Episode 035:

Pete and Dom’s Favourite Things

Pete Williams:    So, seriously you have to try Midori and milk. It’s actually quite nice as a drink. It tastes like Banana begin. Oh dear. Do you have Midori over there?

Dom Goucher:    I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Pete:                      The alcoholic mixer, Midouri?

Dom:                      Mate, you are well getting into this end of the year thing.

Pete:                       It’s new year’s. It’s what it’s all about.

Dom:                      Bailey’s will do me.

Pete:                       I think there are some Australian listeners who know what Midori is and who are cringing at the thought of Midori and milk. But trust me, one of their sales guys did it at a Christmas party a couple of years ago and it tastes remarkably good. Midori and milk. Sounds terrible, tastes delicious.

Dom:                      What kind of thing is it?

Pete:                      Well, Midori is like a green liqueur. Oh no, green is wrong.

Dom:                      That’s a drinking rule. Green is wrong.

Pete:                       Midori illusion shaker was like the thing when I was at the University. You go to the nurse’s bar which was one of the bars at, I used to go to the nurse’s bar quite regularly, the illusion shaker bar, and make Midori illusions and we’d get literally a shaker that you walk around the night club with a shaker bottle.

Dom:                     Oh dear.

Pete:                      Yeah. So it’s sounds terrible, Midori milk, but trust me and this is at Australians or who have access to Midor to just try it once, you know. A little bit of milk, a little bit of Midori, mix it with like a sort of, you know, any sort of drink at 30 mil shot with milk, and it will take you back to childhood. Because it tastes like a banana begin, like milk-flavored drink you buy at the corner store.

Dom:                     It was, it was one of the very first things we did.  And you very creatively came up with the name, The Shitweasels.

Pete:                      Before we get anymore with your dark past, I think we should get on with just, just to be safe. Pete Williams is not a medical professional and his advice is not -

Dom:                     No but this episode is Pete and Dom’s favourite things.

Pete:                      Yeah, yeah okay. I’m just getting a little bit worried about going to the nurse’s bar and last week you were talking about getting into Oprah Winfrey’s shoes. Just you know.

Dom:                     The university that I went to had a campus, a campus dedicated to nursing and so obviously there was a university town, and one of the bars was trying to target that sort of market, so obviously a lot of the guys went there as well, and they were trying to target that kind of market as well.

Pete:                      Dude, put the shovel down, step away from the hole. Okay?

Dom:                     Pete and Dom’s favourite things. Welcome to the final episode of our Preneurcast for 2011.

Pete:                     Last week, folks, we talked about our Shitweasel Awards – the things that influenced us the most in 2011 – and so, Pete, as you said last week, you wanted to do an Oprah Winfrey take off. I don’t think you were serious about wearing the shoes, but you never know. And we wanted to give some of this stuff away, just to say thank you for being a listener. But there are, as Pete mentioned, a few hoops for you to jump through, nothing serious, nothing dangerous, like drinking dodgy spirit.

Dom:                    It’s a mutually beneficial conversation we’re having on Preneurcast, put it that way.

Pete:                    There you go. Right, let’s keep this one short. Everyone’s spinning up to their New Year’s celebrations. So we’re gonna keep this one short, so let’s get in to it. Pete?

Dom:                    So basically, as Dom said, we’ve got a couple of things to give away to you guys, to the listeners. A whole range of cool goodies. Santa left a sack of presents last week. So basically what we’d like you to do, the contest, so to speak, is going until the end of January. So for those of you who are listening and catching up in 2012 you still have time to play along and get involved in this, to gain a chance, so to speak. So what we want you to do, why should we make it the best of? I want to clarify it in the next couple of pod casts, before the actual contest is finished, but right from the get go the best of these three things, so we can choose a winner by ranking system, so to speak. So fundamentally, you’ve got three choices. We’d like you to do two of these three things and then email us and tell us what you’ve done. So ideally we want you to do an iTunes review. Obviously for us. We want to continue to grow the listenership and things like that. A great way for us to do that is to get more exposure in the Apple iTunes Store. So all you need to do is head over to the iTunes Store, go to the podcast section and do a search for Preneurcast if it’s not already on the front page of the business section or the marketing section. Just do a search for Preneurcast and leave a glowing review of a particular episode or a show in general. That’s choice one. Choice two, we’d love you to do, is write a blog post. So if you have a blog, whether it’s a blog about your entrepreneural journey or even if it is a business blog, we’d love you to do a quick post about the Preneurcast – why you like it, what you’ve learned from it, your favourite episodes, stuff like that. And if you can, link over to preneurmedia.tv which is the home of the podcast. If you have a Twitter account, we’d love you to tweet about us, obviously we are worthy of course. We don’t want you to lie about these things. We want them to be completely honest reviews. If you think we’re crap, leave a review and you might win a prize for being honest. So just send a tweet about, hey we love what we do, it’s really handy, or you’ve tried something that actually works. So we’d like you to do three of those three things. Hopefully it’s not too much investment of your time. And then email us at support@preneurgroup.com, we’ll need some screenshots, some links to what you’ve done, so we can check it out, and we can link back to our blog to your site, give you a bit of SEO juice, a little bit of traffic as we would no doubt. We’d like you to do that. And then what we’ll do is, based on that we’ll pick the winner of each category based on who we think is the funniest, or the wittiest, or the most honest, of the things you do.

Pete:                     Absolutely. Now let’s clarify a couple of things here. First of all, please no one-liners on the iTunes Store. That would get everybody in trouble. If you haven’t got a legitimate review, good or bad, then take that one off the list, because you’re not adding value for people to put a silly review.

Dom:                    Yeah, give me the prizes!

Pete:                     Thank you, please don’t do that. And as Pete says, there’s something in this for you, because if you have a blog, and you put a blog post that’s useful and intelligent for other people, we will link back to you.

Dom:                    We’ll tweet it and give you a bit of exposure.

Pete:                     And similarly, tweet us and we’ll tweet you – that kind of thing. So this is a kind of mutually beneficial thing. It’s all about giving back. And the first thing we can do to give back to you is talk about you mentioned you linked back to you. Okay? We’d love iTunes reviews if you’ve got something useful to say. Because that obviously gets the word out on the iTunes Store. Any two of these three methods is really what we’re after. ANd then give us some proof to support at preneurgroup.com. And one thing I will say is that we’ve got a range of we’ve really dug around and one some cool things to give you as prizes. Now, some of them are quite specific. So if there’s something you’d specifically like, as your prize, if you’d want to make a bit of an effort when you send us what you’ve done, then mention that in your email when you email us. If you just say, hey great guys, thanks a lot, or whatever you got. That would be cool, super. But if there’s something specific, let us know and we’ll do our best to line that one up if you win.

Dom:                     So before we get into the cool stuff that we’re going to give a way, I’d like to say thanks again for listening to the Preneurcast all year, and to those who left reviews and stuff like that, we really do appreciate that because this podcast is not driven by sponsorship or anything like that, we do it because we enjoy it. And having reviews is a great way to show all those people that they’re really listening to us. And the people who are really engaging with us are probably a better way to say it. So if you do enjoy the show and you’ve been listening for a while, an iTunes review is the perfect way to say thank you and it really just does take 15 seconds to do. And we really appreciate you doing that. So let’s get into the cool stuff that we have on offer, it’s kind of Pete and Dome’s favourite things. First one is a Lumosity membership for two months. It’s an online brain training service or app that I mentioned previously. It helps you increase your memory and trains your brain to be better.