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We are a local referral group of business owners and professionals. We meet weekly in San Ramon with

We are a local referral group made up of business owners and professionals. We meet weekly in San Ramon with the goal of helping each other grow our businesses through warm referrals. If you are interested in learning more about our group, contact us to schedule a visit.

10/15/2026

If you haven't been to Canyon Club yet, tell John that EBBE sent you when you go.

John opened his presentation with the brewery, then got into the rules he lives by. Every member gets a turn like this. The group takes something home from it, and we get to know the presenter as a person, which is what referrals here are built on.

10/01/2026

Established owners are rarely short on places to network. They are short on hours, and most have sat through enough breakfasts and mixers to know that a full room does not guarantee a single piece of business. The honest question is not whether you have time for one more meeting. It is whether the hour comes back to you.
East Bay Business Exchange is built for owners who want that answered clearly. One hour a week, the same trusted professionals every time, and a structure designed around qualified introductions rather than small talk. That is what turns into real . Visit our website to apply for membership consideration.

09/29/2026

Nobody schedules a panel upgrade on purpose. It gets forced by a remodel, a new EV sitting in the driveway, or a breaker that finally gives out. By that point the homeowner is not shopping carefully anymore, they are calling whoever picks up.
Matt Edson owns Sycamore Electric, a licensed, insured, and bonded California electrical contractor handling residential, commercial, and industrial work. He started the company in 2022 after nearly 20 years in the trade, and he works his projects personally instead of handing them to a crew and checking in later. The specialties line up with exactly what homeowners here keep running into: home remodels, panel upgrades, EV charging stations, and lighting. If you are a realtor, contractor, or property owner in the who needs an electrician you can hand a client to without following up twice, Matt is that call, and that kind of reliability is the entire point of .
Reach Matt at (925) 856-6004 or visit gosycamoreelectric.com.

09/23/2026

Most owners build their referral strategy around happy customers, which is a fine start and a limited one. Customers can only refer you when the subject happens to come up. The professionals who serve your clients just before you do are in an entirely different position. The bookkeeper hears about the expansion first. The mortgage broker knows about the move before the contractor does. The estate attorney can see a transition coming a year out.

Building a bench of those adjacent professionals is one of the highest leverage moves a local business owner can make, and it is exactly what a structured exchange is for. East Bay Business Exchange is built out of complementary businesses rather than competing ones, so the room is full of people whose clients become your clients at the right moment. That is what makes practical instead of theoretical, and it is where consistent come from. Visit our website to learn more about the group.

09/21/2026

Most people find out what their policy actually covers on the worst day of their year. By then the decision was already made, usually by whoever quoted the fastest. Greg Zeman works the other side of that problem.
Greg is a local insurance broker with Larson Family Insurance Brokers, which means he is not tied to one carrier. He has access to A+ rated carriers across the market and puts them in competition on your behalf, handling personal lines like homeowners, auto, umbrella, and life alongside commercial general liability, workers comp, E&O, apartment and commercial buildings, and commercial HOAs. His approach is consultative before it is transactional, because he learns how a household or a business actually operates before recommending coverage, which is how gaps get caught instead of discovered at claim time. For anyone in the with a home, a business, a rental property, or all three, Greg is a single call that covers the whole picture, and exactly the kind of referral partner is meant to produce.
Reach Greg at (925) 415-5097 or [email protected], or visit larsonfamilyins.com.

09/17/2026

Referrals run on a delay. The introduction that lands in your inbox in January usually traces back to a conversation someone had with you months earlier, when you explained your work clearly enough that they remembered it later. That is why a slow quarter is a hard time to start building relationships. Trust does not compress on demand.

The owners who finish a year strong are usually the ones who stayed consistent through the quiet months, visible to professionals who could send work their way long before they needed it. That is the practical case for as a habit rather than a reaction, and it is how steady gets built in the East Bay. Visit our website to join a meeting.

09/10/2026

Letting a cleaning crew into your home is an act of trust most people underestimate. New faces every visit, no continuity, nobody who actually knows the house. That is the industry standard, and it is exactly what Nancy Glatt built her business to avoid.

Nancy owns Impeccable Home Cleaning Service in San Ramon, a company that started in Alameda in the 1990s and that she took over in 2010. Most of her clients are on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly schedule with the same team at every single visit, which is how trust actually gets built instead of just promised. She meets clients in their homes first to customize the service, and after 18 years in advertising and marketing, she is unusually clear about who she serves best and honest when someone is not the right fit. Impeccable covers the from Lafayette, Orinda, and Walnut Creek through Alamo, Danville, San Ramon, Dublin, Pleasanton, and Livermore. If you work with realtors prepping a listing or homeowners who want their house handled by people they recognize, Nancy is a name you can pass along without a second thought, which is the whole point of .

Learn more at impeccablehomecleaning.com.

08/31/2026

This Wednesday at East Bay Business Exchange, John Crossley of Canyon Club Brewery takes the floor as our Member Presenter. This is John's week to share his story, his business, and the kind of work Canyon Club does best.
John grew up across the street from Canyon Club in Moraga and joined the team in 2019, and he has been a pivotal part of it ever since. Canyon Club is built around an idea worth borrowing: the "third place," a term from sociologist Ray Oldenburg for the spaces between home and work where people trade ideas, relax, and actually build relationships. That is a brewery, a biergarten, a restaurant, and a live music venue all at once, and it is also a pretty good description of what a strong referral group does for a business owner. If you have clients, partners, or a team that needs somewhere real to gather in Moraga or Danville, John is who we send them to.
Our Teaching Portion is led by Nancy Glatt. We can't wait to see what insight she has to share with the group this week.
Visit our website to register and join us this Wednesday, 8:30 to 9:30am PST on Zoom.

08/24/2026

This Wednesday at East Bay Business Exchange, Jennifer Martin of Steele Martin Law takes the floor as our Member Presenter. Every member gets a turn to walk the group through their business in depth, and this week the room belongs to Jennifer.

Jennifer is an estate planning and litigation attorney practicing in the San Francisco East Bay Area. She builds personalized estate plans that protect assets and give families a clear path forward, and she guides clients through estate and trust administration so a loved one's estate gets handled properly and efficiently. She also represents clients in contested estate and trust litigation and in conservatorships, which is the harder side of this work that most people never think about until they are already in it. For our members and referral partners, Jennifer is the professional you want your clients to know before they need her, not after.

Our Teaching Portion is led by Aimee White. We can't wait to see what insight she has to share with the group this week.
Visit our website to register and join us this Wednesday, 8:30 to 9:30am PST on Zoom.

08/20/2026

When someone refers you, they are not just passing along your name. They are telling a client or a friend to trust you, and they are putting their own credibility on the line that you will not make them regret it. That is why a real referral is so much harder to earn than a lead, and worth so much more.
It also explains what happens after the introduction. Answer quickly, do the work well, and report back to the person who sent you, and you have earned the next referral before the first one is even finished. That is how compound at East Bay Business Exchange, where members send business to professionals they have watched deliver. If you want built on that kind of accountability, visit our website to learn more about the group.

Address

2010 Crow Canyon
San Ramon, CA
94583

Opening Hours

8:30am - 9:30am

Telephone

(925) 232-1031

Website

http://eastbaybusinessexchange.com/

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