A B2B EVENT
FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
15 March 2022 // 3-6pm // World Trade Center
A happy hour to connect small businesses owners, solopreneurs and makers with service providers that can support and elevate their business.
Breakout Sessions
As a small business owner, there is always something new to learn. Get a more intimate educational experience with some of our local experts in these 45 minute sessions:
Sessions starting at 3:15pm
ROOM B
Key Contract Issues for Soloprenuers and Small Businesses
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Joy’s been a legal advocate for entrepreneurs and small businesses for over 15 years. She provides cradle to grave business services -- everything from forming a company to securing funding from investors, engaging with customers and vendors and even selling to the acquirer of your dreams (or nightmares). She enjoys helping clients work through the challenges that come with starting, maintaining and selling a business.
Over her legal career, she has worked for a large multinational law firm, in-house as general counsel, remote counsel from Morocco and now as Partner of a corporate boutique law firm (White Summers). She works with a crew of both experienced and new attorneys that make her think and laugh on a daily basis. As a native Oregonian that is a first generation college student and also the daughter of immigrants from the Fiji Islands, she gets what it’s like to forge a new path for herself, her family and her community.
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Lawyers who work with founders, scaling teams, investors & directors. Law without borders.
ROOM C
Financial Literacy: Understanding Your Company's Finances
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Ronesha Hayes is a native of Portland Oregon. She graduated from Western Washington University with a degree in Economics and Business Administration. Ronesha has experience in small business development, property management, curriculum development, budget management, credit repair, and is a certified credit consultant.
As the owner of Hayes Consulting and Coaching, Ronesha’s main goal is to help individuals reach financial wellness by providing education and coaching. She started Hayes Consulting and Coaching to help clients realize their full potential by helping them understand credit, budgeting, and finances. She believes once everyone has access to this information generational curses will begin to break and allow for people to be more comfortable talking about money.
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Whether you are interested in opening your own business or changing career paths. Hayes Consulting and Coaching will provide an in-depth assessment of your skills and goals. We will then create an action plan to help you get closer to your goals.
Sessions starting at 4:30pm:
ROOM A
SEO Made Simple
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Celese Williams is a digital marketing and SEO strategist, with her roots starting in the service industry. She owns her own special event services business where she manages a team of 10+ employees, services over 150 contracted events per year, and works with big name clients such as Nike, the Portland Trailblazers, Disney, and Netflix. She credits countless hours of SEO research as the key that boosted her business, and her business currently ranks #1 on Google in her local area. She now uses her first hand expertise to advise other business owners on how to scale using her proven strategies
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One-on-one support and classes/seminars to small businesses looking to optimize their SEO
ROOM B
Automation Done Right: Six Steps to Automate Your Business to Scale Quickly
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Kronda Adair is the founder of Karvel Digital, an agency that helps mission-driven service-based businesses automate their marketing to create a predictable sales pipeline.
From her humble beginnings building $500 WordPress websites, Kronda found a passion for digital marketing and marketing automation and is in the process of becoming a certified Automation Service Provider.
Her flagship offer is Content Bootcamp, a 12-week online intensive to teach overwhelmed entrepreneurs how to create and use content as an asset that saves time and sells for you.
When she’s not working, she can be found enjoying time at home with her wife, two cats, and Vizsla puppy, reading dead-tree books, riding one of her five bikes, or enjoying the postcard vistas of the state of Oregon.
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Marketing automation services for service-based business owners. We help mission-driven service-based businesses create automated content marketing services so their marketing stays consistent and they can focus on giving the highest service to their clients.
ROOM C
QuickBooks Online Intro
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Jacob Szeto was born and raised in Oregon. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a bachelor's degree in economics and from Portland State University with an MBA. Armed with almost two decades of experience in various fields in accounting and finance, Jacob started his bookkeeping firm Vector Bookkeeping in 2018. Today Jacob and Vector serve small local businesses through a structured and virtual accounting system. Small business is Vector Bookkeeping’s passion: “We love small business and helping new business owners along their journey.”
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Vector bookkeeping specializes in cash based small business bookkeeping. Affordable bookkeeping services for small businesses.
Find Your Crew and Happy Hour Too.
Vendor Directory
Accountants, lawyers, marketers, bookkeepers, web developers, social media experts, coaches, web developers (and more) — will all be under one roof so you can find the crew that can help make your business goals a reality.
Browse our directory to learn more about the vendors you will meet at Greet & Grow.
See You March 15th!
RSVP today to get your free ticket to this small business event.
Thanks to Tamale Boy and Tin Cantina for providing food and bar services!
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VENDOR DIRECTORY
Mix and Mingle with the people who can help make your business goals a reality.
Check out the following list of Portland-based small business resources that will be at the 2022 Greet & Grow event. All your small business resources you need, all under one roof, during one happy hour.
Connections made easy and fun.
JOIN US
March 15, 2022, 3-6pm
World Trade Center
121 SW Salmon St
Portland, OR 97204
FINANCIAL
SERVICES
VECTOR BOOKKEEPING, LLC
Vector bookkeeping specializes in cash based small business bookkeeping. Affordable bookkeeping services for small businesses.
