ConnectWorking.
Networking, EVOLVED.
BizVetsConnect³ is a nonprofit business community for veteran owned, startup, and active duty owned businesses across the Fort Campbell region. Networking trades cards and hopes for the best. ConnectWorking puts you in the room with Primary Service Advocates who connect, transact, and refer, so business actually gets done. Co-founded by Tim Shank. Veteran centered, not veteran exclusive.
Regional Status
KICKSTART FOUNDING RATE
Lock in $29.99/mo for life, join by October 12
CIVIC RECOGNITION
Voted Clarksville's Best Representation
COMMUNITY REACH
Connector Events at both Clarksville library locations
NETWORKING MODEL
ConnectWorking: Networking Evolved
MEMBER ADVOCACY
Backed by Primary Service Advocates
We saw a real need, and felt a burden to meet that need. That's a true honor.
Tim Shank
Co-Founder
Launch Your Startup Success.
BizVetsConnect Launch is our Mini MBA for founders: refined, perfected, and tailored to you. Connect with every Primary Service Advocate, get the services your business needs, generate your own ad, and post your business on our site to reach a large audience of local clients. Stop procrastinating. Become a Kickstart member for just $29.99 a month and launch with us.
Become a BizMemberPrimary Service Advocates
Meet Your PSAs
Our Primary Service Advocates are board members who show up for the community. They lead by helping, sharing what they know, connecting people, and looking out for one another and for you. When you need a service a PSA provides, you have a trusted name to start with.
Shinn Digital
David Shinn
Web engineering studio serving the local community and national corridor that specializes in high-performance, custom-coded digital assets. By skipping clunky website builders, we create lightning-fast, mobile-ready sites designed specifically to capture leads and grow your business.
Custom-coded web engineering for high-performance, mobile-ready digital assets.
Tim Shank Insurance Agency
Tim Shank · Co-Founder
Affordable, reliable insurance for your business. Local means you can ALWAYS connect with your agent. If you can dream it, we can insure it! Plus terrific residential coverage for home, auto, bike and life!
Local agent ready to insure your business and personal needs.
The Conflict Chick
Dawn Stone
Dawn Stone, founder of The Conflict Chick, helps entrepreneurs lead with clarity and scale with confidence. She offers executive coaching intensives for founders navigating growth, strategic sprints that sharpen positioning and pricing, and hands on AI workshops that give business owners practical tools to save time and compete. Built for busy operators. Grounded in results.
Executive Coaching. Strategy. AI for Business. Dawn Stone helps entrepreneurs lead sharper, grow faster, and put AI to work.
Nexa Lending Solutions
Chris Shank
Need capital? Take your first safe step: eligibility check, rate estimate and pre-qualification. Start-up, Residential, Commercial, Veteran and SBA Loans. Funding is mission critical for most business owners and start-ups. Thorough, trusted, reliable. Veteran operated.
Start-up, residential, commercial, veteran and SBA loan specialist.
Encompass Financial
Joel Minner
Reliable financial services for your business. Simplify your finances with expert bookkeeping, payroll, tax planning and tax preparation services. Start your LLC or S-Corp! Veteran owned company serving Middle Tennessee, located in Clarksville, TN. Trusted, experienced, professional.
Start your LLC or S-Corp with expert guidance.
Our Mission
Built to Help Local Business Win
BizVetsConnect³ is a nonprofit organization providing real support to veteran owned, startup, and active duty owned businesses. We do it three ways: we bring people together, we teach what works, and we put local businesses in front of the community.
Hosting Connectors
Live events where business owners, potential clients, and Primary Service Advocates meet face to face and get to know one another. Open to the public, built for real introductions.
Training Events
One day workshops and multi week courses like our Mini MBA, taught by the local businesses that provide essential services such as lending, tax prep, and insurance.
Marketing Presence
Web and social exposure that puts BizVetsConnect³ businesses in front of the community, so the right customers find the right local owners.
Key Services
The Local Expertise You Plug Into
AI Automation and Pipeline Generation
We put modern AI to work for our members and Primary Service Advocates: automated lead pipelines, smart outreach and follow up, and marketing workflows that run while you run your business. Less busywork, more booked business.
