Growing local business with referrals
We exist to enrich our community, hone our professional skills, and grow our businesses with dedicated referrals and ongoing collaborative education.
Make Local Connections
Connect with small business professionals from throughout greater Washtenaw, Wayne, Livingston, and Oakland Counties.
Sharpen Your Skills
Weekly education sessions and access to a roster of professional experts across numerous business fields.
Grow Sales & Exposure
Join a network of 15+ business professionals dedicated to growing each other via word of mouth referral.
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Make Local Connections
Connect with small business professionals from throughout Greater Washtenaw County.
Sharpen Your Skills
Weekly education sessions and access to a roster of professional experts across numerous business fields.
Grow Sales & Exposure
Join a network of business professionals dedicated to growing each other via word-of-mouth referrals.
We meet every Wednesday morning at 7am in Dexter at 7643 Huron River Dr.
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The Description Doesn’t Always Cover the Job
Most careers are pretty straightforward. You learn your trade, get hired and learn some handbook procedures, meet your colleagues, digest key workplace dynamics, charge ahead. Then collect a paycheck; repeat. But sometimes they can contain an accumulation of moments —...
Don’t Miss Out on the Customers Who Are Eager to Find Your Service
With Google's top three search results capturing most intent-driven clicks nowadays, Patrick Rombyer of On Par Media Solutions used his presentation to share practical, mostly-free strategies that small businesses can use to improve their visibility. His core message:...
Running on Spreadsheets? Build a Better Solution, with ThreeClaws.ai
Most small businesses are running on a patchwork of tools that almost work. A spreadsheet for this, a subscription for that, a manual process filling the gap in between. It's functional — until it isn't — and the cost in time is one that rarely shows up on any...
Usefulness is Everything for Effective Promotional Marketers
Most businesses have bought promotional products. Fewer have thought carefully about how well they actually work. This week, Hierank Marketing Solutions' own Matt Hall brought his industry's research to the table to answer that question — with data. The presentation...
What The Herd Can Teach Us About Ourselves
Most B2B feature presentations are built around being informative, but this week's was largely about introspection. Member and incoming B2B president Crystal Birchmeier of Happy Hooves Wellness pulled up a chair and invited the group into a conversation meant to show...
How Skincare Became Increasingly for Everyone
The products people put on their skin have always reflected the era they lived in. Nikki Calloway, Arbonne consultant and this week's Border 2 Border presenter, walked the group through the distinct decades of a century of that evolution — and got to a place that...
Fitting Everything In
Most creative professionals hit a version of the same wall at some point: the work is good, the range is wide, and the hardest question isn't how to make more — it's how to present what already exists in a way that actually converts. Jeremy Rheault of The Art Jar...
Finding the Right Vehicle for Getting to the Life You Want
Every once in a while, a Border 2 Border presentation is less about business tactics and more about what business can make possible. This week was one of those mornings. Tracey Doyle — Border 2 Border's own president and a 19-year Arbonne veteran — didn't bring...
Emergency Restoration – Know Who to Call Before it’s Needed
Most people don't think about restoration services until they need them. But when they need them, they really need them. Scott Felts, Business Development Manager for Restoration 1 of Ann Arbor/East Lansing/Jackson, made his Border 2 Border debut this week with a...