Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Episodes
Episode 53: TMBA 053 (LBP53) – 5 Myths About Successful Internet Businesses (+Transcript)
09 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dan and Ian talk about 5 common myths about internet businesses. Other topics include using video to enhance your online presence, freight forwarders,...
Episode 52: TMBA 052 (LBP52) – A Fail Proof Method For Success
02 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dan and Ian have a special guest: @SeanOgle. Sean is a successful online entrepreneur who works with Dan and Ian. Together, they disc...
Episode 51: TMBA 051 (LBP51) – 5 Signs You Might be a Loser
26 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dan and Ian talk about 5 signs why you might be a loser. These are 5 common issues that hinder entrepreneurial progress. The right mi...
Episode 50: TMBA 050 (LBP50) – A Naughty Way to Start Your Business for $300 – Part 2
14 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Dan and Ian continue their discussion on how to finally get started with your business for $300 or less (part 1 here). After deciding on your p...
Episode 49: TMBA 049 (LBP49) – A Naughty Way to Start Your Business for $300 – Part 1
12 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of people have been asking for more content focused on getting started with your online business. This is fun content for us to produce because ...
Episode 48: TMBA 048 (LBP48) – 4 Mistakes That Cost Us 5k in 2010
08 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Hey podcast listeners, we are back in a big way in 2011. We are going to see some incredible changes in 2011, most notably, Ian and I bought a company...
Episode 47: TMBA 047 (LBP47) – How Being an Axeman Can Help Grow Your Business
02 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
To be honest, the days I’ve had to fire employees have been some of the most difficult in my entire life. Moving on these tough decisions is critica...
Episode 46: TMBA 046 (LBP46) – How to Waste 20k on a Web Application
24 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most common questions I’m asked is about how to get a web application developed. Many people have great ideas for new web technologies an...
Episode 45: TMBA 045 (LBP45) – 5 Ways to Ninja Kick Analysis Paralysis
19 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve got so many cool things coming up here on the podcast including my made in India software screw up mid next week, our internet marketing summi...
Episode 44: TMBA 044 (LBP44) – Biz Failures: Crashed Crotch Rockets, Blowing $6K, and 30 Days in China
20 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
an and I have both been manufacturing products in China for over 5 years. In this episode we talk in detail about our plan to be a distributor of spor...
Episode 43: TMBA 043 (LBP43) – 4 Weeks, $80,000 Dollars
13 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Hey party people, I just stepped foot back in Manila and I’m catching up on mounds of email. This episode was recorded about a week ago. We have had...
Episode 42: TMBA 042 (LBP42) – [Use at Your Own Risk] Develop a Revenue Stream with the PIVOT Method
27 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
YO! How are you? I’ve been back in the old USA for over one week now and I’m having tons of thoughts about it (its been over a year!) I hope to wr...
Episode 41: TMBA 041 (LBP41) – Two Four Hour Work Week Fallacies
18 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Hello from the good old USA, I believe this is our first 100% USA ‘cast in over a year. Yeowwwza! This is a big long episode where we talk about a w...
Episode 40: TMBA 040 (LBP40) – How to Create a 100 Dollar Information Product in 48 Hours
09 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Hello from Bali! I really like it here. So far Bali is proving to be charming, sophisticated, and beautiful. Certainly a nice break from the Philippin...
Episode 39: TMBA 039 (LBP39) – 4 Tips for Deciding if a Market is Worth Attacking
30 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Hello from Malaysia! Well everybody I’m almost ready to hop on to a plane to meet up with @anythingian in BALI of all places. We are both long overd...
Episode 38: TMBA 038 (LBP38) – How to Lose Weight and Make Money Online
09 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Yeah buddy welcome back to another episode of the Lifestyle Business Podcast, got a little hung up there on timing we’ve been doing a lot of traveli...
Episode 37: TMBA 037 (LBP37) – 5 Listener Questions about Location Independence and Business
29 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve been spending so much time responding to emails it finally dawned on me that I could respond with a podcast. WOW. Sometimes I am slow. That’s...
Episode 36: TMBA 036 (LBP36) – Offices are So Old School
21 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Hey you guys are good for a lot of things but nobody stepped up to tell me getting an office was one big fat stupid idea! JOKE! Kidding…No, I think ...
