FROM EXECUTIVE TO FRACTIONAL LEADER BLUEPRINT FOR ONLY $47 USD

Land Your First Fractional Client in 30 Days

Using the FIRST Fractional Client Blueprint

For experienced executives ready to turn decades of leadership into a premium fractional business.

Build a premium fractional business without becoming an influencer, a traditional consultant, or a pushy salesperson.

There are still nights I wake up afraid I will never sell another thing. What gets me back to sleep is a plan. This is that plan.

Instant access. 14 day guarantee. Built by a founder who has done this twice before.

Leaders Who Trust Jamie

"The positivity added at the end of most video clips made the training feel like it was for the greater good. I like how your excitement is building. You're very encouraging and it helps to make me feel good."

"The content is excellent! It's clear, practical, well explained with great advice and lots of good information"

“I am quite enjoying the Fractional Training. Lots of good things to learn and know that I do not already.”

This is how the FIRST Method works

The FIRST Method shown as five steps: Fit, Identity, Radar, Sell, and Trust, leading to a 30-day Blueprint to land your first fractional client.

Who Does the FIRST Method Work For?

Recently exited executives wondering what comes next.

Leaders who want a business of their own
but hate the idea of selling.

CFOs, COOs, CMOs, CHROs, CROs, and other senior leaders ready for something that is theirs.

Experienced leaders
who are done with traditional corporate roles but still want to provide value. 

Anyone stuck fussing with a website or LinkedIn instead of talking to clients.

Executives ready to monetize decades of experience instead of starting over.

Here Is How the FIRST Method Helps You Land Your First Client Faster, Without Cold Calls

✓  You stop trying to build everything at once and focus only on the few actions that actually lead to your first paying client. 

✓  You turn decades of leadership into a premium offer that business owners are happy to pay for. 

✓  You start with the warm relationships you already have instead of cold calls, cold emails, or pushy tactics. 

✓  You follow the simple FIRST method, so you always know your next move until you sign your next client. 

Is This You?

The risk is not that this goes badly.

The risk is that eight months from now nothing has happened, and you take a full-time job you did not want. 

IF YOU ARE A RECENTLY EXITED EXECUTIVE WONDERING WHAT COMES NEXT

Instead of starting over or taking another full-time job, you can turn the leadership you have already earned into your first paying fractional client, with a blueprint that shows your next move at every step. 

IF YOU WANT TO BUILD A FRACTIONAL BUSINESS BUT HATE THE IDEA OF SELLING

Instead of cold calls, cold emails, and pushy tactics, you can use the relationships you have already built to start warm conversations that lead to premium fractional work. 

IF YOU ARE STUCK FUSSING WITH YOUR WEBSITE, LINKEDIN, OR BUSINESS CARDS

Instead of busywork that never lands a client, you can focus on the few actions that actually create conversations and paying clients in your first 30 days.

IF YOU WANT TO REPLACE YOUR INCOME WITHOUT BECOMING AN INFLUENCER

Instead of chasing followers and posting endless content, you can build a premium fractional business with a clear offer, the right clients, and a simple way to earn trust. 

This Blueprint Isn't For You If:

Why You Can

Trust

Me to Teach This

Before I worked in fractional leadership:

I had never really sold a thing, unless you count jewelery during maternity leave

My client service years were in audit and delivery, not business development or sales

I had a proven track record as a function leader, auditor and team leader, but no sales position and definitely no business of my own

Where I am now:

I co-founded and built a seven-figure CPA and financial strategy firm and exited after building a leadership team

I provided Fractional Leaders before fractional was even a trend

I helped plan out similar services at a Big Four and learnt the global market

At my first business, I helped a team of more than forty serve over 100 growth clients

Over the last ten years, I have helped experienced executives turn decades of leadership into premium fractional services

I am now building my second business using the very system I teach you here

Here Is How I Used the

First Fractional Client Blueprint

To Build A Fractional Leadership Business

Jamie L. Smith teaching fractional leadership training at Double U Academy
Jamie L. Smith teaching fractional leadership training at Double U Academy

For more than twenty years, I built my career helping businesses solve hard problems. I worked in industry. I worked in client service. I led teams, advised executives, and helped companies grow. 

