L I N D Alopeke

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ABOUT L I N D ALOPEKE

What do Steve Jobs, Star Wars, and two American presidents have in common? Me! Great minds don\'t think alone. Business is ART+DATA SCIENCE; marketing the MEDIUM. I help smart business owners use all three to make competition irrelevant. Helping you build an unshakable foundation for your business using timeless principles and strategic marketing to support desired positioning provides you with an unrivaled advantage in business. As a direct result, you:1) Improve strategic focus and direction2) Maximize monthly cash flow and profit3) Optimize your online presence4) Enhance market and brand positioningMY BIO for the interested: Linda M. Lopeke, Founder, SMARTSTART (1982), is a trusted authority and distinguished leading expert on strategic business development, marketing, leadership, innovation and reinvention. She\'s particularly known for developing effective growth strategies in uncertain markets and volatile competitive environments, radically changing results experienced by struggling businesses and startups, and specializes in helping new and established business owners realize their full potential.Her unorthodox ideas are widely used by clients and organizations throughout the world, who describe her provocative fresh thinking and direct manner as unfailingly stimulating. Her competence, keen insight, and the effectiveness of her unusual methods are legendary among the thousands of clients and companies she has served.Linda is a recognized leading authority in 6 professional management disciplines. Her work has won many awards for marketing, copy writing, speaking and web design. She purposely maintains a low profile on social media and is a highly accomplished extreme introvert often described as having one of the most brilliant minds you’ll likely ever encounter.Prior to starting her consulting practice in 1982, she spent the first 10 years of her career in the private sector working as a systems engineer and corporate executive. At 17, she became the youngest person in the world, in the history of finance and banking, to design and lead a major technology change affecting every system, application and process used by CIBC. Her work was so well executed, not a single customer knew a major change had taken place.Before age 30, Financial Post selected her as one of the top 5 entrepreneurs in Canada. Her work in risk management, regulatory compliance, and her uncommon methods for delivering outstanding business results for her clients appear in Harvard Business Review (2005, 2006).