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Jake Smolarek

Top Marketing Coach London

As featured in „The Times, Business Insider & Yahoo”

27k+ hours spent coaching
18+ years of coaching experience
1600+ happy clients
177+ testimonials

The Rules of Successful Marketing

So, you’re looking for a talented marketing coach who knows how to grab the attention of target audiences? You’ll be glad to know that you’ve hit the jackpot.

Unlike other marketing coaches, I’m also a life coach and business coach, which means I provide holistic solutions that can be adapted to your business priorities and buyer personas. But more about me in a bit.

When two rival brands with a similar product compete, what do you think gives the more successful brand the edge?

Marketing!

The world’s greatest brands make outstanding digital marketing look effortless, even though it’s a highly complex and multifaceted industry. To become successful at it, you need honed skills, training, and most importantly, experience in the field.

As an entrepreneur and marketing coach, I have the expertise, training and marketing skills you’re looking for. But it’s my experience that truly helps clients avoid the kind of costly mistakes, pitfalls, and short-cuts that quickly derail award-winning products or innovations.

I’ve run my own successful digital marketing business for a number of years. So I know what I’m talking about. My marketing efforts have resulted in a long line of business successes. And now I’m ready to share the secrets of my success. Book an initial discovery meeting to tell me about your business and find out how I can help.

Success Stories

Real Clients. Real Success. Real Results.
From feeling stuck professionally to landing a role far beyond what he expected. This is Egis’s story:

“Within the first couple of months of coaching, I achieved several incredible outcomes. I found an amazing, well-paid job, far beyond what I had expected, all with Jake’s support. I also entered a happy relationship, moved into the flat I had always dreamed of, started travelling the world, and gained a deeper understanding of myself. The journey has been truly transformative.” 

Egis — Business Change Manager at London’s Leading Law Firm

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Why do you need a Marketing Coach?

A marketing coach is an experienced professional who offers customised advice, strategic planning, and new ideas to people and businesses in need of more effective outreach strategies. Incredibly, some marketing coaches haven’t run their own business. They learned everything in academic environments, meaning they lack the “street smarts” and context required to think outside the box and react when things aren’t working.

While the specific approach of individual marketing coaches can differ considerably, most will pursue the following marketing strategies with their clients:

  • Identifying the root causes of failed marketing campaigns
  • Creating detailed, structured marketing plans that begin with a vision
  • Helping clients set achievable goals
  • Sharing experience-based tips, guidance, and insights

Like I said earlier, I’m a marketing coach who has proven my ability to deliver exceptional marketing campaigns. I’ve enjoyed enormous commercial success through my own businesses. And while it hasn’t always been plain sailing, I’ve used my natural desire to embrace change in order to roll with the punches, pick myself up, and keep fighting.

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What Do Marketing Coaches Actually Do?

The average marketing coach will use a selection of their preferred techniques and tools to help their clients in a number of ways. Of course, I’m not an average marketing coach, but more about that later.

  • Provide you with tried and tested marketing methodologies and processes.
  • Improve your decision-making processes.
  • Help you learn how to identify target audiences.
  • Help you identify the ultimate goal of each marketing campaign.
  • Show you how to create a new marketing campaign from the ground up.
  • Become your personal confidence coach to give you the belief and motivation to lead courageously and be more decisive.

My approach to marketing coaching starts by assessing you as a person. You’ve obviously come to me because you’re struggling to deliver. I’m guessing you’re qualified and have specific marketing expertise.

The first thing I’ll do with you is ask you about your career so far, your background, and why you’ve turned to a marketing coach for help.

In many cases, the answers are already there—deep within your subconscious. Through my enhanced marketing strategy, we’ll explore the obstacles in your way and create a path to success.

But it won’t be easy. I won’t shower you with compliments and hide the truth from you. If you need a kick up the a**, I’m the perfect marketing coach to administer it!

Great Ideas Often Fail Because They’re Not Backed Up By Effective Marketing Strategies

Some of the most outstanding products and technological innovations, despite being fantastic ideas, never make it into the hands of consumers for one reason: poor marketing.

