Episode 389: TMBA389: TMBA Mailbag: How Can I Get Started on My Own Business?
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/getstartedqanda/ One of the requests that Dan and Ian have received a lot on this show is to do more of an old school episode; the kind of one-on-one conversation that permeated the early days of this podcast.
On this week's episode, they are doing just that. Dan and Ian are reaching back into the TropicalMBA mailbag and answering questions that listeners have submitted through the mailing list on a variety of topics, including advice for entrepreneurs who don't know where to begin, why being an entrepreneur means that you might lose a lot of friends, and what the two of them have been up to lately.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey podcast listener, 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. |
| 0:17.8 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:23.0 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:33.8 | Welcome to another episode of the TMBA podcast. It is Thursday morning, depending on where you are. Thank you so much for letting us be in your earphones. Dan, how are you? That's where I like to be, right in the buds. All right, that was very professional. Thank you. Yeah. It's almost like you've done it 400 times. Are we up to 400 yet? Not yet. We're getting there. Any ideas for special apps? Happy to hear them. Speaking of ideas, many listeners of this show have requested an old school Dan and Ian get on the phone and talk for 25 minutes episode. Here we are. So here we are. We're going to do that. No problem. Lots of listeners have went over to tropicombea.com |
| 1:12.1 | slash subscribe. Signed up for our newsletter. Occasionally on the newsletter we'll send out question like this, which is, what do you want to hear us talk about on the pod? And so if you don't mind, Ian, I'm going to read some of those emails to you, and we're going to answer some of them today. |
| 1:26.0 | Cool. |
| 1:26.4 | Let's do that. |
| 1:29.9 | There's do that. |
| 1:30.9 | There's a question. |
| 1:36.3 | Everybody's shouting out a question. |
| 1:37.4 | All right. |
| 1:39.3 | First email is from Mike. |
| 1:41.2 | Reaching into the mailbag here. |
| 1:47.2 | What's a non-business goal that's useful? He's using the word KPI. Hot take. Do you know what that stands for? Key performance indicator. Got it. So KPI's |
| 1:54.9 | we use in our business to figure out if things are going in the right direction. And so Mike's asking, |
| 1:59.6 | in your personal life to do stuff like this, like books read, you know, |
| 2:03.4 | Audible badges, so Audible.com badges, |
| 2:06.3 | top us eaten or not eaten. |
| 2:09.0 | Does a healthy mind, body, and soul lead to better decisions? |
| 2:13.3 | If so, then should there be a KPI for that? |
| 2:18.4 | Keep up to great work. Thanks, Mike. |
| 2:19.1 | What say you? |
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