JAN NIBJ: Small businesses, big 2026 plans

IVNV Wellness began as an additional tool for health practices, delivering infusions to patients in concert with other treatments. 

IVNV COO Matt Dill noted that both he and CEO Eric Foti quickly saw their business as a means to help people facing difficult illnesses bolster their quality of life through IV treatments. 

"When we had just started the business and we weren’t sure what direction it was going to take and patients were coming in that had chronic illnesses,” Dill recalled. “My father-in-law was diagnosed with liver cancer around that time and he was working with his doctors and an integrative doctor." 

Dill said he was moved by how infusions done in addition to chemotherapy helped bolster his father-in-law's health.  

“I got to see firsthand an improvement through therapies to quality of life, that extension of life,” Dill said. 

IVNV Wellness began looking into integrating EBOO treatments into their practice. 

EBOO has become an advanced ozone therapy option in the field and stands for extracorporeal blood oxygenation and ozonation. 

Customizing care for patients considering EBOO treatments is done by working with referring providers such as Coeur d’Alene Healing Arts and Functional Medicine of North Idaho to tailor patient care across practices to the big picture of what is needed throughout the healing process. 

“We’ve seen patients who had an uncertain future with what they were facing and to be able to play just a small role in helping them figure out what they were going to do, whether it was IV services or diet and medication, whatever their treatment plan overall looked for them,” Dill said. 

In addition to the EBOO treatments, IVNV Wellness is working on outreach to new alternative and functional medical providers in the area.  

“Every patient is going to be different and unique,” Dill said. “We're recognizing more of a need to do a deeper education with providers so that they can know when it might benefit their patient and when it might not be as appropriate so they can make really good decisions.”    

IVNV Wellness focuses solely on delivering therapeutic nutrient infusions, lifestyle drips and injections, taking a holistic approach to integrate nutrients into specialized approaches for clients with chronic illness and work closely with local naturopathic physicians to customize programs.  

The vast majority of new business for the company comes from word of mouth and referrals, Dill said, which is why more outreach has become more important as the business has grown.

"We've been part of some awesome success stories and it’s just a blessing to play a small role for our patients in that," Dill said.   

 Nspire opens new branch

Travis Bertram, Co-Founder of Nspire Studios, said that 2026 felt like the perfect time to launch a new branch of the business. 

After years of Andreas John with Nspire Magazine and Nspire Tours, Josh Miller and Bertram with TBD Marketing collaborating on various projects, the trio took the plunge to kick off Nspire Studios this January. 

“We saw a real gap in the market for an agency that can seamlessly blend traditional prestige media with cutting-edge digital and video strategies, all while treating every client like a VIP,” Bertram said. 

The company will create integrated, high-impact marketing to serve both regional clients and new partners across the country.  

Nspire Studios will be a premium marketing agency that combines the creative firepower and trusted reputation of Nspire Magazine and technical depth and video expertise to deliver creative visions. 

Nspire will now be capable of nationwide digital campaigns, high-end commercial video production, streaming TV/OTT advertising, public relations, billboards, luxury print placement in the magazine, or hyper-local website advertising. 

    EBOO machines offer a therapeutic approach to ozone therapy at IVNV Wellness in Coeur d'Alene.
  

    Matt Dill