Would Tim Ferriss's Business Model Work for Other People?
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Pat Flynn
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🗓️ 6 October 2016
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Today's question comes from Abel, who asks about how Tim Ferriss's business model compares to mine. Tim doesn't seem to focus as narrowly on a niche as I do—is that a bad business model? Tim was my guest on Smart Passive Income Episode 51 (http://smartpassiveincome.com/session51) and Episode 110 (http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/session110). I also discuss Ramit Sethi (http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/) and Gary Vaynerchuk (https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/). Do you have a question about starting a business? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.
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| 0:00.0 | AskPath. |
| 0:07.0 | www.com |
| 0:09.0 | AskPath. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey what up, everybody. |
| 0:12.0 | Paplin here and welcome to episode 708 of Ask Pat. |
| 0:15.0 | Thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:17.0 | As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week. |
| 0:21.3 | Cool. |
| 0:22.0 | All right. |
| 0:23.7 | Now, here's today's question from Abel. |
| 0:25.4 | Hey, Pat. |
| 0:34.3 | My question would be about the podcast and just general business activities and business model of Tim Ferriss. |
| 0:41.0 | Because if I'm looking at the advice that I'm getting from you, from people like Ramit Sethi, it always kind of comes down to select a field or an area and become a world |
| 0:48.6 | class expert in it and produce excellent world class content. |
| 0:52.8 | So become a superstar in one specific area, more so than just really good in multiple |
| 0:58.1 | areas. |
| 0:59.4 | And what Tim Ferriss does is pretty much the opposite of that. |
| 1:02.9 | And for that reason, actually, I'm not even really following his blog because I don't |
| 1:06.4 | even know what I'm going to get where I go there. |
| 1:08.7 | He's doing a bit of powerlifting and a bit of business and some habit forming and productivity and dating and whatever. Like he's just not |
| 1:16.1 | really anchoring himself down in any particular field. And do you think that that is a dangerous |
| 1:23.1 | model for most of us to follow? I think it is personally, but I would be very curious in your |
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