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Pain Killer vs. Vitamin

December 5, 2019

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I can't believe that we've been doing these videos for a little over a year and we haven't touched on one of my favorite topics.

While we've talked about customer acquisition a number of times, we haven't talked about painkillers versus vitamins.

Is your business a painkiller or a vitamin?

You see, a painkiller is when you are solving a very urgent problem.

When the customer cannot wait to get this problem solved and will pay anything to get it done.

A vitamin is when you're a nice-to-have.

You're something that can help them maybe increase their top-line revenue.

But it isn't an urgent problem.

Let me give you a real-life example.

I used to be a runner and I did many marathons.

As a matter of fact, I did four of them in one year.

Note to self, that was too many.

I ended up with a herniated disc.

And what that means is that once every three or four years,

I'll wake up with a knife stabbing pain in my back.

I feel like I won't ever be able to walk again.

It's that painful.

At that point, I would do anything to get that solved.

I would pay any amount of money to ensure that I will be able to walk again,

ride again, and be active again.

And inevitably, in a matter of a day or two, with some rest, I'm better.

And then I swear that I will always do my core exercises.

Every single day, I'm going to do those.

but those are vitamins. Of course, a week, two weeks later, I'm not doing them anymore. There's

no urgency. So the vitamin, my core exercises, gets ignored. The painkiller, when there's an

urgent pain, I would pay anything to solve the problem. Apply this to your business. How can

you take your business and position it so that it isn't just a nice to have, it isn't a vitamin

that's going to help them in the long run but it is solving a particular pain that is urgent

because if you could turn your business into a painkiller you will make customer acquisition so

much easier

Today we are talking about Troy’s favorite topic, is your business a pain killer or a vitamin? And what does it matter? Watch #MATH101 to find out, it could be the key to increasing your customer acquisition.

Originally published on the MATH Venture Partners blog.