TMBA 090 (LBP82) – Podcasting, Launches, Bloggin’ about Bloggin’, and Chops – A Fireside Chat with Tim Conley

This week, Dan and Ian interview Tim Conley from the Foolish Adventure Podcast. Tim has been an internet entrepreneur for many years and focuses on information publishing and consulting.

Listen to this episode and learn:

How Tim got 7000 unique visitors on the day that he launched Foolish Adventure.
Why more product launches fail than you think
Why blogging and podcasting are still good businesses to get into, even though there are millions of competitors.

Have fun. Leave a comment. Give us a ring. 888-554-8428. Go make it happen! :)

Mentioned:

Foolish University
Foolish Adventure Podcast, check out this Episode with Ian
Dynamite Circle
Tropical Talk Radio
Pat Flynn
Sovereign Man
Matthew Paulson saved our WordPress installation from an attack. Thanks!
Potatoe Head Bali
Simon and David who stay at the TMBA house
Travis from SupremacySEO

Quick Tips:

Alfred App
Gmail keyboard shortcuts tutorial. Best way to get started is to incorporate 1-2 new shortcuts per day into your workflow. Also check out the official list of Gmail keyboard shortcuts.
House mixes – Upbeat House Short, Upbeat House Short, Relaxing Insistent 1 Hour

Call us with your questions or comments at 888-554-8428.

Episode length: 34:15

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Published on 11.24.11

Matthew Paulson

Thanks for the shot-out! I’m available for WordPress consulting if anyone needs something custom done / needs a pro-tip or two. matt [at] mattpaulson [dot] com.
Tim Conley

Hey, I just listened to the show. It’s good that you cut out the more profane moments. I was so sure we were recording Tropical Talk instead of LBP. Dan, I think we need to do another where I can at least give peeps some actionable info and not just Dan & Tim’s Biznass Philosophy Hour (which we should totally do as a podcast).
Dan

Rock!
Dan

haha! I listened back to it though there was a lot of great stuff in there! Yeah we got rid of our missteps!! Looking forward to having you back on the show :)
Joseph Magnotti

Wow totally agree with just getting stuff done vs long term project work. It’s tough because it’s so easy to focus on task work and not projects. I struggle with focus on the projects because it seem like the task based stuff brings in more money, at least short term (i.e. get the new sales page up) where as project work is more subjective in it’s momentary value.

Still Justin keeps me anchored and on point when it comes to projects. Plus Basecamp helps!
Joseph Magnotti

Dan I also noticed some reverb/echo in this episode. Similar to what we had in our episode 3. Were you in a small room, with the gain turned up?
Dan

in my testing, the gain did not affect this too much. basically, my bedroom has high ceilings and a tile floor…. i’d need carpet, plants, etc to get rid of this effect. It’s a real bummer, gotta figure out a solution to this. So far it’s been recording outside, but then we get white noise. In my experience, a little bit of environmental noise is way better than echo.
Dan

man impressed you guys can stick with Basecamp. Every 4 months we get pumped up to join again and just drop it like its hot.
Matthew Paulson

Hang a few blankets on the wall. It will do wonders for your echo.
Dan

great call there.
Damian Thompson

Great work again boys, love your work as you know.

One thing, when discussing electronic music at the end, you were joking about the “dead – mow – 5” pronunciation, right? You know it’s “deadmouse” surely… ;)
Dan

Word DT! Thanks for the shout. No idea what you guys are talking about here…
Tim Conley

Pillows on 3 sides of the mic work great for me. Cuts a lot of environmental noise too.
Tim Conley

For me the long-term stuff is harder to stay hyped about when you don’t have a partner just as hyped as you are, but it helps when you get feedback from customers that are loving your products.

I’ve been using Trello for project management because it is so simple I don’t have to change my workflow to fit it like I had to do when trying to use basecamp.

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