The Growth Framework
ConnectWorking.
Networking, EVOLVED.
Networking had its day. Trading business cards, chasing cold referrals, working a room full of strangers. ConnectWorking is what comes next: a clear path that carries a business from the first handshake to real growth. Connect, Solve, Build, Scale.
Member motto:Connect. Transact. Refer.
Connect
Build genuine, high trust relationships with local owners. No forced pitches, no referral quotas, no pressure.
Solve
Bring a real business problem and leave with a decision, a template, a referral, or a finished plan.
Build
Lay the foundations of a working business: pricing, systems, sales, hiring, and leadership.
Scale
Step up to larger customers, contracts, employees, and regional growth with the right support.
Who It's For
Built for Every Stage of Business
From your first customer to your next contract, BizVetsConnect³ meets you where you are. Find yourself below.
Startup Builders
You have an idea, a side business, or your first few customers, and you want to build it right.
Stuck Owners
One to five years in, still doing everything yourself, and ready to get unstuck.
Scaling Employers
You have a team and real revenue, and the growth is getting complex.
Contract Ready
Chasing government and institutional work and need to be bid ready.
Strategic Partners
Banks, accountants, attorneys, insurers, and firms that serve and strengthen local business.
The Monthly Rhythm
ConnectWorking Events
A steady monthly cadence of Connectors, training events, and growth workshops, hosted at both Clarksville library locations on the first Tuesday and last Thursday of each month. In partnership with the TSBDC, we are bringing more local small business owners into the room. New to BizVets? Your first Connector is on us.
ConnectWorking Event
Meeting Objective:Join Library Director Christina Riedel and BizVets Founder Tim Shank as they announce the exciting events coming to the Library over the next several months! BizVetsCONNECT is over its hiatus - BizVets is Back! We are sporting both new and old faces, providing a refreshed website, and providing dynamic support for ALL businesses across Montgomery County. Start-Ups, Veteran, or established Businesses. Learn how to Back your favorite Busuness! We now have two outstanding libraries, who better to provide a deep dive than our favorite Durector, Christina Riedel! Christina will be providing a tour of the library, so come and enjoy and stay to Connect with BizVets! Don’t miss out on this event!
Location Depot:Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library350 Pageant Ln #501, Clarksville, TN 37040
ConnectWorking Event
Meeting Objective:Join Library Director Christina Riedel and BizVets Founder Tim Shank as they announce the exciting events coming to the Library over the next several months! BizVetsCONNECT is over its hiatus - BizVets is Back! We are sporting both new and old faces, providing a refreshed website, and providing dynamic support for ALL businesses across Montgomery County. Start-Ups, Veteran, or established Businesses. Learn how to Back your favorite Busuness! We now have two outstanding libraries, who better to provide a deep dive than our favorite Durector, Christina Riedel! Christina will be providing a tour of the library, so come and enjoy and stay to Connect with BizVets! Don’t miss out on this event!
Location Depot:Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library- North Branch435 Jordan Rd, Clarksville, TN 37042
Sponsored by Their Biggest Fans
A rolling reel of the businesses our community loves. Each ad plays through, then the next one starts. Become a business's Fan with a $49.99 flat donation and we produce a short ad for them that lands in this rotation.
BizVets CONNECT Launch
BizBackers
Institutions Backing the Mission.
BizBackers are the banks, firms, and organizations that invest in this community with a leadership donation of $1000 or more. Their support funds our events, our ad creation, and the programs that help local veteran, startup, and active duty owned businesses grow. As part of our Kickstart launch, every new BizBacker also gets a free one-time ad produced for a company of their choosing.
Be Our First BizBacker
Lead the way for institutional support in the Fort Campbell business community.
Sponsor a Business
Lift Up a Business You Love.
Become a Fan with a $49.99 flat donation. We produce a short ad for the business you name, feature it in our Recommended Fans showcase, and hand them a copy for their own social media. Your donation funds the ad creation and our community programs. Standard ad turnaround is 7 to 10 days once we have the business details.
One simple rule
A business cannot sponsor itself. Sponsorships are a way to lift up someone else in the community, so the business you name must be one you are a genuine Fan of, not your own.
