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How to Build an Internet Business, There’s an Interview for That!

Anthony Doctolero — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:08:37 +0000

Do you want to learn how to build a successful Internet business?

If your answer is “no,” then stop here, do not pass go, do not collect $200 (homage to Monopoly, one my favorite boardgames of all time).

If your answer is “yes,” then keep reading because the answer is quite simple, watch or listen to the interviews on Mixergy.com — all of them.

Want to learn how to start an Internet business, how to raise venture capital, how to build community, how to get links to your site, how to get people to pay for services, how to create compelling content?….there’s an interview for that!

Mixergy.com, “home of the ambitious upstart,” provides free video interviews (at least for now) with successful Internet entrepreneurs. The interviews are conducted by Andrew Warner, an accomplished Internet entrepreneur in his own right with his own fascinating roller coaster of a story where he took his company to $30+ million a year in sales.

Mixergy.com has 100+ interviews on the site and is chock full of nuggets of wisdom for entrepreneurs. Andrew asks all the tough questions and really tries to get to the heart of what made the entrepreneur successful with their respective website business. He has done interviews with people who have been-there-done-that and is slowly growing a valuable library for startups to gain insight.

I’ve watched or listened to just about every interview on Mixergy. Below are some of the interviews on the site I recommend.

I also encourage you to follow @AndrewWarner on Twitter to get the latest updates on who he is interviewing next.

My suggested interviews on Mixergy.com

Wikipedia’s Founder On How The Site Was Built & Promoted. – with Jimmy Wales

How Threadless Got People To Buy Over A Million Tshirts A Year. – With Jeffrey Kalmikoff

How 99designs Built A $5+ Million Marketplace In 16 Months. – With Matt Mickiewicz

How A Quiet Developer Built Goodreads.com Into Book Community Of 2.6+ Million Members – with Otis Chandler

How To Build Your Online Community –The Mateo Gutierrez Interview

How To Erect A Pay Wall That Generates Revenue – with Wil Schroter

Why This VC Showered With Construction Workers And Why You Must Also Be Willing To! – With Mark Suster

How Being Scrappy Made Grasshopper Profitable Within 2 Months – with Siamak Taghaddos

How The Owner Of “Fail Blog” And “I Can Has Cheezburger” Keeps Racking Up Wins – With Ben Huh

How Maponics’ Founder Learned To Sell To Companies Like Google & CitySearch – With Darrin Clement Maponics

The JibJab Story. Maybe The Most Inspiring Mixergy Interview Ever! – With Gregg Spiridellis

Bootstrapping Lessons From 37 Signals — The Jason Fried Interview

Small Changes That Helped UserVoice Raise $800,000 From Investors. – With Marcus Nelson

What Does It Take To Build A Successful Online Company? – With Michael Jones

How A Musician Built A $22 Million Dollar Business From His Home. –The Derek Sivers Interview

How Blogs Helped The Four Hour Work Week Become a Best Seller – The Timothy Ferriss Interview

3 Ways to Protect Your Privates and have fun doing it

Anthony Doctolero — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:53:32 +0000

In honor of Movember, the charity dedicated to generating awareness and raising funds for testicular and prostate cancer research, here’s Ploomy’s top three ways to protect your privates.

Grow a Mo: It’s an excuse not to shave and a great conversation starter at the bar. Chicks dig a dude down with charity!
Mo your friends: If you don’t want to grow a mustache you can Mo your friends with this new Facebook application
Cheers to your prostate: Try these Mo-inspired cocktails named after some of the best Mo’s in pop-culture

The Burgundy
1 1/2 parts Canadian Club Whisky
4 parts Ginger Ale
Splash of Cranberry Juice

The Flanders
1 1/2 parts Canadian Club Whiskey
1/2 part sweet Vermouth
Dash of bitters

The Bandit
1 1/2 parts Canadian Club Whisky
4 parts Club Soda
Lemon

The Magnum
1 1/2 parts Canadian Club Whisky
4 parts Ginger Ale
Lime

The 19 Weight Training Must-Do’s For Beginners – Part 2 of 2

Anthony Doctolero — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:35:44 +0000

Two weeks ago we shared the first 9 of these tips for beginners. Check them out here. This week we finish up with another 10 must-know items before beginning your weight training regimen.

