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Brandon Bruce

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
224 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

And then Ryan has a great background as a Salesforce consultant.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

So he had built a lot of the top apps on the Salesforce AppExchange already.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

And we saw this opportunity to serve an unserved market, which were those that were using Salesforce, but more and more companies were moving toward Google Apps.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

And thankfully, we've seen that trend continue over the last four years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

I mean, the algorithm, I think...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

has changed slightly over time but one of the things that helps us the most is that we are an end user based application so you don't install serious insight just once for your org instead if you've got a thousand sales people they will all use serious insight and we benefit from that because those thousand people can come in and write nice reviews about the app tell the world how they use it why it was valuable in their daily workflow and that's been really really good for us so we've got you know over 1100 reviews

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

on the AppExchange, which puts us behind some pretty famous apps like DocuSign and EchoSign.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

Yeah, I think the reviews and also the volume of installs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

So there's so many people using Google for work, Google Apps now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

And then also our new app for Outlook, which we launched six months ago or so, is also marching up the AppExchange.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

So we benefit from the volume of users as well as the volume of reviews.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

Yeah, pretty much all of the above.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

I mean, we certainly track number of available users in a company's Salesforce org, the number of users on trial with us when we're talking with the decision maker.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

at an organization which is frequently a sales ops manager, sales enablement, sales effectiveness, Salesforce admin, VP of sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

We're looking for customer facing roles.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

So we serve not only sales people, but also folks that work in customer support and customer success.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

Anyone that's in the inbox and the calendar a lot working with customers,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

benefits from our app.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

It's a big time saver.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

And it helps organizations actually adopt Salesforce, which is one of the big challenges of any CRM platform, is that it's hard to get people to go in and update manually a database.