Free to join · Okanagan Business Network

Where Okanagan owners help each other

A free Facebook group for people running businesses in the Okanagan. Ask the questions you'd otherwise be Googling at 11pm, and get answers from owners down the road who've already worked it out.

Join the group on Facebook No fee, no pitch. Takes about ten seconds.

What the group is for

Running a business locally can be a lonely job. This is a room full of people doing the same thing, a few streets over.

Two people talking over coffee in a cafe

Ask anything

Questions about running, starting, or hiring a business — answered by people who've been there.

Two people going over paperwork together in a workshop

Share what works

What's actually bringing in customers this year, and what quietly stopped working.

The Kelowna waterfront boardwalk and marina on a summer afternoon

Meet people nearby

Other local owners who refer work, buy local, and know the good suppliers.

The kind of thing people ask

Real questions, real answers — not a feed of adverts.

"Who's a good bookkeeper who actually answers the phone?"
"What's a fair rate for a delivery van around here?"
"Was that trade show worth the booth fee?"
"Anyone hired through that agency? How did it go?"
"Is there a decent commercial printer in town?"

Running a business here can be a strangely lonely job. You are surrounded by other owners with exactly the same problems, and somehow you never talk to any of them.

That's the whole reason this group exists. There's no fee and nothing to buy. Ask a question when you're stuck, answer one when you can, and recommend the people who do good work.

Come and introduce yourself — tell us what you do and one thing you're trying to figure out right now.

Aaron GruenkeGroup admin · Kelowna, BC

How it works

Ask, answer, refer. Conversation beats broadcasting.
Recommend other people's businesses freely. Promote your own when someone asks for what you offer.
Keep it Okanagan. This isn't a global marketing group.
Be someone other people here would want to do business with.

Kelowna · West Kelowna · Vernon · Penticton · Peachland · Summerland · Lake Country · Armstrong · Enderby · Salmon Arm · Lumby · Oliver · Osoyoos

Come and say hello

Tell us what you do and one thing you're trying to figure out. Someone in there has probably already solved it.

Join the group on Facebook