How to look for a deep customer pain and address it – with Brandon Bruce

Brandon Bruce, Cirrus Insight, Customer Acquisition, SaaS (software as a service)

How do you address a deep customer pain?

Brandon Bruce is the Founder of Cirrus Insight, which makes it easier for sales people to log their information in Salesforce without ever leaving their email.

Brandon was able to address such a deeply felt pain that he had customers lining up for Cirrus Insight even before he launched.

Brandon Bruce

Cirrus Insight

Brandon Bruce is the Founder of Cirrus Insight, which makes it easier for sales people to log their information in Salesforce without ever leaving their email.

Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses.

The big insight that I’ve gotten having done over a thousand interviews is this. If you find a customer who has a really big pain, you don’t even have to solve it. You don’t even have to get it right. You just have to address it, and they will work with you to get it right because the pain is so bad that they need relief. I’m spitting up as I say this, because I’m kind of fiery about this, Brandon. It’s a good thing we’re not in person.

That is basically what Brandon Bruce, the guest that I’m about to interview, has discovered himself. He realized that for salespeople who live in email, making the trip over to — this sounds so silly, but it is a trip from one software that you live in to another, which is Salesforce, to record what you just did in the software...

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