Run your business like you have an MBA
Main Street MBA gives you the finance, marketing, law, AI, and strategy skills that elite business schools charge six figures for — taught in plain English, built for entrepreneurs who have real businesses to run right now.
"The best investment you'll ever make in your business is understanding how it actually works — the numbers, the law, the marketing, all of it — and that's exactly what we're here to build."
— Michele Beauvoir
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Read and act on your own P&L statements, cash flow reports, and balance sheets with confidence
- Build a full digital marketing system — from SEO and content to paid ads and social media — that consistently attracts new customers
- Design automated email funnels that turn one-time buyers into loyal, repeat customers and maximize lifetime value
- Choose the right legal structure for your business, draft basic contracts, and stay compliant with tax and employer obligations
- Integrate AI and automation tools into your daily workflows to save hours each week on content, support, and operations
- Write a bankable business plan, run a SWOT analysis, and build a long-term growth strategy with a clear competitive advantage
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
7 modules · 35 lessons
Small Business Finance & Bookkeeping
Master the financial statements, cash flow habits, and tax fundamentals every business owner must act on confidently.
- 1.1Reading Your Profit & Loss StatementIncluded
- 1.2Understanding Cash Flow vs. ProfitIncluded
- 1.3Building a Cash Flow ForecastIncluded
- 1.4Tracking Assets, Liabilities & Your Balance SheetIncluded
- 1.5Tax Basics & Implications for Small Business OwnersIncluded
Digital & Social Media Marketing
Build a complete customer acquisition system spanning SEO, content, social media, and paid advertising.
- 2.1Defining Your Customer Acquisition StrategyIncluded
- 2.2Search Engine Optimization (SEO) FundamentalsIncluded
- 2.3Content Planning & CreationIncluded
- 2.4Social Media Strategy for Small BusinessesIncluded
- 2.5Performance Advertising & Paid CampaignsIncluded
Email Marketing & Customer Retention
Design automated funnels and lifecycle campaigns that turn one-time buyers into loyal, high-value repeat customers.
- 3.1Why Retention Beats Acquisition (The LTV Mindset)Included
- 3.2Building Your Email List & Lead MagnetsIncluded
- 3.3Designing a Welcome & Nurture SequenceIncluded
- 3.4Lifecycle Marketing & SegmentationIncluded
- 3.5Repeat Sales Funnels & Maximizing Customer Lifetime ValueIncluded
Business Law & Compliance
Choose the right legal structure, protect your ideas, draft solid contracts, and stay compliant with tax and employer law.
- 4.1Choosing Your Entity Structure: LLC, S-Corp & BeyondIncluded
- 4.2Drafting & Reviewing Basic Business ContractsIncluded
- 4.3Protecting Your Intellectual PropertyIncluded
- 4.4Federal & State Tax Obligations for Business OwnersIncluded
- 4.5Employer Basics: Hiring, Payroll & HR ComplianceIncluded
AI Tools & Automation for Business
Integrate generative AI and no-code automation into content creation, customer support, and daily operations to reclaim hours every week.
- 5.1The AI-Powered Business Owner MindsetIncluded
- 5.2Generative AI for Content & CopywritingIncluded
- 5.3AI for Customer Support & ChatbotsIncluded
- 5.4Automating Workflows with No-Code ToolsIncluded
- 5.5Building Your Personal AI Tech StackIncluded
Leadership, Team Management & HR Essentials
Develop the hiring, onboarding, delegation, and people-management skills needed to scale a small team effectively.
- 6.1Hiring for a Small Business: Finding the Right FitIncluded
- 6.2Onboarding & Setting Employees Up for SuccessIncluded
- 6.3Delegation & Letting Go of the BottleneckIncluded
- 6.4Performance Management & Difficult ConversationsIncluded
- 6.5Building Culture & Leading a Growing TeamIncluded
Business Planning & Growth Strategy
Write a bankable business plan, sharpen your competitive edge, and build a data-driven long-term growth model.
- 7.1Crafting Your Unique Value PropositionIncluded
- 7.2Running a SWOT Analysis That Actually Drives DecisionsIncluded
- 7.3Market Research & Competitive AnalysisIncluded
- 7.4Writing a Bankable Business PlanIncluded
- 7.5Structuring Your Long-Term Growth ModelIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
First-time founders
She's launching her first business and wants a solid foundation — legal structure, financials, and marketing — before costly mistakes have a chance to happen.
Side-hustle entrepreneurs
He's growing a side hustle into something real and needs the business fundamentals — cash flow, customer acquisition, compliance — to make the leap with confidence.
Established small business owners
She runs a profitable business but knows there are gaps — in her financials, her marketing systems, or her legal setup — that could cost her big if left unaddressed.
Early-stage startup founders
He's building something ambitious and needs a bankable business plan, a clear growth strategy, and the leadership skills to hire and manage his first team.
Freelancers going legit
She's transitioning from freelancer to business owner and needs to get her entity structure, contracts, taxes, and client acquisition strategy right from the start.
Career changers & second-act entrepreneurs
He's bringing decades of professional expertise to a new venture and wants the business-owner fundamentals — without the time or cost of a traditional MBA program.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Michele Beauvoir
I know exactly where you are right now.
You're running a business — or getting ready to launch one — and you're realizing that hustle alone doesn't cut it. You've got spreadsheets you're afraid to open, a marketing strategy that's mostly guesswork, legal questions you keep putting off, and a nagging feeling that the people who really understand business have access to knowledge you don't. Maybe you looked at an MBA program and saw the price tag — $100K, $150K, two years of your life — and thought, "There has to be a better way."
There is. That's exactly why I built Main Street MBA.
This school covers everything a real business education should: how to read your financials and actually use them to make decisions, how to build a marketing system that brings in customers consistently, how to set up the right legal structure from day one and stay out of trouble, how to use AI tools to reclaim hours of your week, and how to lead a growing team without becoming the bottleneck. These aren't theory modules lifted from a textbook — every lesson is designed around the real decisions you're making as a business owner.
The thing I kept seeing, over and over, was talented entrepreneurs hitting walls that had nothing to do with their product or their work ethic. They'd sign a bad contract because they didn't know what to look for. They'd run out of cash while showing a profit because they didn't understand cash flow. They'd pour money into ads without a retention strategy, so every new customer cost a fortune but never came back. Main Street MBA exists to close those gaps — all of them, in one place.
You don't need a degree. You don't need a finance background. You don't need to be a tech person to use AI tools, and you don't need to be a "business strategy person" to build a plan that actually works. You just need to be willing to learn and apply it. If you're ready to run your business like the sharpest, most prepared version of yourself — I'm ready to show you how. Let's get to work.
— Michele Beauvoir
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