10. Intensity Is Underrated

Whatever your routine is, do it hard. (After you’ve gotten the form down.) When I say hard, I mean hard. You should feel like you couldn’t get another rep out of your set. If you can do 3 more than your plan calls for, then you need to increase your weight. And heavy weight helps your progress. To get the proper hormonal response from weight training for building muscle, losing fat, and gaining strength you have to really push yourself. This also means that you don’t skip workouts. I realize that life happens, and you might have to miss a day. But with your 3x per week schedule, you can miss a day and make it up to stick to 3x/week. If you do get to the gym and “don’t feel too motivated”, you need to psyche yourself up. A short intense workout is far better than a long half-effort one.

11. Rest

There are two types or rest: in between sets and in between workouts. For rest in between workouts, that’s taken care of by only going 3x a week (see previous point). Muscle doesn’t grow during the exercise. It grows AFTER the exercise and if you don’t let the fibers heal, you’ll see minimal progress. As far as rest in between sets, this is a subjective area. Generally, if you are going for fat loss as your primary goal, you want to have only 1 minute max in between sets. For strength or muscle gain, you might want 2 or 3 minutes. But remember point #3? Stick to the program.

12. Water Helps Things Grow

Muscles (and most of the rest of the body tissue) is mostly water. To build muscle, you need to drink a ton of water. Many pro bodybuilders, in a bulking phase, will drink a couple gallons of water every day. You don’t need that much, but a glass of water (not soda, not juice) every 2 hrs would be a good idea. And check out How to Harness the Healing Power of Water for Muscle Health.

13. Cardio AFTER Weights

I’m a firm believer in cardio, not just weights. While this is not an article on cardio, the take-away point is that you should do your cardio after your weights. Remember, you need a rest day in between workouts (and rest means no major exertion). So do your cardio on the same day as your weight training. My ideal is doing weights, then eat some good carbs and protein (see next point), and do cardio 30 minutes later. Or you can do weights early in the day and cardio late in the day.

14. Eat: Protein + Slow Carbs

Entire books have been written about the bodybuilder diet, but I’ll have to be super brief. When trying to build muscle and strength, you want about 1 gram of lean protein for every pound of bodyweight. If you are obese, then you might want a little less protein (since so much of your existing weight is fat and you’ll need to watch calories by reducing all your intake). For carbs, you want to avoid processed food and processed sugar. Ideal carbs are veggies, whole grains, oatmeal. If your goal is muscle building, eat about twice as much carbs as protein. If you are trying to get lean, you can dial it down quite a bit. But as a beginner weight trainer, I do not recommend super-low carb diets. Again, this topic is wide and deep and there’s no way I can do justice in this short article!

15. Sleep To Grow

By committing yourself to getting in shape, you need to commit to sufficient sleep. That means calling it a night early if you are working out the next morning. It does not mean making up for lost sleep by having 4 cups of coffee. You may even find that you need an extra 30 minutes or so of sleep once you start weight training. Listen to your body so that it can heal between workouts and be ready for the next.

16. Patience – The Results Will Come

This is the most important mental rule. Patience. If you are impatient, you’ll give up too soon. But the good news, if you are truly a beginner, is that if you stick to your plan (assuming your plan follows the philosophy of this article), then you are going to see gains pretty quickly. But it might not be the way you think. Gains come in three flavors: how you look, how you feel, and what you can do. Pay attention because you might be expecting gains in one area and before you give up, maybe you’ve gained in another. And as an advance warning – after about 3 to 6 months, you’ll probably plateau and need to re-examine your workout. But that’s a topic for another post…

17. Get A Training Buddy

Unless you are an unusually self-motivated guy, you’ll have more success if you find a buddy with similar goals to workout with. On your slow days, he’ll push you and vice versa. Even better is to find someone more advanced than you who’s willing to take you under their wing (even if it’s only for 1 of your workouts) but that’s hard to find. If you can’t find a buddy to do this with you, do it anyway – don’t use the lack of a training partner as an excuse to get off the couch!

18. Don’t Judge A Trainer By His/Her Physique

If you decide to get a trainer, that’s great. Present the program you plan to use and see what they think. Then quiz them and see if their philosophy matches this list. If not, find another trainer. Some trainers try to get too creative and jump onto fads. But the best practices have been tested for decades. And don’t judge the trainer by their physique – there are some incredibly good trainers who might not look the way you want to look. They need to be in good shape of course, and they need to be weight trainers themselves. But going for the trainer who looks like a Men’s Health cover model could backfire as they may be the least knowledgeable of the bunch.

