Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner, and this is Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart. I know that most of the audience here is in the tech space. You’re probably creating software companies, maybe even content companies, maybe, maybe hardware but it’s tech related. But occasionally I like to go outside of our tech world and bring in a guest who has nothing to do with it or didn’t have anything to do with it so we can bring in fresh ideas. And that’s what I am doing here today.
I invited Peter Voogd to come on and talk about his time selling CUTCO knives. That’s right, knives. He used to sell knives, not at stores but sell it one on one, often to strangers, and I figured that if he could do that, if we can learn how he sold to strangers one on one knives, then we can bring back some of his ideas and use them to sell membership site, software, maybe a new hardware.
That’s the goal of this interview,...