Small Business Week 2022 is May 2-5! We’ll celebrate our five finalist businesses throughout the week with seminars that allow them to show off the best their business has to offer. At the end of the week, we’ll name our 2022 Small Business of the Year at an Awards Celebration. Purchase tickets for the Award Celebration here.

In order to be considered for Small Business of the Year, a business must be a Chamber member in good standing, have less than 25 full-time employees, and have been in business since at least January 1, 2020.

2022 Finalists

Small Business Week Schedule of Events

Williams-Keepers LLC presents Small Business Week May 2 through 5. Activities include a series of free informative seminars presented by the five finalists for the 2022 Small Business of the Year award and a special event to honor the finalists and award winner.

Small Business Week Kick-Off
Monday, May 2 at 7:30 a.m.  |  Williams-Keepers

Small Business Seminar: A2D Events
Monday, May 2 at 4:30 p.m.  |  The Atrium

Small Business Seminar: House of Brokers
Tuesday, May 3 at 12 p.m.  |  Ozark Mountain Biscuit & Bar

Small Business Seminar: Bloom Bookkeeping
Tuesday, May 3 at 4:30 p.m.  |  Sager-Reeves Gallery

Small Business Seminar: Coyote Hill
Wednesday, May 4 at 12 p.m.  |  Love Columbia

Small Business Seminar: Liberty Family Medicine
Wednesday, May 4 at 4:30 p.m.  |  Liberty Family Medicine

Small Business of the Year Award Celebration
Thursday, May 5 at 4 p.m.  |  Elk Park Event Center

Thank you to our sponsors!
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Small Business Week: Presenting Sponsor Williams-Keepers LLC; Small Business Week: Gold Sponsors Missouri Employers Mutual; Small Business Week: Media Sponsors Cumulus Media, Inc, COMO Magazine, Columbia Daily Tribune, Cumulus Media, KMOS-TV Missouri PBS, MAAD CREATIVE, LLC, Missouri Business Alert, and The Columbia Missourian.  Small Business Week: Printing Sponsor Columbia Printing and Sign; Small Business Week Signage Sponsor:  FASTSIGNS.

Small Business of the Year Awards Celebration: Presenting Sponsor Central Bank of Boone County; Small Business of the Year Awards Celebration: Supporting Sponsor, The Connection Exchange LLC; Small Business of the Year Awards Celebration: Awards Sponsor Visionworks Marketing Group; Small Business of the Year Awards Celebration: Catering Sponsor Food & Beverage Sponsor Columbia Insurance Group; Small Business of the Year Awards Celebration: Video Sponsor The Evoke Group; Small Business of the Year Awards Celebration: Location Sponsor Elk Park Event Center- CBO 

Watch the Small Business of the Year finalist announcement from our Quarterly Membership Breakfast event on Wednesday, April 20!