Lunch & Learn: How to Prepare for a Loan with a CDFI
Learn what it takes to get a loan from a CDFI at our August 19 Lunch & Learn with Janiece Stewart from Michigan Women Forward—get tips, ask questions, and get prepared.
Digital Marketing Workshop with Kris Mathis
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Business Coaching Night
Meet with business coaches who have expertise in specific industries and finely tuned business skills (legal, insurance, marketing, scaling, sales, banking, etc.). Meet in a speed-coaching style to talk about your business, ask questions, and get the answers you are looking for. At the end of the night, you will have four new business contacts and four new sets of insights for your business.
Digital Marketing Summer – Presented by SpringGR
Digital Marketing Summer is your chance to level up your business with expert-led sessions, hands-on strategy, and real sales growth.
Lunch & Learn: Customer Service
Join us for an engaging Lunch & Learn session focused on one of the most powerful tools in business: Customer Service. Whether you’re just starting out or have years of experience, great customer service can be the difference between a one-time sale and a loyal customer for life.
Bookkeeping Roundtable – Alumni Only
Get your business’s financial system up and runnning on WaveApps software. Kris Ridings will guide you (1:1, if necessary) to help you set up your business bank account, link it properly to WaveApps, learn and understand your business’s chart of accounts, learn how to use the software, run reports and invoices, determine profit and loss, run essential reports and learn how to read them.
Action Lab Roundtable – Alumni Only
This roundtable is ideal for business owners who want to learn new business tools to generate sales in online and/or traditional businesses. ~Facilitated by Randy Otterbridge.
SpringGR Ice Cream & Slushie Social
Join SpringGR for a sweet kickoff to Digital Marketing Summer at our Ice Cream Social! This is your chance to mix, mingle, and make connections with fellow entrepreneurs, past and future program participants, and some of our incredible workshop speakers. Whether you’re already signed up or just curious, this is the perfect low-pressure way to get a taste of what’s to come (literally and figuratively). Enjoy free ice cream, good vibes, and great conversations with the SpringGR community. We’ll have light music, photo ops, and previews of what’s coming in this year’s Digital Marketing Summer.
Digital Marketing Summer Webinar
Meet our expert speakers—Alicia James, Corshawn Brayboy, Randy Otterbridge, Kris Mathis, and the team from Gigroots—as they share game-changing insights to help you grow your brand, boost your sales, and own your marketing strategy this summer.
The hustle myth: Working smarter, not harder in business

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