Member Directory
Find Local Businesses
The member directory is open to every business that joins, not just our PSAs. Find and support local companies near you, and keep your dollars local to support the military and veteran families who serve our country.
Encompass Financial
Joel Minner
Montgomery
Reliable financial services for your business. Simplify your finances with expert bookkeeping, payroll, tax planning and tax preparation services. Start your LLC or S-Corp! Veteran owned company serving Middle Tennessee, located in Clarksville, TN. Trusted, experienced, professional.
Nexa Lending Solutions
Chris Shank
Montgomery
Need capital? Take your first safe step: eligibility check, rate estimate and pre-qualification. Start-up, Residential, Commercial, Veteran and SBA Loans. Funding is mission critical for most business owners and start-ups. Thorough, trusted, reliable. Veteran operated.
Shinn Digital
David Shinn
Montgomery
Web engineering studio serving the local community and national corridor that specializes in high-performance, custom-coded digital assets. By skipping clunky website builders, we create lightning-fast, mobile-ready sites designed specifically to capture leads and grow your business.
The Conflict Chick
Dawn Stone
Dawn Stone, founder of The Conflict Chick, helps entrepreneurs lead with clarity and scale with confidence. She offers executive coaching intensives for founders navigating growth, strategic sprints that sharpen positioning and pricing, and hands on AI workshops that give business owners practical tools to save time and compete. Built for busy operators. Grounded in results.
Tim Shank Insurance Agency
Tim Shank
Montgomery
Affordable, reliable insurance for your business. Local means you can ALWAYS connect with your agent. If you can dream it, we can insure it! Plus terrific residential coverage for home, auto, bike and life!
Viking Landscapes & More
Roger Lewis
Tree stumps are unsightly, present hazards when walking, and may attract destructive termites! Proper stump removal can clean up more than your yard - it can protect you against so many potential issues! Don't get stumped!
Membership & Giving
Free to Join In. Give to Do More.
We are a nonprofit, so this is not a fee, it is a contribution. Taking part is always free. When you are ready for everything, a BizMember donation unlocks every members only activity and funds our events, our ad creation, and our community programs. Prefer to lift up one business? Back one as a Fan.
Free to take part
What everyone can do without joining, no donation required.
- ✓Attend all general Connector events and mixers
- ✓Sponsor a fellow business as a Fan
- ✓Work with any of our Primary Service Advocates
BizMember
One contribution level for veteran owned, startup, and active duty owned businesses ready to grow. Your donation funds our events, our ad creation, and our community programs.
BizVetsCONNECT Kickstart: lock this rate for life
Join by October 12, 2026 to keep $29.99/mo for as long as your membership stays active. After that, new memberships are $39.99/mo.
or $359.88/yr. Donate for the year and sponsor a business for free right away.
- ✓Everything in free access, plus every members only activity
- ✓Your business listed in the member directory with county and verification
- ✓Members only after hours events with guest speakers and local leaders
- ✓Members only workshops on networking and promoting your own business
- ✓Discounted PSA services where available
- ✓The full Connect, Solve, Build, Scale growth path
Anniversary thank you: Monthly BizMembers receive a free business sponsorship every year on your membership anniversary, our way of saying thank you.
Become a BizMemberBizVetsConnect³ is a registered nonprofit. Contributions fund our events, our ad creation, and our community programs.
Become a BizMember
Join. Give.
Start Growing.
One contribution level. Join by October 12, 2026 through our BizVetsCONNECT Kickstart promotion and lock in $29.99/mo for as long as your membership stays active. Enter your business details and give securely. Your membership is active the moment your donation clears, and your directory listing goes live right away.
🎖️ Veteran & Military Verification
Veteran owned or military supporting? After you join, a board member reaches out with a secure way to confirm your status (DD-214, NGB-22, or proof of military-friendly status). We do not collect sensitive documents on this form. You keep full active member status the whole time, and your verification badge is added once approved.
Become a BizBacker
Invest in the Community.
Backing is a leadership donation of $1000 or more from an institution that believes in this mission. Your name and logo join our BizBackers wall, and your contribution funds our events, our ad creation, and our community programs.
Kickstart perk
Back us during our Kickstart launch and we produce a free one-time ad for a company of your choosing, our thank you for leading the way.