19. You Get What You Measure

You need a training log where you record what exercises you did, how many sets, how many reps, what weight, etc. I was traveling recently and went to a commercial (chain) gym. Other than me, there was only one other person in the entire gym (out of over 100 people across 3 days) who had a training log with them, methodically tracking progress. And guess who the two best physiques were in the gym?

This article was written by Darrin Clement with World Fitness Network. World Fitness Network focuses on the art and science of building lean muscle mass – and an awesome physique. If you enjoyed this post, please subscribe to the World Fitness Network Blog and get a free ebook.

The 19 Weight Training Must-Do’s For Beginners – Part 1 of 2

Anthony Doctolero — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:26:31 +0000

The 19 Weight Training Must-Do’s For Beginners – Part 1 of 2

Tired of your current physique? Looking to build some muscle? Burn fat? Gain Strength?

Done properly, weight lifting is the best exercise for all three goals. Wanna lose fat while you sleep? The more muscle you have the more calories your body burns at rest. Wanna look good in a t-shirt and shorts? Build some curves by adding muscle. Looking for extra power in your favorite sport? Strength training with weights helps almost every sport.

But if you’re just starting out (or if you’ve been just toying around at the gym and need to get your butt into a serious routine), you need to remember these 19 things.

1. Don’t Read The Muscle Mags
Ok. You’re fired up like a George Foreman Grill, and ready to become Arnold Junior. So where do most guys like you turn for advice? The muscle mags. But 50% of the muscle mags are pure ads. And another 30% are ads disguised as articles. And another 15% is either flat out bad advice or advice inappropriate for beginners. That leaves 5% of goodness. And the sad truth: as a beginner, you won’t know the difference. Skip the magazines and go for a serious book (see below).

2. Only Full Body, Compound Exercises For Your First 3 Months (No Curls!)
I know you want to do curls. It’s ok to admit it. Guys think big biceps are the sign of a real man. Stop. If you can’t do 15 chin-ups, you have no business doing curls. What you want to do – exclusively – for the first 3 months are compound movements. Compound movements are those that involve more than one joint (and thus, recruit more than one muscle group). Why? You’ll burn more fat, you’ll get stronger, and you’ll build muscle more evenly throughout your body. Plus, you won’t look like a ninny standing there doing curls for your full workout while your chicken legs squawk at all the serious lifters in the gym. Most guys think the big guys at the gym will laugh if they do too little weight. What the serious lifters really laugh at are men who think curls are going to do them much good.

3. Pick Somebody’s Program And Stick To It
This article isn’t going to give you specific routines. After you read this, go to a bookstore or online and get a good weightlifting book with a routine that matches these principles. There are so many good programs out there that follow these principles. But only get one! As a beginner, just about anything is going to work. Pick it, and stick to it for at least 6 weeks before changing it. If you don’t know where to start, get The New Rules Of Lifting.

4. Incline Your bench
If I’ve gotten you to skip the curls, the next male impulse is to run to the bench press. Good news for you – benching is a compound movement! But I’m going to suggest doing an incline bench – I typically go for a 45 degree incline. This will work the upper part of your chest a little better and also bring in some shoulders (front deltoids).

5. Squat All The Way
Yes, you have to do legs. Big time. They are the biggest muscles in the body. And yet many guys seem to avoid working their legs. Plus the guys who do squat, most of them only do half squats – they don’t go down! Despite what your mom may have told you, it’s totally fine to squat past the 90 degree bend in your knees. There’s not much muscular advantage to go past the 80 degree point, but if you stop at a 120 or even 100 degree bend, you are losing a great opportunity to increase muscle and strength.

6. Deadlift As If Your Life Depended On It
Deadlifts are a power exercise where you lift the barbell of the floor. Beginners tend to avoid it because they are afraid of getting hurt or looking silly. And to be sure, done poorly, a deadlift can wreak havoc on your back. But you need to add this to your routine right from the start. Learn the proper form (see the next point) first. And then be ready for the most exhausting exercise of your life, because deadlifts put your metabolism into hyperdrive. You’ll thank me for it later. I accept cash.