Episode 35: TMBA 035 (LBP35) – 4 Things You Should Never Do in Your Business
13 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Heya everyone– I gotta say I feel I am SUPER qualified to talk about stuff that you shouldn’t do in your business. I’ve made a million mistakes,...
Episode 34: TMBA 034 (LBP34) – 5 Principles That Work for us That the Internet Marketing Gurus Can’t Sell
06 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Part of the reason Ian and I love Gary Vee so much is that he talks about some basic business fundamentals that don’t get brought up by many online ...
Episode 33: TMBA 033 (LBP33) – How to Pick a Niche that Makes Money, and Six Tips on How to Be a Millionaire in Three Years
28 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dan and Ian discuss a post by Jason L. Baptiste of Cloudomatic made on Hacker News on how to be a millionaire in three years (or a really short time)....
Episode 32: TMBA 032 (LBP32) – How to Create a $6000 Dollar a Month Site in 5 Months, and Tips on Niche Selection
21 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dan and Ian talk about how they built a site that generates $6000 in revenue in five months and some great tips on niche selection. They also discuss...
Episode 31: TMBA 031 (LBP31) – 3 Tips for Profitable Networking
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dan and Ian discuss why you should become an expert in your industry, and ways you can become one. They also talk the importance of networking, and ho...
Episode 30: TMBA 030 (LBP30) – How We Manage Our Finances and Minimize Taxes, Plus LLCs vs Corporations
07 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dan and Ian talk about how they manage their finances, the challenges of an LLC and how to hypothetically minimize your tax burden. Dan also briefly ...
Episode 29: TMBA 029 (LBP29) – Get To Know Your Team, 3 Internet Marketing Tips That Require Hustle, and Info on the Tropical MBA II
25 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dan and Sean talk about the importance of getting to know your team, old school marketing tips that will really get you to hustle, as well as Sean’s...
Episode 28: TMBA 028 (LBP28) – How to Visualize Your Target Revenue and Find Your Five Hours
16 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 27: TMBA 027 (LBP27) – How to Build a Membership Site, Pre-launch, and Virtual Relationships with Tyrone Shum
14 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dan and Tyrone Shum discuss how to build a membership site, how to execute a successful pre-launch, and how to cultivate online relationships with oth...
Episode 26: TMBA 026 (LBP26) – Why I’m Not Publishing Another Podcast (Myself)
09 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
A housekeeping episode where Ian and I talk about the future of this show and how our business is evolving around it. Its a good one for you folks who...
Episode 025: TMBA 025 (LBP25) - How to Make Money Online
03 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 24: TMBA 024 (LBP24) – Why Chris Ducker Wants to Manage 200 Employees from His Laptop, and What it Takes to Make It
31 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The audio quality of this podcast starts off pretty rough and then improves around the 2:00 mark. Chris Ducker and I got together in Manila last week ...
Episode 23: TMBA 023 (LBP23) – One Way Out of the Rat Race, and a Killer Blog Success Story with Sean from Location180.com
30 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Sean is the recipient of the first paid internship for aspiring digital nomads, The Tropical MBA. As you can tell from the interview, Sean is a super ...
Episode 22: TMBA 022 (LBP22) – How We Got Milked for Thousands of Dollars Outsourcing, Our Only Automation Secret, and A Market Where Fortunes Will Be Made
14 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is in interview style. Ian thought it would be cool to dredge up the whole narrative of how we got inspired to start outsourcing and all ...
Episode 21: TMBA 021 (LBP21) – How We Are Making a Couple Hundred Thousand Dollars and the Most Exciting City in the World for Internet Businesses
22 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Heya everyone, this is the first episode where we get in to deal-making. We’ve been really busy as I’m sure you can tell if you listen to the epis...
Episode 20: TMBA 020 (LBP20) – 3 Things on Our Mind – Selling, Passion, and Vision PLUS How Social Media Changed our Thailand Experience
30 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded in the same room(!) in Phuket, Thailand, on one of our quarterly global meet-up brainstorming extravaganzas. Hope you’ll ...
