David Ellis

beetu.be

We partner with B2B businesses and build them inbound client acquisition machines.

Learn more here 👉🏼 beetu.be

Founder & CEO

Teranga (now beetu.be)

PGC Group

Director of Business Development at PGC during two recording-breaking back to back years - 2020 and 2021. During these years we exceeded all previous records for new business, client growth, and overall revenue. 

Some of the achievements during that time:

- Responsible for clearly defining product-market fit, helping PGC to transition from an outbound sales model to mostly inbound, and building a predictable lead generation machine and sales process. This enabled us to win more business with a leaner BD function. 

- Played a leading role in launching PGCs solution into a new market segment. Worked on market fit, branding, messaging, sales process, pricing, as well as operations and service delivery. By the time I left PGC, this segment accounted for nearly 10% of overall revenue and was growing. 

- Led a small marketing team to clearly define PGCs brand and proposition in the market, as well as moving the business to a content-led organisation. Taking the lead on creative projects and campaigns. 

- Personally responsible for signing over 100 clients to PGC during my time in the sales function.

- Working as part of the senior leadership team to help set the direction of the business and define strategy. 

- Acting as PGCs voice in the marketplace. Speaking regularly and events, masterminds, workshops, and podcasts. 

My lovely colleagues made this farewell video: https://youtu.be/79864cVPUDo

www.pgcgroup.com

Director of Business Development

Business Development Manager

Star Actuarial Futures

Headhunted to join Star Actuarial’s team. 

My role involved all aspects of working in a recruitment business; business development, consulting clients on recruitment strategy, attending events, career/CV advice, conducting meetings, candidate screening and training, inputting into business strategy and direction, reviewing employment contracts, negotiating terms of business and much more.

Star Actuarial Futures provides leading edge recruitment services to the actuarial market. 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 - Actuarial Post: Agency of the Year

We work in all areas of the market on actuarial jobs in London, the UK and overseas. Our Consultants have over 60 years’ of experience in technical actuarial roles across a wide variety of fields, and play an active role within the actuarial profession; at conferences, on committees, and contributing to wider networking events. As a result, our understanding of the actuarial market and of actuarial vacancies is based on first-hand experience, industry-leading connections and up-to-date market knowledge.

Our honest approach to recruitment and our market expertise has delivered great results within the actuarial market.

Associate Director

Senior Consultant

The Emerald Group

Specialist Recruitment Consultant within the UK General Insurance (Non-Life) Actuarial Team.

Recruitment Consultant - General Insurance, Actuarial

Founder & Growth Consultant | Building beetu.be in public [from scratch] in 2023 🚀

📈 $2m+ Growth Framework (For B2B Companies That Want More Inbound Leads):  https://beetu.be/beetube-protocol-breakdown

🤝 Work With Me to Grow Your Business: https://beetu.be/growth-strategy-session

💬 DM me if you want to chat about growth

We are a boutique marketing agency only offering one service: SEO.

We help B2B businesses rank number one on Google and generate mind-blowing ROI with targeted SEO campaigns.

No Facebook ads, no social media management, no YouTube, no PPC, and no email marketing. Just SEO, and we’re really good at it.

Why? Because we exist to see our clients grow and firmly believe that SEO is the best long-term strategy to sustainably grow your business year on year.

The best bit? We have a performance-based model. Meaning, you get results or you'll get a refund.

Want to learn more, or see case studies & results?:
www.terangadigitalmarketing.com/casestudies

This week in Cape Town completely changed my view on remote vs. in person work.

It's amazing how much you can get done as a team when you're in the room together.

Little moments. Throw away comments. Ad hoc discussions etc.

Don't get me wrong, I still love locking myself away in my lab (home office), putting on brain.fm (thank me later), and cranking through deep work.

But there is a special energy when you are in person and it makes me super proud of the company we're building. 

I guess a bit of both is best?!

I guess I'm going to HAVE to spend more time in Cape Town... 🤪

Founder at beetu.be 🟣 | Growth Nerd 🤓

I’ve advised 300+ companies over the last five years. And the number one thing holding most of them back isn’t talent, effort, or even budget.

It’s an obsession with tools and tactics, and not enough time spent zooming out to think strategically.

It sounds like a cliché. But it’s true.

I probably have some version of these conversations 5–10 times every single week:

- “What’s the best time of day to post on LinkedIn?”

- “We’ve bought ScoreApp — how do we get more people to complete our scorecard?”

- “Someone told us we need to do X, Y and Z to show up in ChatGPT results. Is that right?”

These are not bad questions. They’re often worth exploring.

But they’re operating at the wrong altitude.

Tactics alone do not create momentum. And most tactics are just trends with a short shelf life.

What consistently separates high-growth companies from the rest is their willingness to ask harder, slower, more uncomfortable questions like:

- "What are we actually trying to say to the market?"

- "What do we want to be known for — and why should anyone care?"

- "How are we defining and measuring success in our growth function?"

- "What systems can we build today that will still be working for us in 12 months?"

