How Collin Stewart successfully pivoted an unsuccessful CRM company

Collin Stewart, Carburetor, B2B, Bootstrapping, Customer Acquisition, Mixergy Fan, System

Today I’ve got with me a guy who used to listen for years and I’m so proud to have him on here to talk about how he built up his company.

His name is Collin Stewart. He is the founder of Carb. Carb helps companies build their outbound sales teams.

Before that Collin started voltageCRM. You’ll find out in this interview why mentioning it makes him wince and how he pivoted to where he is today.

Collin Stewart

Carburetor

Collin Stewart is the founder of Carburetor, which helps companies build their outbound sales teams.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com. It is, of course, home of the ambitious upstart.

Let me explain what that means. I built Mixergy with the intention of having real entrepreneurs come on here to talk in-depth about how they built their businesses–and I mean really in-depth–so that an audience of entrepreneurs could learn from them, build their companies up and then come back and do interviews.

You can see the quality of the interviews not in me and what I say and what I tell you, but in the people who are in the audience and the people who come back here and talk about how they built their businesses. I think, to me, that is the most significant thing, much more than any other metric I could give you. It’s how many people come back and do interviews after having built a successful company.

And today I’ve got with me a guy who used to listen for years and I’m so...

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