Small Business Essentials Directory
Connect with Vetted Small Business Experts
Welcome to the Inner Circle Small Business Essentials Directory—your trusted marketplace for elite B2B service providers, specialized business consultants, and community non-profits. Whether you are looking to scale your operations, outsource your financial management, or secure fractional executive leadership, our curated network connects you directly with verified professionals who specialize in accelerating small business growth.
Browse the categories below to discover trusted partners, view industry-specific capabilities, and unlock exclusive member-to-member perks, diagnostic strategy sessions, and referral incentives designed to help your business thrive.
Inner Circle’S Small Business Directory CatEgories
Marketing & Creative Services
Anna Cillan
At Anna Cillan Photography, headshots and branding serve as more than just final touches; they are pivotal elements that enhance your already remarkable range of experiences. By investing in professional headshots and impactful branding, you have the opportunity to elevate your personal or professional image, creating a lasting impression on your audience.I am offering all Inner Circle Members $100 off your final image selections. Please mention code: ICBRANDING at booking.
Christy Floriani
Get a 1 hour consultation with BUKU Branded to identify the BEST SWAG for your business.
Carrie Lubing
Carrie Lubing Productions: The Foundation Session
Carolyn Barth
Digital Content Strategy, LLC has the unique opportunity to feature 2-4 CEOs / Executives in 1 national media placement this month. It's an email interview so we can control the message to position you, your product, service or company as the "Go To" Expert. Backlinks are okay. Choose from Ariana Huffington's Thrive Global or Forbes. Apply to see if you're a good candidate. If accepted and a story is assigned, there is a $2,500 fee.
Julie Burt
Unlimited Marketing & Events provides fractional CMO services, marketing projects, and corporate events for small businesses. We help companies ready to scale with trusted marketing leadership and strategy to find more of their perfect clients and grow their business to the next level. Inner Circle members take $100 off the Marketing Launchpad offer or a $100 gift card to any Inner Circle member who refers a new client.
Jessica Roubitchek
Get a free web presence checkup from MBA Confidante with actionable fixes you can make today.
Brian Sly
Emblem Creative Interactive excels at Fractional Creative Director services and high-end Video Production. Our work has been featured with companies like Bass Pro Shops, Garmin, Midmark, NWEA/HMH, Grandpa Gus's, Louvers International, and more. Our perfect clients usually have a small marketing team in place, but don't have a designated creative director or a video producer to help lead advertising or training projects. For Inner Circle members, we offer BOTH a 10% referral fee and 10% discount off any services for your business.
Jesse Walker
XVP Studios is offering 10% off all new customer corporate video creation/editing. (Must mention this promotion in advance of the quoting process to qualify.)
Kristi Miroballi
Designtology applies the perfect mix of conceptual creativity and innovative thinking with expert design execution. Providing brand strategy, logo concepts, packaging, print + digital marketing and website design & development for all your new business or product needs! FREE Brand Design Consultation + $100 off ANY design for Inner Circle Members.
Sint Moe
Create Winning Apps in 21-Day Sprints with Fundada Labs! Every 21-day sprint is dedicated to solving 1-2 of your business's most pressing challenges, enabling you to launch impactful solutions quickly and efficiently—driving profits in the market. As an added perk, Inner Circle members enjoy 25% off with flexible payment plans during the first year! Let’s build success together! 🚀
Coaching & Business Strategy
Kim Kleeman
Receive 25% off one of Kim’s group programs through Accelerate Successfully (JumpStart, Make My First Million, Six Figure Deals).
Chris Grow
Free 30 minute call to evaluate your brand.
Accelerated Growth Strategies helps consumer brands and product-based businesses expand into retail and specialty distribution. Led by sales strategist Chris Grow, the firm provides revenue growth consulting, go-to-market strategy, and guidance on preparing products for placement with major retailers and distribution partners.
anita charlot
Receive a free AI business readiness audit from the Relationship Architect Academy LLC.
Tami Palmer
greyzone is delighted to offer a 10% referral bonus to any Inner Circle member who refers a new client who purchases a standard coaching package. Offer does not apply to resume or promotional packages.
Kate Garassino
Build Leaders, Drive Engagement, Elevate Team - Pinnacle Performance Company is a Global Communication Skills Training Firm that provides individuals, from recent graduates to C-level executives, with the skills needed to become more impactful and influential communicators. Book your first workshop or coaching and receive 1-year free access to Master Class, a digital hub of over 40 bite-sized learning sessions on crucial communication skills.
Angela Kesting
Inner Circle members receive 10% off any coaching package or a preferred rate of $175 for a 60-minute Find Your Focus coaching session with AJK Coaching. Together, we’ll use a simple framework to explore a key question, goal, challenge or opportunity. Coaching sessions blend guided reflection, creative problem-solving, practical resource mapping, and more—tailored to what serves you best. You’ll leave with greater clarity, expanded options, and a manageable path forward. Learn more about my approach and connect with me at ajkcoaching.com.
John Barcanic
Most people don't start a business because they want to run a business. They start a business to serve others, enjoy more freedom, and have a better life. But somewhere along the line, many business owners find that their businesses now run them, rather than the other way around. Receive one FREE session with Barcanic Consulting to explore how you can navigate past the barriers that keep you from building the business and life you desire.
