TMBA474: “You’re Not Working With Clients Anymore, You’re Working With Customers”
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/tommyjoiner/ Dan and Ian are back to kick off 2019, and looking forward to another 52 podcasts about how to grow better, more profitable lifestyle businesses.
What better way to start the year than by addressing a topic that so many listeners are constantly reaching out to us about?
On this week's episode, we are speaking with Tommy Joiner. Tommy is the co-founder of ContentPros, which is a productized business that offers high-level content generation services.
Tommy joins us today to talk about how to create a successful productized business, rather than getting stuck in a freelancer, consultant, or agency model.
This is something that we know a lot of entrepreneurs are struggling with, and Tommy shares some valuable insight into how he was able to make this transition, as well as his top 4 tips for starting a successful productized service.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, podcast, listener. |
| 0:05.1 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:09.7 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:14.9 | 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 | TropicalMBA.com. |
| 0:31.7 | Hey, you, welcome back to the TMBA podcast. |
| 0:35.2 | Of course, this is the pod where in 2019, we intend to bring you 52 episodes |
| 0:39.6 | every Thursday morning designed to help you grow a better lifestyle business, one that you can run |
| 0:45.0 | from anywhere on the planet. To that end, today's interview is with Tommy Joyner. He's the co-founder |
| 0:51.4 | of contentpros.io, which is a quality content generation business. |
| 0:57.9 | And the angle specifically we're going to talk about, and I know a lot of TNBA listeners are interested |
| 1:01.9 | in this, is how to create a successful product-ties service rather than getting stuck in a freelance, |
| 1:08.1 | consultant, or agency model. So you're not working with clients anymore. |
| 1:12.5 | You're working with customers. |
| 1:13.5 | The relationship's a bit more transactional. |
| 1:15.5 | You're not focused on results as much as you are providing just something that people need |
| 1:19.9 | in general. |
| 1:21.5 | Now, Tommy is going to share some really cool insights that really resonated with me. |
| 1:26.2 | And specifically, we're going to talk about the skills |
| 1:28.1 | that you do and importantly don't need. And I've often talked about on this show, I think one of |
| 1:33.6 | the historical accidents that helped me in my entrepreneurial journey was that I didn't have a |
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