Jobs: Nat Gadzhibalaev founder service "Amplifer"

What do you do in your work?

My name is Nat. I am the founder of "Amplifera"- service for publishing and analytics in social networks.

C 2010 work in Evil Martians. We have done the technical platform of the Russian "Groupon" helped "Roketbanku" did Wannafun and many other interesting projects.

"Amplifer», Oh My Stats and Brainwashing - own projects "Martians". I worked on "Ampliferom" and Brainwashing. Now I give 100% of the time "Ampliferu".

How does your workplace?

I have four years working remotely. My team in Bali, in St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. Serge King in Moscow, and we do not sit in the office. Therefore, here's my job.

All I need is always with you in your backpack. When I'm flying somewhere to live and work a couple of weeks, this kit adds a pair of underwear and T-shirts.

A laptop -. Macbook Pro Retina 13 "fresh" fattest " I program frequently, so no 16 GB of memory to me bad. Very sorry, 13 "do not put four cores in the processor.

Headphones - Sennheiser Momentum, which I Technical Director of "Martians" drove.

Backpack very small, I had bought in Barcelona for the last money on credit card. There was a time.

What software use?

I decided that just open the dock and see what I have there that openly now. I was just in the middle of their working day.

iMessage, Telegram. I do not use WhatsApp. I do not like it I can not. The Telegram I communicate only with the girl, it is not clear why it is so - it was full of contacts.

Goofy - elegant thing, it opens the posts from Facebook, but Facebook does not open itself, it is possible to communicate with people and not see the tape and notices. +10 concentration!

To work as a team we Slack. In all my projects Slack: in the "Martians" in "Amplifere" and "Lettere". I Slack version with support for multiple teams. He is always open.

The Slack «Amplifera" customized notifications from all the important services:

• new customers and payments (configured through vebhuk);
• technical errors, deploi;
• questions and replies users' Amplifera "of Intercom.

There, in general, all the team communication. Slack is very steep.

Work with users in our Intercom. "Amplifer" - service. Intercom collects data about users: where they are, who they are (links to social networks), they do have (which shake button), how many sessions it was and more. He also provides chatik and support system. He has a mobile app that I have eaten 80% of the batteries. :)

Project planning and iteration - in Basecamp. There is nothing surprising.

Tasks to develop - in Github. The code is clearly there. editorial tasks and other things - in Trello. We Basecamp - an internal blog, and high-level tasks, smaller tasks and the history leave in Trello.

Internal documentation in Google Drive.

post office - Google Apps for Domains + Google Inbox.

I check my email in the morning after breakfast. In general, it is very important for me not to take the phone in the bedroom. Generally. Never. Otherwise, a nightmare.

So, I check email twice: in the morning and in the evening, at five o'clock. The rest of the time I do not come in the mail. New mail notifications on your phone are turned off.

Skype I can not bear run, only to call. Necessary: ​​I call up there with clients.

I constantly enabled Viscosity - VPN-client. I bought a year from Holland to VPN Private Internet Access and turned the "Ministry of Truth", and what you suggest. It costs $ 40 per year.

Further along the dock - iCal. I have not moved to Fantastical 2, But I want to. I hate people who do not have the habit to use the calendar.

Wunderlist brainteasers for personal and for the planning of work tasks for the day every morning.

music Spotify. Let me tell you how to buy Spotify Premium from Russia. I recently cut off his, and I was not thinking to buy again, but I could not stand it for a week without him. In Russia, just go to the site and buy the Premium card is impossible. Generally, if you honestly say that you are from Russia, you even download the client will not give. To include the VPN, register and indicate the country in which you have a VPN. Download the client.

Then you need to go to PayPal and register a new account in the country where you have the VPN, and attach to it a common Russian card. "Alfa-Bank" + Holland worked. Then you need to still pay for VPN site Spotify Premium with a new PayPal. And yet - happiness!

iTerm2 - I was there I program (vim). Until now, almost every day.

Instead, I have Evernote AlternoteBut he got me the order. I write texts directly in Google Docs with custom fonts used in writing iA WriterBut then half of the software understands Markdown.

Naturally, I bought Dropbox. I not really know how to live without him. For quick sharinga screenshots and videos - Cloud.app.

