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The mindset, process, and tools to launch and grow a real local business: a cleaning company, a home service, a trade. No prior experience needed. Taught by someone who ran his own for a decade, from the other side of the world.
The long-form interview on how the remote local model actually works, from the man who teaches this programme.
Back when I started my cleaning company there wasn’t much out there on building a local business from scratch. At best, old blog posts and threads. It took me many hours of trial and error, and tens of thousands of dollars in mistakes, to get to where I am today.
The Local Business MBA is the course I wish had existed: truly step-by-step, from launch through hiring great teams, managing daily operations, and growing with the same strategies I used in my own businesses. It’s current, and it’s in use by hundreds of companies in sixteen-plus countries right now, from first-time owners to Inc 5000 companies.
Everything in it exists to get you launched and running your very own local business.
“In a traditional MBA, businesses are studied. Here, your business becomes the course of study.”
“This isn’t academic theory, nor is it a surface-level ‘course’. It’s a decade of real-world operation, distilled into a clear path.”
Starting, scaling, systemising, delegating, and the quiet fifth stage the rest make possible: going remote. Open any stage to see its modules.
The programme builds a business from scratch. The live group takes one that already exists and scales it. The VA course hands off the office. Everything lives in one home on Skool.
All five stages of building a local service business, from first idea to a company that runs without you. With quarterly business health checks through your first year, direct access to Chris, the template vault, and full software walkthroughs.
Best from $0 to $500k/yr Join the programme →For owners who already run a business and need it unstuck. Six months of structured work: three rebuilding the foundation, then three putting it all into action. Intense, and deliberately structured.
Best from $500k to $2m/yr Request the details →Hire and train your own virtual assistant and hand off the office itself. Thirty-one lessons, from writing the job post to your first month of delegating. A separate, focused course, sold on its own.
For owners at any stage See the VA course →“I love Chris’s emphasis on taking your time through the foundation steps. The momentum you gain by taking small consistent bites is REAL. … My family has started to dream about moving to London once my business can be run remotely.”
“If you do nothing else Chris teaches do your google my business. I just booked out my last spot available! To put the cherry on the cake all clients are at my new higher rates and new clients don’t even blink at the rate.”
“I was stuck at the $10K mark for 5 months but fast forward to January I just had the best month ever for my business. I did $15.6K!!!”
“Within 1 month I had enough regular clients to replace the income we had lost.”
“First legit job! … it gives me the faith that this is going to work in a massive way now because I was not actively looking for jobs when [it] just organically came in simply from having a website.”
“…I am on track to hit 1,000,000 this year thanks to you.”
“Scaled from 6k to 35k in monthly revenue in 6 months. It has been intense over here lol.”
“This course is beyond anything I’ve ever purchased in the past and I’ve spent thousands.”
“Chris is a badass and overdelivers massively.”
“It even landed us a $58,000 opportunity on a construction site, handling their final clean for apartments.”
“You’ve changed the way I view growing my business! The clarity I have makes me feel so at peace and so patient!”
“We are getting so busy we need more cleaners, bad, in Austin, Texas.”
“I would first like to thank you for the guide to starting a local business, it gave me the knowledge and confidence to finally stop working for someone else and launch my business.”
“This group will propel you like none other. I’m so fortunate to have met Chris Schwab, Roger F. Schulze and Kelli Joy Wells.”
“I have had quite a few teachers over my life and only a handful have genuinely had a profoundly positive influence on my life course.”
A few students who kept me posted. Ordinary people, ordinary towns, doing the boring things consistently.
“Scaled from 6k to 35k in monthly revenue in 6 months. It has been intense over here lol.”
“I was stuck at the $10K mark for 5 months but fast forward to January I just had the best month ever for my business. I did $15.6K!!!”
“…I am on track to hit 1,000,000 this year thanks to you.”
Individual results vary and depend on the work you put in. Real students, shared with permission.
The whole MBA lives on Skool: the classroom, the community, the coaching calls, and the template vault in one place. These are real screenshots from inside.
You’ll need stable internet, 5–10 hours a week, and $1,000–$1,500 in startup costs. 30-day withdrawal policy: 50% refund after completing the first three modules and a call with Chris.
The live group is for owners who already run a business and want it unstuck and scaling. Six months of structured work: three months rebuilding the foundations of our businesses, then three months putting it all into action, strengthening the part of your business that matters most now. It is intense, and the group stays small. That is why there is no buy button. (The live group is a structured curriculum in a room of peers; if you want bespoke, fixed-scope work on one business instead, that is advisory.)
Application received. You’ll get the full details back, and if it looks like a fit, a call with Chris.
Prefer email? Write to chris@localbusinessmba.com.
For eight years I ran an award-winning Washington, D.C. cleaning company from Japan, 7,000 miles from the nearest customer, and shared the whole journey publicly. That became the remote local business model, now studied and run by thousands of operators worldwide.
Four exits later, this programme is where all of it lives: everything I learned building, buying, and selling local businesses, taught in the order you’ll actually need it.
Named one of ZenMaid’s Top 20 cleaning business experts to follow (2025), a headline speaker at the Maid Summit every year since 2019, a trainer to MaidThis franchisees, and thanked by Launch27’s founder, Rohan Gilkes, “for helping so many people on this journey.”
The full story at christopherschwab.co.uk →A question before joining? Email me directly at chris@localbusinessmba.com.
How I would start a local business from scratch in thirty days, one task a day, updated for today.
Read the plan →What it really costs to start a local service business, and what to leave until later.
Read the guide →A simple way to price in year one, the maths to check it, and when to raise prices.
Read the guide →You’re in. See you next month.
Taught from Yokohama, in use across sixteen-plus countries.