CONTACT: Jacob Szeto
WISE BUSINESS GUIDANCE
Kristen founded Wise Business Guidance to bring decades of diverse career experience to solving client problems, creating smart processes, and delivering timely and accurate financial reporting and analysis. She thrives on building relationships, listening and collaborating to find the best possible solutions, and becoming a trusted “business therapist.”
CONTACT: Kristen Sagan
CREATIVE SERVICES
Branding/Design
LOLO-OLOGY
Illustrator + project manager producing eye-catching graphics, helpful diagrams, illustrated employee avatars.
CONTACT: Loraine Yow
SAVINA MONET
Freelance graphic designer serving forward-minded individuals and businesses.
CONTACT: Savina Monet
Digital Marketing/Web
ASHBEANPDX MARKETING
We help nonprofits, small businesses, and start-ups establish a marketing strategy to grow their business and achieve their goals.
Full-service digital marketing agency (branding, content, email marketing, advertising, social media and SEO)
CONTACT: Ashlan Glazier-Anderson
CELESE WILLIAMS CONSULTING
One-on-one support and classes/seminars to small businesses looking to optimize their SEO
CONTACT: Celese Williams
FLI SOCIAL INC.
Created to increase the visibility of small business owners. We want to make running a business easier by connecting small businesses with digital media service providers.
Videography, Photography and Social Media Management
CONTACT: Jessica Vanterpool
HONNEF CREATIVE
Capturing your moments through design, to help you better define your business and growth.
Specializing in developing brand identities and Squarespace websites.
CONTACT: Sabrina Duongtran
KARVEL DIGITAL
Marketing automation services for service-based business owners. We help mission-driven service-based businesses create automated content marketing services so their marketing stays consistent and they can focus on giving the highest service to their clients.
CONTACT: Kronda Adair
M.ISA MESSAGING, LLC
Website optimization & copywriting.
With a holistic view of all that goes into an effective business website, from copywriting, to design, to UX, to SEO- we're here to help.
CONTACT: Isa Gautschi
RED JASPER SOCIETY
A boutique digital media agency that specializes in culturally competent content creation.
Red Jasper Society helps small businesses cultivate their digital presence through impactful storytelling utilizing social media.
CONTACT: Masimbaashe Zvovushe
ROB CORPUZ UX DESIGN
Helping you connect with your audience through user experience design and crafting your digital identity. Telling your story with UX design, code, photography, and copywriting.
CONTACT: Rob Corpuz
THE THIS THAT
Helping creative makers build a solid website to promote their products, including e-commerce.
CONTACT: Rosalee Rester
UPSWEPT CREATIVE
Website design/development and social media are our core offerings, and we believe they go hand-in-hand when cultivating an online presence for your business!
CONTACT: Sarah Giffrow
Print/Promotion
HORIZING UP PRINTING
Providing quality screen printing and promotional products, including uniforms, business cards, flyers, coffee mugs, key chains, banners and signs.
CONTACT: Loris Hervey
LEVEL HEADED PRESS
Full service screen printing and embroidery shop, offering customized apparel, hats and bags.
CONTACT: Lawson Buemio
Photography + Videography
ELISABETH LOOMIS PHOTOGRAPHY
Services catered to small businesses and entrepreneurs looking to move their ideas into tangible form. Whether it’s just an idea on a piece of paper or an existing business seeking a revamp, we can work together to create a custom package to suit your specific needs. Services include: commercial/editorial/product photography, and creative direction.
CONTACT: Elisabeth Loomis
KRP PHOTOGRAPHY
Commercial Photography, providing images you need to promote your business in the best light possible.
CONTACT: Kateshia Pendergrass
SUMMER LUU
Filming, photographing, video editing, creating videos for campaigns and social media marketing/advertising as well as short/long narrative and commercial films for brands.
CONTACT: Summer Luu
TOLEDO IMAGES
On-site business photography. Images we create can be used to help promote your brand, employees and projects.
CONTACT: Melissa Toledo
LEGAL
LEVELLE LAW LLC
Black owned law firm providing well-designed and comprehensive legal services.
Entity formation, business legal services, succession planning and mediation.
CONTACT: Michael D. Levelle
RATIONAL UNICORN LEGAL SERVICES
A certified Oregon Benefit Company, offering attainable, collaborative, inclusive, and connected legal services.
Contracts for client-service and independent-contractor agreements. Trademarks and copyrights for business name, logo, intellectual property.
CONTACT: Michael Jonas
WHITE SUMMER CAFFEE & JAMES LLP
Lawyers who work with founders, scaling teams, investors & directors. Law without borders.
CONTACT: Joy Nair
HR SERVICES
CLATAK CONSULTING, LLC
Providing strategies, tactics, and tools to organizations of all types and sizes empowering team members to build strong relationships, resolve conflicts, and be engaged in diversity, equity, and inclusion training. CLATAK Consulting is your change management partner!
CONTACT: Gwendolyn Avington
LARA MEDIA SERVICES
We are a dynamic, culturally responsive, full-service communication and outreach firm that applies marketing tools to facilitate strong relationships between commonly underrepresented communities and our clients through diversity, equity and inclusion strategies.
CONTACT: Victoria Lara