When you start thinking at this level, everything shifts.
Your decision-making gets clearer. Your marketing gets simpler, not more complicated.

And ironically, once you truly understand your strategy, you can confidently ignore 99% of tools, hacks and “must-do” tactics being shouted online.

Most businesses are obsessed with generating leads.

I think that’s the wrong goal.

Even Alex Hormozi - who I admire - tends to promote a hustle-style “grow as fast as possible" approach to growth.

But in my experience, that mindset often sabotages long-term growth.

It's quite possible to generate SIGNIFICANT returns from social media platforms without any of the traditional lead gen tactics:
 - No automations
 - No cold DMs
 - No “comment to get my swipe file” posts

In fact, in our business, we don't even focus on "leads" in the traditional sense.

Instead, we follow a simple principle:
 👉 Give more. Get more.

This comes from something I have observed:

The more that I give away, the more money I make.

So,
- We give away our best ideas freely.
- We help people without asking for anything back.
- We prioritize real conversations over sales scripts.

It’s slower at first—but it compounds.

Here’s why this works:

Lead gen tactics attract low-quality, short-term buyers

Your inbox fills with people who ghost you

Your close rates drop and it doesn’t feel like you

When you shift to a give-first strategy:
 ✅ You build trust
 ✅ You attract the right buyers
 ✅ You create offline virality (people talk about you in Slack, WhatsApp, and real-life convos)

In this video, I walk through:
1) How this “give more” philosophy is rooted in timeless principles
2) What it looks like in practice
3) The specific LinkedIn strategy we use to generate revenue without pushing products

A few months ago, I did a free consult for a founder who was just getting started.

They didn’t have a budget. There was no hidden agenda. I just liked their mission and wanted to help.

We spent an hour talking through their positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategy. It was a great conversation. Part business, part life, the kind of exchange that reminds you why you got into this in the first place.

A few weeks later, they introduced me to someone in their network.
That person became a paying client.

Now, I didn’t give the free consult expecting a referral. And that’s the point. When you give without agenda, without urgency, without trying to extract value- things tend to flow back in unexpected ways.

It’s not “tactical.” It’s just how relationships work.

This is why I believe in showing up generously. It doesn’t scale like a funnel. But it compounds like trust.

“The world of the generous gets larger.”

It’s a line from Proverbs (bible), but it might be the best marketing advice I’ve ever heard.

When I launched beetu.be, we started with a simple idea. That we would give our best ideas away for free. No opt in's. No lead gen tactics.

(At the time, we called it "building in public")

Almost immediately, it had a huge impact.

People really resonated with what we were saying and reached out to us. Clients (and non clients!) started referring business to us. Customers arrived already trusting us.

I didn’t really understand it at the time but I’ve seen it enough times now to know: generosity compounds.

And I think the market can feel the difference.

One approach says: “Here’s a teaser, now give me your email.”

The other says: “Here’s everything I’ve got. Hope it helps.”

On a long enough timeline, the second one ALWAYS wins.

I’d take trust over tactics any day.

I love Wednesdays. 

For the last few months, I’ve been blocking out the whole day.

No meetings. (Very little) email/Slack. 

Just open space to think, write, and create content. 

Not only is it super enjoyable, but I’ve come to realise this is one of the highest ROI things I can do as the CEO of our company. 

Does anyone else have a routine like this? 

Ps: best part - I do the whole thing wearing Birkenstocks 👞

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Most of the companies I speak to have been burned by marketing.

Whether it's an agency, a marketing manager, or a shiny new tool — it promised big, and delivered small.

But here’s what I’ve seen after working on growth with 300+ B2B companies:

The marketing usually isn’t the problem.

The message wasn’t ready.

You can have the best Google Ads expert in the world…

But if the message on your landing page doesn’t resonate with your ideal customer, it won’t convert.

This is why so many founders feel like they’re “doing marketing” but not seeing results. They’re pushing a boulder uphill.

To fix this, you don’t need more marketing. 

You need more RESONANCE.

That’s the ability to communicate a message that deeply connects with your audience — and turns into leads, revenue, and growth.

In this video, I walk through the exact 5-step framework we use to help B2B companies find market resonance and build inbound client acquisition machines:

1) Product-Market Fit Hypothesis
Nail your ICP, transformation, and unique insight.

2) Growth Assets
Capture your hypothesis in case studies, sales letters, and video content.

3) Traffic & Demand Building
Push your message out on platforms where your buyers hang out — and test resonance.

4) Sales Enablement
Close at 20%+ with a simple, dialled-in sales process.

5) Scale
Once it’s working, scale it. But don’t skip steps and try to scale too early.

We’ve used this to help companies:
– 3x revenue in a few months
 – Institute waitlists due to too many inbound leads
 – Break record revenue months (with consistent CAC)

Before you hire another marketing agency, do this:

I’ve seen this play out hundreds of times:
→ Founder feels stuck
→ Hires a new agency to “fix” growth
→ Agency launches ads, SEO, content
→ Nothing changes

Not because the agency was bad.

But because the message wasn’t ready.

