Episode 347: TMBA347: Levelling Up Your Podcast
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/podcastprocess/ About a year ago, Dan and Ian were working on their annual DC BKK event in Bangkok, and they were finding themselves strapped for time. They weren't putting the kind of resources or time into this show that the would have liked to, and they realized that the enjoyment that they were getting out of this podcast had started to wane.
It was around that time that they decided they needed to drastically step up the production level of the show. They put out a call for a new producer, which was answered by a former BBC producer named Jane Beresford.
This week's episode is the story of what has been going on behind the scenes of the Tropical MBA podcast since then. You'll hear about what led to the decision to increase production, and a step by step instruction on how they were able to take this show to the next level.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We need a plan. |
| 0:02.3 | Let's play dead. |
| 0:06.8 | Hey, podcast, listener. |
| 0:08.3 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:21.0 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:26.2 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:35.9 | This week's episode could also be called How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pod. |
| 0:41.8 | See, it's in the middle of summer, and for most businesses, things slow down. |
| 0:45.2 | But not for us. |
| 0:46.0 | Here's the TMBA behind the scenes. |
| 0:48.2 | We're pulling together all the planning for our major event that we hold in Bangkok every year. We call it DCBKK, where we bring |
| 0:56.3 | listeners of this show together from all around the world. And there's just a lot to do. And so, |
| 1:02.2 | generally speaking, in the middle of summer, you know, my energy level for the podcast would wane. |
| 1:07.5 | And it would be like, you know, Wednesday night, I'd be like, oh gosh, what are we going to do this Thursday? And I think the quality really suffer, but also, you know, my enjoyment of the pod |
| 1:16.1 | really suffered. So last year, around this time, I decided to do something about it. We brought in some |
| 1:21.6 | outside help. So today's episode is really the story of what's been going on behind the podcast |
| 1:26.5 | and what we've learned by |
| 1:28.5 | adding a whole new process to the show. We'll be mentioning a handful of resources on this episode. |
| 1:33.3 | If you'd like to see the show notes, you can check them out at tropicalmba.com slash |
| 1:37.5 | podcast process. What I'm going to share today is from a talk that I recently gave at one of our conferences |
| 1:52.3 | aimed at people who have podcasts. |
| 1:54.9 | It might be interesting. |
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