10 months it's almost coming up on a year |
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