Our private Slack channel,our LinkedIn Group, our Member directory and more – all create a wide variety of connection points with your B2SMB peers.
Our Collaboration
Driven Community
We were inspired to create the B2SMB Institute to unite peer-Leaders, to share direct experiences, hard-won insights and unique skills.
Our Partnerships
Incubator
We’ve nurtured dozens of Member collaborations and with the launch of our Partnership Circle, we’re taking “winning together” to a whole new level.
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Focus on SMBs
We serve the 150,000+ execs who sell to SMBs.Our unique organization focuses solely on the very challenging Business-to-Small-Business ecosystem.
Over 250
Member Brands
We’ve grown our B2SMB Brand roster steadily since Day 1. We now draw on a fast-growing peer network to continuously enhance our value.
Over 30
Categories
If it’s a product or service sold to SMBs at scale, we have a peer Member for that! Our network covers all the major niches across the SMB market.
Fortune 500
To Startups
Many of our Members are household names, and many more are about to be. What unites us is a real passion for Small Business and how to serve them best.
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We crowdsource a wide range of SMB research from Members like Accenture, Alignable, Business.com and more. All of it is timely and insightful, so you can make well-informed decisions.
Our Members’ success depends on successfully winning, keeping and growing SMB customers. So we constantly source our Members for their Playbooks: best practices, case studies, and more.
When B2SMB Practitioners gather, there’s more than “tears in the beer” (or wine!) We curate a broad spectrum of knowledge, skills and innovation to lift ALL of our Members to be “Best2SMB.”
Our Forward 23 event brings to the forefront the best and brightest from our network of gurus, SMEs and mentors, to share their research, their insights, their strategies and their must-make opportunities via one-on-one fireside chats with fellow B2SMB Leaders. Available online day of event release and then afterwards via our blog archives.
Leaders’ Forum 23
Live Retreat Event in Napa
May 17-18, 2023
The Leaders’ Forum is our fan-favorite - great company, great networking, great food and scenery. We’ll return to Napa Valley for a conference that feels like a retreat, but make no mistake: we gather to help each other tackle the biggest challenges, opportunities and trends impacting B2SMB Leaders. Limited to 150, so get your tickets now!
Best2SMB Conference
Live Awards Event
October 16-18, 2023
Our Best2SMB Awards recognize the best in Branding, Offering, Innovation and SMB Assistance. We also induct 3 B2SMB brands to our Hall of Fame. Our event is derived from our nominees - they have LOTS to share, admire and emulate, so we ask them to share their playbooks. Active Q&As, small group breakouts, and top-to-top bonding awaits.
Eric Groves joins us to kick off the new year with a look back on 2023 and a look ahead to 2024. His source is the 8.5 Million (!) Small Business Members of his Alignable network.
What are SMBs thinking? How confident are they? What are they planning to spend, and on what? Eric covers a wide range of insights into the Entrepreneur ecosystem that are invaluable data-points for planning B2SMB enterprise success.
Banking veteran Derek Ellington, EVP of Small Business for Wells Fargo, has stood on the front lines of aiding SMBs for 25+ years. We’ll talk to him about a common challenge for any Entrepreneur - MONEY - and how it acutely affects under-served communities. And of course we’ll get into solutions and a path forward.
Then we’ll hear from Ciara McCoy of Meta’s SMB Advocacy Team. We’ll cover a wide range of topics, insights and experiences in helping guide the social network giant’s community platform connecting Small Business with each other and with their customers.
“The Listening Post” is back - every month we invite an SMB expert to share the latest research, insights and perspectives on what’s happening with Small Business today. Our guest on “The Listening Post” is King of SMB Surveys, Chuck Casto of Alignable.
Dave Walker, CEO of B2SMB Institute, is joined by Mark Tina, the VP of Sales for Verizon Business talks about product adoption and Laura Goldberg, CMO of Constant Contact, who centers on building trust with the small business owners.
Also introduced is a new segment titled, “The Listening Post”. Every month we’ll invite an SMB Insight Expert to share the latest research, insight, and perspectives with what’s happening in Small Business today. Our first contributor is Stephanie Gorski of Accenture.
Dave Walker, Founder B2SMB Institute, is joined by Co-Chairs of the B2SMBI Partnership Circle: Kelly Benish- VP - Strategic Partnerships, Americas, Uberall & Kate Daniels- Industry Partnerships Director, Netsuite. Also joining Dave is Steven Aldrich, Board Member, Xero takes us through a Playbook on Listening: to get to the perfect Small Business product, ask these perfect questions.
Members of our B2SMBI Leaders’ League circle around the state of Small Business. We’ll take multiple perspectives on what is happening, what is coming and what matters for all of us who depend on SMB success and growth.
Dave Walker, Founder, B2SMB Institute
is joined by guests:
Chuck Casto, Alignable
Linda Reinhard, Tarci
Stephanie Gorski, Accenture Strategy
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Eric Groves joins us to kick off the new year with a look back on 2023 and a look ahead to 2024. His source is the 8.5 Million (!) Small Business Members of his Alignable network. What are SMBs thinking? How confident are they? What are they planning to spend, and on what? Eric...
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Dave Walker, CEO of B2SMB Institute, is joined by Mark Tina, the VP of Sales for Verizon Business talks about product adoption and Laura Goldberg, CMO of Constant Contact, who centers on building trust with the small business owners. Also introduced is a new segment titled, “The Listening Post”. Every month we’ll invite an SMB...
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