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TMBA 30 (LBP30) - How We Manage Our Finances and Minimize Taxes, Plus LLCs vs Corporations
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 discusses three software tips while waxing on his new MacBook, while Ian reveals one program that could potentially change their business.
TMBA 29 (LBP29) - Get To Know Your Team, 3 Internet Marketing Tips That Require Hustle, and Info on the Tropical MBA II
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 experience on the Tropical MBA and his first impression of the Philippines.
TMBA 28 (LBP28) - How to Visualize Your Target Revenue and Find Your Five Hours
Dan and Ian talk about visualization techniques and finding work that you're passionate about.
TMBA 27 (LBP27) - How to Build a Membership Site, Pre-launch, and Virtual Relationships with Tyrone Shum
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 other entrepreneurs.
TMBA 26 (LBP26) - Why I'm Not Publishing Another Podcast (Myself)
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 have been around a while!
TMBA 25 (LBP25) - How to Make Money Online
Hey everyone, I think a lot about the make money online niche. I have tons of friends who are making BANK in that space and they are providing real value to the marketplace. There are so many folks talkin' smack but I'm not really sure all that is necessary. I weight in here with my thoughts and a few quick announcements about the podcast.
TMBA 24 (LBP24) - Why Chris Ducker Wants to Manage 200 Employees from His Laptop, and What it Takes to Make It
Chris Ducker and I got together in Manila last week to talk about a broad range of sweeeet business goings ons, we turned on the tape recorder for some of it. Here I've published the parts pertaining to the lifestyle elements of running his business, We Live 2 Care Group.
TMBA 23 (LBP23) - One Way Out of the Rat Race, and a Killer Blog Success Story with Sean from Location180.com
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 sharp guy and doesn't need my help to achieve success. Ian and I are really fortunate to be able to work with him for the first semester of the program. Sean brings up tons of awesome principles in the interview. You can find Sean at Location180.com.
TMBA 22 (LBP22) - How We Got Milked for Thousands of Dollars Outsourcing, Our Only Automation Secret, and A Market Where Fortunes Will Be Made
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 the mistakes we made along the way.
TMBA 21 (LBP21) - How We Are Making a Couple Hundred Thousand Dollars and the Most Exciting City in the World for Internet Businesses
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 episode! We are excited to touch base with everyone who is listening. It's been so great to hear from everyone who's contacted us. I really like this kind of content and I'm hoping we can do more high-level deal making stuff in the future. We also talk a lot about outsourcing opportunities in the Philippines.
TMBA 20 (LBP20) - 3 Things on Our Mind - Selling, Passion, and Vision PLUS How Social Media Changed our Thailand Experience
This episode was recorded in the same room(!) in Phuket, Thailand, on one of our quarterly global meet-up brainstorming extravaganzas. Hope you’ll enjoy some ideas we are cooking up. You can connect with us on twitter, if you are in to that kind of thing.
TMBA 19 (LBP19) - Season 2 is Here - 8 Business Principles We Wish We Knew Before Starting Our Business
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 are going to the famous (infamous?) Koh Phi Phi to have a blast, but for now we are busy setting goals and working on some big projects for 2010.
TMBA 18 (LBP18) – A Crash Course in Article Marketing and How to Outrank Your Competition on Google
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 advice, I’m sure I can hook him into more regular appearances, just let us know your SEO questions! As I said, this guy has 1000’s of dollars locked up in his head! We are not sending out emails for every episode, that means you need to pull our itunes feed or RSS feed (both links on sidebar and header) in order to get immediate updates. Twitter doesn’t hurt either! @TropicalMBA
TMBA 17 (LBP17) – 6 Shady Business Tactics We Use to Grow Our Business
Listen to this episode before our lawyer makes us take it down! I mentioned this interview from Mixergy: Thursday, Dec 17 @ 11 AM Pacific live on Mixergy.com(currently available via Mixergy feed on iTunes). Colin Plamondon, Founder of Spreadsong
TMBA 16 (LBP16)– Baselining and Creative Start-up Scenarios in Asia
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, introduce the concept of resort hopping, and the future of Asian lifestyle destinations as marquee locations for new online based entrepreneurs and start-ups.
TMBA 15 (LBP15) – 4 Ways to Sustain Passion in Your Business
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 now– see anybody who is crushing it? We know you are crushing it!
TMBA 14 (LBP14) – Our 4 Hour Work Week Success Story
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 stuff.
TMBA 13 (LBP13)– Procrastination and a Task’s Entrepreneurial Lifespan
This is a pretty informal podcast that outlines 2 challenges I’ve faced in the past week when it comes to being effective and getting stuff done. I thought I’d share with one tactic and one mindset I’ve employed that’s helped me to get some tough stuff done and get on with growing my business.
TMBA 12 (LBP12) – 10 Great Software and Tech Services We Use to Help Run Our Business
Hey everybody, we are back with a list of 10 very inexpensive online software services (and some other stuff!) we use to help us run our business and stay productive. All of these services are either very inexpensive or free, and can be implemented in your business immediately. Hope you enjoy!
TMBA 11 (LBP11) – Travel Hacking, Flashpacking, and Super Lightweight Backpacking
In this episode I outline the one simple lightweight packing tip that changed my approach to traveling forever. Next week we'll be back with more business.