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Marcus Taylor

👋 I'm Marcus Taylor, Founder of Venture Harbour, AMA about bootstrapping & automation.

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I run Venture Harbour, a digital product company that builds a new, highly-automated, online business every year. We've built nine ventures to date, ranging from SaaS tools to macOS productivity software. I bootstrapped the company at 21 years old with £500 in my bank & a broken laptop, and have grown our portfolio to 7-figures with zero outside investment in 7 years. Our two latest ventures are SereneApp.com and Leadformly.com. Here to answer any and all questions about bootstrapping, automation, building products, SEO, landing pages/forms, productivity, being a young entrepreneur, Scandinavian metal, and systemising innovation.
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Elliot Byfield
Hi Marcus, Tons of questions but the number one is: What is the best lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
Marcus Taylor
@ebyfield5 The same activity/business/product, in a different niche, is often the quickest way to 10-100X results. Example: My first website was a blog for musicians where I would often promote affiliate deals for products like guitar strings. On a $5 sale, I would typically earn $0.25. Even if I absolutely crushed it and made 10,000 sales/month that's just $2,500/month. My second website was in the luxury space where we promoted items like $1000 luxury pens and diamonds where I would typically earn $100 per sale. For the same amount of work I could achieve 400X the results - just by changing the niche I was operating in. We've seen the same with SaaS where just changing the niche/audience we're targeting has reduced churn rates & increased LTV by a significant factor.
Johan De Keulenaer
All interesting questions up here! Curious to hear about Marcus feedback on your questions everyone. Will be extremely insightful and inspiring 🚀
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