PreneurCast: Entrepreneurship, Business, Internet Marketing and Productivity

In the first episode of 2012, Pete and Dom discuss the power of using Checklists and Frameworks in your business, and how you can use high-tech or low-tech solutions to make them work for you, whatever your business

Action Step: Identify a process in your business that could benefit from a checklist or framework and write out that checklist

Bonus Action Step: Go back listen to Episode 35 to find out how you can enter our competition and win some of our favourite things from 2011

Tech Tip: Use a simple tool like Powerpoint or Keynote to make your checklist look more interesting then either print it out or use the Export as Picture option to save it as an image that you can use as a desktop wallpaper image so that it's always available

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- Books:

The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande

Pitch Anything - Oren Klaff

Moonwalking with Einstein - Joshua Foer

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In the last show of the year, Pete and Dom give something back to you, the listeners with a competition to win some of their favourite things from previous shows, and there are a few announcements about what's coming in 2012. Listen in to find out more.

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It's the end of the year (almost) and in this episode Pete and Dom discuss their 2011 Awards. Categories include: Books, Software, Hardware, Podcasts, Training Courses, Services and Blogs.

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- Books:

Built to Sell - John Warillow

Pitch Anything - Oren Klaff

- Software/App

Dropbox

Evernote

Zite (iPad)

- Hardware

Doxie Scanner

EyeFi Card

iPad

Livescribe Smartpen

- Podcast

I Love Marketing

Mac Power Users

- Course

Dan Kennedy's Influential Writing

Immediate Edge (there's a $1 trial right now!!)

- Service

http://www.shoeboxed.com/

http://JustReadItFor.me

- Blog/Site

http://www.noise.re/

http://www.macsparky.com/

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/

http://www.marco.org/

- Documentary

Comedian - Jerry Seinfeld

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This week Pete and Dom discuss the top 5 books they would recommend to someone who was getting started in business.

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- Pete's Top 5 Business Books for Beginners:

Influence - Robert Cialdini

The Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki (Based on Rules for Revolutionaries)

The Little Red Book of Selling - Jeffrey Gittomer

Guerilla Marketing - Jay Conrad Levinson

How to Turn Your Million Dollar Idea into Reality - Pete Williams (get this for free at http://preneurmarketing.com)

- Pete's Honourable Mentions

My Life in Advertising/Scientific Advertising - Claude Hopkins

Business Model Generation - Alexander Osterwalder

- Dom's Top 5 Business Books for Beginners:

The E-Myth - Michael E Gerber

Rework - Jason Fried

Built to Sell - John Warillow

Why We Buy - Paco Underhill

Pitch Anything - Oren Klaff

- Dom's Honourable Mentions

Flinch - Julien Smith

- Online Resources:

http://JustReadItFor.me - Awesome service that publishes detailed business book reviews

http://audible.com - Audio Book subscription service

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Pete's back from his Ironman race and, while he recovers, this week Dom takes the lead to talk about the idea of Minimum Viable Product and, more importantly, the JFDI methodology.

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- Books:

The Lean Startup - Eric Reis

4 Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss

4 Hour Body - Tim Ferriss

Go For No - Andrea Waltz and Richard Fenton

- Online Resources:

http://www.preneurmarketing.com/challenge - The Challenge - Free Internet Marketing Training

http://preneurmedia.tv/hostgator - Get your domains set up with hosting and get a site put on them

http://www.noblesamurai.com/blog/ - Pete and Dave's free Outsourcing training is available on the Noble Samurai Blog (including Pete's Content Leverage Workflow)

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It's finally time for Pete's Ironman Triathlon race this week. But before he undertakes that challenge he talks to Dom about Zero Based Thinking, and how it can help in many different areas of business and life in general.

This week, Pete and Dom delve into the world of note taking and discuss the merits of Evernote as a place to file your reference materials, among other cool tricks and tools for capturing information.

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- Books Mentioned:

Getting Things Done - David Allen

MindHacker - Ron Hale-Evans, Marty Hale-Evans

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning - Andy Hunt

- Other Links:

noise.re/duction - Pete's Weekly newsletter of cool stuff

Evernote.com - Store everything online

IFTTT.com - IF This Then That service

This week, Pete and Dom discuss positive constraints - what they are and how they can help you focus, be more productive and achieve your goals.

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- Books Mentioned:

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Influence - Robert Cialdini

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning - Andy Hunt

- Other Links:

http://www.7LeversCalculator.com - Don't forget the awesome online tool to help you see the effect of improving your figures for each of the 7 Levers of Business. Created by Preneurcast listener Lee Turner (@leeturner)

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Pete and Dom announce PreneurMedia.tv, the new site for the Podcast, and they discuss the book Pragmatic Thinking and Learning. They focus on the idea of learning more about the tools you use every day as a simple way to improve your overall efficiency.

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- Web Links:

http://preneurmedia.tv - PreneurMedia.TV - the New Home of Preneurcast

http://www.screencastsonline.com - Screencasts Online - Excellent resource for finding out about new and existing Mac Software

- Books Mentioned:

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

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Product Launches have become very popular in recent years in the Internet Marketing community. This week Pete and Dom discuss Product Launches for both online and offline businesses, with the example of Pete's relaunch of Selling the MCG.

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- Books Mentioned:

Influence - Robert Cialdini

- Other Links:

http://www.preneurmarketing.com/productlaunches - Jeff Walker's Product Launch Formula

http://owntheg.com - Pete's site selling Melbourne Cricket Ground Memorabilia

http://preneurmarketing.com/mcgswipe - Case study of how Pete re-launched his MCG site

http://www.7LeversCalculator.com - Don't forget the awesome online tool to help you see the effect of improving your figures for each of the 7 Levers of Business. Created by Preneurcast listener Lee Turner (@leeturner)

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or drop us a line at: [email protected]