Episode 282: TMBA282: Starting With Productized Services: Learn a Skill, Package It For Sale, Then Scale
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
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http://www.tropicalmba.com/shopifyninjas/ A few weeks ago we did a show called "An Episode For Those Who Need a Business Idea". We got so much great feedback from that episode, and looking back at it, we realized it has become part of a series that we have developed about productized services. This episode is the natural progression of that series. The first person that I thought of when I wanted to continue that discussion was Tristan King from ShopifyNinjas.com. Tristan has a lot of thoughts on how you can build productized marketing services and scale them. He will also be sharing his view and advice for getting started from somebody in their third year of a productized services business, and a few of his business ideas that he believes could be winners for the TropicalMBA listeners looking to start a business.
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| 0:00.0 | These fish have manners. In fact, they're coming with me. I'm starting a new company, |
| 0:06.9 | and the fish will come with me. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey, podcast, listener. Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, |
| 0:16.8 | right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe |
| 0:21.6 | seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:26.2 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:31.4 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:46.3 | If you're a few of the world, A few weeks ago. A few weeks ago, we did a show called an episode for those who need a business idea. |
| 0:47.7 | I was just looking at the comments. |
| 0:51.8 | There's so many people interacting there, almost 100 comments, people talking about, hey, I launch that service, or I have that service, or I want to buy that service. And so thank you for donating your ideas and for participating with other |
| 0:58.0 | people who are starting businesses based on that show. I looked at that episode and I realized |
| 1:02.2 | that it's actually part of a natural series that we've been developing here at the podcast |
| 1:07.5 | about productized services, in particular about productized marketing services. You know, everything, I don't know if you remember way back in the day, we were talking to John McIntyre, the autoresponder guy, up through Authority Engine, up Ben Krueger's podcasting editing service through Damien Thompson and the rise of product-tied services, an episode that was extremely popular last year. And I thought to myself, you know, |
| 1:31.7 | could we make another episode that would sort of contribute to this series? And maybe we could lay this out so people could download it as a series. And so that's what we're going to do |
| 1:36.0 | here today. The first person that jumped into my head is Tristan King. He has a great business |
| 1:41.1 | called Shopifyinjans.com. He has a lot of thoughts about how you can build productized marketing services, how they |
| 1:47.6 | progress through one, your first and second year, which are where most people get snagged |
| 1:52.4 | up outside of getting started. |
| 1:54.1 | And we're going to talk about his view and advice for people getting started from the third |
| 1:58.2 | year of a successful location independent productized service |
| 2:02.0 | business. |
| 2:02.7 | So in the first part of this episode, I've actually asked Tristan to donate some more ideas |
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