Episode 337: TMBA337: The Power of the Pickle
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/pickle/ One of the fastest ways to gain freedom from a location or a 9-to-5 job is to sell your skill set and your time as a freelancer. When you do that, you can create problems that might not rear their head for years.
On this week's episode, Dan and Ian are speaking to Russ Perry from Design Pickle. He began his entrepreneurial career doing just that, and when we first heard from him in 2014, he was in the process of dissolving his first business and starting from square one. In less than two years, Design Pickle now has 20 full-time employees and just last month, they billed 90k in recurring revenue. On this show, you'll hear all about that journey, as well as a pretty in-depth discussion about our collective affinity for delicious pickles.
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| 0:00.0 | I mean, my blank slate was pretty blank slate. |
| 0:02.5 | It was like, you have no business. |
| 0:04.5 | There's no revenue. |
| 0:05.7 | You have nothing. |
| 0:06.6 | And you got a ton of financial obligations. |
| 0:09.4 | You've got to make sure you get figured out in like less than 30 days. |
| 0:16.4 | Hey, podcast listener. |
| 0:17.9 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, |
| 0:21.2 | right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe |
| 0:26.0 | seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:30.6 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:35.8 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:45.2 | Why do we talk about product-tized services so much on this show? |
| 0:48.6 | I think we talk about product-tied services so much on the show because it is an evolution of what was a traditional |
| 0:55.3 | agency. Not only that, but an evolution of being a freelancer and selling your time for money. |
| 1:01.2 | One of the fastest ways to get free from a job and a location and say a nine to five is to take |
| 1:06.9 | your skill set and to sell it to others in the terms of billable hours, weeks, or projects. |
| 1:12.4 | When you do that, you end up creating another world of hurt for yourself that might not |
| 1:17.5 | rear its head for years down the lane. Today's guest was one of those people, Russ Perry from |
| 1:22.4 | Design Pickle, who I became aware of in 2014 when he came into our forum, Ian, and he basically said, |
| 1:28.3 | I'm dissolving my business. I'm kind of at square zero, and I need some help here. |
| 1:33.2 | That was in September 2014. |
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