But building my own business was different. There was no firm behind me. No brand. No steady pipeline. If someone hired us, they were hiring my team, and that meant I had to answer questions I had never really faced before. 

What exactly are we selling? Who needs someone like me? How do I package decades of experience into something an owner understands in a sentence? How do I build a predictable business instead of hoping the next opportunity shows up? 

After exiting, I had to face those same questions again. There was no brand again. No partner. No team. Just me and my Chief of Staff to build again. 

Over time, I realized something. Landing clients was never about becoming someone different. It was about clarity, confidence, and trust. Clarity about whether fractional was my path. Confidence in my identity as a business leader. Certainty about the problems I solve. A clear view of who needs that help. And a simple way to earn trust. 

Those ideas became what I now call the FIRST method: Fit, Identity, Radar, Sell, and Trust.

Using it, I co-founded and built a seven-figure fractional leadership firm before fractional was even a trend. And long before I realized there was a method. Today I am building my second business. And committed to consistently using FIRST. 

Along the way, I helped experienced executives make the same move. Many had spent decades leading but had never sold themselves or landed a client on their own. The same method helped them stop wondering where to start and begin building real momentum. 

You may be wondering:

  • Is fractional the right move for me?
  • What should I offer?
  • Who do I target first?
  • How do I start conversations without feeling like a salesperson?
  • What does it take to land my first client? 

Inside this blueprint, I answer every one of those questions and help you build your own FIRST blueprint, so you leave with clarity, confidence, and a practical plan.

It took me years, hundreds of conversations, one firm built and exited, and a lot of helping others to develop this. You do not have to spend years figuring it out.

This blueprint is everything I wish someone had handed me on day one of going fractional.

For just $47 USD, you can shortcut the learning curve and start today. 

Here Is How You Are Going To Land Your First Client in 30 days Using the FIRST Method

FIRST Method framework showing five connected elements: Fit, Identity, Radar, Sell, and Trust, representing Double U’s Fractional Leader Method.

Fit

Decide If Fractional Is Right For You

Learn the business model that fits your goals, lifestyle, and experience.

Identity

Build Your Premium Offer.

Turn decades of leadership into something an owner understands in one sentence, and sees is worth premium rates.

Radar

Learn Who Needs You, and How to Get on Their Radar.

Use the Capacity Curve to find the companies that are ready, and the partners who refer. 

Sell

Start Conversations That Sell.

Generate real opportunities without cold calls, cold emails, or becoming a pushy salesperson. 

Trust

Land Your First Client, Then Earn the Next One.

Turn conversations into a paying engagement using the FIRST Method, then deliver the kind of value that earns the renewal and the referral. 

What You'll Walk Away With

CONFIDENCE

A yes or a no on fractional. Decide in ninety minutes instead of six months.

YOUR IDEAL CLIENT

One sentence that explains what you do. So owners stop saying “let me think about it.”

A PREMIUM OFFER

A premium offer, priced. Built from your track record, not a number you guessed at.

30-DAY ACTION PLAN

A named list of who needs you. The companies sitting where they actually hire on the Capacity Curve.

CLIENT CONVERSATIONS

Your first three conversations. What to say to people who already know your work, without pitching.

YOUR FRACTIONAL BLUEPRINT

A 30-day plan you can start Monday. Your completed FIRST Blueprint, not a folder of videos. 

The From Executive to Fractional Leader Blueprint is a self-paced, 90-minute blueprint designed to help experienced executives confidently launch a premium fractional business.

Inside you’ll receive:

✓ 90 minutes of practical video lessons

✓ The FIRST Blueprint Workbook

✓ AI Prompt Pack to build your offer faster

✓ 30-Day Action Plan

✓ Exercises that help you identify your niche, offer, pricing direction, and first outreach

When you finish, you won’t just understand fractional leadership – 

you’ll have your own blueprint and a 30-day action plan to land your first client.

Let Me Be Honest With You

People assume that because I am a second-time founder, experience carries it all. It does not. Transitions are hard.

