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Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Episode 380: TMBA380: Who Is Tracking You?

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

🗓️ 16 March 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

http://www.tropicalmba.com/uglymail/ Dan and Ian have talked many times on this podcast about how the best ideas often come from scratching your own itch, or finding problems for solutions that you have experienced.

Lately, Dan has had a very specific itch. Email tracking software has really been getting on Dan's nerves these days, so much so that he has even written a recent blog post about how much the industry is upsetting him.

Enter Sonny Tulyaganov. Sonny was feeling some of the very same frustrations with email tracking software that Dan has been experiencing, but Sonny decided to do something about it. He developed a browser plugin called UglyMail, which allows you to see who is tracking your email.

On this week's show, you'll hear the history of how Sonny developed this plugin, and the startling revelations about just how much of the information in your inbox is at risk.

Transcript

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These tools can be used for really bad, bad behavior.

0:03.5

I understand big companies, yeah, fine.

0:06.0

For marketers, fine.

0:07.2

But now that it's developed for personal use, like where do you draw the line?

0:14.8

Hey, podcast listener.

0:16.3

Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey,

0:18.8

know that today, right now in your earbuds,

0:20.9

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

0:26.1

more profitable, location independent businesses.

0:29.0

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

0:34.2

check out tropical MBA.com.

0:43.8

Thank you. catalog. Check out tropical MBA.com. We often talk about on the podcast how the best ideas come from scratching your own

0:49.2

itch. That's finding problems for solutions that you yourself have experienced because

0:54.0

if you've had them, there's a really good chance that you yourself have experienced because if you've had them,

0:55.4

there's a really good chance that you're not alone.

0:58.0

And speaking of not being alone, I'm not alone today.

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Hey.

1:01.3

Hey, all right.

1:02.3

There you are.

1:03.9

So, Ian, one thing that really got my goat recently, so much so that I wrote sort of a rantee blog post about it a few weeks back,

1:12.4

and blogs are pretty good for getting something off your chest, is email tracking.

1:17.0

So software like streak and yesware let senders know whether, when, and even where you've opened

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