Venture Beyond

> Scaling eCommerce brands between $100k/month and $5M/month
> Producing 25 to 1,000 new Ad Creatives/month for each brand we work with
> The 'Go to Market' agency for retail brands entering E-commerce

An elite team; singularly focused on the art of scaling e-commerce brands. Our goal: transforming $5M ventures into $10-$100M market leaders. 

Now, backed by a solid track record of success, our once ambitious goal has become a reality. For a deeper dive into our transformative achievements, I'd love for you to explore the case studies featured on our website: www.theventurebeyond.com/case-studies

Chief Executive Officer

Montague Land

We serve as the trusted partner for many landowners throughout the Midlands, with a singular mission: to unleash the untapped potential of their land investments. Our specialization lies in the identification and acquisition of premium land parcels, perfectly suited for both residential and leisure development.

Our commitment revolves around simplifying the planning permission process for landowners, ultimately leading to the prosperous sale of these coveted sites to property developers.

For an in-depth look at our current projects, we invite you to explore: https://montagueland.com/projects/

Co-founder & Investor

Partners in Property Community

During my tenure as a Partner, I played a pivotal role in transforming our business. We transitioned from a single monthly event in Birmingham to a thriving UK-wide property community with events in multiple locations.

I helped establish a robust online community, which not only facilitated the nationwide presence of the brand but also generated a recurring revenue stream that continued beyond my tenure as I went on to pursue other ventures.

Partner & Growth Marketer

Anytime Fitness

I served as the owner and operator of an award winning Anytime Fitness franchise located in the Midlands where we built a thriving community of fitness enthusiasts.

Managing Director

Deloitte

This is where I began my professional career, undertaking accountancy training whilst working in the Corporate Finance team in Birmingham, UK.

I achieved the coveted ACA chartered accountancy qualification through a comprehensive 15-exam journey with all first time passes. I specialised in financial restructuring, corporate turnaround, and insolvency procedures, whilst acquiring a robust foundation in the fundamentals of accounting.

Corporate Finance Associate

▶️ My Current Chapter: E-commerce

In 2020, I embarked on a new phase in my entrepreneurial journey, assuming the role of CEO at Venture Beyond, a DTC growth marketing agency focused on scaling e-commerce brands. My primary mission has been to build and lead an elite team, singularly focused on the art of scaling brands. Our goal: transforming $5M/year ventures into $10-$100M market leaders.

Now, backed by a solid track record of success, our once ambitious goal has become a reality. For a deeper dive into our transformative achievements, I'd love for you to explore the case studies featured on our website: www.theventurebeyond.com/case-studies

So, what distinguishes us?

It's our uncompromising 'by any means necessary' approach.

We relentlessly seek and attack the critical bottlenecks to growth. Instead of offering numerous disconnected services we focus on integrating an array of tactics into a strategy tailored specifically to the growth objectives of the brands we partner with.

Want to work with us? https://zaap.bio/shahbazk


▶️ Previous Chapters: A Mix of Entrepreneurial Ventures

2019: I was property trading, buying and selling 22 properties during lockdown.

2018: Completion and sale of my first development of 18 flats, marking my entry into property development.

2017: My first land deal which led to 41 retirement flats being built, a venture that introduced me to the Land Promotion industry. This led me to setup Montague Land with my co-founder where we currently have 500+ plots under contract. I am now an investment partner but continue to take an active interest in the growth of the business.

Before this I've had several business interests over time:
- Gym owner
- Event ticker reseller
- Wedding photographer
- eBay powerseller
- Property community with 500+ members
- AirBNB business operator
- Cleaning business owner
- Car trader


▶️ Foundations: Academia and Early Career

I graduated in Mathematics and went on to get my ACA Chartered Accountancy accreditation whilst training at Deloitte in Corporate Finance. I soon discovered that my true calling extended beyond the traditional corporate path. Entrepreneurial sparks first flew at 15 when I made my first sale, igniting a drive that culminated in years of side-hustles and eventually led to the world of full-time entrepreneurship.


❤️ Social Impact: Malawi

I helped setup water irrigation schemes in Malawi where we have raised over £200k to date, establishing food security to over 10,000 people in perpetuity. Drop me a message to get involved: 
https://justgiving.com/campaign/irrigations

Shahbaz Khokhar

SARAL - Influencer Relationship Management

SARAL is the simplest and fastest way for brands to get started with influencer marketing. Find creator contacts, email them, track and manage relationships, and more. 

Learn what's working *right now* with influencer marketing. Get on our "No BS" influence marketing letter:  https://www.getsaral.com/academy

Founder

Independent Consultant

I help product/tech-oriented founders who want to grow fast. 

I work with the founder or their marketing team to create a proper Growth Strategy, come up with customer-focused Positioning & Messaging, set up attribution analytics, and help executing on the right channels for Growth, such as performance marketing or direct sales. 

My goal is to create a repeatable process for growth and create loops that compound into predictable revenue 📈

I have helped multiple founders scale to $1M+ in ARR and continue to crush it for my clients. They call me the Rainmaker 💰

Growth Consultant

Sunsama

Head of Growth

Prisma

Fractional Head of Growth

Cledara

Growth Marketing Manager

Nium

Content Marketing, SEO, and Paid Search Growth.

Context Page

Product Marketing Consultant

Bubbles

Wise

I was the first marketing hire @ Wise. Created and executed an outbound ABM plan for Wise's B2B2B strategy. Owned the affiliate program which was prime driver of end-user accounts.  9x-ed WoW application rate. Worked with the CMO, CS, and Engineering teams to promote engagement and retention.

