Become the Fully Booked Local Go-To In Your City
You don’t need more random marketing ideas.
You need a simple, repeatable plan for getting your business in front of more people in your city, growing an audience of local people who actually want what you offer and turning that visibility into paying clients.
That’s what you’ll build inside The Localpreneur Academy.
The Localpreneur Academy is the local marketing and business coaching program for service-based business owners who want to become known in their city, create consistent local demand and get fully booked.
Lifetime access • Weekly live coaching • Personal feedback
You’re in the right place if…
You know your business is good.
You know you can help people.
But you need more of the right people in your city to know you exist.
Maybe you’ve been posting on Instagram and hoping the right people find you.
Maybe most of your business still comes from word of mouth, friends or the same small circle of people.
Maybe you’ve tried networking, collaborations, social media, email, ads or a dozen other marketing ideas.
But you still don’t feel like you have a clear plan you can follow every month.
Or maybe you’re doing plenty of marketing…
but you’re still wondering why am I not more booked?
The truth is you don’t need to be everywhere.
You don’t need to post all day.
You don’t need 10,000 followers.
And you don’t need to keep reinventing your marketing every week.
What actually fills your calendar is the right people in your city consistently finding you, remembering you and understanding why they should choose you.
Inside, you’ll learn exactly how to:
✓ Stand out as the obvious local go-to for what you do
✓ Reach more people in your city online and offline
✓ Consistently grow your following with people who actually live near you
✓ Create content that builds demand for what you do
✓ Confidently sell your offers and turn interest into paying clients
And you won’t spend months watching trainings before you start doing any of it.
Start seeing movement in your first 30 days.
From the moment you join, we’re going to get you implementing.
In your first 30 days, you’ll:
✓ Build your customized Local Marketing Plan™ so you know exactly what to do daily to get your business in front of more people in your city
✓ Start using the 100 Local Followers System with the to add the next 100 local people to your audience
✓ Clarify your message and offers so people understand what you do, who it’s for and why you're the local top choice
✓ Start creating Local Go-To Content that builds trust, demand and desire for your services
✓ Get personal coaching and direct feedback as you implement so when you get stuck, overthink something or don’t know what to do next, you don’t have to figure it out alone
Fernanda 10x'd her investment over her first weekend
Anna went from zero orders to 50 in two weeks
Jen got 5 new home organizing leads in two weeks
You’ll have a plan to follow, specific local marketing strategies and a mentor helping you implement.
That’s what we do inside The Localpreneur Academy.
JOIN THE LOCALPRENEUR ACADEMYHere's what my clients have to say:
Made more in one day than all of last October
"A year ago I joined your academy. This past Saturday we made more $$$ in one day from our event than all of last October combined."
Erica Smith
Flower Farmer
Out-earned his old job in his first full year
"In my first full year of being in business I already surpassed what I was making before. And I've met or exceeded monthly income goals the last 4 straight months."
Sean Gasser
Photographer
More than doubled her business in 10 weeks
"In 10 weeks, I more than doubled in growth. I was able to transition to nutrition coaching full time, which I thought would take a lot longer. I've raised my prices twice. I did this while having an 8-month old baby."
Kylee
Nutrition Coach
Everything inside is built around one goal: getting you fully booked locally
The Localpreneur Academy®
The ultimate local marketing program for service-based business owners who want to get fully booked with clients in their city.
The Localpreneur Academy takes the guesswork out of marketing yourself locally.
It's everything you need to do (and not do) every single day, week and month to reach more people in your city and bring in more clients.
No more Googling, trying to piece together all the random tips you find on Instagram or getting generic fluff from ChatGPT.
Inside this lifetime membership, you'll get the step-by-step process and personalized support so you can get known, grow your local audience, create demand and bring in clients.
You’ll know what to work on first, what comes next and where to focus when something in your business isn’t working.
And because you have ongoing coaching and personalized feedback, you’re not applying a generic strategy to your business and hoping for the best.
We’ll help you make each step work for your business, your city and your fully booked goal.
I'M SO READY!Leslie Cuti stays fully booked month after month
"Having lifetime access, I mean, I'm sorry that's a no brainer. I would pay you the same amount year after year. I've made so much more, and I'm not done learning yet. There's still so much more. I learn every single week and just go deeper and deeper."
– Leslie Cuti | Home Organizer
The 5 Skills That Get You Fully Booked:
Whether you want your first local client or you're ready to get fully booked, these 5 skills are everything you need:
SKILL 1
Stand Out Locally
This is where you stop blending in and start becoming the local go-to in your city.