To make people want your product, you have to understand your customers and their desires, routines, and spending habits. Frequently, entrepreneurs forget the critical step of “market research” when trying to bring their innovation to consumers and end up missing the mark completely. Worse, if their idea is excellent, someone else re-markets their creation to the right audience with the right message and makes a whole lot of money off it.

I’ve seen this happen all too often in the industry, and I don’t want it to happen to you. I know how to ensure your idea hits the target market with the right message every time. My digital market research experience will take you through the essential steps you need to take before getting your product to market—so you don’t waste any precious time or money.

Marketing Skills Don’t Automatically Convert to Marketing Success

Digital marketing is an industry in itself for a reason. It takes a lot of work and people to do it well. You need researchers, designers, copywriters, editors, website specialists, SEO specialists, content marketing professionals packaging experts, distributors, and so many other experts to get your product successfully out into the world.

Without an experienced veteran at the helm, it’s easy to become overwhelmed and let essential tasks slip. Eventually, this can lead to your entire project going off the rails—or worse, failing. That’s why hiring a marketing coach should be viewed as an investment in your business or career.

As an experienced digital marketing coach and business coach, I understand the pressure marketing can put on you—and that’s why my simple yet active approach to getting it all done is so successful. It’s easy to follow and makes the seemingly unmanageable achievable in small, straightforward steps.

Key Aspects Of Digital Marketing Coaching And Consulting

The devil is in the details.

The marketing coaching services I offer depend on my clients’ specific needs, the needs of the brands they represent, their personal weaknesses, and their ultimate vision.

I can’t speak for other marketing coaches in the UK, by my marketing coaching approach often includes one or more of the following:

  • Advice on ad campaigns across multiple platforms
  • Building a solid marketing plan that will help you build a strong online presence
  • Creating an effective LinkedIn profile for you or your business—driving leads to your business
  • Advice on how to improve social media communication with your customers and make posting part of your day-to-day business
  • Helping you create a content strategy that resonates with your target audience
  • Expert insights and recommendations to improve your digital strategy and generate new leads, transform them into customers and drive increased revenues
  • Advice on CRO (Conversion Rate Optimisation), which is crucial for every business these days if they want to be successful and profitable
  • Technical advice with issues such as web development, SEO, SEM, PPC, and content marketing

What does it take to successfully create and execute a digital marketing program? Proper research, digital marketing strategies for every occasion, and guidance from somebody who knows how to build an online presence and send a message across multiple virtual channels.

But it also takes the determination to succeed. And if you’ve been failing in recent months, you have to embrace change; changes to your approach, changes to your strategies, and changes to your mindset. As an experienced career change coach, I can help in all of these areas.

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What’s Included in an Effective Marketing Strategy?

One of my primary responsibilities is to show you what a great marketing strategy looks like. I know, because I’ve created and executed dozens of them over the years—delivering hundreds of thousands of pounds in sales.

I know how to persuade and influence. I know how to identify target audiences and buyer personas. I know how to reach those audiences in a way that will resonate and convert browsers into buyers.

When you turn to me for marketing coaching, you’ll know that the methods and processes I teach are fully proven.

So, let’s take a look at what my version of a successful marketing strategy looks like.

Segmentation

One of my tasks as your marketing coach will be to ensure you have the fundamentals of marketing in your locker. And things don’t get more fundamental than segmentation.

To ensure your messages resonate with the people receiving them, you have to group together people according to demographics, needs, lifestyle factors, and a range of other criteria they share. This is done through market research and a robust lead generation and management program. As your marketing coach, I’ll assess your approach to this process and provide you with feedback and guidance.

Effective Targeting

How do you know that the segments you’re targeting will be receptive to your marketing communications? More importantly, how do you know that the products or services you’re selling will interest the people you’re focusing on? If you’re sending the wrong messages to the wrong people, you’re wasting your time. And as you’ll find out, I’m a busy marketing coach who hates time wasting!

Promotional Tactics

How do you know that the segments you’re targeting will be receptive to your marketing communications? More importantly, how do you know that the products or services you’re selling will interest the people you’re focusing on? If you’re sending the wrong messages to the wrong people, you’re wasting your time. And as you’ll find out, I’m a busy marketing coach who hates time wasting!