Building a new identity and a new brand is hard. There are still nights I wake up afraid. Afraid of starting over. Afraid I will never sell another thing. You know what gets me back to sleep? A plan. The willingness to do the work. And consistency.

And here is the part I did not expect. We are ahead of plan at Double U, doing better at this stage than the first business I built. So the Blueprint works. And leaning on the experience you have already built works too. Yours will, the same way mine is. 

14-Day No-Questions-Asked Guarantee

Just to take away every excuse your brain can come up with not to do this for yourself, I back this blueprint with a 14-day, no-questions-asked money-back guarantee. 

If it wastes your time, I will pay you back.

Go through it. Build your Blueprint. Take the actions I teach. 

If within 14 days you do not have more clarity, more confidence and a clearer plan than you have today, email us and we will refund you in full. No form. No hoops. No call to talk you out of it. 

Ninety minutes and forty seven dollars, against six more months of guessing. That is the trade.

Imagine What Your Next Year Could Look Like as a Fractional Leader

You did not spend decades building your leadership just to sit on the sidelines wondering what comes next. Every month you wait is another month your experience is not creating value, for you or for the businesses that need it. 

✗  No more wondering what comes next while your experience sits on the shelf. 

✗  No more telling yourself you need a big brand, a polished website, and sales skills before you can start. 

✗  No more watching people with less experience take the leap while you keep asking what if. 

You do not need to become someone else. You do not need to start over. You need a simple plan to turn everything you have already built into a business that is truly your own. That is exactly what the First Fractional Client Blueprint gives you. In about 90 minutes, you will know whether fractional is your move, what to offer, who needs you, how to start real conversations, and how to earn the trust that lands your first client. 

And when you start now, you are among the first in line for the Double U Academy, where fractional leaders build a repeatable, premium practice. The first 100 members lock in founder pricing. This blueprint is the pre-launch doorway, so the sooner you begin, the earlier your place in line. 

I cannot promise your first client will appear overnight. But I can promise you will leave with more clarity, confidence, and direction than you have today, and a practical blueprint to land your first fractional client. Future you will be glad you started today. Click the button below and I will see you inside From Executive to Fractional Leader Blueprint. 

Jamie L. Smith, CPA 

Not Ready To Buy Yet?

FAQs

Absolutely. That is exactly who I built it for. If you are an experienced executive who wants to move into fractional leadership, this gives you the blueprint to do it with confidence. 

You will likely move through this blueprint quickly, because it is built to help you land your first client. Either way, the home for fractional leaders at every stage is the Double U Academy, where we help you build a repeatable, premium practice. Start here, and you are first in line for founder pricing when it opens. 

Fractional can add value at nearly all levels. What we learn at Academy and within the Executive to Fractional Leader Blueprint could be used by specialists, experts, or professionals seeking fractional opportunities outside of the executive team. We talk to members as leadersanticipate that language. We designed this for leaders. But you do not need to be in the C-Suite to learn with us – the blueprint will work for others such as project managers, controllers, AI implementers, IT specialists, Executive or Virtual Assistants and more. 

No. Most executives do not have formal sales experience. FIRST helps you get clear on your offer, find the right businesses, and start warm conversations that build trust naturally. 

No. This is built around relationship-based business development. I show you how to start with the people who already know your work and grow from there. 

You almost certainly have a bigger network than you think. I show you how to uncover the relationships you have already built and where to start. 

About 90 minutes of video at natural speed. It is practical, not overwhelming. You finish with your own FIRST blueprint and a 30-day action plan you can use right away.

Yes. The principles apply across every executive function. You position your leadership first, then tailor it to your area.

You will have clarity, a completed FIRST Blueprint, and a plan to land your first client. If you want to go further, you can join the waitlist for the Double U Academy, where we help you build a repeatable premium fractional business with courses, playbooks, twice-monthly office hours, collaboration, and a network for referrals. The first 100 members lock in founder pricing.

Yes. Try the course for 14 days. If you complete it and do not believe you got more than $47 of value, email us within 14 days for a full refund. No questions asked. 

Click the button below, complete your purchase, and get instant access so you can start building your FIRST Blueprint today. 

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