In addition to our 16 active Border 2 Border members, guests are welcome to join us any week, and occasionally we have meetings tailored especially for visitors also. This week was one of those. For our Feb 26 Business Showcase, the morning was filled with great warm...
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How to Deliver an Effective Presentation
This post is from an Education Spot delivered by member Matt Hall of Hierank Marketing Solutions. Research by Prezi found that 92% of presenters say that presentations are critical to their success, but only 23% of presenters feel they are effective at creating and...
Unleash the Power of Referral Marketing with Border 2 Border Membership
Imagine interacting with a pool of leads you could close in 2 out of every 5 cases. What if those new clients had greater lifetime revenue value, by 16%? What if you could share your current objectives and requests weekly to a small network of professionals connected...
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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...
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...




