Andrew Warner is passionate about entrepreneurship and loves talking with his fellow entrepreneurs. He came to my attention when he recently interviewed Gideon Shalwick on his current blog, Mixergy, which features tons of great video interviews with leading entrepreneurs.
Andrew has a great story to tell as he, in partnership with his brother, created an eight-figure online business (topping $30 million in annual sales at one point), which he later sold. I was naturally curious to learn more about him, what his business was about and what he is currently focused on, so I approached him about doing an interview.
In this interview, Andrew explains how he first became an entrepreneur and then dives into a detailed breakdown of how he started and grew his multi-million dollar business and what his current Mixergy project is aiming to achieve.
The concept of leverage is especially important for any company to grow towards eight figures, so I was interested to hear Andrew’s take on how to get real leverage in your business. If you want to push towards a million dollars or more a year from your online business, have a listen to what Andrew had to say.
Enjoy the interview,
Yaro
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Hello Yaro! Just want to say that I am really enjoying all of you content on the site. You truly come across as someone that I want to continue listening to. This is great stuff! Keep it coming. Thanks!
wow, great stuff and great timing, I just listened to the gideon podcast while painting earlier today and thought it was amazing, check my earlier tweets for proof 😉
I’ve been addicted to mixergy the past couple days so I’m glad to see this here
thanks both for the video
Yaro,
Each of your posts are so awesome! Thank you so much. I’m very glad to have found your site. Listening to Andrew is fantastic. I’m so pumped now. There is no reason why I cannot get my blogging site collecting e-mail addresses pronto.
Jeff.
Quite impressive, thanks for sharing this video.
Hello Yaro,
This was a another very good interview that the both of you did, I’m curious how long does it take to plan and prepare for the interview ? and when you contacted Andrew for the interview, did you have to make him an offer or was he genuinely interested in sharing with you and your audience ? Also, what books would you recommend for anyone who is thinking about doing video interviews ?
Thanks again for your valuable input : – )
I have a lot of respect for Yaro’s work, so when he asked, I instantly accepted.
Andrew,
What is your brother doing now? Sounds like he is a programming god!
Jeff, Michael really is an incredible coder. I think the best way to reach him is through yappler.com
It’s pretty simple Darren, get yourself skype, call recorder to record the call (for mac), call each other up and make sure the video is working, then hit record and start talking.
You then get a .MOV file that you can edit or upload straight to a video sharing site and you’re done!
Skype is awesome! What will you use to record the call on PC?
Another very good interview. How do you get in touch with these people and get their interviews. How do you come up with these ideas and implement them?
I guess I have a lot to learn from you and your blog.
Interesting post. Especially the video, it attract the audience.. Motivating part hearing success of an entrepreneur
Thanks Yaro for this interview, I much prefer like to watch videos. And thanks to Andrew, for which shared our experiences.
That video was GREAT!!!! I loved it. I’m trying to build an empire but it’s taking so much time! Wish there was just a simple blog idea that I could set up in one day and start blogging/getting visitors and making money.
I love and loathe these simultaneously.. it’s great finding true success stories.. but it always makes me feel guilty about my achievements (or lack thereof)
LOL! I feel that following entrepreneurs paths and imititating their habits and way of doing things should lead to ultimate success. I would love to get Yaro’s two hours a day work ethic right! 😉
Once again, you come up trumps and the response by Andrew Warner to Darren Fleming is nice to read for its simplicity and very obvious accessibility. Thanks for this nice interview.
Amazing video, thank you. I now have a lot to think about
The kind of passion that shines through the interview is what inspires me, and that passion and belief in what you’re doing is what makes some entrepreneurs greater than others, and thrives their business to the sky. Great stuff Andrew and thanks to Yaro for getting this one out. Good stuff
Hey Yaro,
I have to drive a lot in the car. It would be awesome if you could broadcast the audiofiles in your podcast so that we don’t have to download them seperately! It would just be much more convenient for your fans 🙂 Thanks for the great work!
Tobias,
Just burn it to a CD and if your car player plays MP3 you are in. Or just put it on an iPod or some other device and plug it into your car’s AUX port.
Jeff
Jeff, I know that I could do it manually, but the automatic delivery via Itunes to my
Ipod is just sooooo more convenient! Yaro has already delivered a lot of excellent
audio content through his podcast!
Toby
Yaro, you are so great, you always share so great stuffs with us, thanks so much. 30 million dollars, I really can’ t believe it. This is the best business that I have heard, wish some day I will get that luck :). 1% of it is quite good enough to me.
Yaro,
Once again, good job.
I have found it interesting because
1. Andrew appeared very passionate about his work and truthful about his experiences
2. You conducted it in such a beautiful and fluid manner that the story unfolded sequntially and got hold on me till the end.
Keep going and posting such good work.
I appreciate. I learn a lot from you.
I’m so thrilled that I had the opportunity to watch this interview! Everyone starts from somewhere. He literally gave the shirts off his back to fuel his business. What interesting insights about keeping ‘hungry’ and remaining persistent.
