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Ali Salman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
116 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

The leads for in a Proust Towns case right like we bring them leads for the files for their

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

case, we get them like leads for custom labels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

So let's say like, you know, if I don't know, if you travel to Canada, WestJet Airlines is pretty much the second.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

We only have two airlines here, but WestJet, they do labels for WestJet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

They do labels for Costco and Walmart.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

We help them get those big commercial and industrial contracts for labeling.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

Okay, so good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

First year we didn't know and we kind of got ahead from my taxes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

New entrepreneur didn't learn much.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

We took majority of it as a salary.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

Now we have restricted our salary to like $72,000 a year and pretty much I will be taking a dividends or like, you know, uh, through some other ways.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

But first year we did pretty much took everything as a salary and we realized that wasn't a smart idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

They can go and connect me on my Twitter account at Canadian LM Pro.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

And they can also look for my profile on LinkedIn, Ali Salman.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

And I'm sure I'll pop up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

We found in 2012, December, I left my job at The Brick.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

The Brick is a huge national furniture giant in Canada.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

That's when I found it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 486: Agency Hits $2M In Revenue, 49 Employees, $36k ACV with RapidBoostMarketing CEO Ali Salman

I started doing it early 2013 part-time and late 2013 full-time.