Chris Donnelly

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Do you want to get rich? Go niche. Most entrepreneurs think going broad means more customers. Wrong. If you try to serve everyone, you end up serving nobody. Here's what actually works: Find a market that's underserved and growing, then exclusively target them with laser precision. It took me 5 years of painful struggle to learn this lesson and I wasted countless hours trying to be everything to everyone. But once I finally niched down? Everything changed... My conversion rates doubled and customers came me desperate to work with us. Why? Because I stopped competing on price in a crowded market and started becoming the ONLY solution for a specific group of people. The riches really are in the niches... but most people are too scared to narrow their focus. Don't make the mistake I did. Pick your lane, own it completely, and watch what happens. If you want more lessons on structuring a highly profitable business search “Chris Donnelly Business” on YouTube for my full tutorial

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Excited to announce that Searchable has raised $4 million in pre-seed funding at a $40 million valuation! For an idea I had only 4 months ago. We launched 12 days ago. Fundamentally, AI is changing marketing faster than Google did. Now, if you're not indexing within AI search engines, you are going to lose out. There are 700 million monthly users on ChatGPT. 450 million on Google Gemini. 30 million for Perplexity and Claude. This is a real consumer behavioural shift, and we're right at the beginning of it. Even if you think Google are going to win, the interface will be different forever. I truly believe what we're building is the best tool on the market. With the best team behind it to grow it into what I think could be a billion-dollar business. I met my Co-Founders Sam Hogan and Arya Nagabhyru merely a few months ago. They were both deep AI engineers building in the AI agent space at YC companies. We jammed on the idea non stop and eventually landed on a massively improved version of what I had brought to them. Since then, I've moved them to our London office, hired some more incredible talent, and hit some insane revenue figures already. This is predicted to become a multi-billion-dollar market by 2030. The opportunity is massive. In 2012, £10 in Facebook spend could return hundreds because no one else was doing it. That same window exists now, for brands who learn to be visible to AI. I've never worked with more talented people (we're also hiring, check out our website for details If you want to try the tool head over to searchable.com and we’ll give you access to a free visibility report! Plus free step-by-step guides on how to prepare for this shift.

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You'll never guess who shows up at the end of this video... @Ben Askins #dayinthelife #ceo #contentcreator #entrepreneur

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This is my biggest regret as a lifelong entrepreneur, and it's not what you might think. #success #entrepreneur #business #startups

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What on earth should you be tracking as you scale your business? Let me explain it as simply as possible. I'm going to use Searchable as an example and show how @airwallex helps us. We had an early goal of $3 million ARR or $250k a month. Each month, our average user pays us $400. So to hit $3M, we needed 625 users or 125 new users every month for 5 months. Then, it gets interesting. Right now, our email list converts new sign-ups to paying customers at 15%. To convert 125 new customers every month, we need to be adding at least 834 new emails every month. How do we do that? Well, our ads and organic content convert about 2% of the people who see them into newsletter sign-ups. So 834 / 0.02, I knew we needed to reach 41,700 customers every single month to be able to reach our $3M a year target. 41,700 divided by 30 equals 1390 unique views every day on my SEO content. That's the number, and I'm obsessed with tracking it. That's the level of obsession you need. I haven't come across a better tool for tracking all of this than @AirWallex. Airwallex’s Global Entity Management lets you move money between your own companies instantly and for free, and set spend policies across all of them at once so you can control your margins. If you want a full breakdown of this calculation and to try Airwallex for free, click here: https://www.airwallex.com/en-uk?utm_campaign=v01_emea_uk_ib_aw_prtmk_tofu_chrisdonnelly_awx-hp&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=tiktok Hope you find it useful, Chris

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It took me 8 years to build an 8 weeks to lose almost everything… In 2020 when Covid hit it nearly ruined my agency. We lost 80% of our clients and 80% of our staff overnight. Over the next few months I spent every minute posting, pitching and DMing every client to show them how they could come out of this stronger. And it worked… after nearly three months of lock downs we bounced back stronger and more profitable than ever. I’ve just shared a full video on YouTube explaining then quadrant based thinking we used to rebuild Verb Brands. Check it out, link in my bio

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Ad | Send this to a friend building a community. Most founders are sitting on hundreds of videos, newsletters, and course modules asking, "Do I have enough content?" But that’s the wrong question. Instead, you need to ask if you’ve made the content accessible enough. If your audience has to dig for value, most of them won’t. That’s where the Premier League Companion in the official Premier League app is genius. Powered by Microsoft Azure, it seamlessly surfaces deep data and insights the second a user prompts it. It’s built on 30 seasons of content, over 300,000 articles, and 9,000 videos to give fans the most detailed, contextual answers possible. You don't need to be a football fan to appreciate this. It's a masterclass in using enterprise AI and Microsoft Azure to improve how a community interacts with your product

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This is a message to all entrepreneurs 👇 If you want to build a big business, you don’t need to dominate an entire market. You just need to capture a small percentage of a very large one. The best way to assess this is by calculating your TAM. The formula is simple: Total potential customers X total customer spend = Total addressable market. Once you know your TAM, work out what percentage of that market you can realistically capture. That will tell you whether the opportunity is big enough to pursue. I’ve just dropped a full video explaining how this framework helped me grow Searchable from £0 to $3M ARR in just five months.

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Last month, we hit $3M in ARR and closed a $14M investment at an $85M valuation. It’s been a wild few months. Let me explain a bit about how we got here. Last year, I noticed AI was fundamentally changing how everyone finds their information, and if your business wasn’t indexing within AI search engines, you are going to lose out. There are 1 billion monthly users on ChatGPT. 750 million on Google Gemini. 100 million for Perplexity And about 50 million on Claude. Not only that, but half of all Google searches now show with an AI overview. We’re in the middle of a massive behavioural shift, and most businesses still haven’t realised it. In September, I flew to San Francisco to network with the best engineers I could find. I was lucky enough to sit down with Sam Hogan and Arya Nagabhyru, who were working at YC start-ups at the time and were both as convinced as I was that AI Search would be the next billion-dollar industry. They moved to London, and we spent 70, 80, 90-hour weeks testing our idea and building our first MVP. In December, we did a soft launch and generated some incredible feedback. Whilst everyone else was celebrating Christmas, we worked non-stop to implement every piece of feedback. In January, we launched publicly and hit $1M ARR in 3 weeks. I truly believe what we’re building is the best tool on the market. We’ve started to grow an incredible team to help scale Searchable into a billion-dollar business, and we’re working flat out to make that a reality. If you want to see exactly how we did it, head over to my YouTube channel ChrisDonnellyBusiness to watch the full story

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Send this to someone trying to scale outside the UK... 👇 When I expanded my first company into the US, it showed me exactly how behind our systems were... Every invoice was a pain to track. Payments took forever. We ended up with a fractured relationship with our bank. And when you're working across markets, it's very easy for your margins to vanish. So we made the switch to @airwallex who gave us global accounts in multiple currencies and transfers to over 200 countries. Overnight, we cut four tools down to one and tightened our margins. When you're scaling overseas, your finances should run with ease. If you're ready to stop duct-taping your stack together hit the link in my bio to try Airwallex Follow @ChrisDonnellyOfficial for more on building and growing with AI.