Monitoring and Evaluation

As your marketing coach, it’s my job to ensure you have the skills, nouse, and awareness to identify what’s working and what’s not. It’s also my responsibility to ensure you know how and when to change direction. My coaching business focuses on getting ready for problems—not simply hoping they don’t happen.

How can you gauge the success of your marketing campaigns? As an experienced marketing coach, I’ll share a few tricks of the trade to help you on your way. I know which metrics to monitor, and how to evaluate their performance. I’m also the kind of marketing coach who likes to take decisive action.

Things will and do go wrong with even the best marketing initiatives. Accept that, and you’ll be ready to react when you need to..

A Detailed Marketing Plan

Like all good marketing consultants, I analyze marketing data thoroughly before creating a plan of action—a global overview of all the various processes, tasks, and responsibilities involved. But before all that can happen, you need a vision. What’s the ultimate goal of your strategy? As your marketing consultant, I’ll show you ways to approach this process effectively.

Why I’m a Successful Marketing Coach

Long before I became one of the best marketing coaches in London, I was a successful business owner, entrepreneur, and digital marketing professional. In fact, I still am. My coaching business was built on solid foundations. As well as starting several businesses, I’ve built a non-profit from scratch. It now boasts more than 600 volunteers.

My marketing business specialises in CRO, SEO, SEM, PPC, advertising, branding, and a range of other marketing skills that help brands get in front of the right people.

But don’t get me wrong; I’ve tasted the bitterness of failure, too. I’m a good marketing coach because I’ve learned from my mistakes. I’m not afraid to admit failures, and I’m always looking for ways to improve.

Like most great marketing coaches, I’m always looking for inspiration and guidance from peers. For years, I have been inspired by Michael Gerber’s The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It.

Gerber talks about the need to drive your business instead of being a passenger. Unless you take a global view and refrain from getting involved in the tiny, inconsequential details, you’ll never gain the insights and vision you need to succeed. That’s a sentiment I share every day in my capacity as a marketing coach.

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Money Isn’t the Most Important Thing in Live, But It’s in the Top Three

Other marketing coaches would never admit this, but here it goes…I love making money. It’s one of the things that gets me out of bed in the morning. And I don’t make any apologies for that.

Now, you may be thinking, “Do I really want to invest in a marketing coaching package run by someone who thinks that way about money?” Well, I’m just facing facts. Try not paying your staff for six months, and you’ll quickly realise just how important money is. This is something I discuss with all my marketing coaching clients.

Only the Most Worthy Clients Get Through My Door

I’m very choosy about who I offer my marketing services to. That’s because my time is precious, and I refuse to waste it on those who aren’t prepared to put in the hard work or accept my advice.

Secondly, my marketing tools and coaching methods don’t work unless I have the time and energy to communicate them properly. When you choose me to help you pursue greater marketing success, you’ll get my undivided attention.

But that’s not all.

The right marketing coach for you will always be available. OK, they may not be available for one-on-one sessions, but they’ll answer a call, reply to a text, or join a WhatsApp discussion in order to give you the right guidance as and when you need it.

I Have My Own Tried-and-Tested Marketing Coaching Model

I have my own marketing team and my own way of doing things. I know it works, as it has already delivered several successful marketing campaigns over the years.

As well as helping people with various marketing challenges, I work as a confidence and time management coach. By combining all my skills and experiences, I created a system called VISION GPS, which sets a clear vision, the goals needed to get there, a plan to manage the process, and a series of systems to ensure you achieve your goals.

I’m one of London’s top marketing coaches because my approach isn’t just about a single success story; it’s about giving you the tools to deliver a lifetime of success.

Whether you’re analyzing marketing trends, need to review marketing materials, or set clear business goals, this system can be adapted to anyone and any situation. That’s because it’s just like the GPS in your car. We set the final destination and the markers along the way. When we hit obstacles—such as missing your marketing goals—the system recalibrates and changes the route.

Together, we’ll create the marketing goals and develop strategies that stand you in good stead for the rest of your career.

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My Clients Say

Before my coaching sessions with Jake, I was in a terrible position. My relationship was in a bad state, my feelings and sense of self-worth were very low, and I was barely able to stay emotionally stable. I hated my job and my whole life. However, since working with Jake, I’ve become much stronger; my self-belief has gone through the roof, and I know how valuable I am. I have found a company I love to work for, and my relationships with others are much more profound and exciting.