Previously, I had paid RescueTimeNow - free RescueTime. This launcher that tells what it takes time when the notebook is open: what software has been opened, what things I spend time and how much time I was active.

How do you organize your time?

Personal plans for the year, quarter, month Workflowy. A very good thing to write down everything about what I think, organize and make plans.

I have a personal assistant. When you need to do a lot of routine, helps Youdo.com. By courier to the transcripts of interviews and translations of articles to ring bases, and others.

I build his own company and found out here one piece. If a startup you do something every day, you have everything turns out, everything's cool, you all like it, then you have something that you do.

First, I programmed and glad that everything's cool, it turns out. But he knew what to sell and communicate with customers. It was a difficult and unfamiliar.

I began to sell, and it immediately gave us a tremendous growth and has brought great benefit to the development of the product. We grow to $ 250 MRR per week - before so did not work. And then I realized that I was comfortable again.

I began to delegate the sale, build a sales process and sales department. Again, it does not work, suffering nerves complexity. So, I'm doing the right thing.

Delegate everything else, too, need. When we started blog "Amplifera" I wrote it myself. Now I hired editor. The first interview with the client to blog I deciphered himself. Now I buy decoding, and so on.

The rule is simple: first do it yourself and understand all the details of the process, learn to do yourself, then, when it became a routine, delegate.

What's your daily routine?

I wake up at 7:00 am, if everything goes according to plan, and at 8:00 I first phoned with my technical director. With him, we are talking about 15-20 minutes on the product plans for the day, the problems encountered, the following steps are discussing. Tehdir - my support to the project, we "compare notes" and run to work.

In the morning I compose a list of tasks for the day, divide tasks into blocks for an hour or hour and a half. Between the blocks, I give myself a rest for 10-15 minutes.

In the morning you can work two or three hours calm, make one or two big challenges. Then from 11:00 to 18:00 Moscow comes complete hell: customers, helping the sales team, posts to Facebook. At this time, I try to do client objectives - "Skype", help the guys anything.

After 19 hours again you can work a few more hours with no distractions.

What place sport occupies in your life?

I run since 2012. Vzharil CrossFit this year. Not that I had a good run - ran a half marathon to marathon has not lasted.

Typically, one of my personal goals for six months - some result in the sport. I make the training program and check every couple of weeks, according to the plan or everything I left behind.

How to pass the time in traffic jams?

Why a year ago I bought a car. Now I live and work in the center of Moscow, and meaning in the car about zero. So she stands in the yard, and I travel only on weekends.

During downtime, I open my laptop and work. More letters to customers. More calls to the team.

Try to build the company, immediately find out "what determines my choice."

I am reading. Lot and every day.

And articles about the work, and the book (Kindle). I read on the road, on planes, in the evening at home for half an hour a day, but still during the day, if there is a free moment, I'll work.

Is there a place in your paper work?

I have two notebook. In a diary in which I write every day for three of my achievements for the day, and once a week, check to see what happened there for a week, and make plans for the next one.

The second - a working notebook. Sometimes I write in the morning it plans for the day, sometimes I write them directly into Wunderlist.

Notebook and pen - the main weapon of the sales manager. Habit.

Layfhakerstvo by Nat Gadzhibalaeva

A couple of weeks will an excellent article about where to get the first customers startup. Here there will be many, and the target - for those who are busy about the same things I do.

I do not know what to advise "all".

Most recently, I was broke and could not work normally a couple of weeks. I have a gap between reality and expectations become too high. This happens because between the plans for the year and monthly reconciliation of what I'm going to plan, something went very wrong, I have a couple of times myself deceived and eventually fled and did not go wrong.

To prevent this happening, something to be learned:

1. Be sure to have an ambitious and realistic plan for the year. Ambitious - what you want to achieve? Real - well, adjusted to reality. here good article about planning.
2. Each month, you need to "bite off" a piece of the plan for this month, which will propel you in your annual plans.
3. Every week, you need to check with the plan. It's about discipline. If the plan does not go, you will not have to. If you do not check every week that you go through 50 weeks, you will find an awesome surprise.
4. If after a month there is no progress and you will find 10 reasons why progress is not, but "in a month will be exact," you are deceiving yourself.