SmartPA : Louise Bowler Won Seven Clients in Seven Months With SmartPA

In this video, SmartPA partner Louise Bowler sits down to describe seven months building a SmartPA virtual assistant business — launching in April, going full-time in October, and reaching seven clients faster than she imagined possible. Bowler is candid about how she has grown her book. For her, networking and BNI (Business Network International) have been crucial — the structured weekly referral discipline of a BNI chapter combined with the SmartPA brand have produced consistent client acquisition. She is equally clear that there is no single right way to grow a SmartPA partnership; everyone she has met across the network has approached the build differently, and the model accommodates each approach. Her testimonial highlights one of the most underrated aspects of post-accreditation training. SmartPA continues to invest in partner development after the initial accreditation programme is complete, and that ongoing training has helped her decide where to focus growth. The partnership treats accreditation as the starting point of partner education, not the end. The freedom dimension comes through clearly when she describes what the SmartPA model means to her. Freedom to choose who she works with. Freedom to focus on the work she actually enjoys. And — particularly relevant for any candidate weighing the lifestyle implications of franchising — freedom to relocate her business with her. Bowler is moving from England to Ireland next year, and her SmartPA business simply moves with her. A SmartPA partner inherits relocatable, fully-portable client relationships and a network that travels.