Build an exceptional business that makes competition irrelevant.

Entrepreneurs,

NOW is the perfect time to pursue your business dreams.

Stop struggling with what to focus on first, what to do next, and what to avoid altogether. With SMARTSTART, you can build a bullet-proof business, market it successfully, and create unlimited income using data science, strategic thinking, and modern craft.

No matter the economic conditions, SMARTSTART helps you create things your market wants, so you can win on the playing field most important to you. We designed this program in 1982 and made it available online in 2007 so you can do work that matters, for people who care, and with a focus on experiencing maximum joy working in your own successful business. In SMARTSTART, you reimagine business, rethink marketing, and redefine success.

Mastering the science of earning well while working less is the best way to take total control of your future! Our clients turn their business dreams into reality with custom-tailored strategies and expert professional guidance every step of the way.

SMARTSTART is refreshingly simple, remarkably effective, and reassuringly expensive.

Don’t put off your dreams any longer—seize the opportunity to apply to SMARTSTART and start your journey to business success today!

Sincerely,

Linda Lopeke

Why join the Smartstart community?

Be a Force for Good

I bet you’re someone with an amazing business idea, service, product, or coaching program! With a deep desire to help others and make an impact that brings positive change to the world. You might even aspire to be seen as a thought leader or person of influence in your field. But, if your presence is near invisible and your marketing isn’t keeping your pipeline full of hungry prospects and happy clients, it’s likely because you haven’t been able to rise above the noise online.

Stop the Insanity

Aren’t you getting tired of hearing crickets in response to your offers? Feeling sad watching everyone else crushing it online and thinking, “Dammit … Why not me?”

Like most struggling business owners out there, I bet you’re fed up with:

– Working your butt off, doing everything the “gurus” told you to do, but still feeling invisible online.
– Being in massive debt buying courses and masterminds with little-to-no revenue to show for it.
– Risking burnout or your relationship with a significant other (or both) trying to make it all work!
– You may even feel close to giving up on your dream! Or, if your business is a side hustle, fear you’ll have to keep a day job forever.

You are not alone! And this does not have to be your story!

Make Competition Irrelevant

Whether you’re a high-level expert, thought leader, or influencer, it’s not about lead generation anymore. It’s about creating demand for what you sell. We show you how to establish and maintain the right presence online to control audience perception and protect your positioning.

With SMARTSTART, you’ll be outstanding in every way so you can build your dream business and master modern marketing without wasting money. It is possible to rise to the top 1%, make competition irrelevant, and love your work while rewriting the rules of business and life. To date, 5,044 clients just like you have already learned how to do that in SMARTSTART and graduated after changing how they think about their business!

Using our powerful, simple methodology to make strategic business and marketing decisions you, too, can learn how to succeed in business with greater ease, having total clarity, confidence and clients.

See What’s Possible

SMARTSTART helps you realize your full potential, experience the joy and freedom of empowered lifelong independence through entrepreneurship whatever you sell. Our high-performing clients and alumni succeed in business and achieve independence through entrepreneurship on their own terms.

You can too.

Is SMARTSTART right for you?

SMARTSTART is for new and established entrepreneurs who are all-in on building a successful business. We help you create a solid foundation and position your business so it really takes off.

People just like you come into SMARTSTART at all different stages. Some clients have a cool idea for a product or service, but don’t know how or what to do to bring it to market and build a profitable business around it.

Many have a business, but haven’t been able to make it work. Or they want to make a change, but don’t know the best way to go about it. Several need expert help to reach a next level and evaluate new opportunities for growth and partnership.

Whatever stage you are in when you enter SMARTSTART, our ultimate goal is to have you moving forward independently, with joy and ease, as quickly as possible.

Which scenario best describes where you are at right now?

Starting a business?

When you are starting a business, you don’t know what you don’t know. There’s a contagion of faux experts online ready to exploit your vulnerability. But, no matter how well packaged, marketed, and distributed, bullshit is still bullshit.

SMARTSTART is your no-bullshit option. You move your business forward with clarity, confidence, and paying clients, without wasting time and money on non-productive guesswork and in the ways best for you!

Changing direction or rebranding?

If you have a business now, as many SMARTSTART clients do, it might not be all you expected or hoped for. It feels like you’ve tried everything and nothing is paying off.

Don’t struggle with an under-performing business that has you working too hard for too little. Let us help you turn it around.

In SMARTSTART, you build an asset-based business and reusable marketing campaigns using timeless principles of business development. You do the hard work once and benefit from it over and over again, year after year.

Seeking next-level options or bringing in investors?

You may be ready to grow, expand or scale your business. Some clients also seek venture capital financing or have investors whose unexpected demands are simply overwhelming.

You must be prepared, physically, mentally, and emotionally, for what these entail. Otherwise, you can fail spectacularly faster than you ever thought possible. Many do not recover from such an experience; others take the hard lessons with them and start over again.

SMARTSTART helps you understand and meet the challenges of building a high performance team, scaling a business, and taking on partners and investors, so you don’t bankrupt yourself financially and spiritually in the process. You reduce your risk of failure while sustainably securing your future.

Why are SMARTSTART clients so happy with our program?

Here are a dozen reasons to apply to be considered for placement in our program:

– In SMARTSTART, you build a solid, lasting foundation for your business.
– Work sessions are delivered in the way easiest for you to learn.
– You can record your sessions for future reference.
– A partner or virtual assistant can attend your sessions at no additional charge.
– There is no wasted time; you work on your business in every session.
– You make fully informed decisions for your business from the best options relevant to your goals.
– Explanations and resources are provided for everything you do and all your questions are answered.
– You receive both instructive and constructive feedback on your work before making it public.
– Additional support is available as you execute if you need and want it.
– You stretch your mind and grow your skills and your competency along with your bottom line.
– Desired behavior soon becomes your default behavior.
– You build trust in yourself and grow in confidence as you expand what you are capable of.

Note: Admission is by application only.

Here’s how that works:

We accept applications to work in SMARTSTART throughout the year. However, only those with economically viable ideas with the potential of a significant return on investment are invited to a virtual interview to discuss their business, goals, and challenges further. We’ll explain how the program is structured and your next steps to get a seat in the Business Success Accelerator.

When SMARTSTART is the best fit for your needs, we have you interview two participants in the program so you can ask them anything you want to know about their experience. That way, you can make a fully-informed decision to invest in SMARTSTART.

Because of the level of attention provided to each client and the size of our wait list, only a few seats are available in SMARTSTART’s accelerator at any given time. You’re encouraged to submit your application as soon as you’re ready to apply. We read them as they come in and you may be selected for an interview.

Don’t make this mistake

It would be a mistake to wait to apply to SMARTSTART. The majority of entrepreneurs in our program have businesses in the very earliest stages. We recommend you apply as soon as you have an idea you are excited about.

Many in SMARTSTART come with just an idea or have a startup with no revenue. Most with an established business don’t yet have enough revenue to cover expenses and pay themselves well.

We only admit applicants prepared to do the work needed to build a successful business and that have the potential for a minimum 10x return on their investment in our program within 2 years. There are clients who meet or exceed their goals in 3 months and clients who stay in the program longer as new and greater opportunities are offered to them. As long as you are doing the work, we’re here to help you.

We love working with our SMARTSTART clients; however, our goal is to have you graduate and not need our support as soon as possible.

Note: If you miss out on an upcoming program because it’s full, you can still apply and we’ll add you to the wait list for the next one.