Episode 418: TMBA418: The Services Problem
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/theservicesproblem/ Last week, Dan and Ian spoke to Greg Gerber on this podcast.
During that conversation, Greg mentioned that he had recently interacted with many listeners of this show, and that a large portion of them owned services businesses.
He also spoke about how he believed that those entrepreneurs were struggling to take the next step in their business.
This insight into the audience of the show got our hosts thinking. What if they could help those entrepreneurs take that next step?
On this week's episode, Dan and Ian will be talking at great length about what "The Services Problem" is, as well as sharing three strategies that entrepreneurs with these types of businesses can employ in order to solve it.
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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, check out |
| 0:23.5 | Tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:32.0 | We had an episode a few weeks back with Greg Gerber. |
| 0:36.1 | And you remember the one I'm talking about? |
| 0:37.8 | I do. |
| 0:38.4 | I was listening back to the transcript of this conversation, |
| 0:41.5 | and he said something that was like kind of a tire screech moment. |
| 0:45.6 | Like he dropped a kind of a bomb and then moved past it. |
| 0:50.0 | And I want to go revisit that right now. |
| 0:51.5 | So the context of the conversation is that Greg had just |
| 0:55.1 | finished speaking with handfuls of the listeners of this podcast. And I was sort of like, well, |
| 1:01.1 | who are these people? Like what's going on with them, you know, like that kind of question. |
| 1:05.3 | And here's what Greg had to say. There's a lot of people who are in like service-based businesses or are like in coaching or in |
| 1:13.8 | providing some kind of a service and maybe they have like a skill set. And I don't know, |
| 1:20.1 | I'll surprise how many like service people there were and people with skill sets and people who |
| 1:23.8 | are coaching who consider that to be like their business and they're trying to |
| 1:29.7 | figure out how to grow their business and I thought it was interesting that to figure that out |
| 1:35.4 | is kind of like the next step and I don't know there's a lot to figure out there. |
| 1:41.0 | You know, I thought today maybe we could reflect on this insight just a little bit because it resonated |
| 1:46.8 | with me. |
| 1:48.1 | And it's something that I've, I'll call it today the services problem. |
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