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Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Episode 367: TMBA367: The Business Idea Bonanza with Dan Norris

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

🗓️ 15 December 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

http://www.tropicalmba.com/businessideas3/ A few weeks ago, Dan and Ian mentioned that they would be inviting their friend Dan Norris back onto the program.

Dan Norris is the author of The 7 Day Startup, and for lack of a better term, he is a business idea generating machine. There have been success stories on this show that came from many of Dan's business ideas.

In this conversation, Dan donates a ton of business ideas, as well as sharing how he has been able to create a six-figure side hustle through self-publishing books. If you are looking for your next entrepreneurial adventure, this could be the episode for you.

Transcript

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0:00.0

These days I know what I'm good at.

0:01.3

I know what I'm not good at.

0:02.7

And that's my best asset.

0:03.9

And I think like the people around you won't help.

0:06.1

In many cases, you know, the people who are the most positive and the closest to you

0:09.6

are going to hurt you so much by they just don't have the ability to be honest with you.

0:17.6

Hey, podcast listener.

0:18.9

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

0:23.5

you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better,

0:28.7

more profitable, location independent businesses.

0:31.6

If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog,

0:36.8

check out tropical MBA.com.

0:43.9

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I would be having Dan Norris on this program.

0:52.0

He's the author of the seven-day startup. And he is a business idea machine.

0:58.4

There have been success stories on this show that were ideas that were generated by Dan.

1:04.3

In this conversation, he's going to give tons of business ideas. And we're going to talk about

1:08.8

that at length. So if you're looking for your next

1:11.0

business or a new business, this is a great episode for you. I want to tell you a little bit about

1:15.2

how this one came about. Last month, Dan was speaking at our conference and I snuck out of work to go

1:20.9

to his talk. The talk was called the six-figure self-publishing side hustle. And it was a story about however the last few years he's written four books and that has become a business in and of itself.

1:34.8

The talk was so good that I walked up to him afterwards and I was like, hey man, you got to come share this on the pod.

1:39.6

So we are going to talk about how Dan generates book ideas, how he markets his books, how he puts them all out.

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