Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Today Ian and I braved some of Indonesia’s craziest roads to find ourselves a treat from home– American coffee! We fired up our new Blue Yetti mic to share some war stories from a million dollar year in our business, waxed philosophic about the magic of being an expat, and shared some critical strategies for our business in 2012.

This week’s episode features Rob Walling from Software by Rob and Startups for the Rest of Us. Rob runs several online niche businesses (mostly software). Dan and Ian are huge fans of Rob and are super excited about having Rob on the show. Listen to this episode and learn: How you can speed-up your (entrepreneurial) learning by years Rob’s favorite books An exciting new SEO tool for bloggers and e-commerce store owners – get more traffic with little effort In the quick-tips you’ll learn of a Mac software tip, Ian’s favorite headphones, the best mic for audio recording and a plane-travel hack. Have fun. Leave a comment. Give us a ring. 888-554-8428. Go make it happen! :)

***Please note this episode is extremely explicit and potentially offensive. The F-bomb is prominently featured. If you don’t like ignorant dudes shooting from the hip, I say man, don’t bother. In this episode of TTR we also get a little negative, which is something we wouldn’t do on the Lifestyle Business Podcast. The LBP is focused on being useful for entrepreneurs. Tropical Talk Radio is more about being fun, and being real. Hopefully we can entertain and inspire for a certain subset of twisted entrepreneurial brethren.

Last night I sat down with Ian, Travis, and Simon before we went out on the town to discuss some cutting edge SEO techniques that are working for some highly competitive key terms (all a bit naughty, of course!). We also got an inside look on how Simon created his ecommerce store from scratch in less than a year, and how he is out-maneuvering the big guys with some clever tactics

This episode is primarily focused on tax strategies for Americans. My friends David and Carrie McKeegan were kind enough to host a pool party the other day, so I decided to bring along my mic to learn a little bit more about expat tax tricks. They run a very successful expat tax consultancy called GreenbackTaxServices.com. It’s a fantastic example of a scalable “micro-multiational” lifestyle business. It’s enabled David and Carrie to travel as the please and live in some amazing places. David said something that caught my attention the other day. He said if you are an American traveler or an expat, the single most profound financial decision you can make is to qualify for the earned income exclusion. His caveat was “if you make under 500,000K annually in personal income.” That’s, ahem, most of us…

Dan and Ian got together to talk about some grey hat SEO, internet marketing and business tricks. Topics discussed include How to get media/magazine mentions for your products. How to make Search Engines believe that your sites are being updated regularly (this is important for rankings). How to get more people to open e-mail blasts you send them. How (manufactured) drama can create a buzz around your product. And much more. In the quick-tips you’ll learn of a tool that makes you a better writer and how to make your audio sound better. This Sunday the price of DynamiteCircle, our community for entrepreneurs will go up forever. Join today and get locked in at the low price-level for life. Have fun. Leave a comment. Give us a ring. 888-554-8428. Go make it happen! :)

It’s no secret that Ian and I love podcasting. Our heros are people like Howard Stern and Adam Carolla. Their shows (and many other radio programs) helped keep us company while we worked long hours at crappy jobs, and they continue to keep us laughing while we take long plane flights or just a walk around the block. Over the past few years, our podcast has attracted an audience of high calibre entrepreneurs and professionals. Each episode is downloaded by thousands of individuals (or iTunes clients). So far we’ve created 79 episodes, and received an insane 87 5-star reviews on iTunes. YEAH BUDDY!!! Tropical Talk Radio Should Be in iTunes This Week So why create a new podcast? For a long time now, Ian and I have wanted to produce more shows. We have a lot more to share than 10 to 20 minutes of talk a week. Building businesses is our whole life. This isn’t just a hobby! We thought about putting out more informal shows at the LBP feed, but were hesitant to mess with the integrity of that show. It’s got a solid format, loyal fans, and a strong focus on highly actionable, useful business information. With Tropical Talk Radio we’d like to explore a format that allows us to share some more personal thoughts about life, travel, business, and anything else that is on our mind. We’d also like to share more of our experiences as they happen on the ground. We have interesting conversations with amazing people everyday. Why not start turning on the recorder? Our goal here is to create a show that focuses a more on entertainment, inspiration, and narrative. It’ll be more about having a good time. Basically, we don’t want to have to live up to the standards we’ve set for ourselves! I’d also like to warn you, this new podcast will contain very explicit language and content, and will likely reveal facets of our personalties that aren’t as universally palatable. I’m sure we come off as total d-bags to plenty of people– that’s fine, we aren’t going to edit ourselves on this show. Please listen at your own discretion.

This week’s episode features a very special guest: Sebastian Marshall. Dan, Ian and Sebastian talk about how to hack performance and get more shit done. Topics discussed include Time tracking and how it works. Diet optimisation. Neural enhancer supplements. Putting a dolar value on your time. The equal odds theory (or: why Einstein was more successful than the average scientist) In the quick-tips section, Dan and Ian talk about caffeine and an excellent productivity blog. Do you want to take your business to the next level? Learn from other successful entrepreneurs and check out DynamiteCircle, our community for entrepreneurs. Have fun. Leave a comment. Give us a ring. 888-554-8428. Go make it happen! :)

This week, Dan and Ian talk about what they would do if they were to start from scratch in 2011. The answer might surprise you. Dan and Ian also ask a bunch of listener questions, including How to increase your chances of success when applying for a job (or the Tropical MBA)? How to be persistent? What should I do if I have no time and ressources to start a business? In the quick-tips section, Dan and Ian talk about the latest iOS version and their favorite iPhone apps. Do you want to take your business to the next level? Learn from other successful entrepreneurs and check out DynamiteCircle, our community for entrepreneurs. Have fun. Leave a comment. Give us a ring. 888-554-8428. Go make it happen! :)

This week, Dan sat down with DCers Joe and Justin from AdsenseFlippers (one of Dan’s favorite blogs) to talk BIZNASS. These guys have a ton of hard-won business experience, an incredible story, and a scalable, repeatable business model that you can quickly draw lessons and inspiration from. WE LOVE THIS BLOG. These guys are 100% legit, quality business guys with a great lifestyle biz. Go subscribe now, you won’t be disappointed. Do you want to take your business to the next level? Learn from other successful entrepreneurs and check out DynamiteCircle, our community for entrepreneurs. Have fun. Leave a comment. Give us a ring. 888-554-8428. Go make it happen! :)