Simona Pappalardo
60 mins initial consultation with Coaching with Simona.
Alina Rubin
Hearts and Sails Author Services helps authors self-publish a book of their dreams!
Legal, Real Estate, Tax, & Accounting
Michelle Schroeder
Michelle Schroeder with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices can provide buyers with a custom neighborhood market analysis, to understand what is available in any given area. Can provide sellers with a comparative market analysis of their home value, with regards to recent sales in their area.
Tram Le
Le CPA Group is a boutique firm supporting founders and small businesses with tax preparation, planning, and advisory. We focus on clear, practical guidance and a proactive, year-round approach so clients can stay compliant and make better financial decisions. Inner Circle members receive a complimentary consultation.
Jennifer Kuzminski
Free initial estate planning consult with Jennifer F. Kuzminski, Partner at Aronberg Goldgehn: jkuzminski@agdglaw.com
Stephen Ross
Ginsberg Jacobs, LLC offers commercial real estate legal services.
Paul Zajac & Jim McCollam
CJG Partners is a CPA firm that helps closely-held businesses navigate complex accounting and tax issues so they can worry less about compliance and focus on growing the value of their business. We specialize in making the complicated simple, providing tax planning, financial auditing, bookkeeping, valuations, and strategic advisory services with a personal touch that builds lasting partnerships. We offer Inner Circle members a free consultation on any of our services.
HR, Talent, & Operations
Scott Nicholson
Managing incoming and outgoing customer calls can be a necessary disruption to a business. As a workforce solutions provider, KO Business Solutions has developed a call center solution with small to mid-size businesses in mind. We manage the call activity that can detract from your core business operation so you can do what you do best. We are pleased to offer Inner Circle Members a 5% discount for the first 90 days of service through participation in the Perks Program.
Linda Carlisle
Receive a FREE Employment Brand Consultation with COMM-ext, LLC.
Juli Prizant
OptiPeople Resources builds The People Engine™—the operating system that turns growth from chaos into capability, so founders can scale without losing their sanity. We partner with growing and transforming companies to design people systems that actually support the business. By aligning hiring, roles, and people practices to strategy, we replace reactive decisions with clarity, consistency, and momentum—freeing leaders to focus on growth. What We Do Connect business goals to people and hiring strategy Design clear roles, accountability, and decision-making structures Build practical, scalable people and hiring infrastructure Identify where systems are breaking—and fix them before they cost time, money, or momentum How We Work Advisory, project-based, and embedded support—based on what the business actually needs.
Insurance & Financial Services
Mark Milstein
Bankcard Analytics is delighted to offer a $25 referral bonus to any Inner Circle/Inner Circle Network member who refers a new client.
Gary Kirshenbaum
Commercial Property & Casualty Insurance with Alera Group - As a business owner we'll help you understand what you're spending all that money on.
Mike Lindberg
Receive a free 60-minute consultation and assessment from Four Oak Financial.
Elana Cepa
Elana, The Life Lady, understands how precious family life is and the importance of protecting your family if you're not able. The Life Lady, offers clients the best possible protection for all of their insurance needs. She will provide you with a FREE risk assessment, and is committed to finding the correct insurance options for you. We want to take the burden off our clients’ shoulders. As one-stop life and health Insurance broker with years of experience managing a wide-range of risk and exposures, we have the skills to ensure that our clients receive exceptional coverage. Our goal is to keep your loved ones safe and to protect what you treasure. The Life lady's most popular level of service for health insurance, her concierge service, normally priced at $250 is discounted for Inner Circle members to $199. Please reach out to learn more about what is included.
Family & Support Services
Kristen Jacobsen, LCPC
Kristen is a licensed therapist, author, speaker, and high performance coach. She specializes in anxiety & childhood trauma and helps people detach from the subconscious beliefs that are sabotaging their lives and success. Mention Inner Circle for $50 off your first session with Cathartic Space Counseling.
loren williams
PCs for People offers no-charge electronics recycling and data deletion.
Lindsey Wander
WorldWise Tutoring provides high-quality tutoring in all subjects for students of all ages and abilities. From toddlers to adults, from phonics to physics, from coding to SAT prep - we cover it all! Sessions can be in-person in IL or TX and online anywhere in the world.
Anne Inwood
Do you have questions about how to create successful routines in your family? Do you have questions about your children or strategies to help them? Successful Families Together can provide a complimentary parent coaching session to all Inner Circle members who provide a referral to services.
Catherine McNeil
Disruptive INC empowers single parents to break the cycle of poverty through career development and support.
Suellen Wolk
Center for Companies That Care is an educational nonprofit focused on college completion for under-resourced, first generation, and neurodiverse students.
Lindsey Wander
Educate. Radiate. Elevate. is a nonprofit with a purpose to strengthen the achievement of underserved students by providing them with high-quality intensive tutoring in academics, enrichment, test prep, and essential learning and life skills. Every 4 months, each student is provided with 18 hours of one-on-one tutoring with a trained professional mentor of their choice. All sessions are student-centered, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and intertwined with instruction in the underlying learning and life skills. Students with good attendance are invited to continue for additional terms until they graduate high school, at which point we connect them with additional resources through our partnerships with other service providers. The mission of E.R.E. is to minimize disproportionate learning losses of disadvantaged students and to provide economic, social, and emotional stability for the youth served, their families, and their communities.