You’ll get clear on what makes you the obvious choice, how to talk about the value of what you do and how to stop marketing yourself like everyone else in your industry.
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We’ll use my Person Down the Street Test and the other positioning frameworks inside the Academy to uncover what makes your business worth paying attention to.
Then we’ll work on the part most marketing programs skip...
You actually believing you’re the person people should choose.
Becoming the local go-to comes down to how you see yourself, how you show up and how confidently you talk about your work.
Your marketing should reflect the level of expert you want people in your city to see you as.
This is where your community starts seeing you as the top choice, and you start seeing yourself that way too.
See What's Inside This Skill
The Result: You know exactly what makes you the local go-to, and you can say it with confidence anywhere you show up.
Skill 1 Bonus: The Person Down the Street Marketing Auditor
A custom AI tool for Claude or ChatGPT that shows you exactly where your marketing is blending in with the person down the street.
Natalie Gets Recognized All Over Her City
"Moms are recognizing me when I am out in public, coming up and saying wait do you own [my shop]? I've been to a birthday party, cheer camp and a play date and had customers come up to me and say how much they love buying from me."
Natalie | Children's Consignment Boutique
SKILL 2
Reach More People In Your City
Getting fully booked means more people in your city need to know your business exists.
This is where we take all the random marketing ideas you’ve been trying (or thinking you should be trying) and turn them into a clear Local Marketing Plan™ you can actually follow.
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You’ll know where to focus every single day, what deserves your time and how to consistently get your business in front of more people in your city without feeling like you need to be everywhere.
And you won’t be left wondering if it’s working or not.
Inside the Academy, you’ll follow a monthly process for evaluating and troubleshooting your marketing so you can see what’s creating movement, what needs more time and what to adjust next.
No more throwing everything out, jumping to something new or starting over every month.
You’ll have a simple Local Marketing Plan to follow and a way to know what to do next.
See What's Inside This Skill
The Result: More local visibility, online and offline. You'll have a simple plan you can follow every week, so more people in your city are seeing your business and remembering you.
Skill 2 Bonus: The Fully Booked Formula Tracker
Track your plan each month so you can see exactly what's creating visibility, followers, inquiries and clients.
Aurora Beat Last Year's 4-Week Sale In Just 4 Days
Aurora started following her Local Marketing Plan more consistently. She sold out 3 classes (83 tickets), opened a second class that sold out in 8 days and surpassed last year's entire 4-week seedling sale revenue in just 4 days.
Aurora | Farm Business
SKILL 3
Grow Your Local Following
You don’t need thousands of random followers or more people in your industry following you.
You need more people in your city finding you, following you and knowing about your business.
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You’ll learn the 100 Local Follower System: the 10-step repeatable process for consistently growing your audience with people who actually live close enough to hire you.
The system is built around a simple target:
Add 100 new local followers every month.
Instead of hoping the algorithm sends the right people your way, you’ll have a clear process to follow so local audience growth becomes something you can actively create and repeat.
And once you know how to add the first 100, you can do it again.
And again, month after month.
This is your local lead generation.
The goal: a local audience that keeps growing month after month with people who could actually become clients.
See What's Inside This Skill
The Result: 100 new local people who know about your business every month and can refer you, book with you or buy from you.
Skill 3 Bonus: The Local Trial Reels Workflow
Rachael Added 500 Local Followers In One Week
Rachael relaunched her Instagram, added 500 followers in the first week and kept growing to 1,000. She even booked a wedding because a friend shared one of her posts.
Rachael | Wedding Venue
SKILL 4
Create Local Go-To Content
You need content that makes local people think:
“She gets me.”
“I keep seeing her everywhere.”
“She’s clearly the person to go to for this.”
“I’m ready to book.”
Inside this skill, you’ll learn my Local Go-To Content System, including the 8 Local Go-To Content Pillars I created specifically for local service businesses.
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Because I teach content differently.
We’re not just creating educational and entertaining posts, following trends or making content for the sake of staying “consistent.”
You’ll learn how to create content that helps people in your city see you as the local go-to, understand why you’re the local solution, see the value in what you do and actually want to work with you.
And if social media constantly feels like something you’re behind on (you don’t know what to say, you’re not “good at content” or even posting twice a week feels like a heavy lift), this is where it gets easier.
You’ll have a system to come back to so you know what to talk about, can create it faster and don’t have to reinvent your content every single week.
Because the goal isn’t to become a content creator or spend your life on social media.
