Benefits for Businesses at the BALLE conference!
This opportunity is not to be missed! In Denver you will meet investors, business innovators, and sustainability leaders. You will discover new markets, cut deals, pitch your business, and stay true to your values!
You will learn how to get money from community banks, socially responsible investors - even the government! More than $200 million in small business capital will be represented at the conference.
This year conference participants will also receive the following benefits:
- Free world-class customer-service training seminar by ZingTrain
- $300 discount at the national Investors’ Circle conference
- $200 discount at the national Social Venture Network conference
Free On-Site Consulting
Free business consulting from the some of the best minds in business, finance, and sustainability! Value: priceless!
- Matt Bauer, BetterWorld Telecom
- Scott Cooney, author, Build a Green Small Business
- Michelle Long, Sustainable Connections
- Chris Morrow, Northshire Books
- Derrell Ness, Ready Distribution
- Jamila Payne, Milla by Mail
- Guillermo (Bill) Quiroga, McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship
- Paul Saginaw, Zingerman's Community of Businesses
- Don Shaffer, RSF Social Finance
- Ellen Shepard, Andersonville Chamber of Commerce
- Judy Wicks, White Dog Café
- Sandy Wiggins, E3 Bank
- Kevin Wilhelm, Sustainable Business Consulting
*30-40 minute one-on-one consulting sessions will be offered throughout the conference on a first-come, first-served basis. Schedule and sign-up information will be announced before the event.
Featured business sessions
- Slow Money and Innovative Capitalization
- Green Efficiences: Cutting Waste and Cutting Costs
- B2B Exchange: Trading Resources and Local Currency
- Debt Financing for Living Economy Businesses
- Keeping Your Customers in Tough Times
- Marketing Your Message: Turnkey Tools for Success
- Incubating Sustainable Enterprises
- Accessing New Green Markets: Government, Business, and Consumers
- Green Jobs and Entrepreneurship
What you’ll learn!
- How to get your business funded by community banks and socially responsible investors and lenders – more than $200 million in small business capital represented at the conference
- How to leverage community-based media for free, effective advertising – more than a hundred local and regional independent weeklies represented at the conference
- How to position your company for small business grants and federal stimulus money
- How to save money for your business through group purchasing and B2B resource exchange
- How to sell your product to your local government agency
- Easy greening tips that can save you thousands of dollars each year
Who you’ll meet!
- Hundreds of business owners, community investors, economic development experts, and sustainability leaders – share best practices, discover new connections, cut deals, pitch your business, and set the course for building local living economies.
- Policymakers and colleagues who share your values – discuss your policy agenda for locally owned, independent business. BALLE wants to be your voice in Washington!