Startup Intern

Startup Intern helps the best startups hire the best Interns.

Chief Firefighter

Founder - SARAL | The Influencer Operating System for Ecommerce

Make no mistake about it.

Influencer marketing is the next big thing. In fact, it's already here. Most of the DTC world just needs to catch up to the right ways of executing 😉

If you don’t have big names talking about you, loving you, and recommending you, you’re missing out on millions of dollars of revenue that could be yours 💸
Imagine letting that much money go down the drain because there isn't a simple enough way for you to capture it. 

When you consider that just one tag, one mention, or one recommendation could result in tens of thousands in sales, you owe it to yourself to try SARAL: The Best Influencer Marketing Tool on the Planet right now 🔥
 
🤔 What makes it the best?

Because it makes influencer marketing as simple as 1-2-3.

With a few clicks of a mouse, you’ll be able to:

1️⃣ Identify top influencers in your niche
2️⃣ Connect with them and build a relationship
3️⃣ Monetize you relationships 

And not just with one or two influencers but hundreds. Imagine 100 influencers promoting your brand on socials week on week. It brings in crazy $$$. 

That’s why you’re going to absolutely love Saral and the money it will make you 💰

Here's the best part: 

It brings in eyeballs and sales without you spending a dime on Facebook ads.

Don’t take my word for it, here’s what our users say:

💬 "This is insane. you are literally replacing a whole team of people with these features"

💬 "Holy shit just watched your demo – your product is absolutely revolutionary."

💬 "Love how organized the app is. It looks SO clean. I think the Drip part is key, glad you have that in there. Especially with the templates"

As my thanks for giving us a try, you’ll receive a FREE copy of my Quick Start Guide to Influencer Marketing, that will take your brand from nobody to superstar in no time 🌟 

Remember, it's as simple as 1-2-3 after you read the guide and you're all set  🚀

Get them talking about you NOW! 

Try here: https://www.getsaral.com

Yash Chavan

Your tech startup is only as strong as the person building the tech department.

Exactly one year ago today, I met Yash Kalwani. After several painful mis-hires and tough lessons, I finally knew what I wasn't looking for in a Head of Engineering.

What I didn’t expect: finding exactly what I was looking for... a Yash in engineering 😂

Since he joined SARAL, the product has seen a massive level-up:

👉 SARAL Inbox - like Superhuman, but for influencer managers
👉 SIA - our AI assistant powering smarter workflows
👉 Campaigns - a better way to structure and manage creator collabs

...and many more.

What most don’t realize: being a great startup CTO is hard:

- Build a lean, high-output team
- Prioritize under pressure
- Clear tech debt while still shipping fast
- Translate the why into product reality
- Survive bugs, outages, and the founder's insane timeline expectations! (guilty)

Kalwani’s done all of the above, and more, with grit, humility, and speed.

So grateful to have him building the world's simplest and complete influencer marketing platform with us at SARAL - The Influencer OS.  

If you’re a non-technical founder, don’t wait too long to find your Kalwani 🪄

I am in the middle of reading the new “State of Ecommerce” report by KnoCommerce team, and one stat stands out glaringly:

➡️ 6,600+ word-of-mouth customers were tagged as “Google” or “Direct” in Shopify.

That explains why so many founders keep saying “ads aren’t working anymore.”

It’s not that Meta died.

It’s that your real demand drivers: influencer mentions, organic content, community buzz, never get the credit 🤷‍♂️

You're stuck optimizing for tracked clicks and ad performance, not true influence that creates enough belief in the market for your ads to work. 

And so you end up cutting the very channels that quietly make everything else perform better.

This line from the report hit home:
💬 “Without customer-declared data, brands over-invest in what looks good on paper and under-value what’s actually driving demand.”

That’s literally why we built SARAL's new measurement engine, to fix that blind spot.

To help brands see and measure the ROI of influence that pixels and affiliate links alone cannot.

If you work in Ecommerce or DTC, this report is worth spending your next coffee break reading.

I'll leave a link in the comments for whoever is interested. So glad Bar and Tina put this together! We had fun contributing, the overall report is such fire 🔥

⚡️ You gotta know the rules to know when to break them.

A brand using SARAL is getting ~46% positive response rates on their influencer outreach emails! That's a very very high amount for a seeding campaign.

But if you look at their email, it violates every "best practice" in the book:
➡️ Too many links
➡️ Long paragraphs
➡️ Asks for shipping address in the very first message

Most marketers would say: “You can’t do that!”

But here’s the thing... It works for them.

Because they know the rules, and that gives them the power to bend them.

This is why copy-paste influencer scripts don’t work. Context matters. The market's familiarity with you matters. Testing matters.

I think it works for them as they've already done some huge collabs with mega-influencers, so there's massive awareness in the space for the brand... so all the nano-influencers want to work with them.

If this brand followed "best practices" they'd be stuck in longer cycle times shipping products to influencers.

👉 Know the rules, and then bend them to your context.

This is a good lesson I wanted to share with you all today.

If you’re running outreach campaigns and seeing inconsistent results, start here:

✅ Audit your response rate (25% is a solid benchmark)
✅ Test copy variations by niche
✅ Break a rule or two intentionally and see how it does

Are you running experiments in your outreach yet?

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#influencermarketing #growthmarketing #dtcbrands

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