Episode 233: How to Build a Business You Can Run From Anywhere (FS233)

The Fizzle Show

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

As indie entrepreneurs, sometimes all it takes is a little travel break to remind us why we started our business in the first place.

Travel is amazing for inspiration and perspective.

As indie entrepreneurs it would be terrible to make a business that doesn’t allow you to travel.

Just think about that! You put all this work in to get your business WORKING.

Topic we care about… check.
Validated unique selling proposition… check.
Growth channel setup… check.
Minimum viable product tested… check.
…

(BTW, all those stages above are taken from our small business roadmap training. If you’re somewhere in that process, it’s definitely worth checking into.)

You do ALL that work just to create yourself into a prison you can never take a break from!? That’d be terrible!

But it happens all the time. And it can happen to any of us if we’re not careful.

So, in this quick article (and, more importantly, the super thorough podcast episode that goes with it) that’s what I want to help you figure out:

How can we setup a modern indie business so we can travel and live with flexibility?

Show Notes: http://fizzleshow.co/233

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0:00.0	I ended up feeling so much more restricted in my life.
0:05.0	And I had to work more hours.
0:07.0	It was just crazy.
0:08.0	I was an entrepreneur and had less control over my life than I did as an employee.
0:13.0	And here now the pendulum has swung the opposite direction,
0:17.0	and I have more freedom than I could ever imagine.
0:20.0	And I just think you can build businesses in different ways.
0:24.2	And you have to be very aware of that.
0:29.8	Hello and welcome to the Fizzle Show.
0:37.1	That's not my best air horn. That's not my best air horn.
0:38.9	That's not my best word.
0:41.7	That's not my best word.
0:43.3	This is the fizzle show where every week we talk to people who are earning a living doing something that they actually care about.
0:52.0	That's you.
0:52.6	You're the listener.
0:53.3	You're working to build something that you actually care about. That's you. You're the listener. You're working to build
0:54.7	something that you actually care about, all right? Because you can earn a living doing something
0:59.3	you don't care about. Might as well make your revenue, earn your revenue, doing something
1:04.8	you actually care about, making your mark on the world, doing whatever it is that you're into.
1:09.1	There's probably some creative way to earn a living doing it. that's what we're about here fizzle we call it fizzle because most
1:16.1	creative businesses fizzle out did you know that do you know most creative ideas they just like you
1:20.3	like have an idea you're like I'm working it out in my journal for a little while and then you know
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