Episode 19: TMBA 019 (LBP19) – Season 2 is Here – 8 Business Principles We Wish We Knew Before Starting Our Business
21 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Hiya podcast listeners, thanks for dropping by our site. Ian and I are currently on a goal-setting retreat in Krabi province, Thailand. On Saturday we...
Episode 17: TMBA 017 (LBP17) – 6 Shady Business Tactics We Use to Grow Our Business
21 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this episode before our lawyer makes us take it down!
Episode 18: TMBA 018 (LBP18) – A Crash Course in Article Marketing and How to Outrank Your Competition on Google
21 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
I gave a ring to my SEO expert and good friend Tom to give us that crash course in article marketing I promised in earlier. If you enjoy Tom’s advic...
Episode 16: TMBA 016 (LBP16)– Baselining and Creative Start-up Scenarios in Asia
20 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
I’m pullin’ in quick excerpt from Gary Vee about baselining. We’ll discuss creative start up scenarios in Asia, ask how hungry are you, introduc...
Episode 15: TMBA 015 (LBP15) – 4 Ways to Sustain Passion in Your Business
19 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve also determined that there are two types of people in the world: those who are crushing it, and those who are not. Look around the room right ...
Episode 14: TMBA 014 (LBP14) – Our 4 Hour Work Week Success Story
15 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
We read the 4 Hour Work Week, wrote down some goals, and started a company. Over 2 years later, we’re here to tell you about it. Plus some other st...
Episode 013: TMBA 013 (LBP13) – Procrastination and a Task’s Entrepreneurial Lifespan
09 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 12: TMBA 012 (LBP12) – 10 Great Software and Tech Services We Use to Help Run Our Business
28 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Hey everybody, we are back with a list of 10 inexpensive online software services (and some other tools!) we use to help us run our businesses and sta...
Episode 011: TMBA 011 (LBP11) – Travel Hacking, Flashpacking, and Super Lightweight Backpacking
06 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 10: TMBA 010 (LBP10) – An Insider’s Look at Outsourcing in the Philippines
23 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first episode recorded from two corners of the globe (the Philippines, and San Diego California). Today we take an insider’s look at out...
Episode 9: TMBA 009 (LBP9) – One Major Myth About Entrepreneurship (And More!)
05 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we explore one major myth about entrepreneurship, how to program your brain, and why home owners give bad advice. We also give a parti...
Episode 8: TMBA 008 (LBP8) – How to Overcome Fear
27 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
I was really inspired by Frank Kern’s recent videos with Tony Robbins on how to overcome fear– I pulled out a fear-beating technique I’ve used o...
Episode 7: TMBA 007 (LBP7) – Common Sources of Passive Income for Lifestyle Designers
25 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Lifestyle designers need passive income, or at least sources of income that aren’t tied to time or location. Let’s call it “results based mobile...
Episode 6: TMBA 006 (LBP6) – What is the Fastest Way to Grow Your Business?
22 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to everyone who wrote us great questions on the last podcast. This episode is about the single most important thing we think you can do to grow...
Episode 5: TMBA 005 (LBP5) – Flashpackers Travel the World While Running Their Businesses Part 2
15 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Ian and I finish up our discussion about 10 key differences between business flashpackers and more traditional backpackers. You can fo...
Episode 4: TMBA 004 (LBP4) – Flashpackers Travel the World While Running Their Businesses Part 1
09 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we get started with our 2 part conversation about a select group of entrepreneurs who have decided to create businesses while they tr...
Episode 3: TMBA 003 (LBP3) – 10 Unexpected Benefits of Quitting Your Job
04 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Lifestyle Business Podcast, my friend Ian drops by to discuss 10 unexpected benefits of quitting your job to start your own bus...
Episode 2: TMBA 002 (LBP2) – 10 Signs You Are a Lifestyle Entrepreneur, or Lifestyle Designer
02 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
First, thanks to everyone who signed up on the mailing list last week, and to those of you who have submitted questions for this week. You can ask you...
Episode 1: TMBA 001 (LBP1) – How to Identify a Product
29 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Fresh out of the oven, here is the first episode of the Lifestyle Business Podcast, I’m really excited to get things kicked off, and I’ve jumped r...