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.
Recent Happenings
Inside The Art Jar’s New Online Showcase
For a lot of small businesses, the website is the first dose of information or interaction a new customer may have. Today's presenter, professional artist Jeremy Rheault, revamped his website for The Art Jar just recently, and wanted to showcase and get feedback from...
Clearing the Air: Gratitude, Guatemala, and Putting Our Gifts to Work
Most of us start the morning without giving a single thought to the air in our kitchen. The coffee brews, the burner clicks on, and breakfast happens without anyone coughing through it. This week, Tracey Doyle of Arbonne used her Border 2 Border presentation time to...
How Tax Planning Looks Forward and Helps You Find More Savings
Tax preparation is rather inflexible in its result: what you owe is a record of things that happened already. But tax planning happens while you still have time and choices. Angie Finch of Angie Finch, C.P.A. built her Border 2 Border presentation around that...
Your Credit Score Isn’t One Number — It’s a Story, and Lenders Read Every Page
Most people think of their credit score the way they think of a report card grade — a single number that sums everything up. But this week's presenter, Jeremy Shaffer of Lake Michigan Credit Union (LMCU) made a great case for why the number doesn't tell the whole...
Freshen Up for Fall
(Photo with tracker updates from May 2026. Arty Presented to B2B September 16, 2026.) This week's presenter was Arty Saffian of MacFarland Painting. Our normal write-up provider wasn't present, so if you weren't either, then this week you missed out big! Connect with...
How a Great Financial Planner Would Spend Their Full Year
The best professionals rarely get credit for their best work, it often happens out of customer eyeshot. A contractor who plans around and knows how to avoid structural problems before they cause lasting damage won't be rewarded outright, but will eventually by way of...
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...