7. Practice Movements With Body Weight/Light Weights Until You Are Doing Them Right
As a beginner, you might want to hit the weights hard on day 1 to prove yourself and start seeing results. Hold on. Get the proper form down first. I don’t care if you are embarrassed because you are bench pressing a broom stick – start out super light. This is important. It’s much harder to unlearn bad form later than it is to learn proper form to start with. For many exercises (like squats), start out with just your own body weight. Any good program you buy (and stick to!) will show you the proper form. But be careful of youtube – I have done scans of weight training videos online and most of them are horrible – just because they are lifting a lot of weight doesn’t mean they are doing it right.

8. Progressive Overload
At every workout, you want to advance in something. Maybe it’s a little more weight on your lunges. Maybe it’s one more rep on each set of pull-ups. Maybe it’s one extra set of bent-over rows. This is called progression and you’ll never progress if you just keep doing the same weights, reps, and sets every week.

9. Go 3x Per Week, Full Body
As a beginner, you want to do full-body workouts three times a week. Note that full body means you do legs, back, chest, etc. all on the same day. Everything. After a couple months or so, you can consider split routines. But not yet.

Next week – points 10 through 19!

Check out tips 10-19 here.

How I Rickrolled a Facebook Scam Attempt

Anthony Doctolero — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:41:07 +0000

Last week, I posted a link to an interesting article about a man who lost $150k to a Nigerian Email Scam artist. And low and behold yesterday, as soon as I logged into my Facebook account I got a very strange Facebook chat message from a friend of mine named Doug.

Doug had just got married this past New Year’s Eve and so the message seemed a little believable, at least at first. I put the pieces together fairly quickly though and as soon as the guy hit me up for money I knew it was probably a Facebook scam attempt. The reason being that the last person Doug would have asked for money was me…because he knows I have none. After figuring out this was a hoax I decided to rickroll the scammer.

The scary thing is that whoever is running this facebook scam is somewhat sophisticated. They even went so far as creating another fake email and fake phone number to make it seem legitimate.

I have since emailed Doug and he is trying to get control back of his Facebook account. Facebook is great because it really is people you know and have approved so I am sure these scam attempts are paying out somehow and some unsuspecting people are actually wiring the money.

Let this be a caution to anyone who has a weak or easy to guess password on their Facebook account — change it now.

8:47am Doug
Hi Anthony

8:48am Anthony
Yo! congrats man on the wedding. Sorry I couldn’t make it.
Steph had a little 30th birthday party for me.

8:50am Doug
thanks man..am in London with her

8:50am Anthony
Right now?

8:50am Doug
yea

8:50am Anthony
nuts

8:51am Doug
am standed here

8:51am Anthony
how come?

8:52am Doug
i was robbed here..
infact she’s in the hospital right now..

8:52am Anthony
WTF!!
OMG man I’m sorry to hear that
are her injuries serious

8:53am Doug
i really need your assistace ..
i need your help Anthony..
i need your help Anthony..

8:55am Anthony
what can i do?

8:55am Doug
are you there ??

8:56am Anthony
yah

8:56am Doug
i dont know whats wrong with this computer
can you please loanme some money ??

8:57am Anthony
sure anything

8:58am Doug
thanks man..
i need you to please get me $950
???

8:59am Doug
???

9:00am Anthony
sure how do I get it to you?

9:01am Doug
can you go to a western union..

9:01am Anthony
yah

9:01am Doug
thanks man..
should i wait here
??
how long will it take you ??.

9:02am Anthony
I can leave work right now…

9:02am Doug
ok..so when are you going to send it ???

9:03am Anthony
now

9:03am Doug
???

9:03am Anthony
where do i send it to

9:03am Doug

Name : Doug ****** Jr

Location : old kentish,United Kingdom

London

England..

9:04am Anthony
is that all I need to do?

what is your number there so I can call you to make sure you get it

9:05am Doug
ok..

9:06am Doug
+447024015257

ok..

9:07am Anthony
ok great I’ll call as soon as I wire

9:08am Doug
if you cant reach me..

9:08am Anthony
ok going to leave now, but make sure to check this out ok?
http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh

9:08am Doug
please drop it in my email : d********@verizonmail.com

or in to my FB

9:10am Doug
whats that suppose to be ???

9:11am Anthony
see ya scammer!

9:13am Doug is offline.

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