Meet Janis

Small business growth and marketing expert Janis Pettit is founder and president of SmarTrack,  Janis is passionate about putting her years of experience as a successful entrepreneur, corporate trainer, small business and marketing coach and speaker to work to give small business and entrepreneur clients the skills and tools they need to increase profits and achieve their biggest business and life goals . The belief that we all can be empowered to achieve our goals by thinking and acting in new ways is the motivating factor behind everything SmarTrack offers.

Janis and her team enthusiastically offer extensive resources, insider knowledge, connections, tools and insights with her clients to help move them to profit and success. Moreover, she's come to realize that we all have so much more potential than we give ourselves credit for, and we have the ability to use our business success to create a meaningful life that includes financial independence, purpose and service. 

In the past 20 years, Janis has owned and grown four highly successful small businesses where she's been responsible for every aspect of business growth and she is proud that she and her expert team have been able to work with hundreds of small business owners worldwide to help them achieve their entrepreneurial dreams.

Ready, set, launch! Let's get your business to new heights.

"The same issues come up over and over for my small business clients.  Helping each experience breakthrough and profound change, and create something bigger than they thought possible is what continues to motivate me each day."

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Background

Janis received her Master of Arts degree from City University of New York in New York City, where she started her first business in 1987. In Westchester, New York she was named one of “50 Women of Achievement Under 50” by the Business Journal, and was featured in the same publication for her creative small business marketing strategies. She is the author of numerous nationally and internationally published articles on small business growth, marketing and e-marketing, and creator of targeted  business growth programs Rev-Up Tactics , Maximize Your Profit Now, Maximize Your Website Now, is co-author of "136 Ways to Market Your Small or Solo Business", has hosted her own business cable talk show in NY, and has made numerous other TV and public speaking appearances, and has worked with literally hundreds of small business owners in the US, Canada, UK and Australia.

Having served on the Board of the Westchester NY Association of Women Business Owners, she is currently a proud member of the invitation-only  Business Leaders Club and recently served on the Founding Board of Chix in Business. Janis was honored to chair charity events in New York for "Share Our Strength" which raised $30,000 for hunger relief.

She is an expert author for CarolinaNewswire and EvanCarmichael.com, and has been published in Business Leader Magazine and the North Carolina Journal for Women, as well as many other online publications.

Janis currently lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her adored daughter Julia, who makes sure she doesn't become hopelessly "un-cool". She speaks Italian fluently and loves traveling to Italy to visit friends and family. Her well kept secret is that she is an accomplished classical singer who sang professionally for a number of years and she continues to sing for pleasure.