You’ve scaled your E-commerce brand past $5M with Meta.

You’ve got momentum. What next?

What used to work isn’t working:
⤬Unpredictable CPMs
⤬CPA creeping upwards
⤬Creative is burning out faster than you can build it

It’s not about doing more. It’s about attacking the right bottleneck. 

That’s what we do;

We partner with DTC brands doing $5-10Million and take them to $20-$100M.

Being CEO (or ‘Chief Architect’) at Venture Beyond, has taught me what it takes. There is no magic bullet and the founders we work with MUST be determined for success, and attack the bottlenecks as fast as we do.

We don’t sit on monthly retainers. And we won’t sit back and wait. 
We attack the result until it’s achieved.
That is why brands pay us on performance only:

A) We spend our own money and work as an Affiliate. If we fail, it hurts. It we win, we get paid.
(currently spending $1M/month of our own cash on brands we partner with). 

OR

B) We earn a % of revenue or contribution margin.

We don’t accept any brand. The opportunity cost for us is too high.
So- we will only ever work with 5 to 10 brands at any given time. 

We need to believe in the PRODUCT, the OFFER, and we need to believe in the FOUNDER.

In return- we won’t do random sparks of ‘creative genius’ when we feel like it. We will systematically engineer creatives through sequential Creative Testing, attentive Media Buying and CRO.

1. We build the ads.
2. We build the landing pages.
3. We run the ad spend.

We have managed over $100M+ in paid media on Meta, generating more than $200M in tracked revenue. We’ve taken brands from inception through to high 8-figures and got one brand into the Meta Disruptors group.

See our Case Studies for results.
Talk to us if you are serious about growth.


➡ BACKSTORY

Before Venture Beyond, I:

‣ Grew a Land Promotion business to 500+ homes under contract (still an Investing Partner)

‣ Flipped 22 properties during lockdown and redeveloped a block of 18 flats

‣ Misc- owned a gym, touted 10,000+ event tickets, car trader, eBay powerseller, grew a property community, ran AirBNBs, short stint in a cleaning business, was a wedding photographer.

‣ Started in Corporate Finance at Deloitte (ACA-qualified, Maths graduate etc etc etc)


➡ IMPACT WORK

We’ve raised £200K+ for water + food security projects in Malawi, bringing sustainable irrigation to over 10,000 people. DM me to Join the mission.

Shahbaz Khokhar

Chris Erthel it was an absolute pleasure to interview you just after we both got off the main stage at Affiliate World Conferences.

A lot of golden takeaways for me from this conversation. Congrats again on the successful exit from Meller. Many founders dream of this day and you made it happen 🫡 and best of luck with the next venture!

E-commerce Operator | CEO @ Venture Beyond | Ex-Deloitte ACA | 20+ Years Entrepreneur

Speaking at Affiliate World Conferences is always an honour and privilege.

Sharing knowledge on how we’ve reached the results we have is always rewarding. Thank you to all those who attended, thank you to Affiliate World Conferences for inviting me, and most of all thank you to my team Venture Beyond for standing by my side the last few years. I’m proud of what we’ve built and I know without any doubts that 2026 is going to be an absolutely crazy year!

Maryna Taiberman is an absolute fountain of knowledge.

Having scaled multiple creative teams for E-commerce brands including an agency with $63M of Meta ad spend under the belt, I never leave a conversation with her without feeling educated on something to implement in our business at Venture Beyond  

Check out the episode:
https://lnkd.in/eR99eN_i

Open video: $63M in Meta Ad Spend: How to Lead a High-Performance Creative Team at Scale | Maryna Taiberman on youtu.be

$63M in Meta Ad Spend: How to Lead a High-Performance Creative Team at Scale | Maryna Taiberman

Alexander "Brave Journey" Sterling is of mixed Ramapo Lenape, Cuban and Black descent, A dedicated leader in renewable energy finance and economic development with a strong commitment to advancing Afro-Indigenous led clean energy solutions, he has played a pivotal role in deploying solar and storage solutions across Native lands, ensuring long-term energy sovereignty and economic resilience. As Founder and CEO of Turtle Island Community Capital, Alexander is at the helm of an emerging Native Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that expands capital access for tribal communities, small businesses, and clean energy projects.
With a tenure managing $45 million in private sector utility-scale solar projects and hundreds of residential installations, Sterling has developed deep expertise in international supply chain optimization, logistics management, financial forecasting and data-driven decision-making, project finance, tribal governance engagement, and capacity building, particularly within emerging clean energy industries. A recognized speaker on Native-led energy finance, Alexander is shaping policies and investment strategies that prioritize Indigenous economic self-determination. His leadership reflects his dedication to advancing regenerative economic models that strengthen Native nations and promote climate resilience. 
Defined by integrity, transparency, and strategic foresight, Alexander ensures that complex decisions are made with respect and attention to detail, fostering a culture of accountability and innovation across all sectors he serves.

Alexander Sterling

Currently reading Invisible No More: Voices from Native America, published by First Nations Development Institute, and feeling both grounded and inspired. 

This collection is a chorus of Indigenous voices reclaiming the narrative of who we are and the futures we’re building. Each essay captures the brilliance, resilience, and determination that define Native life across Turtle Island today.

I’ve been especially moved by the reflections by Miwa Tamanaha, Kim Moa, Vanessa Roanhorse, Agnetha Jaime Gloshay, Lakota Vogel and Raymond Foxworth,  stories that speak directly to the kind of systems change we’re fighting for at Turtle Island Community Capital. While I've been carrying it with me for several months of travel, it took a chance vision of it at the Henry Luce Foundation Inc during climate week, sitting next to these stickers from our friends at Relative Arts that moved it back into my 'must read' section. The wisdom, honesty, and creativity of these contributors remind me that visibility is only the beginning. Our true self-determination requires access to power and resources, data and equitable support.

I also want to lift up Mike Roberts, whose leadership at First Nations Development Institute continues to amplify the message being championed continually by Rebecca Adamson that investing in Native communities is an absolute no brainer on the strategy of creating sustainability.

At TICC, we’re putting that truth into action every day by connecting Native entrepreneurs, artists, and community organizations across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic to the capital and capacity they need to thrive.

Because when you donate to us or other Native-led institutions, you’re not just funding a project, you’re buying an entrepreneur the gift of opportunity, you're growing confidence in the native economy and you're sending a market signal that we're worth investing in. You’re also investing in the next 7 generations of Indigenous stories, leaders, and economies that will define what justice and sustainability truly look like.

We are not invisible.
We are the authors of what comes next.

Learn more about Invisible No More at First Nations Development Institute, and if you’re moved, help us build this future: 

https://lnkd.in/eyaq4WDp

#InvisibleNoMore #IndigenousVoices #NativeEntrepreneurs #IndigenousEconomies #EconomicJustice #CommunityWealth #ImpactInvesting #TurtleIsland #FirstNationsDevelopmentInstitute #NativeCDFI

CEO at Turtle Island Community Capital | Driving Sustainable Projects and Financial Innovation

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