The goal is to make creating content easier AND create the kind of content that turns local followers into clients.
See What's Inside This Skill
The Result: Content that makes you the obvious local go-to. It shows people how you help and why it’s worth it, builds so much trust they think “Omg, she’s in my head,” engages your best clients and gets them to reach out, inquire, book or buy. And creating it finally feels simple, with endless ways to say who you are, where you are, what you do and how you help.
Skill 4 Bonus: Local Content Brain
Your AI prompt for creating localized content.
Dr. Melissa Enrolled A Client From Her Reel
"Sat down and actually planned the content out for IG. Enrolled a client from the first reel!"
Dr. Melissa | Pelvic Floor Therapist
SKILL 5
Sell Confidently
Selling is a skill... and it’s one you can get really good at.
Inside this skill, I’ll teach you how to sell through the places your clients are already interacting with you: your social media posts, emails, local events, DMs, sales conversations, consults and the everyday moments where someone is deciding whether or not to work with you.
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You’ll learn how to create more desire for your offers, talk about what you do in a way that makes people want it and make the next step clear instead of hoping someone figures out how to hire you.
And we work on more than just what to say.
We work on how you show up in those moments.
Because most business owners don’t struggle with selling because they need a perfect script or call to action.
They struggle because they’re afraid of being too pushy, they second-guess themselves, they don’t fully believe people want what they’re offering or they get uncomfortable the second someone says “I need to think about it.”
This is where we work on both sides of selling: the strategy AND the mindset behind it.
So you can stop avoiding the sale, stop overthinking every word and start confidently talking about your offers.
The goal: selling becomes something you know how to do in your content, in your conversations and throughout your entire marketing process.
See What's Inside This Skill
The Result: You confidently turn the demand you’ve built into paying clients, with clear offers, a simple path to book and sales conversations that never feel pushy.
Skill 5 Bonus: The Client Journey Auditor
Casey’s Client Booked Her Most Expensive Package Without A Call
Casey booked her first completely organic client with no discount. The client found her through her social media and booked her most expensive newborn option without a call.
Casey | Newborn Photographer
Bridget booked her first clients on social media
"Having a new business, the anxiety of "how does this work now" was my primary focus. I dove right in and April and May were my most successful months yet -- and 90% of my clients were new and found me on social media. I believe in Leslie!"
– Bridget Joubert | Interior Lighting Designer
Dana has a 6-month waitlist
"Before joining, I was struggling to figure it all out. Everything felt overwhelming. I was getting business but it was inconsistent and my schedule was all over the place. Leslie's way of teaching has shifted how I handle all my social media. I feel much more focused as I create content. Leslie makes it easy to break things down so it's easy, repeatable, time-saving and creates consistency."
– Dana Manning | Furniture Restyler
Erica booked 560 appointments in one year
"If you're serious about growing your business and you need help with anything — sales, marketing, it's all there. You just get the fool-proof way. Just invest in yourself and do it. It's the greatest investment I've made. There's just so much you get in this program."
– Erica Huckaby | Clay Impressions
Tyler is fully booked 3 weeks out
"I've gotten more value in the last 6 months than I have in any other marketing or sales training or hiring people. The Localpreneur Academy has made such a huge difference in my business and my confidence. You can't really put a value. How much would you pay to have confidence in your business? Knowing what I know now, I would absolutely go back and do it again."
– Tyler Blankenship | Home Technology Contractor
And it works...
HEY THERE 👋
I'm Leslie!
I’ve been exactly where you are. When I first started my local business in 2010, I felt like I was doing everything to get people's attention — posting on social media, networking, trying to stand out — but nothing was really working. I didn’t know how to consistently reach the right people in my city and get them to care about what I was doing. I was exhausted from spinning my wheels and trying everything.
Over the years, I slowly figured it out and other business owners started asking for my help. How was I growing my following? How was I selling out events? How was I getting people so excited about what I was doing locally?
I built a clear, repeatable system that took me from totally unknown to being seen as the go-to person in my city (with the "Best Of" awards and client waitlists to prove it). And now, through The Localpreneur Academy®, I’ve taught that same system to hundreds of business owners across industries — helping them grow their local following, create content that builds demand, and confidently sell out their services. If you’re tired of guessing, hoping, and trying to do it all alone, I’d love to be your coach and show you the exact steps to finally get fully booked.
Maddie left her full-time job & hit 5-figure months
"Get in the room. If you want success and a game plan for how to run your business, you need mentorship, support and coaching. Leslie is great on multiple fronts as a coach because she helps people with the beliefs and thought work, but also the actual practical action steps. And a lot of programs out there, you only get coaching for the time of the live program, but this is on-going support."