Here’s the checklist I give to founders before they invest in marketing:

☑️ Do you know exactly who you’re speaking to?
Not just industry and company size — but pain points, priorities, language.

☑️ Can you clearly articulate the transformation you deliver?
What’s the “before” and “after” state for your ideal customer?

☑️ Do you have a clear, differentiated point of view?
Why you? Why now? Why this method?

☑️ Have you tested the message in the market — and gotten traction?
If you’re not seeing conversations, inbound leads, or strong reactions, it’s not resonating yet.

☑️ Do you have simple growth assets that explain your offer?
Think: a VSL, a sales letter, and case studies. (Not a 30-page deck)

If you skip these steps and hire an agency too soon, you’re paying to scale something that doesn’t convert.

Fix the message first. The marketing will finally start working.

This is one of the most powerful growth channels that is impossible to track.

There’s no attribution. No UTM tags. No data trail.

But suddenly, someone pops up in your inbox saying:
“Can we set up a call?"

When we ask where they found us, the answer is almost always some version of:
 “A colleague sent me one of your posts.”
 “You came up in our team’s Slack.”
 “Someone forwarded your name in a WhatsApp group.”

It's offline virality.

(Ps: marketers hate this because it doesn't show up in a dashboard 🤣)

But it drives some of the highest-quality conversations we have.

And it only happens when you consistently share ideas that people actually want to talk about.

No gimmicks. Just real insight.

There’s a brand called Golden Goose that sells "distressed" sneakers for $500+.

They’re scuffed. Frayed. Sometimes even have holes in them.
And they regularly sell out.

So why do people buy them?

(I may even have a couple of pairs myself 😅)

It’s not about materials. It’s about meaning.

Buyers aren’t purchasing shoes. They’re purchasing a signal. A belief. A feeling.

And this psychology shows up in B2B more than most people realise.

People don't buy services, they buy BELIEFS.

For example, how is it that some businesses (eg: McKinsey or IBM) charge 2–3x their competitors and still win the work?

These companies have built a brand perception that communicates trust, authority, and clarity. Their buyers already believe in them, even before the pitch.

Hence the old adage "Nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM"! 

OR why do thousands of people buy tools like HubSpot or ScoreApp?

It's not because they have a particular marketing hack or have found a special way to build a funnel. 

We are buying into the beliefs of these brands. We believe that if we just purchase a tool for $99/month, our business will grow!

Meanwhile, the average B2B company I speak with is stuck in a cycle of tactics.

(Posting on LinkedIn. Sending cold emails. Testing lead magnets.)

But they are not zooming out long enough to think about what message they truly want to convey to the marketplace and what they really want to stand for.

I believe this might be the single most important aspect of growth. If you get it right, growth becomes inevitable.

In my latest video, I break this all down:
- What Golden Goose can teach B2B brands
- Why buyers don’t just buy services—they buy beliefs
- A 3-part framework to build a thesis your market wants to follow

Most B2B founders are stuck doing “more marketing” and seeing less growth.

It’s not because marketing doesn’t work.

It’s because they skipped the one thing that makes marketing actually work:
RESONANCE.

If your message doesn’t deeply connect with your audience, no campaign will convert — no matter how much budget or effort you throw at it.

We use a simple 5-step framework to fix this.

It’s helped our clients go from unpredictable lead flow to fully booked pipelines, waitlists, and record-breaking months.

Here are the 5 milestones of Market Resonance:

1) Product-Market Fit Hypothesis
 → Get crystal clear on your ICP, the transformation you offer, and your unique insight.

2) Growth Assets
 → Turn that hypothesis into high-leverage content: video sales letters, case studies, and messaging that scales.

3) Traffic & Demand Building
 → Push the message into the market via content, ads, and outreach. Not to “sell” — but to test for resonance.

4) Sales Enablement
 → Make closing easy by attracting warm, inbound leads who already believe what you believe.

5) Scale
 → Once the machine is working, pour fuel on it. But don’t skip steps — scale is the reward, not the starting point.
If you’re stuck doing marketing that isn’t driving pipeline, walk through these steps.

The marketing isn’t broken.

The message just isn’t ready.

We generated over £100K in new revenue in a single month — from a funnel that took less than a week to build.

No complicated tech stack.

No 37-step automation sequence.

Just a message that resonated — and a way to show it to the right people.

Here’s what it looked like:

1) A strong point of view.
→ We led with our Market Resonance Framework — a 5-step process we’ve used with 300+ B2B companies.

2) One marketing asset.
 → A 17-minute breakdown of how the framework works and who it’s for.
 → No fluff, no overproduction — just structured thinking delivered clearly.

3) A simple landing page.
 → Not “high-converting copy” — just a message that matched how our ideal customers think and talk.

4) A few well-placed pieces of content and ads.
 → LinkedIn posts.
 → Google Search traffic.
 → Some retargeting. That’s it.

The result?
🟢 20–30+ inbound demos per month
🟢 6 inbound calls in a single day
🟢 A record-breaking revenue month with a 10x ROAS

The takeaway:

You don’t need a better funnel. You need a message that people actually care about.

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