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Guest: ​​​Ali Saif

​Company / Business name: ​​​​​​ ​​​HighClickz

Ali Saif is a lifestyle entrepreneurial and digital nomad. He runs a digital marketing agency called Highclicks.com and helps businesses struggling with online sales and growth to reach their full potential by optimizing their conversions and revenue.Tools: Google Analytics, Click Funnels, Thrive Themes, Mailchimp, QucikbooksBooks: The 4 hour work-week by Tim FerrisShow Notes:01:30 minute mark:Agile entrepreneur takeaway: Have a dream. Keep working on that dream.Ali explains digital nomad life that he is after and talks about how his business High Clickz, started in 2008 with a focus on getting traffic via paid advertising, is results and conversion focused. With Google’s help, his company also flourished.04:58 minute mark:Agile entrepreneur takeaway: Be passionate. Your passion will open the doors to a desired life.Ali discusses his journey prior to his latest venture. His interest in computers and programming at a very early age led him into a freelancing career at the age of 17 taking care of billing and SW. Later on he branched out into gaming and supporting online gamers. 09:59 minute mark:Agile entrepreneur takeaway: Freelance sites like Freelancer.com, Upwork.com can be excellent to get started.Ali explains how he got his first paying customer for HighClikz. On freelancer.com, Ali saw a job posting for a sales page for a customer in customer who developed an e-book on how to talk to dogs. He thought it was interesting and worked with the customer to design the sales page and work with Clickbank to get him sales. And the first customer led him to more sales.17:20 minute mark:Agile entrepreneur takeaway: Be Keep defining your ideal customer and become an expert on their needs.Ali talks about building a customer pipeline and his focus is on authors and coaches who want to establish personal brand and be an authority. Most of his business is through referrals from his existing customers.19:43 minute mark:Agile entrepreneur takeaway: Expand your horizons to either technologist or business depending on where you started from.Ali talks about his growth from a pure technologist into a businessman. Initially, it started with knowing how much money he needs to survive and sustain his business.  Later, he was influenced by people like Tim Ferris (and the 4 hour work week book) and began outsourcing more to grow his business without sacrificing his lifestyle.22:00 minute mark:Agile entrepreneur takeaway: Pricing is an important element of the business. Be on top of it.Ali discusses his pricing strategies. Ali also has a product side of the business where he sells some products on Amazon. For products, his strategy is cost-plus pricing where he adds margin to his costs. For services, he prices based on the value he is delivering. The value is defined by customers.23:47 minute mark:Agile entrepreneur takeaway: Focus on the most important tools...