– Maddie Memmer | Color Analysis + Image Consultant
Plus, get these BONUS resources + trainings:
I want you to get fully booked even faster, so here are a few bonuses included free with your enrollment.
Email Made Easy: Your Local List-Building Blueprint
Finally, take the overwhelm out of email marketing. I’ll walk you step by step through setting up your email system, designing your first emails and building your subscriber list with local people who actually want to hear from you. Inside this bonus, you’ll find tutorials that take the tech stress away, strategies to grow your local list, and plug-and-play guidance for sending regular emails, including your first welcome sequence—so you can connect with your community and turn subscribers into clients.
Sell Out Your Local Events
In this bonus training, you'll learn the 5 most common mistakes stopping local business owners from selling out their events. Plus, get my 3-step process to help you plan, promote and sell out out your events on repeat - whether you host classes, trainings, workshops, pop-ups, parties, open houses -- or anything of the sort! Host free events? Great! Let's get more people showing up!
Local-fy Your Website: Optimize Your Site for Local Clients
Most local business websites make it hard for clients to say yes. In this bonus, I’ll show you how to local-fy your site so it gets found in search engines and makes booking with you simple. We’ll strip away the clutter and focus on the essentials—your home page, about page, contact page, and services page—using my Client Path of Least Resistance. You’ll also learn how to write a high-converting sales page for your services (yes, most business owners aren’t writing nearly enough or hitting on the right things!). By the end, your website will be clear, client-friendly, and position you as that local go-to.
Collaborations + The Local Partnership Protocol
One of the fastest ways to grow your local visibility is by partnering with other businesses in your community. In this bonus, I’ll show you exactly how to find the right partners, what to say when you reach out and how to create win-win collaborations that get you in front of new local audiences. You’ll implement the 5-step Local Partnership Protocol to build relationships fast, land more collaborations and turn your network into a steady stream of referrals and clients.
Brittany built a 6-figure personal training and nutrition business after closing her gym during Covid
"It's 1000% worth it just to have access. I'm a lurker in the group, but I'm always reading things and you can get wisdom from anything you're telling other people. I watch the recorded calls, and it's nice when I do make the calls to say, ‘Leslie, this is what's happening, these are my mindset blocks — how do I get past this?’"
– Brittany Powell | Personal Trainer & Nutrition Coach
Choose The Plan That's Right For You:
Brooke built a $100K+ flower farm with sold out workshops & waitlists
"Everything you need in marketing is in The Localpreneur Academy, but in a better way because it's about your local community. And you have it for lifetime, so as your business evolves, you can keep coming back and getting what you need."
– Brooke Palmer | Flower Farmer
“But I’ve already spent SO much money on my business"
I hear this one a lot.
Maybe you’ve already paid for a website.
Branding.
Photos.
Equipment.
Certifications.
Software.
Ads.
Another program.
And now spending another $2,000 feels harder because you’re thinking:
I need some of these other investments to pay off before I spend more.
But here's what all of those investments still need...
Local People.
Your beautiful website needs people landing on it.
Your branding needs people seeing it.
Your CRM software needs people going through it.
Your certification needs clients who know you exist.
Your business needs a consistent way to get in front of the right people and turn those people into clients.
That’s the piece we build inside The Localpreneur Academy.
The investment is $2,000 paid in full or $175/month for 12 months.
So look at your own numbers.
If one client is worth $500 to your business, four clients would create $2,000 in revenue.
If one client is worth $200, ten clients would create $2,000 in revenue.
If one client is worth $1,000, that’s two clients.
Your exact return depends on your business, pricing and implementation.
But you're not learning a marketing strategy you use once.
These are the skillsets that helps your business make money for years to come.
FAQs:
What if I just started my business?
Will I get personal help from Leslie?
What if I can't attend the live calls?
How long do I have access?
What if I want to join later?
How long will it take me to go through the content inside the course?
What if $2,000 feels scary?
What if I do the work and it's not working?
What if I'm too busy?
What if I'm thinking about hiring a social media manager instead?
Do I have to be on social media?
How soon do you want to be the go-to name in your city?
Every month you wait is another month of hesitating, guessing and watching someone else in your city move ahead. The Localpreneur Academy is the roadmap that helps you build a fully booked business, using strategies made for exactly the kind of business you run.
All you have to do is start.
JOIN THE LOCALPRENEUR ACADEMY!