Thanks so much Andrew & Yaro for sharing!
Thanks for introducing me to Andrew Warner – Yaro. I had never heard of him or Mixergy before now. But his site is another site I am going to start following.
I have to say though that Entrepreneurs-Journey is definitely one of my top watched blogs.
I got your blog mastermind course not that long ago, and I have to say that out of the dozens of courses I have reviewed, yours is one of the most thorough, upfront, and comprehensive I have looked at – Very good.
I stay pretty busy, and I don’t usually comment on blogs. I just thought I would say thank you for all the valuable content you offer.
Damnnnn $30 million! I can’t watch this video here at work, but I’ll definitely have to check this out once I get home. It’s cool how super successful people are willing to give back to others and help them succeed too. Good stuff!
Wow, it really just keeps getting better and better. Thanks for this interview. I really got some great motivation from it. I think the biggest things that it reinforced in my mind are the following:
1. Don’t wait for perfection. Put it out there and improve it over time. It’s easy to think that you will get it right if you spend a whole bunch of time on it trying to make it exceed your wildest expectations and easy for such a “well-prepared” product wouldn’t be worth anything to anyone else. Throw it out there, get feedback, and make it better.
2. Don’t expect what you are doing to be the ultimate/final system or product. When it comes to making money online, things change. What works today might not work tomorrow.
Once again, thanks for such great content and keep it coming!
Great stuff Yaro. I hope to be half as sucsessful as you one day.
That is a lot of money to generate on the Internet. Great work Andrew.
This is damn motivating man. $30 million is seriously no joke. Thanks for the interview Yaro. Can you try and get and Interview with Markus Frind, the adsense king?
Yaro I am really starting to like these Skype Video Call interviews, they are so much more fun than a podcast hopefully more people DO start doing the same =D
Till then,
Jean
I loved the passion that Andrew exudes, can’t wait to check out his blog!
I got a great deal out of the interview not the least of which is to just get something going no matter how ugly it is…I think you’ve mentioned that, ohhhh maybe once or twice before, too Yaro. 🙂
thanks for your nice post i hope i will educate alot people lives
Hi Yaro
Love the blog. I read your post on capturing video using skype and went ahead and set the same system up. Im PC user so installed Pamela. Their are some significant problems with their video capture capabilities and it occupies page after page of posts on their forum. I have still not resolved it which is pretty frustrating. Can you recommend an alternative ? or perhaps can you put me in touch with anyone who is succesfully using pamela for this functionality ?
Regards
Luke
I’ve noticed the trend seems to be interviewing successful entrepreneurs. I’ve also noticed that a large majority fo these folks have degrees. Is it in your opinion a necessity to have graduated college with a business degree in order to be a truly successful entrepreneur.
It is summer in Canada and blogging hasn’t been high on my priority but while watching this interview , I have a whole head full of ideas to blog on. Time is at a premium unfortunately but that will become better come fall. I can’t wait to put more ideas to good use. I’ve long paid attention to what he has said in the past and followed up on some of his suggestions. Can’t wait to have the time to continue.
That was the ABSOLUTE BEST INTERVIEW I have ever seen. It is a little after 1 AM here and I was going to watch the video for a few minutes and hit the sack… but I couldn’t even pause it. Andrew is the man. I loved listening to every word that came out of his mouth. I have been piddling around with my different online businesses since back in 1998 and I totally remember the greeting cards, with the send to a friend scripts that had the deals for magazines and stuff. I had no idea that was that big of a business. This interview has totally rejuvenated my passion which “back in the day” kept me from ever sleeping as ideas would just fill my head. Thanks Yaro for another incredible interview!
Top stuff as usual Yaro.
Wow, very nice…
Thanks for this interview…
Great stuff Yaro – Love the anecdote about Staples around 40 mins. Just shows what kind of thinking it takes to make it really happen.
What a GREAT interview! About time someone took Andrew’s pulse and found out his story. Great, great insights. It was a bit on the long side but well worth it…
Yaro & Andrew – Greetings from London, I just wanted to say that was a superb video. Andrew has so much passion, it really is inspiring to watch. Yaro, I love what you are doing with this site and wish you good luck with everything you do in the future.
Great interview.
I would like to see Yaro’s podcasts transcribed into PDFs as a quick reminder, because I often want to check some points made in the podcast again and browsing through seeking bar in Winamp isn’t the easiest option to do that.
Hey Yaro & Darren,
I truly enjoyed this video, thanks for sharing. It was fun thinking back to the olden days of the beginning of the internet. 🙂 I remember when my family was all about getting ICQ which took half the day to download.
Oh and eBay became eBay in 1996, I believe it was called something else right before that. (I may be mistaken on the year but pretty close to that).
But getting back to your interview, I can see that Andrew also has a passion for helping people it makes the audio you created very easy to listen to and very motivating. Thanks to you both! Vera.
I have downloaded the mp3 and listen to it while traveling. I simply love your entrepreneur profile series. Hope to see more of this coming.
However thks a lot for the effort and time you have put in to give us such great information.