Tina Patel – Lawyer

When I began working with Mr Smolarek, the business was under considerable strain. Too many decisions were coming back to me, and several key roles were not working as they should. He helped me look at the organisation with much greater clarity. We made some difficult changes, strengthened the structure and put better people in the right positions. Within a quarter, margins had doubled.
UPDATE: I first worked with Mr Smolarek in 2020 and continued for over five years. He still visits our London headquarters periodically to offer an independent perspective.

Daniel Williams – Director & Co-owner

When I started coaching with Jake, I was in the darkest depths of my relationship, my business, and my entire life. I was a walking shadow, and I couldn’t see any light at the end of the tunnel… However, Jake helped me to turn everything around and put me on the right track. His coaching helped me to change how I can see the world. The impact it has had on my business and personal life is priceless. His business ideas are so easy to implement and at the same time very powerful!

Ben C. – Business owner (Surname withheld for privacy)

Jake’s work as a business coach has had a tremendous impact on both my business and my life. Working with him helped me focus on my vision, goals and the actions that actually mattered. In just a few months, I made more progress than I had in the previous five years. I became much clearer about what I wanted and far more decisive about what needed to happen next.

Neil Coker – Founder and CEO

The only thing I can say is a huge thank you, Jake! I already had the right tools in place to create a good income, but Jake added a few missing pieces to my plan and helped me grow my coaching business much faster. In just a few weeks, he helped me see what I was missing, make better decisions, and improve how I was positioning and developing the business. It wasn’t always easy, but it was worth it.

Denise Green – Peak Performance Coach

Jake helped me change my life when I felt lost. I decided to work with him because I wanted to change my career path. With his genuine personality and sense of humour, I instantly connected with him. He helped me find my new way, and I am now doing what I always wanted to do, but wasn’t brave enough to try. Jake believed in me when I doubted every action and feeling I had. He pushed me to my limits, so I had to break them, and to my surprise, I did.

Tom Bayliss – Writer and editor

Working with Jake changed the way I thought about my business and the decisions I was making. Even after the first few sessions, I could see things more clearly and approach problems differently. He helped me improve my sales and communication, challenged some of the assumptions that were holding me back and pointed out opportunities I had not considered. Over time, I became more productive, made better decisions and had more freedom in how I ran the business.

Phillip Larsen – CEO

I had a good job and was earning well, but I wanted to build something of my own. I found Jake online, booked an initial consultation and told him I had no idea what that business should be. Through our conversations, I became interested in online advertising. Jake encouraged me to take it seriously and helped me turn it into a business.
UPDATE 2026: Seven years later, I still run the agency full-time. I deliberately kept it small and specialised, working with freelancers and focusing mainly on advertising for cleaning businesses across London and other UK cities.

Magda Kowalczuk – Agency Owner

By the time I was introduced to Jake, I had already built a successful fashion business, but I was carrying too much of it myself. The company was growing, the pressure was increasing, and I had very few people around me who truly understood what it meant to run a business.
Jake helped me think more clearly, challenge my assumptions and make better decisions. Over time, the business became larger, more profitable and far less dependent on me.
UPDATE: I first worked with Jake in 2019. In 2026, I sold the business in a lower nine-figure deal and began considering what I wanted to build next.

Barbara Johnson – Fashion Entrepreneur

I started working with Jake in 2020 when I was 22 and trying to turn my fitness work into a proper business. He helped me understand the commercial side, including sales, branding, marketing and positioning. Within about six months, I was earning £10,000-£14,000 a month and had built a six-figure business. Jake gave me structure, challenged my thinking and helped me focus on what actually moved the business forward. His guidance made a real difference in how quickly I progressed.
UPDATE: By the second quarter of 2026, I had grown the business to eight figures in annual revenue.

Rakesh Patel – Fitness Entrepreneur

Jake, thank you. You genuinely changed my life for the better. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I was really moving forward and doing what I had always wanted to do. You helped me believe that I could make it happen, and then actually start doing it. That confidence carried into my business as well. I started making clearer decisions, taking opportunities more seriously and building with much more purpose than before.

