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Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Episode 166: TMBA 166 (LBP142) – The Hiring Golden Triangle

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

🗓️ 14 February 2013

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Happy Valentines Day from the fellas at The Lifestyle Business Podcast. Everybody’s back together this week to bring you some love. Ian has determined Tokyo to be his favorite Asian city and Dan has returned from some business (and pleasure) in the Philippines.
Dan and Ian discuss hiring, when to use interns vs. VA’s vs. professionals and how this can have a profound impact on your business’ growth. They have also been getting an incredible amount of emails, reviews and feedback from everybody so the fellas take some time to answer your most pressing questions, concerns and confessions.

Transcript

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0:00.0

That's a horrible idea.

0:01.4

Horrible.

0:06.7

Hey, podcast, listener.

0:08.3

Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial pursuit, know that today, right now, in your earbuds,

0:13.5

you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs all around the globe seeking to do the same thing you are.

0:19.3

If you want to know more about this program or this podcast,

0:22.6

or want to get barraged by a lot of annoying pop-ups,

0:25.6

check out our website,

0:26.9

Lifestyle Business Podcast.com.

0:36.0

Yeah, buddy, it's episode 142 of the Lifestyle Business Podcast.

0:39.1

This is the podcast where we believe really named Business is the best way to create more personal freedom and opportunity in your lives than the lives of those around you.

0:46.8

Those around me is my captain, my co-host, a man who recently auditioned for the lead role in Good Bill Hunting.

1:11.9

Good to see you, man. They can't hold us down, can they? It's back in the same room. Happy Valentine's Day. If you guys stick around at the end of the episode, we'll teach you how to scientifically decide if it's the right time for you to hire. This is a direct response episode to a lot of questions we received via email after H is for a hire episode. There's a lot more to talk about on the topics. We're going to jam out some of that. Plus, we're going to share with you some

1:14.8

advanced level inbox strategies. Ian, we're in the same room here in Bali. You're back from

1:20.6

Japan. What's the story? Japan is awesome, buddy. I can't wait to bring you there and show you

1:26.4

everything that I learned I got a

1:27.7

couple pictures from you of a fancy road cars that was kind of uh there's a lot of fanciness going on in

1:32.9

Japan it's this weird mix man it's this it's a super weird mix it's probably my favorite

1:38.7

Asian city in the world and Tokyo we're talking about you didn't really get out of Tokyo

1:43.5

Asian city in the world Asian city yes, we're talking about. You didn't really get out of Tokyo. Asian city in the world. Asian city. Yes. Speaking of dominant cultural scenes, I spent a week in DeVal, hanging out with the ASF guys. Actually, it was on the last episode of AdSense Flippers podcast talking about the concept of the resistance and how to overcome that creative tension. So do check out episode 37 of the AdSense Flippers podcast. Love seeing Joe, Justin, Damien, all the cool guys down in Davao City. So that was great. Also, me and you were working on some of those Europe plans. By the end of the week, we are going to be booking tickets. So our itinerary looks like about the 4th of April, we're going to be heading into Paris,

2:35.1

then we're going to be on to Rome, and then on to Berlin. Correct. In Berlin is where we're going to have our DC meetup. That's the, I don't know if this is going to become a tradition. We're going to see, I know for sure that we're going to be doing the Bangkok every year, but we kind of feel in. Bangkok, October 19th, mark your calendars. It's going to be roll out the red carpets, put the marching bands on. But this Berlin meetup is going to be fantastic too. I think we've sold 55 tickets, ballpark. So I think there's like 15 or 20 tickets left. If you want one of those tickets, email me this week, Dan, at Lifestyle Business Podcast. All right, we've got some iTunes reviews.

2:52.4

Please put the effects on for Da Bomb Diggity, five stars.

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