{"id":1441,"date":"2013-11-16T20:20:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T09:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.videousermanuals.com\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2015-05-11T11:02:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T01:02:01","slug":"an-interview-with-derek-sivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.videousermanuals.com\/blog\/commpress\/an-interview-with-derek-sivers\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Derek Sivers &#8211; Founder of CD Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/66712085?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"780\" height=\"444\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I am terribly embarrassed it has taken me over 12 months to publish this interview. Especially considering that this is my favourite interview to date (no offence to everyone else &#8211; I love you all).<\/p>\n<p>The truth is we wound up this podcast in favour of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpelevation.com\/category\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\">WP Elevation podcast<\/a> and this interview somehow just fell through the cracks. I could make up some elaborate story about how Dropbox failed to sync the file or my editor in the US took forever to edit it. But that would be bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>I just forgot I hadn&#8217;t published it and for that I am sorry. Especially to Derek, who gave up almost an hour of his time to speak with me. I hope he forgives me.<\/p>\n<p>I recently interviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/ghost.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">John O&#8217;Nolan from Ghost<\/a> for the WP Elevation podcast who discovered I had this interview in the can and told me &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpelevation.com\/2013\/10\/episode-6-john-onolan-from-ghost\/\" target=\"_blank\">stop being a dick and publish it<\/a>.&#8221; So here it is. Thank you, John.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you will agree, it has been worth the wait.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Derek Sivers is best known as the founder of CD Baby, an independent music store on the web. He started it to sell his own CD&#8217;s and ended up selling it for $22 million which he then gave to a <a href=\"http:\/\/sivers.org\/trust\" target=\"_blank\">charitable trust for music education<\/a> programs.<\/p>\n<p>There is so much I like about this man I could literally write about him for days. Instead, watch the interview, learn and be inspired.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and leave a comment under the video telling me the best thing you learned in this interview and we&#8217;ll give the best answer a copy of his #1 selling book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00506NRBS?tag=sivers-20\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Anything You Want&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: The CommPress podcast has been replaced with the WP Elevation podcast.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ie\/podcast\/wp-elevation-podcast\/id710386388\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe in iTunes here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am terribly embarrassed it has taken me over 12 months to publish this interview. Especially considering that this is my favourite interview to date (no offence to everyone else &#8211; I love you all). 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