Romario Ramirez – Business owner, Speaker & Artist

Jake is a great coach. Our conversations challenged the way I was looking at several problems and reminded me that there is always more to learn. He is very observant, experienced and good at seeing what may be difficult to notice when you are too close to a situation. I am genuinely grateful for the support and perspective he gave us during a difficult period. I can see why business coaching suits him so well.

Steven P. – COO of a large corporation (Surname withheld for privacy)

When I started working with Jake, the business was doing around £6 million in turnover, but too much still depended on me. Jake helped me see that I had become the bottleneck and pushed me to change the way I was running the company. We improved delegation, brought in the right support and put better systems around the business. Once I stepped back from things I should not have been doing, the company grew into eight figures. Jake helped me see what needed to change and held me to it.

Michael Chadwick – Founder

At a certain level, it becomes difficult to get completely honest feedback. Jake gave me that. He challenged some of my assumptions, said things others around me were unlikely to say and helped me look at several decisions more clearly. What I valued most was the directness. There was no need to impress me or agree with me. The conversations helped me sharpen my thinking, delegate better and make cleaner decisions.

Oscar A. – Founder & CEO (Surname withheld for privacy)

Jake coached and mentored me through the early stages of my online business. He gave me confidence, helped me understand what I needed to do and supported me while I built my online fashion company. His guidance made a real difference in those early years, especially when I was still learning how to think about the business and make decisions with more confidence.
UPDATE: I started working with Jake in 2017. Now in 2026, the business is generating more than $40 million in annual turnover.

Jane Ho – Online Entrepreneur

I can highly recommend Jake Smolarek as a business coach. He must be one of the best in the business. He helped me take my business to the next level and become much clearer about the decisions I needed to make. I did not always like what Jake had to say, but he is tough, fair and very direct. Looking back, some of the things I least wanted to hear were exactly what I needed. He helped me see what I was missing and approach the business with much more clarity.

Susan Mason – Business Owner

I worked with Jake for more than 5 years. When we started, I was still employed and building my business from scratch. He helped me make the decisions I needed to make, including leaving my job and going full-time with the business. Over the years, I grew the company from zero to around £2 million in turnover. Jake was there through every stage, helping me with decisions and growth. He was always direct, and I knew I would get his real opinion. Working with him made a huge difference to me and the business. I would highly recommend him to any serious business owner.

Paul Jackson – Business Owner

Jake challenged the way I was looking at the business and pushed me to make a few decisions I had been avoiding for too long. Some were uncomfortable, but they changed the way we led the company and how the business was structured. Within less than twelve months, turnover grew from around £80 million to £140 million. Jake has a very good eye for what is actually getting in the way and is not afraid to say it.

Sean McKenzie – Founder and CEO

Jake is a fantastic business coach who gets to the heart of the problem very quickly. He helped me take some drastic steps (they were needed!), which made a huge difference to both my business and family life. In practical terms, I now work less, earn roughly twice what I used to and have considerably more time with my kids. What I like about Jake is that he can be straightforward when needed. He is not afraid to ask difficult questions when the situation calls for them. An outstanding return on investment. Thank you, Jake. See you again soon.

Peter Barnes – Entrepreneur

Jake is one of those people I call “my people”. He was the business coach I needed when I was trying to get clear on what I wanted to build and how to move forward. His feedback helped me clarify my objectives and build a very profitable online business. He challenged me when I needed it and gave me practical tools I still use in both business and life. I am in a much better place today because of the work we did together. Thank you, Jake.

Robert Yau – Online Entrepreneur

A Great Marketing Coach Offers Expertise, Experience, and a Growth Mindset

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There are no secrets to digital marketing success, just good habits, expert knowledge, and excellent digital marketing strategies that have helped dozens of my clients launch successful businesses and earn six-figure incomes with their ideas and products.

Trust me to provide expert digital marketing coaching that will

I’m a marketing coach who doesn’t suffer bu****it lightly. My methods may seem direct and abrasive at times, but I’m not your best friend—I’m here to provide feedback and guidance you may not want to hear.

But if you’re open to change, constructive feedback, and a new way of doing things, I know we can succeed together. Let me help you become the marketing professional you were born to be.

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